‘3 militants’ killed in encounter in Lawaypora KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 12/31/2020 12:57:36 PM
Families allege the men were innocent, “pick-up”and killed
SRINAGAR, Dec 30: Four days after the J&K Police indicted an Army Captain and two of his “local informers” in a detailed charge-sheet for a fake encounter of three labourers in Shopian in July last, families of “three militants killed in an encounter” on the outskirts of Srinagar today have alleged that their sons were innocent.
Security forces on Wednesday claimed three local militants were killed in an encounter at Lawaypora on the outskirts of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir.
A security official takes a position during an encounter with militants, at Lawaypora on the outskirts of Srinagar, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020 (PTI)
SRINAGAR: Three terrorists were killed in an anti-terror operation at Lawaypora on Srinagar’s outskirts on Wednesday, but the kin of one of the slain men claimed he was a Kashmir University student who had left home to write his exams, only to lose his life in a “fake encounter”.
Official sources identified the slain trio as Aijaz Ahmad Ganie and Ather Mushtaq from Pulwama, and Zubair Ahmad Lone from Shopian. “Since the past many days, we had been flooded with intelligence inputs about terrorists’ movement on the Srinagar-Baramulla highway. Yesterday (December 29), we learnt that ultras were hiding in a house right opposite Noora hospital in Lawaypora, HMT area,” GOC Kilo Force H S Sahi said at a press conference.
Srinagar: General officer Commanding (GoC) of Army’s Kilo Force, H S Sahi Wednesday said that the three militants killed in the gunfight at Lawaypora on Srinagar outskirts were planning “a big strike on the highway to gain publicity”.
Addressing a joint press conference at 2 RR headquarters at Zainakote, HMT, Srinagar, Sahi said that the identity of the slain trio is being ascertained and also the militant organisation they were affiliated with.
The GoC Kilo Force said that since the “past many days, intelligence inputs were pouring in continuously” about the movement of militants on the Srinagar-Baramulla highway.
On Tuesday, the Army developed leads and came to know that militants are hiding in a house right opposite to Noora hospital at Lawaypora in HMT area, Sahi said.
December 30, 2020 | Reported By : RK Online Desk
Srinagar, Dec 30: General officer Commanding (GoC) Kilo Force H S Sahi Wednesday said that three militants killed in an encounter at Lawaypora on Srinagar outskirts were planning a big strike on the highway to gain publicity.
He, however, said that the identity and affiliation of the slain trio is yet to be known as police is trying to find out to which outfit they belonged to. Addressing a joint press conference at 2 RR headquarters at Zainakote, HMT, Srinagar, GoC Kilo Force said that in the past one week, five militants including a Pakistani national were killed in two separate gunfights in north Kashmir.