Overview
- Joint police–Army teams expanded cordon-and-search operations on Wednesday across Rajouri, Doda and Poonch after local reports of suspected movement.
- In Rajouri, a late-Tuesday combing operation began at Khandli near Palma after two suspicious individuals were seen moving toward a nearby forested nallah.
- A joint raid in Doda’s Gandoh recovered a country-made ‘topidar’ and six cartridges from the house of Shoket Ali, with an Arms Act case registered at Gandoh police station.
- Police cited Doda SSP Sandeep Mehta’s directions for the Gandoh operation, as parallel searches continued in Marmat, identified by officials as a militant transit corridor.
- Additional searches were conducted in Doda’s Sarlea and Poonch’s Dandi Dhara and Ari Sarooti, and officials said no contact has been made with the initially sighted suspects.