Lagatar24 Desk
Srinagar, Nov 20: In an encounter between security forces and ultras on Sunday in the Anantnag area of Jammu and Kashmir, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) hybrid terrorist who was with a police party to identify a hideaway was killed, according to the police.
Following specific information regarding the presence of terrorists there, security personnel conducted a cordon and search operation in the Cheki Dudoo region of Bijbehara in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district early Sunday morning, according to the police.
“When search party reached towards the suspected hideout, terrorists opened fire which hit one accused, hybrid terrorist of LeT Sajjad Tantray of Kulgam, who was with the search party for identification of hideout. He was rushed to SDH Bijbehara where doctors declared him brought dead,” Kashmir Zone Police said on Twitter.
When search party reached towards the suspected hideout terrorists opened fire which hit one accused, hybrid terrorist of LeT Sajjad Tantray of Kulgam, who was with search party for identification of hideout. He was rushed to SDH Bijbehara where doctors declared him brought dead. https://t.co/bdlRN9zgcx
— Kashmir Zone Police (@KashmirPolice) November 20, 2022
According to the authorities, Tantray was complicit in the murder of a foreign labourer on November 13 in Rakhmomen, Bijbehara.
“During investigation hybrid terrorist Sajjad Tantray, who was earlier a terrorist associate of LeT and released from PSA, revealed that he had attacked on two outside labourers on 13/11/2022 at Rakhmomen, Bijbehara in Anantnag in which two labourers got seriously injured,” said J&K police.
“Later on, labourer namely Chota Prasad succumbed to injuries on 18/11/2022 at Hospital. Weapon of offence (Pistol) and vehicle used in terror crime were also recovered on his disclosure,” it added.
More terror associates of this module are being sought as part of the ongoing investigation, it was stated.
Hybrid terrorists are unlisted radicalised individuals who do terrorist acts and then, frequently without leaving a trace, resume their normal life.
