Silvester D’Souza
Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur
Kundapur, Oct 18: As a part of a mock operation Kundapur police on Thursday October 17 evening at Beejadi and Maravathe sea shore arrested six terrorist along with three bombs.
They were arrested in an operation called ‘Sagar Kavach’ conducted by Kundapur police along with Gangolli police and coastal security department. Through this operation, police have proved that they are on high alert in the taluk.
Bomb in Maravathe
In Maravathe, an INF warrior (navy) Hemaraj (28) from Kadamba in Karwar travelled in a bus till Kundapur from where he took a rickshaw to the turtle bay beach in Trasi and he planted a dummy bomb and returned back, and left to plant another bomb in Sangam bridge.
Meanwhile, a police team headed by Kundapur circle inspector Diwakar P M confirmed the news of bomb planted in the resort and arrested Hemaraj near Hospet cross.
Bomb in Beejady– five arrested
A group of 5 people who arrived in a boat planned to plant a bomb at sea shore near Beejady junction. Noticing their behavior, Kundapur station SI Nilayya, Ashok, Prakash Bhandary and CSP officials arrested them and seized two dummy bombs from them. In this operation, persons who played role of dummy terrorist were M M Pandey from Karwar Navy, Tony of Mangalore coast guard, Pandey, Rajduth and Rajesh.
Fire service and Ambulance also arrived at three places. During the investigation in three places, DySP C B Patel, circle inspector Diwakar P M were present.
What is Sagar Kavach?
The team which tries to prevent terrorists who enter the place via sea or other ways are called Sagar Kavach. It is an alert operation for the police officials to keep a check on terrorists invasion.
Mock operation
Undercover police officials are trained as a dummy terrorists in the operation. They are guided by higher officials to perform various activities such as to make their journey easy, map charts are prepared. They can reach the said destination in any attire.
In this operation, police have a challenge to arrest the dummy terrorist who come from different places. Dummy terrorist are challenged to reach the said destination. Overall, this operation is mainly done to control the terrorist movements and their activities.