LET terrorist linked to bank staff’s murder killed: Cops Terrorists involved in J&K teacher’s killing trapped in encounter
HT Correspondent
SRINAGAR: Two Lashkar-etaiba (LET) terrorists, including one behind the murder of a bank manager, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian district on Wednesday, police said. The slain terrorists, both from Shopian district, were identified as Jan Mohd Lone of Brari Pora village and Tufail Nazir Ganie of Ramnagri village, a police spokesperson said.
Both were linked with proscribed terror outfit LET and were part of groups involved in several crime cases, including attacks on police, security forces and atrocities on civilians, according to J&K police records.
Jan Mohd Lone was involved in the killing of bank manager Vijay Kumar in Kulgam on June 2, said inspector general of police, Kashmir zone, Vijay Kumar. “Jan Mohd was earlier working as OGW (Over Ground Worker) of Let’s district commander Adil Ramzan and he killed the bank manager on the direction of the said LET commander,” the IGP said. “After this terror crime, he actively joined terror rank. Since then we have been tracking him.”
The other killed terrorist, Tufail Nazir Ganie, earlier escaped from two encounters at
Chaki Samad and Khur-batpora area of Kulgam on of Kulgam April 9 and April 11 respectively this year, Kumar said. Earlier the J&K police spokesperson said that a joint cordon and search operation was launched by police, army (34 Rashtriya Rifles) and CRPF (178 Battalion) after receiving information regarding presence of terrorists in Kanji Ullar area of Shopian.
“During the search operation, as the joint party approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding terrorists fired indiscriminately upon them which was retaliated effectively leading to an encounter,” the spokesperson added. Incriminating materials, arms and ammunition, including one AK-47 rifle and a pistol, were recovered from the site of encounter. All the recovered materials have been taken into case records for further investigation, the spokesperson said.
HT Correspondent
SRINAGAR: Terrorists responsible for the killing of Rajini Bala, the 36-year-old teacher who was killed outside a school on May 31, were trapped in an ongoing encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, police said on Wednesday.
The encounter, which started at Mishipora area in Kulgam district on Tuesday and was halted during the night, was resumed on Wednesday morning, a police spokesperson said.
“The terrorists responsible for the killing of Rajini Bala are trapped in Kulgam,” said Vijay Kumar, inspector general of police (IGP), Kashmir zone. “We will share further details after the operation concludes,” he added.
Bala was shot dead by terrorists outside the government high school, Gopalpora in Kulgam on May 31 amid a spate of attacks on non-locals in the Valley, and also weeks after protests over the killing of a Kashmiri Pandit, Rahul Bhat, and a TV artist Ambreen Bhat. Hailing from Samba, 36-year-old Bala had been teaching in Kulgam since her recruitment in 2011 under the Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes quota of the district cadre.
Earlier this month, J&K lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha announced that the school in Gopalpora will be renamed after Bala. On June 9, students and staff members of government schools across Kashmir observed a two-minute silence to pay tributes to Bala.