{"id":49540,"date":"2021-12-26T09:58:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T04:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=49540"},"modified":"2021-12-26T09:58:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T04:28:21","slug":"militant-killed-in-bijbehara-encounter-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=49540","title":{"rendered":"Militant killed in Bijbehara encounter: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Slain was involved in killing of ASI in Bijbehara: IGP<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bijbehara, Dec 26: <\/strong>A militant has been killed in a gunfight between government forces and militants in K Kalan area of Bijbehara in South Kashmir\u2019s Anantnag district, officials said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior police officer told the news agency\u2014 Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a militant has been killed who has been identified as Faheem Ahmad Bhat (19) son of Gul Mohammad Bhat of Kandipora Bijbehara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Inspector General of Police Kashmir Zone Vijay Kumar told KNO that Faheem who recently joined ISJK was given multiple surrender offers but he turned it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that Faheem was involved in killing of ASI Mohammad Ashraf from Awantipora area posted in Police Station Bijbehara, who was shot dead near SDH Bijbehara on December 22, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, an official said that a joint team of Police, Army and CRPF launched a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) on specific information about the presence of militants in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that as the joint team of forces approached towards the suspected spot, the hiding militants fired upon them, which was retaliated, triggering a gunfight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pertinently, four militants were killed in two separate encounters on Saturday including two in Chowgam area of Shopian and two in Hardimir area of Tral\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slain was involved in killing of ASI in Bijbehara: IGP Bijbehara, Dec 26: A militant has been killed in a gunfight between government forces and militants in K Kalan area of Bijbehara in South Kashmir\u2019s Anantnag district, officials said on Saturday. A senior police officer told the news agency\u2014 Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49540","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\/49540","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=49540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}