Agencies
Srinagar, July 15: A policeman serving as a PDP MLA’s driver has been arrested in connection with investigations into the terror attack on Amarnath pilgrims this week, police sources said Saturday.
Touseef Ahmad, a policeman from the security wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police and Wachhi legislator Aijaz Ahmad Mir’s driver, was detained for questioning two days ago. Wachhi is in Shopian district of south Kashmir. Ahmad was formally placed under arrest Friday as part of investigations into militancy-related violence in south Kashmir, police sources said. The sources said two other people, suspected to be overground workers for militants, have also been detained for questioning. It was not immediately clear whether Ahmad, who was posted as Mir’s driver seven months ago, has any direct link to the attack on Amarnath pilgrims at Anantnag Monday that left seven yatris dead and
21 others injured.
3 militants killed in encounter
Srinagar: Three terrorists of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) outfit were Saturday killed in an encounter with security forces in a forest area of Tral in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, a police official said. While two of the militants were killed Saturday morning, another took shelter inside a cave and was finally killed after several hours of gunbattle in Tral, about 36 kms from here, the official said. He said bodies of all the three militants and their weapons were recovered from the scene of the gunbattle which started early Saturday morning when security forces launched a cordon-and-search operation after receiving information about presence of militants there.
