Pahalgam attack mastermind Suleiman among 3 LeT terrorists neutralized in Operation Mahadev: Amit Shah

Home Minister Amit Shah informed the Lok Sabha on Monday that three Pakistani terrorists who carried out the Pahalgam terror attack were killed in Operation Mahadev in Jammu and Kashmir. 

The Union minister said the three terrorists - Suleiman, the mastermind of Pahalgam terror attack,  and the two accomplices, Afghan and Jibran - were killed in Operation Mahadev carried out by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday. "These were all top terrorists belonging to the Pak-based proscribed group Lashkar-e-Taiba," Shah said in the house.

The home minister said the bodies of terrorists were brought to Srinagar and their identities were confirmed by those already in the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), for sheltering them. 

"When the terrorists' dead bodies reached Srinagar, they were identified as the three people who carried out the terror attack in Pahalgam. The FSL report of the cartridges from the terror attack was already ready. .. Yesterday, the rifles of the three terrorists were seized and matched with the FSL reports. Further tests were carried out in Chandigarh yesterday, after which it was confirmed that these three were those who carried out the terror attack," Shah said during his address in the house. 

"Six forensic experts have confirmed to me on a video call this morning that these are the same bullets used in the Pahalgam attack," the home minister added. The home minister said security forces had recovered Pakistani voter IDs of two of the killed terrorists as well as chocolates made in Pakistan and the weapons. "After the Pahalgam attack, security forces were instructed not to allow terrorists responsible for the dastardly act to leave the country," he said.