Jammu, April 17 -- A senior police officer on Wednesday said that the recent encounters in Kathua district "exposed" the route used by terrorists to infiltrate from across the International Border (IB).

Kathua district SSP Shobhit Saxena said, "The route used by the terrorists to enter Kathua district from across the IB has been detected and plugged."

Saxena, however, refused to pinpoint the place citing security reasons.

"The route from where four to five terrorists infiltrated was identified and now plugged absolutely," he said.

It may be stated here that the Border Security Force (BSF) guards the 200-km-long Indo-Pak international border from Paharpur in Punjab adjoining Kathua district to Akhnoor sector in Jammu district.

He also...