Jammu: Foiling a major plan by Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists to carry out a fidayeen attack in Jammu ahead of the Independence day, the police and Army on Tuesday gunned down three Pakistani terrorists of the outfit.
Acting on the specific intelligence input, Rashtria Rifles and Special Task Force launched a cordon and search operation in Nagnigarh area of Doda early on Tuesday, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Doda-Udhampur Range, L Mohanty said.
An encounter took place in the area in which Hassan Pakistani, a close aid of JeM chief Azhar Masood was killed, he said.
Hassan Pakistani was operational commander of Kishtwar region.
The spokesman for 16 corps, Col D K Badola, however, said that the terrorist has been identified as Hassan Baswa of Godiyal Khalid village in Lahore.
He denied that Hassan was a JeM commander.
One pistol, two magazines and 10 rounds were recovered from him.
In another operation, police launched a cordon and search in Jakti-Nagrota in the outskirts of the city in the wee hours, Jammu district police chief Mukesh Singh said.
A gun-battle took place between the radicals and police lasting close to an hour during which two top JeM militants, who had come to the city to possibly disrupt the independence day celebrations, were killed, Singh said.
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