LeT commander involved in killing 6 cops shot dead
SRINAGAR: Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, including commander Bashir Lashkari, were shot dead in an encounter with security forces at Brenti-Batpora village in Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday.
A couple of civilians – including a middle-aged woman – were also killed in clashes with security personnel at the site.
Lashkari was allegedly involved in the killing of six security personnel last month. The second militant was identified as Azad Ahmad Mallik.
Seventeen people were rescued from the house in which the militants were holed up. Police said they were being used as human shields by Lashkari and Mallik.
The civilians killed in clashes with the police were identified as 44-year-old Tahira and 21-yearold Shadab Ahmad Chopan. Confirming the incident.
Deputy general of police SP Vaid said security personnel had been pursuing Lashkari ever since he and his men killed station house officer Feroz Ahmed Dar and five other policemen on June 16.
The militants had fired at them from close range, mutilating their bodies. Lashkari (born Bashir Ahmad Wani) was the district commander of the LeT in Anantnag. A resident of Sopshail Kokernag, he was categorised as an A++ militant with a bounty of Rs 10 lakh on his head.
Lashkari had taken up militancy in October 2015. Senior superintendent of police (Baramulla) Imtaiz Hussain congratulated the personnel involved over a job well done.
“RIP Feroz. Justice delivered. Wish good sense prevails, there are no more killings in Kashmir, and we all live in peace,” he tweeted soon after the incident.