Poonch Police Arrest Five Long-Term Absconders in Surankote

Overview

• Surankote police arrested five long-term absconders in Poonch, in an operation that unfolded Tuesday after specific intelligence.
• The men were wanted in older cases for house-trespass, rioting, assault, unlawful assembly, and wrongful restraint.
• Police named Basharat Hussain, Mohd Iqbal, Ghulam Ahmed, Mohd Sharief, and Mohd Akram, who were tied to FIRs from 2012 and 2018 and had been declared absconders in 2017, 2018, and 2024.
• Special teams tracked the suspects under the Surankote station house officer with oversight from the sub-divisional police officer.
• Officials said the roundup fits J&K’s wider security posture that targets routine crime, drug smuggling, and hawala networks for potential terror finance, with no terror link reported in these arrests.