A militant belonging to a Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba was arrested from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday morning.
The 23-year-old Nissar Ahmad Dar, who hails from Wahab Parray Mohalla at Hajin, was active for the past few years and is a categorised militant in security establishment’s data base. He was in the wanted list of security forces.
He is involved in eight cases, seven in 2016 and one in 2019. He was detained twice under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA)–first time in 2016 and then in 2017. He is an associate of Salim Parray, a top militant of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
“Dar is an associate of Salim Parray, who is top militant of Lashkar-e-Taiba in north Kashmir, and earlier escaped from an encounter in which a Pakistani militant of Lashkar outfit was killed at Kulan Ganderbal on November 12, 2019,” said a senior police officer.
Dar was planning to carry out attack on some security force establishment. He was caught alive in an operation launched on Friday night by the security establishments.
“On a specific information that a listed and wanted militant was hiding somewhere in Srinagar and planning an attack on security forces, an operation was launched on Friday night by the Srinagar police along with local security forces in which the militant was caught alive along with arms and ammunition,” said a senior police officer.
Dar is being interrogated, the officer added. IANS