Three LeT militants killed, IED defused in J-K

Srinagar, Feb 15 (PTI) Three Lashkar-e-Toiba militants
were killed in two separate encounters in the northernmost
Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, where a major tragedy was
averted with timely detection of a powerful Improvised
explosive device (IED) in Baramulla district Monday, police
said.

A self-styled district commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
Ashraf Moulvi and his close associate Rouf Ahmad Bhat were
killed in a gunbattle with a joint search party of police and
Army in Kulgam district's Qaimoh, 70 kms from here in South
Kashmir, this morning, Superintendent of Police, Kulgam,
Keshav Ram Chourasia told PTI.
"As per police records the duo were affiliated with
Hizbul Mujahideen but had recently switched to LeT which was
revealed by the documents recovered from them," he said.
Terming the killing of the two militants as a "major
success", he said Moulvi had been arrested and jailed under
Public Safety Act (PSA) thrice in the past one decade.
"He rejoined militancy last year after his release and
was behind several sensational incidents in the recent past,
including the killing of a former militant Gulzar Ahmad Dar
and attack on Police post at Qaimoh," the SP who supervised
the operation said.
He said Bhat (18) had joined militancy only a few months
back and was moving around with Moulvi. The duo had escaped an
encounter after getting trapped in a cordon and search
operation at Rampur village in the district last month.
"We got specific information about their presence in a
house and accordingly laid a cordon in the wee hours. After
noticing the search parties, the ultras came out and tried to
flee while firing on the search parties and were killed in the
ensuing gunbattle," Chourasia said. More PTI AMS
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