Aurangzeb's killer among 4 HM terrorists gunned down

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Aurangzeb's killer among 4 HM terrorists gunned down

Sunday, 19 May 2019 | Mohit Kandhari | Jammu

Almost a year after Rifleman Aurangzeb, who was returning home to celebrate festival of Eid with his family in Poonch was 'mercilessly' killed by terrorists in June, 2018, a joint team of security forces on Saturday avenged his killing by eliminating Showkat Dar of Panzgam along with two other terrorists of Hizbul Mujahideen in a pre-dawn operation in South Kashmir's Pulwama district.

According to police, "Showkat was part of a group involved in killing of Rifleman Aurangzeb last year in 2018".

"He was also involved in killing of a  policeman Aqib Ahmad Wagay last year. Several terror crime cases were registered against him", police said.

Meanwhile, carrying out relentless operations against the active terrorists in South Kashmir area,  a joint team of security forces  eliminated one more terrorist in a gun fight in Hathlangoo area of Sopore. The identity of the slain terrorists was yet to be ascertained by the police authorities in the area.

Since January 2019,over 85 terrorists have been neutralised by the security forces across Kashmir valley.  Majority of these terrorists were cadre of Jaish-e- Mohammad.

The security forces carried out these operations in South Kashmir districts of Pulwama and Shopian in which over 45 terrorists were killed. 62 security personnel and 17 civilians too have lost their lives in these counter terrorist operations till date.

According to police spokesman, " a cordon & search operation was launched by police and security forces in the wee hours  at Panzgam area in Awantipora on the basis of credible inputs about the presence of HM terrorists in the area".

"During the search operation, the hiding terrorists fired on the search party. The fire was retaliated leading to an encounter. In the ensuing encounter, three terrorists were killed and the bodies were retrieved from the site of encounter.  The killed terrorists were later identified as Showkat Dar of Panzgam Awantipora, Irfan War of Wadoora Payeen Sopore and Muzaffar Sheikh of Tahab Pulwama", police spokesman said.

All the three killed terrorists, according to the police records, were affiliated with proscribed terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen.

As per police records Showkat Dar had a long history of terror crime records. He was involved in planning & executing series of terror attacks in the area and many other civilian atrocities.

Irfan War was part of terror groups responsible for conspiring and executing attacks on security establishments and civilian atrocities in the area. Accordingly terror crime cases were registered against him. Similarly, Muzafar Sheikh as per police records was also involved in several terror attacks on security establishments in the area. Several criminal cases were registered against him for terrorist activities.

Incriminating materials including arms & ammunition was recovered from the site of encounter. Police has registered a case and all these materials have been taken in the case records for the purpose of investigation and to probe their complicity in other terror crimes. Police spokesman said, " it was a clean operation and no collateral damage took place during the exchange of fire".

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