The terrorists allegedly took 17 civilians as hostage and used as human shield. Securoty forces also rescued the hostages. Tensions gripped the area after two civilians, including a woman, were killed in the crossfire.
Keeping their promise, security forces avenged the killing of Station House officer (SHO) of Achabal police station Feroz Ahmad Dar and five other cops on Saturday when they killed the main accused and top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Bashir Lashkari along with his aide at Brinty Batpora village in Dailgam area of south Kashmir's Anantnag district.
The terrorists allegedly took 17 civilians as hostage and used as human shield. Securoty forces also rescued the hostages. Tensions gripped the area after two civilians, including a woman, were killed in the crossfire.
Police said Dailgam security forces laid a cordon on Saturday after receiving specific information about the presence of terrorists in Brinty Batpora.
One of the ultras has been identified as Bashir Ahmad Wani alias Bashir Lashkari, who was heading the five member group of LeT, which killed and disfigured the six cops including Station House Officer of Achabal police station Feroz Ahmad Dar on June 16. And the other has been identified Abu Maaz, a Pakistani national.
"It is a major success for the security forces. He (Bashir Lashkari) was involved in six cases,".
"We rescued 17 civilians who were taken as human shields by these militants in the house itself. That is the great achievement. I complement jawans and officers of J&K police and other security forces," Dr Shesh Paul Vaid, director general of police, Jammu and Kashmir told DNA. He added, "Unfortunately two civilians lost their lives in the cross fire."
However the army claimed that the civilians died in the mob control. "Two civilians killing happened during the mob control and not during crossfire", said an army officer at Northern Command.
"RIP Feroz, Justice delivered. I hope good sense prevails, and there are no more killings in Kashmir, and we all live in peace," tweeted Imtiyaz Hussain, senior superintendent of police, Baramulla.
The civilian killings has given a fresh ammunition to the separatists to hit out at the government. Joint Resistance Leadership, an amalgam of Hurriyat hawk Syed Ali Geelani, moderate Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik, urged people of Kashmir to observe a complete shutdown on Sunday to protest against the murder of the two civilians.
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