Jammu and Kashmir police on Friday killed three Jaish-e-Muhammad militants at Nagrota in Jammu region. One policeman was injured in the incident.
According to police, a truck in which the militants were travelling, was intercepted a few hundred meters before Bann toll plaza. The three militants, all foreigners, were being driven to Srinagar by one Sameer Ahmed Dar, a resident of Pulwama.
Dar, a post graduate in Geology, is a cousin of the JeM militant who carried out the suicide bombing on a CRPF convoy at Pulwama on February 14 last year. Dar and his associate were arrested after the three militants were killed and are being interrogated.
A civilian, a resident of Kakapora in Pulwama, who was also travelling with the militants, has also been arrested.
The police had prior intelligence about JeM militants travelling to Kashmir in a truck, sources said. According to police sources, the militants seem to have infiltrated from Pakistan into Jammu through International Border (IB) in the last 48 hours.
Two militants tried to flee after one of their accomplices was killed but police and CRPF prevented their escape and shot them down.
A large cache of arms including US-made M4 carbine and AK47 rifles and ammunition was recovered from the truck.
Earlier, police had killed three JeM militants in an encounter in south Kashmir’s Shopian on January 24. The killing, which was seen as a major achievement by the security forces, came close on the heels of the arrest of DSP Davinder Singh who was transporting two Hizbul Mujahideen commanders and lawyer Irfan Mir to Jammu in his vehicle.
Singh was arrested at Kulgam by a police team led by deputy director Amit Goel.
