ISJK militant shot dead in Srinagar

Tribune News Service
Srinagar, July 3

A radical militant commander, accused of killing a CRPF personnel and a six-year-old boy in Anantnag last week, was shot dead in an encounter in Srinagar late on Thursday.

Kuldeep Urwan, 38, of Jharkhand, who was part of a quick action team of the CRPF, was also killed in the gunfight.

The police said the gunfight broke out on the outskirts of Srinagar in the Malbagh area at around 10.30 pm when the police and the CRPF launched a cordon and search operation following inputs about the presence of two militants.

“As forces cordoned the suspected spot, the hiding militants fired upon the forces in which one of our CRPF jawans was injured. The injured jawan chased the militants and in the firefight that followed, a militant was killed,” Inspector-General of Police, Kashmir Vijay Kumar, said. The injured jawan later died.

The slain militant was Zahid Daas was the commander of the Islamic State of Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK) for Anantnag.

“Daas was involved in many attacks, including the June 26 attack on CRPF personnel in Bijbehara, Anantnag, in which the jawan and the six-year-old boy died. Soon after that attack, we had released a photograph of Daas and an FIR was registered against him by name. He was a criminal and his killing is a big success for the forces,” Kumar said.