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| Militant commander killed in Pulwama gunfight | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 15: A local militant of the Hizbul-Mujahideen was killed in an an encounter in south Kashmir's Pulwama district on Wednesday, police said.
The militant killed in the gunfight has been identified as Feroz Ahmad Dar a resident of Heff-Shrimal Shopian, who police said was involved in a 2018 attack in south Kashmir in which four police personnel were killed.
The encounter broke out at Usgam Pathri area of Rajpora during a cordon and a search operation by the security forces.
"Acting on a specific input regarding the presence of a terrorist in the village, a joint cordon and search operation was launched by Police, 44RR and 182Bn CRPF. During the search operation, after the presence of terrorist was ascertained, he was given repeated opportunities to surrender; however he fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party which was returned leading to an encounter," a police spokesman said.
"In the ensuing encounter, one terrorist of the proscribed terror outfit HM was killed and his body was retrieved from the site of encounter. He has been identified as Feroz Ahmad Dar," he adddd.
The slain terrorist was an A plus category militant and was involved in series of violent incidents.
"As per police records, the slain terrorist was active since 2017 and involved in several terror related crimes including attack on the Minority Guard in December 2018 at Zainapora Shopian resulting in the martyrdom of four police personnel and looting of their service rifles," the spokesman said.
"He was also involved in the killing of a girl Ishrat Muneer a resident of Dangerpora Pulwama in February 2019. Later he was involved in the killing of a non local labour named Charnajeet resident of Fazila Punjab and injuring another in October 2019 when they were loading apple boxes in a vehicle in Zainapora area of Shopian. Besides he was also instrumental in luring the gullible youth to join terrorist ranks," the spokesman said.
An AK rifle along with three magazines were also recovered from his possession, police said.
The encounter in Pulwama took place at a time when security has been beefed up following a deadly attack on police at Zewan on the outskirts of Srinagar on Monday evening that left three police men dead and 11 others wounded. |
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