Security forces have apprehended four overground workers ofLashkar-e-Toiba outfit from Handwara and Sopore areas of Jammu and Kashmir,officials said here on Friday.
A cordon and search operation was launched in Shalpora village inHandwara area of Kupwara district late on Thursday night following informationabout presence of militants there, the officials said.
Two overground workers of LeT were apprehended during thesearches.
They were identified as Aazad Ahmad Bhat and Altaf Ahmad Baba,they said, adding two pistols and two hand grenades were recovered from theirpossession.
Security forces arrested two other LeT overground workers fromSopore in Baramulla district on Thursday evening during searches at a checkpoint near Sadiq Colony.
They were identified as Waseem Ahmad and Junaid Rashid Ganai, theofficials said adding one pistol, two UBGL grenades and a grenade thrower wererecovered from their possession.
Cases under relevant sections of law have been registered againstthe four arrested persons in respective police stations, they said.