In another successful operation, the joint teams of security forces, early Monday morning, eliminated four terrorists in Lassipora area of South Kashmir's Pulwama district.
According to the police, it was a combined group of proscribed terror outfits Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).
This is the third big operation in the last two weeks in which security forces have achieved major success.
According to police, "It was a clean operation and no collateral damage happened during the encounter. However, in the initial exchange of fire, three army jawans and one policeman also sustained injuries. Their condition is now stated to be stable", official sources said.
Since January 2019, around 66 terrorists have been eliminated by the security forces across the Kashmir valley.
Out of this, 21 killed terrorists were members of Jaish-e-Mohammad terror outfit.
According to Jammu & Kashmir police spokesman, "the operation was launched in the Lassipora area of Pulwama on the basis of credible input about the presence of terrorists in the area".
"During searches, terrorists fired upon the search party. The fire was retaliated leading to an encounter", the police spokesman said.
In the ensuing encounter, four terrorists were killed and the bodies were retrieved from the site of encounter.
According to police, the killed terrorists have been identified as Zaffar Paul, son of Mohammad Ahsan, resident of Dangerpora Shopian, Tauseef Ahmad Yattoo, son of Abdul Aziz, resident of Gudbug, Pulwama, Aqib Ahmad Kumar, son of Bashir Ahmad, resident of Hellow Shopian and Mohammad Shafi Bhat, son of Ghulam Mohammad, resident of Sedow Shopian".
Police spokesman said, these terrorists were wanted by law for their complicity in a series of terror crimes including attack on security establishments and civilian atrocities.
As per police records, Tauseef had a long history of terror crime records and several terror crime cases were registered against him including FIR No. 281/2016, 509/2016, 19/2018 registered in P/S Pulwama and 33/2018 registered at P/S Litter. He was involved in conspiring and executing many terror attacks in the area.
Similarly, Zaffar was involved in many terror crimes cases which include FIR No. 290/2017, 307/2018, 13/2019, which were registered against him in Police Station Shopian. Aqib Ahmad and Mohammad Shafi were also involved in terror crimes in the area.