BUNTY MAHAJAN
JAMMU, MAY 10: The Jammu and Kashmir Police in a joint operation on Tuesday apprehended four hybrid terrorists along with an equal number of pistols from Srinagar’s Bemina area.
Giving details, a senior police officer said that the Srinagar SOG had specific information about the presence of a Lashkar-E-Toiba module which was active in the Bemina area and that it had been detailed from across the border to carry out targeted assassinations in the city.
There was also specific information about Pakistani handlers activating a hybrid module of LeT terrorists and providing them small weapons for carrying out targeted hits.
In this regard, after thorough technical and human analysis, it was reliably learnt that this group was tasked to carry out targeted killings of non-locals and politically affiliated persons in the Srinagar city and adjoining area, the police officer said. As a part of the same chain of investigation, it was learnt that the same module was to carry out a targeted killing in the Bemina area of Srinagar city, he added.
Accordingly, a covert team of Cargo was detailed to track the same and two Hybrid Terrorists, Tawoos Rasool Gada r/o Hamdaniya Colony Bemina and Saleem Jan Bhat r/o Usmanabad Batamaloo were successfully apprehended in the Bemina area and two Tokarev T54s (Chinese) , two magazines and 20 pistol rounds were recovered from their possession.
On basis of their initial questioning, it was learnt that the individuals were previously associated with eliminated terrorists Tanzeel Sofi and Shahid Falahi and after their elimination they were courted by LET handlers to work as hybrid terrorists. They further disclosed that two more members of the module were present in the Hamdania Colony area of Bemina.
On basis of the information provided by them during the initial questioning, a cordon and search operation (CASO) was launched in Hamdaniya Colony area of Bemina along with Army leading to the arrest of two more members of the module.
They were identified as Sajad Ahmad Marazi r/o Hamdaniya Colony and Abdul Hameed Rah @ Ali r/o Hamdaniya Colony. Two Tokarev T54s (Chinese), two magazines and ten pistol rounds were recovered from their possession.