A joint team of security forces gunned down three Lashkar-e- Tayyeba (LeT) terrorists in Munj Marg area of Shopian early Tuesday morning.
One of the three terrorists eliminated in the anti terrorist operation was chiefly responsible for the killing of Kashmiri pandit Puran Krishan Bhat in Choudhary Gund area of Shopian on October 15, 2022.
Since January 2022, around 185 terrorists have been eliminated across Jammu and kashmir. A total number of 56 foreign terrorists have been gunned down while around 89 local terrorists have been neutralised in these anti-terrorist operations.
According to Jammu and Kashmir police, the terrorists eliminated during the operation have been identified as Mohd Lateef Lone resident of Check Kachidoora Shopian, Umer Nazir Bhat resident of Check Ban Dialgam Anantnag and Danish Hussain Kakroo of Old Town Baramulla.
As per police records, all the killed terrorists were categorized terrorists and involved in several terror crime cases including attacks on Police/SFs and civilian atrocities.
According to police records, the killed terrorist Latif Ahmad was involved in killing of a Kashmiri Pandit Puran Krishna Bhat. While as, the killed terrorist Umer Nazir was involved in several terror crime cases including killing of Till Bahadur Thapa of Nepal.
According to a police spokesman, the operation was launched on the basis of specific input about the presence of terrorists in Munj Marg area of Shopian.
"During the joint cordon and search operation as the joint search party approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding terrorists fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party which was retaliated effectively leading to an encounter", police spokesman added.
Incriminating materials, arms & ammunition including 01 AK-47 rifle, 02 Pistols and 02 Grenades were recovered from the site of encounter.
ADGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar congratulated the security forces for conducting a successful operation without any collateral damage and termed the operation as a big success. He also said that all the terrorist modules involved in civilian killings in the last three years have been neutralized and there is only one left which will be neutralized soon.