{"id":50975,"date":"2022-03-30T07:35:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T02:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/journalist-turned-militant-killed-in-srinagar-gunfight-police\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T07:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T02:05:30","slug":"journalist-turned-militant-killed-in-srinagar-gunfight-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=50975","title":{"rendered":"Journalist-turned-militant killed in Srinagar gunfight: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Rayees was missing from August 2021; 2 FIRs lodged against him<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Srinagar, Mar 30:<\/em><\/strong> Jammu &amp; Kashmir police on Wednesday said one of the militants killed in Srinagar gunfight was earlier a journalist and was running a news portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tweet, according to news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) police said Rayees Ah Bhat, one of the two militants killed in the gunfight, was earlier a journalist and was running online news portal &#8216;Valley News Service&#8217; in Anantnag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the police, Bhat joined militant ranks in August 2021 &amp; was &#8220;C&#8221; category militant in their list .&#8221;02 FIRs are already registered against him for terror crimes,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said that second killed militant has been identified as Hilal Ahmad Rah of Bijbehara, who was &#8220;C&#8221; category militant\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rayees was missing from August 2021; 2 FIRs lodged against him Srinagar, Mar 30: Jammu &amp; Kashmir police on Wednesday said one of the militants killed in Srinagar gunfight was earlier a journalist and was running a news portal. In a tweet, according to news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) police said Rayees Ah Bhat, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50975","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\/50975","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=50975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50975\/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=50975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}