A local court in Anantnag has framed charges against the eight Lashkar-e-Taiba militants for killing the Station House Officer (SHO) and five policemen at Achabal area in June last year.
A local court in Anantnag has framed charges against the eight Lashkar-e-Taiba militants for killing the Station House Officer (SHO) and five policemen at Achabal area in June last year.
Two of the accused including welder-turned-criminal-turned -Jihadi from Uttar Pradesh Sandeep Kumar have been arrested while two others have been gunned down by the security forces in an encounter. Six accused are still absconding.
Six cops including a Station House Officer of Achabal police station Feroz Ahmad Dar were killed when a group of Lashkar-e-Taiba militants led by slain commander Bashir Lashkari ambushed their vehicle near Tajwara in South Kashmir's Anantnag district on June 16, 2017.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the J&K Police had filed a detailed chargesheet on February 5, 2018 against the accused in the case. The investigation had “established that LeT terrorists headed by Bashir Lashkari – the main accused --were involved” in the attack.
Police said based on the disclosures of Uttar Pradesh resident Sandeep Kumar, who was arrested from an encounter site on July 1, 2017, in which Bashir Lashkari along with Pakistani militant Abu Maz was killed, the investigators were able to crack the SHO’s murder case. Sandeep and another accused Mohammad Ashraf Wani alias Molvi are currently in judicial custody.
A close aide of slain LeT commander, Sandeep alias Adil of Muzaffarnagar Uttar Pradesh was part of the group that ambushed and killed Station House Officer of Achabal police station Feroz Ahmad Dar along with five other cops on June 16. Lashkari and his Pakistani associate Abu Maaz was killed in the encounter at Brinty Dailgam village on July 1.
Police have named four active militants Khursheed Ahmad Ganai, Mehrajuddin Bangroo alias Asif, Sahir Ahmad Makroo and Zeenat-ul-Islam, alias Zeenshah as the accused in the case All of them are absconding.
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