Jammu, April 17 -- The four recent encounters in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district "exposed" the route used by terrorists to infiltrate into India from across the International Border (IB), a senior police officer said on Wednesday.

Senior Superintendent of Police, Kathua, Shobhit Saxena, also said the successful recovery of huge quantities of arms and ammunition, including explosives, from the terrorists after the gun fights scuttled a major plan of the terror groups to carry out a major strike in Jammu and Kashmir.

Kathua district witnessed four encounters between a group of recently infiltrated terrorists and security forces in the past month.

Two heavily armed terrorists were eliminated in Safiyan forest on March 27. Four police ...