Two girls arrested for attack on BJP leader’s residence in Srinagar
Srinagar, Apr 6 (UNI) Two girls, both residents of Budgam, were arrested for their alleged involvement in the attack on BJP leader’s residence last week in Srinagar outskirts.
A police guard was killed when militants attacked the house of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mohammad Anwar Khan at Nowgam bypass in the outskirts of Srinagar city on April 1. Khan was not present in the house when the attack took place.
Official sources said that after following various leads, police was able to arrested two girls, identified as Anjum Younis and Tabasum Maqbool, from Kanihama in central Kashmir district of Budgam. “The girls were arrested for their alleged involved in the attack,” they said.
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4 Lashkar-e-Toiba militants carried out Nowgam attack: IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar
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SRINAGAR: Inspector General of Police Kashmir range Vijay Kumar Thursday said four Lashkar-e-Toiba militants including two from Srinagar carried out the attack on the guard post of the house of senior BJP leader Muhammad Anwar Khan in Aribagh, Nowgam area in which a police man got killed. He also confirmed that the militants took away a riffle as well from the spot.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the wreath laying ceremony of slain cop Rameez Raja, who was deployed at the guard post outside the resident residence of BJP leader, the IGP said: “After examining the CCTV footage, one burqa clad militant knocks the door and when the door is opened, two others fire indiscriminately and the fourth one comes and takes away the riffle.”