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2021-06-28 India-Pakistan
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Jammu IAF station blast: FIR registered under UAPA; NIA likely to take over probe
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Follow up to yesterday’s exciting little attack which, we are informed, wouldn’t have been nearly so exciting had the airport director bothered to notice two years of warnings.  An FIR was registered Sunday under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act after two explosives-laden drones crashed into the IAF station at Jammu airport, officials said, while indicating that the case is likely to be taken over by the terror probe agency NIA.
The drones crashed into the IAF station at Jammu airport in the early hours of Sunday, perhaps the first time that suspected Pakistain-based Lions of Islam have used unmanned aerial vehicles in an attack, officials said.
"The NIA is all likely to take over the case. They are already supervising the investigation at the scene of the blast after joining the probe," one of the officials said.
An FIR was registered under relevant sections of the Explosive Substances Act, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Satwari cop shoppe on the application of a junior warrant officer of the IAF, the official said.
Two Indian Air Force personnel were maimed in the earth-shattering kabooms that took place around 1.40 am within six minutes of each other. The first blast ripped off the roof of a single-storey building at the high security technical area of the airport manned by the IAF in Satwari area of the city. The second one was on the ground, the officials said.
Jammu and Kashmir
.jpg "Kashmir") ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir . The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
police chief Dilbag Singh has termed the incident a "terror attack".
 India's air force tweeted that the attack caused minor damage to a building on the base, located in the southern city of Jammu in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, while the second blast hit an open area. It said no military equipment was damaged.
The incident, if proven to have been carried out by anti-India rebels, would mark a major shift in strategy against New Delhi. Rebels have primarily used classic guerrilla tactics such as ambushes, hit-and-run attacks, remote-controlled explosions and boom-mobileings.
Both countries claim to have shot down spy drones in the parts of Kashmir under their respective control.
The air base in Jammu is also used as a civilian airport, and the Press Trust of India news agency quoted the airport's director, Pravat Ranjan Beuria, as saying there was no disruption to civilian flights.
Indian authorities said forensic Sherlocks were surveying the area, and were later joined by the country's premier anti-terrorism agency, the National Investigating Agency.
Last week, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a crucial meeting with pro-India politicians from Kashmir for the first time since New Delhi stripped the region's semi-autonomy and imposed a slew of administrative changes, which many likened to the beginning of settler colonialism.
Indian authorities in the past few years have raised a possibility of attacks by rebels using drones in the region, especially after they repeatedly accused Pakistain of using China-made drones along the frontier to drop weapons packages for the use of holy warrior groups since last year.
Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict.
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An FIR was registered Sunday under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act after two explosives-laden drones crashed into the IAF station at Jammu airport, officials said, while indicating that the case is likely to be taken over by the terror probe agency NIA.