Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Police today claimed to have solved an IED blast case which took place last year and injured three persons, including two Army men, with the arrest of three Hizbul Mujahideen militants and recovery of explosive materials and detonators from them.

Three HM militants - Sameer Ahmad Sofi, Mohammad Shafi Mir and Mohammad Rafiq Mir - were arrested by the police for the December 30 IED blast near the Jammu and Kashmir Bank building in Azadgunj area of Baramulla district, a police spokesman said here. Three persons, including two Army personnel, were injured in that blast.

The spokesman said that during investigations, police received information that Hizb militants Tanveer Ahmad Zargar and Imtiyaz Ahmad Khan had planted an IED in a shed belonging to one Nazir Ahmad Ganie and triggered the explosion. The police found that Hizb militants namely Sameer Ahmad Sofi, Mohammad Shafi Mir and Mohammad Rafiq Mir were also involved along with Zargar and Khan, he said.

They said the three arrested militants had transported explosives from Pattan to Baramulla and nitroglycerin from Srinagar to Baramulla and handed them over to Zargar, who fabricated the IED. The IED was planted by Zargar, Imtiyaz Ahmad Khan along with Sameer Ahmad Sofi, Rafiq Ahmad Mir and Mohammad Shafi Mir in the shed of Nazir Ahmad Ganie at Azadgunj Baramulla.

With the arrest of the three militants an important module of the outfit in Baramulla has been busted and explosive with detonators used in fabricating the IED's have also been recovered from the arrested militants, the spokesman added.

Source : PTI