{"id":39765,"date":"2021-08-23T20:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/trf-chief-deputy-killed-in-sgr-encounter\/"},"modified":"2021-08-23T20:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:28:32","slug":"trf-chief-deputy-killed-in-sgr-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=39765","title":{"rendered":"TRF chief, deputy killed in Sgr encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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10 SoG men in civvies encircled hideout, challenged militants; Slain identified as Abbas Sheikh, Saqib Manzoor; Big Success for police: IPG Kashmir Vijay Kumar; Slain duo were involved in attacks, killing politicians in Sgr; 4 more militants, 50 OGWs active in city<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Srinagar, Aug 23:<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong><\/span>Jammu and Kashmir police Monday claimed to have killed a TRF\/Lashkar-e-Toiba chief and his deputy in a brief shoot-out in Aloochibagh area of Srinagar.<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

A police official told news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that acting on a specific lead, a special police team zeroed in on a location at Alochibagh area and challenged the militants. \u201cThe hiding militants opened fire triggering an encounter. In the ensuing gunfight, two militants of TRF\/Lashkar-e-Toiba were killed,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Talking to news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar said acting on a tip-off, ten policemen from the Special Operations Group (SoG) in civvies cordoned a specific location in Aloochibagh area. \u201cThey asked the militants to surrender, who instead opened fire. In the brief encounter, two militants were killed,\u201d the IGP said.<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Kashmir police chief said that slain militants have been identified as Abbas Sheikh, who was TRF\/Lashkar-e-Toiba chief for Kashmir and his deputy Saqib Manzoor of Barzulla, Srinagar was active since September 2020.<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSaqib was the man behind recruiting youth into militancy fold in Srinagar. Abbas Sheikh, a resident of Pulwama was a dreaded militant who joined militancy in 2005. He was arrested twice but he got recycled into militancy and was TRF chief at present,\u201d the IGP said, adding that the killing of Abbas Sheikh and Saqib is a big success for police. \u201cToday\u2019s operation was specifically conducted by the police,\u201d the IGP said.<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

He said that there are four more active militants in Srinagar and around 50 to 60 OGWs are operating as well. \u201cWe will try to catch alive all the active militants and arrest the OGWs,\u201d Kumar said. He said the operation was conducted in a smooth manner and there was no \u201ccollateral damage.\u201d Asked how they received information about the TRF chief and his deputy, the IGP said: \u201cThey were tracking the movement of this group for the past few days and today they were cornered.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The IGP said that the slain militants were involved in recruiting youth, lobbing grenades and killing political workers and policemen in Srinagar city. \u201cThe killing of Abbas Sheikh and Saqib Manzoor is a big success,\u201d Kumar said<\/em>\u2014(KNO)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

10 SoG men in civvies encircled hideout, challenged militants; Slain identified as Abbas Sheikh, Saqib Manzoor; Big Success for police: IPG Kashmir Vijay Kumar; Slain duo were involved in attacks, killing politicians in Sgr; 4 more militants, 50 OGWs active in city Srinagar, Aug 23: Jammu and Kashmir police Monday claimed to have killed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}