Drone seized near jail in J-K's Kishtwar

A drone was seized after it crashed in the high-security jail premises of Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. The officials speculated that the drone belongs to the search operations of the road accident in Keshwan district that left 35 persons dead and over a dozen others injured.

Jammu: A drone, which was hovering over a high-security jail in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, has been seized after it crashed in the jail premises on Tuesday.

Senior Superintendent of Police, Kishtwar, Shakti Pathak said that the drone was seized on Tuesday evening and an investigation into the incident was underway.

However, it is believed that the drone that was seized, might be the same drone that was lost during the search operations of the deadly road accident in Keshwan area of the district, that left 35 persons dead and over a dozen others injured on Monday.

Meanwhile, reports suggest that the Kishtwar district, a communally sensitive area was declared terrorism-free over a decade ago.

Also, the area hogged the limelight after BJP state secretary Anil Parihar and his brother Ajeet Parihar was killed on November 1 last year.

Although, the area also witnessed gang war after the assassination of senior RSS leader Chanderkant Sharma and his security guard inside a health centre on April 9.