A dreaded terrorist involved in the killing of three BJP workers in Kulgam last year was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police in a late night swoop down on a terrorist hideout near Bari Brahmana in the Samba district.
The operation was led by the Anantnag police while jawans of Samba police assisted them during the operation.
The arrested terrorist has been identified as Zahoor Ahmad Rather, alias Khalid a terrorist of TRF or The Resistance Front, a frontal name for Pakistani terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Zahoor had killed three BJP workers in Vessu, Kulgam district last year in October and one policeman at Furrah in the same district. The terrorist is the second-in-command at TRF after Abbas Sheikh.
Official sources claimed Zahoor was camping in Samba to collect a weapons’ consignment which was to be routed via Pakistan through a drone.
In recent weeks several incidents of weapons dropping via drones have come to light along the border belt of Samba and Kathua districts.
Soon after his arrest the TRF terrorist was shifted to police station in Bari Brahmana from where he was later shifted to a Joint Interrogation centre.
Last week, Hidayatullah Malik, a categorised terrorist from Shopian district, was caught alive in a daring operation near a shopping mall in the Kunjwani area. Hidayatullah is the chief of Lashkar-e-Mustafa, a front for Pakistani terror group Jaish-e-Mohammad in Kashmir valley.Police is currently interrogating his wife Seeba, a LLM student in Kashmir University. Her involvement in the terror related incidents has also surfaced during her preliminary interrogation in the case. She along with her husband was tasked to conduct recce of vital security installations in and around Jammu before launching fresh terror strikes.