LeT militants behind killing of BJP workers, will neutralize them soon:- IGP kashmir

Sarinagat Oct,30 (PTK) Inspector General of Police Kashmir range, Vijay Kumar Friday said that Lashkar-e-Toiba and TRF terrorists are involved in the killing of three BJP men including a youth leader at South Kashmir’s Kulgam district and the police has seized the vehicle used by them while all attackers have been identified.

Talking to reporters at the site of the incident, the IGP said yesterday at around 8 pm, militants from the LeT and TRF came in a vehicle and resorted to indiscriminate firing at the BJP youth leader Fida Hussain and his two colleagues.

With the help of our technical and human intelligence, three militants who carried out the act include a local militant Nisar Ahmed Khanday, Abbas Shiekh, who was earlier with Hizb and later joined LeT, and third one may be a foreigner,” he said.

“Recently, he gave undertaking that he can roam around without security. Now we are investigating what were they doing in Kulgam area,” he said, adding that at least 1690 BJP workers, leaders, activists were lodged in various hotels while 157 were provided with security cover on the basis of threat perception.

The IGP while replying to a query said that operations are on at seven to eight places across South Kashmir. “We will get them involved in the act soon,” he said.(PTK)