Srinagar: Police Tuesday said that a foreign militant affiliated with Lashkar-e-Taiba who had escaped during July 24 Shokbaba Bandipora encounter was on Tuesday killed at Chandajji forest area of North Kashmir’s Bandipora.
As already reported on 23/24 July 3 LeT militants including Sharik Altaf (who had ex-filtrated in 2018) were killed in Shokbaba encounter. However, a militant Babar Ali had managed to escape from the said encounter site and was being continuously tracked rigorously thereafter.
Police said that in furtherance of the tracking and after pinpointing his presence in Chandajji forest area Tuesday a joint operation was launched by Police, 26 Assam Rifles & CRPF in the said area.
During the search operation, the hiding militant fired upon the search party which was retaliated leading to an encounter. In the ensuing encounter, the hiding militant Babar Ali, resident of Ugada district of Punjab Pakistan was killed and his body was retrieved from the site of encounter.
Incriminating materials, arms and ammunition including 01 AK-rifle, 02 AK-Magazines, 40 AK-rounds, 01 pouch, 01 wireless set and 01 medicine bag were recovered from the site of encounter.
“IGP Kashmir congratulated joint team of Police and security forces for successfully tracking down the militant and conducting operation in a professional manner without any collateral damage,” police said.
In this connection, Police has registered a case under relevant sections of law and investigation has been initiated.
