Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, July 26: Police today said that after the killing of a Lashkar-e-Toiba militant in an encounter at Ranbirgarh, Lawaypora in Srinagar yesterday, no Srinagar resident is in militancy now.
“After the killing of Lashkar-e-Toiba militant Ishfaq Rashid Khan, no resident of Srinagar district is in militant ranks now,” Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said in a tweet.
Police have not listed the missing PhD scholar Hilal Ahmed Dar from Bemina, Srinagar in the militant category. “We have not listed him as a militant yet as more verification is needed,” he said.
On June 16, Dar, a resident of Housing Colony Bemina, who was pursuing PhD in Management studies, went missing after going on a trekking in the hills of Naranag in Ganderbal district of Central Kashmir.
Earlier, police had said that he had joined militancy.
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