A dreaded terrorist of Lashkar-e-Mustafa, a front organisation of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), was caught alive in a daring operation by the joint teams of Jammu and Anantnag police in the general area of Kunjwani on Saturday afternoon.
The terrorist, claiming to be the Chief of the newly launched terrorist outfit, was moving in a private car when he was tracked down by the police teams near Vishal Mega Mart in Kunjwani area on the outskirts of Jammu.
Inspector General of police, Jammu range Mukesh Singh in a tweet said the terrorists were planning to carry out a terror attack in Jammu.
SSP Jammu, Sridhar Patil said, “The terrorist, identified as Hidayatullah Malik, was armed with a pistol and grenade at the time of the arrest”. We are going to carry out searches at a few more places on the basis of interrogation of the arrested terrorist to expose the terror module of the terror outfit and prevent any terror strike in the area.
SSP Jammu also confirmed that before Hidayatullah Malik was arrested he had attempted to target the police teams.
“Without suffering any collateral damage he was captured alive from his car”, SSP told reporters outside the Gangyal Police station where the terrorist was taken soon after he was arrested.
“At the time of the incident he was traveling in a car bearing registration number UP80BN 2708”, police said.
In a brief statement, IGP Jammu said Hidayatullah Malik is a categorised terrorist from Shopian district and was caught in a joint operation by the police teams from Jammu and Anantnag.
After conducting preliminary interrogation the arrested terrorist was shifted to an undisclosed location to conduct detailed interrogation.