Hour after arrest, the Hizbul Top commander was killed in a J & K meeting

Srinagar: The top Commander of Hezbul Mujahidin was killed in a meeting in Kupwara Kashmir North on Tuesday, hours after he was arrested with a grenade of the Watyen Handwara area during a routine vehicle examination.
Post-question, he had led security personnel to a terrorist hiding place in Kralgund, where he tried to attack troops, triggering a meeting where he was shot down, police said.
Terrorists who were killed, identified as Mehraj-Ud-din Halwai aka Ubaid from Sopore in the North Kashmir Baramulla District, is a category A ++ Hizbing Operative.
Active since 2012, it plays an important role in alluring and recruiting youth for organizations, in addition to raising funds to promote terrorism.
HALWAI is experienced in modern technology that helps it plan and carry out terror activities.
Desired in several terror crimes, including many murders in North Kashmir, HALWAI is part of the terrorist groups responsible for killing spo Mudasir Ahmad Dar Sopore in 2013, attacking the police party in Hygam in Sopore in 2013 where four police were killed, and Kill Sarpanch Habib Ullah Mir of Goripora in Bomai, police said in a statement.
On Tuesday night, a Handwara and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) police team was conducting a routine vehicle check in Watyen when he was arrested by a man who showed suspicious behavior, IGP (Kashmir zone) Vijay Kumar told Wednesday, adding, “At that time the suspect was suspected , We found a grenade and immediately shifted him to the nearest police station to be questioned.
“During the interrogation, the suspect identified himself as Mehraj-Ud-din Halwai and revealed the location of terrorist hiding in Pazipora Renan Village in Kralgund, Handwara.
He then led the team with the Army, SSB, CRPF and Handwara police to the place for Cordon-and-Search operations.
“After reaching the location, Halwai suddenly took the AK-47 rifle that was hidden in the hiding place and fired a shot on security forces, triggered a meeting.
He was shot down in a shootout,” the IGP said, adding arms and ammunition, including ak-rifle 47 and four magazines, power banks, blankets, several other burdensome drugs and materials recover from the place.
Sopore on Wednesday observed a partial shutdown in protest against Halwai’s murder, with markets in the old city and the main Chowk area remained closed, said source.