Jammu, Sep 13
The police in Jammu and Kashmir's Jammu district said on Saturday that it has recovered a drone from a village near the Line of Control (LoC) in Akhnoor sector, officials said.
Officials added that the drone was recovered from a field in Fattu Kotli village of Akhnoor by the police.
"Investigation has been started to trace the origin of the drone whether it was sent from across the LoC or had been some drone used locally for filming marriage function, etc," officials said.
Drones have been used in the past by terror handlers sitting across the border in Pakistan to send payloads of arms/ammunition/cash and drugs to sustain terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.
The tactics adopted by terror handlers has been to drop the payloads from the drones at a place pre-determined in consultation with terror outfits operating in Jammu and Kashmir.