SRINAGAR: The most sought-after Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist involved in the murder of the BJP Board of Rakesh Pandita and other murder rashes throughout J & K are among the three ultras shot dead in anti-terror operations in the Tarsar-Marsar forest area in the forest area in the forest area Pulwama District South Kashmir at the beginning of Saturday.
IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar identified Slain Wakeel Ahmad Shah from Tral as the mastermind from several attacks on security forces and civilians suspected by Jaile Police.
After killing the Chairperson of the Tral City Committee, Pandita in Pulwama last June, he led the Brazen attack where special police officers Fayaz Ahmad, his wife and daughter were shot dead in their homes, said IGP.
Shah was also known to have a hand in the murder of the residents of Tral Shabir Ahmad Bhat, Mohd Ayoub Ahanger and Shakela Begum.
The operation in which the terrorist of the Jaih and two unknown hands was killed launched on Friday after Rifles 42 Rashtriya soldiers received intelligence input on the presence of clothing at the top of the forest area in Tral’s Nagaberan Dhoka.
The J & K police team joins the army in Cordon-and-Search training.
“Today (Saturday) morning, there was a shootout with three terrorists, all of which were killed,” said Victor Force Commanding Maj Rashim Bali, who with IGP at a joint press conference at Awantipora.
“The trio is active in South Kashmir for a long time,” said Maj Gen Bali.
Two AK-47 rifles, SLRs, grenade launchers and several magazines were found in Ultra killed.
IGP Kumar said security forces would come out not only to track active terrorists in the valley but also thwart the possibility of infiltration efforts from all Indian-Pakistani borders, including by the Taliban element.
He said the killer of the officials of the Party APNI Ghulam Rasool Lone would be arrested or eliminated immediately.
On how security forces plan to overcome the situation in terms of Taliban made a breakthrough to Kashmir, Kumar said the police had activated such infiltration intelligence.
“If at all such thing happened, I, as a police officer, convinced people that police J & K, soldiers and other security forces would deal with professional challenges,” he said.
The terrorists who were killed in Bandipora were recently infiltrated the valley earlier this year.
“After carrying out terror attacks on civilians and political officials, the perpetrators usually hide in the forest.
We will not track terrorists in the interior but in the forest too,” said IGP.
Asked about the revival of political murder at J & K, Kumar said it was not for the first time that terrorists were targeting politicians.
“Netas has been attacked since 1989.
We cannot provide security for all, but the threat is vulnerable and facing it must approach us and we will give them security protection,” he said.