Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists involved in the killing of a local BJP leader Waseem Bari and his family members were eliminated by the joint team of the security forces during fierce gunfight in Watrina village of Bandipora district on Sunday.
Bari along with his father and brother were shot dead last year in July inside his home in Bandipora.
The anti terrorist operation was launched in the general area of village Watrina late Saturday night on the receipt of pinpointed human intelligence about the presence of LeT terrorists in the area.
According to a police spokesman, "the first contact with the terrorists was established in the wee hours of Sunday after which the hiding terrorists were given repeated opportunities to surrender but they refused and fired indiscriminately targeting security forces. In the ensuing gunfight two terrorists were killed and their bodies were retrieved from the site of the encounter". According to a police spokesman, the killed terrorists have been identified as Azad Ahmad Shah and Abid Rashid Dar @ Haqani. The killed terrorist Abid Rahid Dar was a Pakistani trained terrorist who had crossed over the Wagah Border in April 2018 and had infiltrated back in the year 2019.
As per police records, both the terrorists were involved in planning and executing terror attacks on security establishments and civilian killings. Moreover, terrorist Abid Rashid Dar was instrumental in recruiting the gullible youth into terror ranks of proscribed terror outfit LeT in North Kashmir.
Police spokesman said, both the killed terrorists along with foreign terrorists Usman and Sajad @ Haider were involved in the killing of BJP leader Waseem Bari, his brother and father.
The involved foreign terrorists Usman and Sajad were already eliminated in an encounter at Kreeri on 17/08/2020, while the other two local involved terrorists got killed in today’s encounter.
Meanwhile, a special operations group of Jammu and Kashmir police Sunday arrested a Kashmir based terrorist affiliated with The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba near the Jammu Railway station. The TRF terrorist was tasked to carry out an attack in the city.According to a police spokesman, "Sheikh Sunain Yousuf alias Raja alias Sultan , a resident of Gadapora village of south Kashmir’s Shopian, was arrested and a pistol and seven rounds were recovered from him".
According to police the TRF terrorist was arrested in a dramatic sequence of events.
"During checking near railway station Jammu, a two-wheeler driver dropped a pillion rider about 50-60 metres behind the check point and sped away". The police spokesman said, the suspected person, carrying a bag, started moving fast towards a nearby bylane but was chased by police and overpowered at some distance.
The search of the suspect led to the recovery of a pistol loaded with seven cartridges, the spokesman said, adding he was put under sustained questioning on the spot by officials of SOG Jammu which revealed that he is an active terrorist of TRF and had come to Jammu for a specific task.
However, he said the task was not yet conveyed to him by his handlers.He had come to Jammu on directions of handler Ahmed Khalid alias Hamza alias Haqparast , a Pakistan-occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK) based active handler of the TRF outfit, the spokesman said.