ANANTNAG: On Monday, the operation to expel militants camped out in the Gadole forest area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district reached its sixth day. Security forces were employing drones to locate the terrorists‘ hiding places in preparation for attacks on them. Manoj Sinha, the lieutenant governor of the Union Territory, has pledged to exact revenge for the deaths of the three officers in the conflict. Officials in this country claim that drone footage showed a burned body laying close to one of the terrorist hideouts that were demolished over the course of the previous five days’ anti-terror operation. Security forces must first sterilise the location before providing any more information about it, they claimed.In order to monitor the dense forest area with several cave-like hiding places where terrorists are thought to have taken refuge since Wednesday after killing two Army officers and a deputy superintendent of police in the initial exchange of fire, security forces are using drones and helicopters, according to the officials. In order to prevent terrorists from infiltrating civilian communities, they stated, the security cordon was extended to the nearby Posh Kreeri neighbourhood on Sunday. Speaking at a gathering here late on Sunday night, the Lieutenant Governor declared that the terrorists’ managers would pay a high price and that every drop of the martyrs’ blood would be avenged.“We completely trust our soldiers… The entire country is united in support of the jawans,” Sinha remarked. According to him, the terrorist ranks were enraged by the G20 Summit’s smooth operation and the campaign against war profiteers in Jammu and Kashmir, which led to the attack on security personnel in Anantnag. The ecology that has stifled the average man in Jammu and Kashmir, according to Sinha, must be destroyed. The operation has been under observation of top security grid officials in Kashmir, including the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Army’s 15 Corps and the Director General of Police (GP). On Saturday, the Northern Army commander went to the scene of the gunfight to assess the operational situation. Two to three terrorists, in the opinion of the police, are imprisoned in the nearby woodland. Late on Friday night, Additional Director General of Police (Kashmir) Vijay Kumar said that “two to three trapped terrorists will be neutralised” and that the operation was started as a result of specific information. The terrorists martyred a soldier on Wednesday along with Colonel Manpreet Singh, Commanding Officer of the 19 Rashtriya Rifles, Major Ashish Dhonchak, Deputy Superintendent of Jammu and Kashmir Police Humayun Bhat, and another soldier.
