{"id":30252,"date":"2025-06-27T06:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=30252"},"modified":"2025-06-27T06:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:51:05","slug":"search-operation-to-track-down-3-jem-terrorists-underway-in-basantgarh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/search-operation-to-track-down-3-jem-terrorists-underway-in-basantgarh\/","title":{"rendered":"Search operation to track down 3 JeM terrorists underway in Basantgarh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAMMU, June 27: A search operation by a joint team of security forces is underway to track down three Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists in a forested area of Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, officials said on Friday.<br \/>\nA Pakistan-based JeM terrorist was killed in an encounter with security forces on Thursday, and three of his associates remain trapped in the forested area of the Basantgarh belt.<br \/>\nBacked by drones and sniffer dogs, the operation resumed afresh this morning, with the cordon further strengthened with additional reinforcements to eliminate the remaining terrorists of the group, they added.<br \/>\nThe group of four terrorists had been tracked for a year. They were confronted by a joint search party of the Army and police in the remote Bihali area of Basantgarh on Thursday morning, they said.<br \/>\nThe four terrorists were found hiding near Karoor Nallah and were engaged by the joint search party led by the Army\u2019s Para Commandos, resulting in an encounter.<br \/>\nOne of the terrorists killed in the encounter has been identified as Haider, code-named Maulvi from Pakistan.<br \/>\nSupported by over ground workers (OGWs), they had been moving from one area to another using forests and natural caves to hide, they said. Five OGWs have been arrested during last several months in the belt for providing food and shelter to terrorists.<br \/>\nIt is also believed that a local terrorist who had returned from Pakistan after several years is actively supporting terrorists.<br \/>\nBasantgarh lies on a traditional infiltration route of Pakistani terrorists who enter from the International Border in Kathua and move via higher reaches to Doda and Kishtwar districts in Jammu region and further into the Kashmir Valley. It has witnessed several encounters and terror incidents in the past.<br \/>\nOn April 25, Havaldar Jhantu Ali Shaikh of the Army\u2019s 6 PARA was killed in an encounter with terrorists in the Basantgarh area.<br \/>\nOn April 9, an encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in the Jopher-Marta belt of Basantgarh in Udhampur district.<br \/>\nOn September 11 last year, two terrorists affiliated with the JeM were killed in an encounter in the upper reaches of Basantgarh.<br \/>\nA CRPF inspector was killed in another encounter with terrorists at Dudu on August 19, 2024.<br \/>\nOn July 11, 2024, the Sang police post in Udhampur\u2019s Basantgarh came under attack by terrorists but was foiled by alert cops.<br \/>\nOn April 28, 2024, a village defence guard, Mohammad Sharief, was killed in an encounter with terrorists in Basantgarh.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30253\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30253\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/jungal-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Search operation to track down 3 JeM terrorists underway in Basantgarh\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Search operation to track down 3 JeM terrorists underway in Basantgarh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMMU, June 27: A search operation by a joint team of security forces is underway to track down three Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists in a forested area of Udhampur district in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, officials said on Friday. A Pakistan-based JeM terrorist was killed in an encounter with security forces on Thursday, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,15,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-header","category-jammu-and-kashmir","category-national"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Search op to track down 3 JeM terrorists underway in Basantgarh<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A search operation by a joint team of security forces is underway to track down three Pakistan-based 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