On April 25, one Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist was killed while two Security Forces (SFs) personnel and a civilian, identified as Farooq Ahmed Dar, were injured in an encounter with SFs at Check Mohalla in the Nowpora area of Sopore town in Baramulla District of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), reports Daily Excelsior. Encounter is still going on in the District at the time of reporting.
On April 25, Police attached the properties of four militant handlers, identified as Mumtaz Ahmad Khwaja, Lateef Ahmad Bhat, Mushtaq Ahmad Mir, and Ghulam Nabi Ganai, operating from Pakistan in the Handwara in the Kupwara District of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), reports the Daily Excelsior. Police said, “These absconders fled to Pakistan or Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) in the 1990s or first after 2000 and are presently in Pakistan or PoK. Since then, they have been continuously involved in handling terrorists and reviving and spreading terrorism in Handwara and other areas of Jammu and Kashmir”.