Rusted grenade, shell recovered

Jammu: Security forces found a rusted hand-grenade in J&K high court’s parking area in Jammu and an old mortar shell in Udhampur’s Mian Bagh on Monday. Both were defused in controlled explosions, police said. “A bomb disposal squad removed the grenade from the forested area and destroyed it on the outskirts of Jammu. Another team defused the mortar shell recovered from a forested area in Udhampur,” police said, adding investigations in both cases are on.