IED was recovered in the Puthkah area of Sopore. Traffic was suspended after the suspicious object was located in the Sangrama stretch of the highway.
Four bags of Gelatin sticks were also recovered from a rocky crevice near village Tekguda and Dulagandi, under police station Kalimela of Malkangiri.
The police had received intelligence inputs regarding a terror activity. "A credible input was received that some suspicious movement has taken place in Gurdan Chawa village on Rajouri Gurdan road.
The recovered IED was later destroyed on the spot itself for ensuring security in the area and prevention of any loss to life or property.
Intelligence agencies coordinated with Delhi Police and National Security Guard (NSG) for a detailed report into the matter. NSG will share their report on the case with Delhi Police on Monday.
The officials said a bomb disposal squad was rushed to the spot which took the improvised explosive device (IED) to an isolated place and safely defused it.
"On tangible information of BSF a joint search was established at first Morh Kotan by police, 72 battalion BSF and army," police said in a statement.
Security forces detected and neutralized an improvised explosive device (IED) on Sunday following inputs about a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district
The bag containing possible explosive substances was found by a CISF official at the entry point of Mangalore airport on Monday. It was later defused by the bomb squad.
One foreign national was killed in an IED explosion in Kabul’s PD9 on Sunday. The blast targeted a United Nations (UN) vehicle.
An improvised explosive device (IED) on the Jammu-Srinagar highway was detected near Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir today. Traffic has been suspended on the highway and a bomb disposal squad has been called to defuse the IED.
Movement of traffic on the busy highway was suspended for some time, officials said, adding that a massive search operation is underway to sanitise the area and track down the terrorists who planted the explosive device.
The NIA has arrested Habibur Rehman Sheikh, wanted in the 2014 Burdwan blast case, from the Dodabalpur area of the Karnataka capital.
Police was alerted after a passerby found the suspected explosive with electric wiring and an attached battery near New Sudhagad School, an official said.
A bottle filled with a liquid material and a polybag filled with some solid material was found on the roadside near Kallar chowk along the highway in the morning, Rajouri SSP Yougal Manhas said.
Narayanpur district falls in Bastar Lok Sabha constituency that witnessed voting in the first phase on April 11.
The Times of India reports that an improvised explosive device (IED) was found in a state transport bus at Apta, about 15km from Panvel, in Raigad district.
The report also analysed the recent history of IED blasts in Kashmir and found terrorists were using military-grade explosives such as RDX, PETN (Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate), TNT (Trinitrotoluene) and commercial explosives such as slurries and ammonium nitrate for fabricating IEDs.
This comes few days after the security forces defused an IED, weighing approximately five kilogrammes, on Srinagar-Baramulla highway.
According to the National Bomb Data Centre (NBDC), India had the highest number of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) bomb blasts in the world in the past two years.
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