New Delhi: The security forces succeeded in arresting a dreaded Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kullan Ganderbal early on Saturday morning.
The 23-year-old terrorist Nissar Ahmad Dar, who hails from Wahab Parray Mohalla at Hajin, was active for the last few years and is a categorised terrorist in security establishment’s data base. He was in the wanted list of security forces.
Sources said that Dar was reportedly planning an attack on some security force establishment before he was nabbed by the forces in an operation launched on Friday night.
He is involved in eight cases, seven in 2016 and one in 2019. He was detained twice under Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA) — first time in 2016 and then in 2017. He is an associate of Salim Parray, a top LeT terrorist.
“Dar is an associate of Salim Parray, who is top LeT terrorist active in North Kashmir, and had earlier escaped from an encounter in which a Pakistani terrorist of Lashkar outfit was killed at Kulan Ganderbal on November 12, 2019,” said a senior police officer.
“On a specific information that a listed and wanted dreaded terrorist was hiding somewhere in Srinagar and planning an attack on some Security Force establishment. An operation was launched last night by Srinagar police along with local security forces in which the terrorist was caught alive along with huge cache of arms and ammunition,” said a senior police official.
He is being interrogated by the security forces about various Pakistan-backed terror modules operating in Srinagar, the official added.