A SUSPECTED terrorist was killed inside a camp of the J&Okay Police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) in South Kashmir’s Tral on Thursday after he reportedly snatched a rifle from a policeman throughout interrogation and shot at him, leaving him critically injured.
Police stated Mohammad Amin Malik, who was on police remand, hid within the interrogation room and stored taking pictures at police personnel, earlier than he was killed in a joint operation of police, Army and paramilitary forces.
Police had detained Malik on May 30, allegedly after recovering arms, ammunitions and explosives from him, together with an unlicensed gun, in addition to telephones “and other warlike stores used in fabrication of IEDs”. He had been delivered to the SOG camp for additional interrogation.
An official launch stated, “During interrogation the terror operative got hold of the service rifle (AK-47) of Constable Amjad Khan and fired indiscriminately with the intention to kill police personnel. He critically wounded Amjad Khan… The terror operative then took total control of the interrogation room and engaged police personnel by firing intermittently from the snatched weapon.”
Police stated they tried to induce Malik to give up and even referred to as his mom to the camp however did not persuade him. “Sensing grave danger to the lives of police personnel and that of the terror operative, his mother and an Executive Magistrate were brought to the site and repeated, sincere efforts were made to persuade him to throw away the weapon and surrender,” police stated. “The terror operative, however, displayed complete defiance to such persuasions and not only refused to surrender but also fired upon the police party. One of the personnel was hit and survived because of the bulletproof jacket he was wearing.”
The launch stated that in any case efforts to get Malik to give up had failed, an operation was launched, “following the rules and SoP of such engagement”.
Malik, who had been arrested in 2003 earlier, was as soon as related to the Hizbul Mujahideen, police stated. His brother, linked to Zakir Musa’s Ansar Ghazwatul Hind, was earlier killed in a gunfight in 2019.
