India, April 30 -- Two days after an IED blast on the Rajpura-Shambhu railway line, Patiala Police, in a joint operation with the State Special Operations Cell (SSOC) Amritsar, has averted major terror plots with the recovery of a cache of militant hardware, including a rocket propelled grenade (RPG), hand grenade, explosives and high-end pistols from Panjwar Khurd village in Tarn Taran.

The recovered military hardware includes one RPG, one metallic IED (sticky bomb) weighing 2.296 kg along with three detonators with electric wire and one battery, two packs of RDX weighing 1.456 kg, one P-86 hand grenade, three pistols - 9MM Glock-18 CX 'Austria', .30 bore PX5 Storm and .30 bore Star Mark - along with five magazines and 84 live cartridge...