A senior officer of the Central Reserve police Force (CRPF) attained martyrdom in a terror attack in the central Kashmir district of Budgam while a joint team of the security forces eliminated a hardcore terrorist of Al Badr terror outift in a separate encounter in Machama area of South Kashmir's Awantipora on Thursday. Meanwhile, another operation was launched by the security forces in Sirhama area of Anantnag late Thursday evening after receiving inputs about thepresence of terrorists in the area.
Late last evening a Block Development Council Chairman of Khag Budgam, Bhupinder Singh, was shot dead by the 'unidentified' terrorists in the Budgam district. His mortal remains were shifted to Jammu on Thursday to perform his last rites. According to the official sources, terrorists targeted a CRPF officer in a bid to loot his service weapon at Kaisermulla in Budgam district. The officer was identified as Assistant Sub Inspector NC Badoley of 117 Bn,hailing from Nagpur area of Maharashtra.
According to the local police authorities, after seriously injuring a CRPF officer the terrorists ran away with his service weapon. Later ASI Badoley succumbed to injuries at the Army's 92 base hospital at Badami Bagh. In a second operation of the day,the joint teams of the security forces eliminated an Al-Badr terrorist in Machama area of Awantipora. According to a police spokesman, the operation was launched by the Awantipora Police, 42 RR and 180 BN CRPF in the said area.
“During the search operation, as the presence of terrorists got ascertained they were given an opportunity to surrender, however instead the terrorists fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party, which was retaliated leading to an encounter.
In the ensuing encounter, one terrorist was killed and his body was retrieved from the site of encounter. The killed terrorist has been identified as Irfan-ul-Haq Dar of village Gadikhal Charsoo Awantipora associated with proscribed terror outfit Al-Badr”.
As per the police records, the killed terrorist had a long history of criminal involvement. In April 2019 he was involved in grenade lobbing on Police Station Awantipora for which case vide FIR No. 54/2019 under relevant sections of law stands registered at Police Station Awantipora and the subject was arrested and subsequently sent to Kot Balwal Jail Jammu. Earlier in 2016 he was involved in a stone pelting/arson case of Police Station Awantipora FIR No. 126/2016 under relevant sections of law stands chargesheeted in the Court of law.
The police spokesman said, “after his release in April 2020, Irfan-ul-Haq was secretly involved in terror activities which include Al-Badr related recruitment in Awantipora & Tral areas. He was an important motivator and influenced young minds for joining terror ranks in Awantipora/Tral areas”.