Director General of Jammu & Kashmir Police, Dilbagh Singh on Thursday came out with all guns blazing after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti once again raised question marks over the authenticity of an encounter in Rambagh area of Srinagar in which three terrorists were gunned down by the police late Wednesday evening.
Reacting strongly to these allegations DGP Singh told reporters in Jammu, "there are people in the civil society who somehow understand the reality but try to say something which is away from the reality". He said, "unfortunately there are people who have started looking at the killers as innocent people".
Singh was responding to a straight question in which he was asked to comment on the tweet posted by the PDP Chief in which she had stated, "After yesterday’s alleged encounter at Rambagh legitimate doubts are looming over its authenticity. As per reports & witnesses it seems that the firing was one sided.Again the official version far from the truth is not in line with ground realities as seen in Shopian, HMT & Hyderpora".
Without naming PDP Chief directly DGP Singh said, "There are many people who are active on the social media who are trying to cast aspersions on the killing of terrorists.Unfortunately there are people who have started looking at the killers as innocent people".
Singh said, in yesterday's encountyer three terrorists have been eliminated. The killed terrorists were identified as Mehraan Yaseen Shalla son of Mohd Yaseen Shalla resident of Jamalata, Arafat Ahmad Sheikh son of Mohammed Maqbool Sheikh resident of Nikloora Litter Pulwama and Manzoor Ahmad Mir son of Late Sonaullah Mir resident of Babhar Pulwama". Singh said, Mehran was associated with Abbas Sheikh, Chief Commander of The Resistance Front while the other two, Arafat and Manzoor,hailing from Pulwama district were working as Over ground workers.Reading out the complete dossier of Mehraan Shalla, DGP said he is the one who was providing all kind of logistics support to Abbas Sheikh when he was active in Srinagar.
Singh said, Mehraan Yaseen was involved in several terror crime cases including grenade attack at Barbar Shah Srinagar on 26/06/2021 in which one civilian namely Mudasir Ahmad Bhat resident of Hanjigund Beerwah got killed & three other civilians got critically injured.He was involved in the killing of Meeran Ali Sheikh at Bulbul Lanker Nawa Kadal on 27/07/2021, and of PSI Arshad Ahmad at Khanyar on 12/09/2021.He was also involved in killing of School Principal Supinder Kour and teacher Deepak Chand of Government Higher Secondary School, Khankah Noorbagh Sangam on 07/10/2021 and suddenly he become innocent after so many killings". Singh said, "it is high time people look at the reality without mixing it with their imagination. The encounter has brought relief to the people. So anybody talking nonsense I think is absolutely not justified".
Earlier, addressing a joint press conference with ADGP Jammu range, Mukesh Singh, DGP told reporters, a consignment of narcotics (Heroin) weighing 52 kgs, estimated market price of around 100 crores, was seized by the alert policemen after chasing a truck bearing registration number of Haryana near Jhajjar Kotli along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway. Briefing reporters, Mukesh Singh said, the huge consignment of Heroin was seized from a truck after its driver managed to run away while his co driver,hailing from Kurukshetra, has been arrested. Preliminary investigations revealed the drugs consignment was picked up from Srinagar and the truck was heading towards Punjab.