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  • Missing soldier present in Kashmir, joint interrogation to start after medical checkup: J&Okay Police

    Express News Service

    SRINAGAR: An military jawan, who was lacking from south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Saturday night, was discovered by police on Thursday.

    ADGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar in a tweet disclosed that the lacking military jawan, Javed Ahmed Wani has been discovered by Kulgam police.

    He stated a joint interrogation will begin shortly after the medical checkup.

    25-year-old Javed Ahmed Wani, who belongs to JAKLI and was posted in Leh Ladakh. He went lacking on Saturday night after he left dwelling at Asthal village in Kulgam in south Kashmir to purchase some meals gadgets.

    Javed, who had joined the military in 2014, was on go away and was speculated to rejoin on Sunday.

    The automotive wherein he was travelling was recovered by safety males from Paranhall village in Kulgam with its doorways open Sunday morning. His sleepers and a few meals gadgets have been discovered within the deserted automotive.

    The jawan’s lacking had led to hypothesis that he may need been kidnapped by militants and his relations had appealed for his launch.

    His father Mohammad Ayoub Wan in a video message had appealed to those that may need taken him to forgive him if he had made any mistake and launch him alive.

    After he had gone lacking, police, CRPF and the military launched a large manhunt to trace down the lacking soldier. The safety males questioned over two dozen individuals and in addition analyzed the decision data and cell information of the lacking soldier.

    The safety males additionally pressed sniffer canines into service to hint the lacking soldier.

    In March final yr, militants kidnapped and killed a military man Sameer Ahmad Malla R/o central Kashmir’s Budgam district.

    SRINAGAR: An military jawan, who was lacking from south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Saturday night, was discovered by police on Thursday.

    ADGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar in a tweet disclosed that the lacking military jawan, Javed Ahmed Wani has been discovered by Kulgam police.

    He stated a joint interrogation will begin shortly after the medical checkup.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    25-year-old Javed Ahmed Wani, who belongs to JAKLI and was posted in Leh Ladakh. He went lacking on Saturday night after he left dwelling at Asthal village in Kulgam in south Kashmir to purchase some meals gadgets.

    Javed, who had joined the military in 2014, was on go away and was speculated to rejoin on Sunday.

    The automotive wherein he was travelling was recovered by safety males from Paranhall village in Kulgam with its doorways open Sunday morning. His sleepers and a few meals gadgets have been discovered within the deserted automotive.

    The jawan’s lacking had led to hypothesis that he may need been kidnapped by militants and his relations had appealed for his launch.

    His father Mohammad Ayoub Wan in a video message had appealed to those that may need taken him to forgive him if he had made any mistake and launch him alive.

    After he had gone lacking, police, CRPF and the military launched a large manhunt to trace down the lacking soldier. The safety males questioned over two dozen individuals and in addition analyzed the decision data and cell information of the lacking soldier.

    The safety males additionally pressed sniffer canines into service to hint the lacking soldier.

    In March final yr, militants kidnapped and killed a military man Sameer Ahmad Malla R/o central Kashmir’s Budgam district.

  • Fighting terror: J&Okay Police will get bullet-resistant automobiles, 40-ft lengthy containerized capturing vary

    By Express News Service

    SRINAGAR: Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Thursday inaugurated a Containerized Shooting Range and flagged off bullet-resistant Marksman Tactical Intervention Light Motor Vehicles at a operate held at Armed Police Complex, Humhama, Srinagar.

    The DGP, after inaugurating the Bullet Resistant Light Motor Vehicles, stated that these automobiles with excessive security necessities could be deployed with Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) for particular duties. He appreciated the Additional Director General of Police, Assistant Inspector General (AIG) and their crew for working in quick monitor mode for procuring these automobiles. “A large number of vehicles have come and a lot more will follow”, the DGP added.

    The automobiles with enhanced security measures have a RunFlat Tyre system with Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) cameras put in. Induction of the bullet resistant LMVs would additional improve effectiveness of police throughout counter militancy operations and encounters with militants, based on police.

    DGP and Special DG, CRPF fired some apply rounds on the event. The 40-feet-long Containerized Shooting Range (CTSR) meets all worldwide requirements of security with software program able to reducing and growing firing vary of upto 300 metres. The air-conditioned capturing vary could be utilized 24×7 and will also be simply transported to every other location.

    The shooter can fireplace in standing, kneeling and mendacity positions and it has digital multi-function targets and digital targets techniques. The CTSR has one management station every, outdoors the Container and a monitoring tab close to the shooter to observe the firing and the management station which is able to printing the firing results of the shooter.

    The ISO-certified system is able to displaying and recording shot location on the goal, doable rating, the combination rating, indicating the imply level of affect, indicating the kind of train in progress, present group dimension and MPI and many others.

    ADGP Headquarters and AIG Provision & Transport PHQ briefed the DGP in regards to the options of Containerized Shooting Range (CTSR) and its monitor management system. They additionally briefed in regards to the security measures of the Bullet Resistant Vehicles.

    The DGP was acquired by senior officers of Police & CRPF and was introduced guard of honour on his arrival.

    SRINAGAR: Director General of Police Dilbag Singh on Thursday inaugurated a Containerized Shooting Range and flagged off bullet-resistant Marksman Tactical Intervention Light Motor Vehicles at a operate held at Armed Police Complex, Humhama, Srinagar.

    The DGP, after inaugurating the Bullet Resistant Light Motor Vehicles, stated that these automobiles with excessive security necessities could be deployed with Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) for particular duties. He appreciated the Additional Director General of Police, Assistant Inspector General (AIG) and their crew for working in quick monitor mode for procuring these automobiles. “A large number of vehicles have come and a lot more will follow”, the DGP added.

    The automobiles with enhanced security measures have a RunFlat Tyre system with Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) cameras put in. Induction of the bullet resistant LMVs would additional improve effectiveness of police throughout counter militancy operations and encounters with militants, based on police.

    DGP and Special DG, CRPF fired some apply rounds on the event. The 40-feet-long Containerized Shooting Range (CTSR) meets all worldwide requirements of security with software program able to reducing and growing firing vary of upto 300 metres. The air-conditioned capturing vary could be utilized 24×7 and will also be simply transported to every other location.

    The shooter can fireplace in standing, kneeling and mendacity positions and it has digital multi-function targets and digital targets techniques. The CTSR has one management station every, outdoors the Container and a monitoring tab close to the shooter to observe the firing and the management station which is able to printing the firing results of the shooter.

    The ISO-certified system is able to displaying and recording shot location on the goal, doable rating, the combination rating, indicating the imply level of affect, indicating the kind of train in progress, present group dimension and MPI and many others.

    ADGP Headquarters and AIG Provision & Transport PHQ briefed the DGP in regards to the options of Containerized Shooting Range (CTSR) and its monitor management system. They additionally briefed in regards to the security measures of the Bullet Resistant Vehicles.

    The DGP was acquired by senior officers of Police & CRPF and was introduced guard of honour on his arrival.

  • J&Okay Police to disclaim safety clearance for passport, govt companies to stone pelters

    The CID wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police has ordered the denial of safety clearance required for passport and different authorities companies to all these concerned in stone-pelting or subversive actions.
    In an order issued on Saturday, the senior superintendent of police (SSP), CID, Special Branch (SB), Kashmir, has directed all the sector items underneath it to make sure that the individual’s involvement in regulation and order, stone-pelting instances, and different crime prejudicial to the safety of the state be particularly appeared into throughout verification associated to passport, service and another verification associated to authorities schemes.
    “The same must be corroborated from the local police station records,” the order learn.

    The SSP additionally stated digital proof like CCTV footage, images, movies and audio clips, quadcopter photographs accessible within the data of the police, safety forces, and safety businesses be additionally referred throughout the verification.

    “Any subject found involved in any such cases must be denied the security clearance,” the SSP, CID-SB, Kashmir stated.

  • Two militants killed in encounter with safety forces in J-Okay’s Pulwama

    Two militants had been killed in an encounter with safety forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police stated.
    Security forces launched a cordon and search operation within the forest space of Namibian and Marsar and the final space of Dachigam this morning, following inputs concerning the presence of militants there, a police official stated.
    He stated the search operation become an encounter after militants opened fireplace at a search social gathering of the forces, who retaliated.
    In the change of firing, two militants had been killed, the official stated.

    He stated the identification and group affiliation of the slain ultras had been being ascertained.

    Further particulars had been awaited, the official added.

  • 3 LeT militants killed in gunfight in Anantnag: police

    Three militants had been killed in a gunfight in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday, police stated.
    A joint crew of J&Ok Police, Army and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) launched a cordon and search operation at Kawarigam village in Anantnag after particular inputs concerning the presence of militants within the village, they stated. As the joint crew was zeroing in on the goal, the militants opened fireplace. The forces returned the fireplace, resulting in a gunfight.
    The police stated the trapped militants had been requested to give up however they refused. “They (militants) fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party which was retaliated, leading to an encounter,” the police stated. “In the ensuing encounter, three terrorists of proscribed terror outfit LeT were killed and their bodies were retrieved from the site of encounter.”

    The police recognized the militants as Arif Hajam, a resident of Sadoora, Basit Rashid Ganai of Audsoo Achabal, and Suhail Mushtaq Bhat of Karimabad Pulwama.
    Police stated that Arif was the district commander of Lashkar and was energetic for shut to a few years now, and that Basit joined the militant ranks in April this 12 months.
    The police stated the militants had been a part of a gaggle “involved in several terror crime cases including attacks on security forces and civilian atrocities”.

    “IGP Kashmir has congratulated police and security forces for the big success and conducting successful operation in professional manner without any collateral damage,” the police stated in a press release.

  • Suspected terrorist ‘snatches’ gun, killed in J&Okay Police camp

    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.

  • Qaeda-linked outfit’s chief amongst seven militants killed in J&Okay

    AT LEAST seven militants, together with the chief of the Al-Qaeda affiliated militant outfit Ansar Gazwat ul Hind (AGH), had been killed in two separate encounters in South Kashmir on Friday, in line with J&Okay Police.
    While AGH chief Imtiyaz Shah was killed together with one other militant throughout an encounter at a hideout inside an orchard in Tral space of Pulwama, 5 others had been killed in an in a single day encounter at a mosque the place they had been hiding in Shopian, police mentioned.
    IG (Kashmir Zone) Vijay Kumar advised reporters at a press convention in Srinagar that of the 5 militants killed in Shopian, two had been affiliated to the Hizbul-ul-Mujahideen, one to the Lashkar-e-Toiba and two others to the AGH.

    “We had sent in a militant’s brother urging him to surrender last night, after sending the imam of the mosque where they were hiding. This morning, we sent his parents but still he refused to surrender,” IG Kumar mentioned.
    Subsequently, he mentioned, the “forces resorted to tear smoke shelling inside the mosque and fired through the window, trying not to damage the mosque”. Three civilians and not less than 4 safety personnel had been injured in the course of the encounter.
    Among the 5 militants killed, 4 have been recognized as Shopian residents, Muzamil Manzoor, Adil Ahmad Lone and Basik Ismaiel Bakshi, and Tral resident Younis Ahmad Khanday. The identification of the fifth militant is being ascertained, police mentioned.
    In the Tral encounter, the second militant killed has been recognized as Zahid Ahmed Koka, a resident of Shopian.
    “Seven AK-47 rifles and two pistols were recovered from the site of the encounters. With these two encounters, and the elimination of the seven terrorists, the group AGH has been fully wiped out once again,” J&Okay Police DGP, Dilbag Singh, advised The Indian Express.
    IG Kumar mentioned that Shah, who was an lively militant since July 2019, was tasked with attacking the Amarnath Yatra on the nationwide freeway. “It is a soft target but we will make sure that the security arrangements for the yatra are foolproof,” he mentioned.
    15 Corps Commander Lt General D P Pandey and GOC Victor Force Maj General Rashim Bali had been additionally current on the press convention together with Kumar. “This year, recruitment figures are less and I am sure the way security forces and civil administration are working here, recruitment will decrease in the coming years. We will provide them with the opportunity to surrender but anyone who picks arms against the state will be neutralised,” Lt Gen Pandey mentioned.

    With the 2 encounters, the variety of militants killed in 2021 has reached 31, together with 28 within the south Kashmir area. Meanwhile, 138 militant associates, or over floor employees, have been arrested thus far, as per official knowledge.
    Responding to queries on the declare that the AGH has been worn out, the IG mentioned: “As of now, there is only one active AGH member but it is difficult to say whether he will continue to be here or move to a different outfit.”

  • J&Ok: LeT operative held, arms cache seized in Reasi dist after years

    Jammu and Kashmir Police and safety forces arrested an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba affiliate in Reasi district’s Mahore city in a joint operation and claimed to have seized an enormous amount of arms and ammunition, together with Rocket Propelled Gun (RPG) and mortars, amongst others.
    Arms haul at such a degree comes within the district after six years. The improvement comes simply earlier than the three-day Shiv Khori mela, held on the event of Maha Shivratri, starting March 10.
    The police recognized the arrested individual as Reyaz Ahmed, 21 – he was arrested on Friday. According to police, throughout questioning within the presence of an government Justice of the Peace, Reyaz disclosed that he had hidden the arms and ammunition at a hideout between Makhidhar and Upper Shikari ridge of Mahore tehsil.

    A search operation by the police and Army was launched subsequently and two beneath barrel grenade launchers (UBGL) and mortar grenade launcher (MGL), 5 grenades, one RPG, three mortar bombs, 80 rounds of INSAS, sniper and AK rifles, in addition to explosive materials, have been recovered, the police mentioned. Reasi’s Superintendent of Police Surjeet Bhagat mentioned the seizure additionally included one AK-47 rifle with 22 magazines and 150 cartridges, one rocket launcher, 16 UBGL grenades, 4 hand grenades, and two very excessive frequency (VHF) radio units with antennas.
    The cache was to be delivered to an individual from Gool, in adjoining Ramban district, Bhagat mentioned. It was a part of the consignment despatched by LeT ‘commander’ Khobaib, a resident of Doda who’s at current primarily based in Pakistan, the SP added.
    On February 18, the police and safety forces had seized an AK 47 rifle together with a sealed field of ammunition, one self loading rifle (SLR), one .303 bolt rifle and two Chinese pistols together with magazines and ammunition from Makhidhar forests. These have been additionally despatched by Khobaib, in response to the police.

    With these large-scale seizures, the police mentioned a plan to revive militancy in Pir Panjal ranges, particularly forward of the Amarnath yatra and Budha Amarnath yatra to Mandi, in Poonch district of Jammu division, has been foiled.

  • Eleven days after he was shot at, son of J&Ok eatery proprietor dies

    Eleven days after he was shot at by suspected militants, Akash Mehra, the 22-year-old son of the proprietor of a preferred eatery in Srinagar, died in hospital on Sunday.
    On the night of February 17, the dhaba was stuffed to capability when two masked males barged in with pistols. They went straight to the money counter, the place Akash was sitting, and shot him from point-blank vary. Akash was hit within the stomach.
    The dhaba and some others within the extremely guarded Sonawar neighbourhood of Srinagar have been shut because the assault.
    “His (Akash’s) condition worsened on Thursday and he was put on life support,” stated a physician at Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital, the place Akash had been admitted.
    A day after the assault, police arrested three males, who, they stated, had been instructed by a South Kashmir-based Lashkar-e-Toiba militant to hold out the assault. “One of the reasons for targeting the dhaba owner is that he belongs to Jammu and is Hindu,” Inspector General of Police (IGP) Vijay Kumar stated on February 18. “The aim (of the attackers) could have been to disturb communal harmony.”
    Barely a couple of hundred metres from the United Nations Observers workplace in Srinagar, Krishna Dhaba is in style amongst vacationers and has for a lot of many years been the tackle for vegetarian meals within the metropolis.
    The Mehras, who initially hail from Jammu, are stated to have been cautious about holding native sensibilities in thoughts.

    So every time separatists known as for a shutdown, the dhaba would down its shutters, even when it was throughout peak vacationer season and whilst some native retailers round it stayed open. Through a few of Kashmir’s most troubled years within the Nineties and 2000s, the dhaba could be abuzz within the evenings.

    On Sunday, former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have been amongst those that expressed their condolences.

  • J&Okay United Kisan Front Chairman arrested for alleged involvement in R-Day violence

    Chairman of the J&Okay United Kisan Front, Mohinder Singh, was arrested right here on Monday evening for alleged involvement in violence in Delhi on Republic Day.
    This is the primary arrest from Jammu Kashmir in reference to the violence.
    According to members of the family, he was known as by SP South at Gandhi Nagar police station from his residence at Chatha on the outskirts of Jammu metropolis in the course of the day. However, as he didn’t return residence, one of many members of the family went to Gandhi Nagar police station solely to learn that he has been arrested by a police celebration from Delhi.

    As the members of the family began agitating over the police motion, Gandhi Nagar SHO Gurnam Singh together with the police celebration reached there and tried to pacify them saying that that they had include correct paperwork and the household can resort to authorized recourse.

    Mohinder had been proactive throughout farmers’ agitation. Family members, nevertheless, mentioned that he by no means visited Red Fort, however he was on the Delhi borders.