GANDERBAL, Jan. 1 -- Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday arrested two terror associates and recovered arms, ammunition and cash amounting to ?8.40 lakh during a late-evening operation in central Kashmir's Ganderbal district.

A senior police officer said that the recovery was made by Police Station Ganderbal in coordination with the Special Operations Group (SOG) near Gundrehman Bridge during a naka checking operation.

He said acting on specific intelligence inputs, the police party intercepted a load carrier bearing registration number JK15B-7309. "During a thorough search of the vehicle, arms, ammunition and a huge quantity of cash were recovered," the officer said.

The recovered items include one Chinese pistol, one pistol magazine, f...