A terrorist was neutralised and another one escaped after an encounter with the Srinagar Police team on Friday evening. The terrorists were said to be out for yet another targeted killing after they were intercepted by Srinagar police and opened fire. The encounter passed off in Natipura, a part in Srinagar.
Jammu and Kashmir Police said the terrorist who was killed during the encounter has been identified as Aqib Bashir Kumar, a resident of Shopian, who was affiliated with The Resistance Force (TRF), an offshoot of Pakistan terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. Another terrorist who managed to flee is alleged to possess infiltrated from across the border.
According to top Jammu and Kashmir police officials, three modules of six locals are involved within the recent targeted killings of civilians, all of them led by terrorists from Pakistan.
The militants of the TRF have regrouped after the Jammu and Kashmir Police in August killed Mohd Abbas Sheikh, the highest commander of the outfit. Sheikh was answerable for numerous attacks on civilians, lawmakers and security personnel. Sheikh was killed after terrorists were challenged by the police wearing civvies and opened fire.
The Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir has been witnessing protests and marches after a minimum of five civilians, all of them religious minorities within the Valley, were killed by terrorists on. Supinder Kour, a Sikh woman principal, and a Hindu teacher were killed by terrorists on Thursday.
TRF has claimed responsibility for the recent killings, including the murder of a prominent pharmacist Makhan Lal Bindroo, a Kashmiri Pandit.
Union home minister Amit Shah is probably going to go to Jammu and Kashmir as a part of the government’s mass outreach programme and review development schemes. within the last four weeks, several Union ministers visited Jammu and Kashmir as a part of the outreach programme.
