Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists were on Sunday killed in an encounter with security forces in Shopian district, police said.
The security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Hend Sitapur area in south Kashmir in the early hours of Sunday morning following a specific information about the presence of terrorists there, a police spokesperson said.
He said as the forces were conducting searches, the terrorists fired upon them.
The security forces retaliated the firing, ensuing a gunfight in which two terrorists were killed, he said.
The bodies of the slain terrorists have been recovered and they have been identified as Javid Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Redwani Kulgam and Adil Bashir Wani, hailing from Waripora area of D H Pora in Kulgam, the spokesperson said.
He said according to police records, both the terrorists were affiliated with the LeT outfit. 
“They were wanted by law for their complicity in a series of terror crimes, including attack on security establishments and civilian atrocities. Several terror crime cases were registered against them,” he said. 
“Bhat had a long history of terror crime records and a series of terror crime cases were registered against him for planning and executing terror attacks in the area. He was also responsible for recruiting youth from adjoining areas of Kulgam to join proscribed terror outfits,” the spokesperson said.
Similarly, Wani was also involved in several terror attacks and terror crime cases were registered against him, he said.
The spokesperson said incriminating material, including arms and ammunition, were recovered from the site of the encounter. 
All these material have been taken in the case records for further investigation and to probe their complicity in other terror crime cases, he added. The spokesperson said with the efforts of police and security forces, it was a clean operation and no collateral damage took place during the exchange of firing.
Meanwhile, a youth was detained and handed over to police for investigation after he was found moving suspiciously outside a military station here, a defence spokesperson said. 
The youth was confronted by the Army outside the main gate of Sunjwan military station, a sprawling camp in the outskirts of the city which was targeted by a three-member suicide squad of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists in February last year. 
“A suspicious movement by a young man was noticed in close vicinity of Sunjwan Military Station Army Gate at around 1:10 PM on Saturday. The movement of young man loitering in close vicinity of Army Gate was closely monitored by the alert Army personnel on duty,” the spokesperson said. 
Following the drills and procedures, he said the army personnel asked the individual to prove his identity. 
“The individual failed to prove his identity. Subsequently, he was handed over to local police at the Channi Himmat police station for investigation and further necessary action,” the spokesperson said.

Courtesy:State Times,May 13,2019