In two separate incidents, while one teenager was injured in a grenade blast in Srinagar on Saturday, security forces arrested an injured Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant after two months from a local hospital here.
An official said the teenager, Azhar Ahmed Bhat, 17, suffered minor splinter injuries when unknown militants hurled a grenade at a CRPF deployment at Srinagar's Kawdara area. "No CRPF jawan was injured in the attack," said a CRPF spokesman.
Two vehicles were also damaged in the blast that occurred around 12 p.m. The grenade exploded in the middle of the road and triggered panic, with shopkeepers shutting their shops.
Meanwhile, the security forces arrested LeT militant Nisar Ahmed Dar, who was injured in an encounter on November 12, from the Bone and Joint Hospital, Srinagar.
A Srinagar-based police spokesman said Dar was held in an operation launched "on a credible input".
Dar, a resident of Parray Mohalla in Hajin, Bandipora, has been active since 2018. "Dar was part of terror group operating in village Kullan at Gund in district Ganderbal and had sustained injuries in an encounter in Kullan in which a Pakistani terrorist identified as Khalid alias Zargam was killed," the police said.
Dar was also a close associate of LeT commander Saleem Parray, alias Billa, he added.
