Government forces on Sunday laid a cordon around Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo’s village of Beighpora and launched searches as a night long anti-militancy operation ended in Tral.A police official said the search operation was started on “specific inputs” about presence of armed militants in the village.
The forces personnel comprising Jammu & Kashmir police, army’s Rashtriya Rifles and Central Reserve Police Force cordoned off Beighpora early in the morning, residents said.
Door-to-door searches were carried out over hours many times in the village after all the entry and exit routes were blocked with heavy deployment of soldiers.
“People from many adjoining villages could not move out due to heavy deployment of forces present in the area,” a resident said.
The police official said the searches ended without any contact with militants. The search operation came at the end Sunday morning of another night long anti-militancy exercise in Aripal village of Tral.