June 15: Police along with security forces neutralized 02 terrorists of proscribed terror outfit LeT including killer of Bank Manager Vijay Kumar in an anti-terrorist operation in South Kashmir’s Shopian District.
Acting on specific information regarding presence of terrorists in village Kanji Ullar area of Shopian, a joint cordon and search operation was launched by Police, Army (34RR) and CRPF (178Bn) in the said area.
During the search operation, as the joint party approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding terrorists fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party which was retaliated effectively leading to an encounter.
In the ensuing encounter, 02 terrorists were killed and their bodies were retrieved from the site of encounter. They have been identified as Jan Mohd Lone resident of Braripora Shopian and Tufail Nazir Ganie resident of Ramnagri Shopian.
As per police records, both the killed terrorists were linked with proscribed terror outfit LeT and were part of groups involved in several terror crime cases including attacks on Police/SFs and civilian atrocities. While interacting with media IGP Kashmir shared that killed terrorist Jan Mohd Lone was involved in recent killing of Bank Manager Vijay Kumar in Kulgam on 02/06/2022. He also revealed that Jan Mohd was earlier working as OGW of LeT’s district commander Adil Ramzan and he killed Bank manager on the direction of said LeT commander. After this terror crime he actively joined terror rank. Since then we have been tracking him. It’s pertinent to mention here that one of the killed terrorist Tufail Nazir had earlier escaped from two encounters at Chaki Samad area of Kulgam on 09/04/2022 and Khur-Batpora area of Kulgam on 11/04/2022.
Incriminating materials, arms & ammunition including 01 AK-47 rifle and 01 Pistol were recovered from the site of encounter. All the recovered materials have been taken into case records for further investigation and to probe their complicity in other terror crimes.
IGP Kashmir Shri Vijay Kumar congratulated the joint teams for carrying out the anti-terrorist operation in professional manner without any collateral damage. He also appreciated the efforts of Police to track down and neutralise the terrorist involved in the recent killing of Bank Manager.
In this regard, Police have registered a case under relevant sections of law and investigation has been initiated. People are requested to cooperate with police till the area is completely sanitized and cleared off of all the explosive materials, if any.```