A joint team of the security forces on Wednesday avenged the killing of Vijay Kumar, a young bank manager from Rajasthan, by eliminating two Lashkar-e-Tayyeba terrorists in an anti-terrorist operation in south Kashmir’s Shopian district, while the terrorist who killed teacher Rajni Bala is trapped in an ongoing operation in Kulgam.
Inspector General of Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, said the slain LeT terrorist identified as Jan Mohd Lone was involved in the recent killing of bank manager Vijay Kumar in Kulgam on
June 2.
Kumar also revealed that Jan Mohd was earlier working as overground worker of LeT’s district commander Adil Ramzan and he killed the bank manager on the direction of the said LeT commander.
Jan Mohd later joined the terror outfit after executing the terror attack.
Another slain terrorist has been identified as Tufail
Nazir.
According to police, Tufail had earlier escaped from two encounters at Chaki Samad area of Kulgam on April 9 and Khur-Batpora area of Kulgam on April 11.
Sharing the operational details, official sources said the joint team of security forces established an initial cordon around the suspected cluster of houses in village Kanji Ullar area of Shopian which was subsequently strengthened.
“After confirming the presence of one to two terrorists hiding in one of the houses, the security forces started evacuating the civilians in the vicinity to a safe location. As the civilians were being moved, the terrorists climbed to the roof of the house, opened indiscriminate fire and hurled grenades”, official sources said.
To prevent collateral damage in the area the security forces stopped engaging the terrorists and prioritised the evacuation of civilians out of the danger zone, while keeping terrorists under observation.
“On positive confirmation of no civilians around the target house, our troops re-established contact with the terrorists utilising well-rehearsed battle drills and accurate fire ensuring minimum collateral damage to property. About 01.45 am, terrorists again hurled grenades and used indiscriminate fire to break the cordon, but were engaged with precision and effective fire by our troops, resulting in the neutralisation of two terrorists. Our troops commenced search of the area and recovered one AK rifle, one pistol and other warlike stores from the encounter site”, official sources said.