LeT commander Abrar involved in many killings killed in encounter

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Nadeem Abrar and a Pakistani national were killed in an encounter in Srinagar.

On Monday, Nadeem Abrar, a top commander of LeT involved in many killings was arrested during checking of vehicles at Parimpora and put on sustained interrogation, a police spokesman informed. 

The spokesman further added that the LeT commander disclosed the location where he had kept his AK-47 rifle in Maloora locality.

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Police shared on Tuesday that a day after his arrest, Nadeem Abrar along with a Pakistani national were killed in an encounter in Parimpora area of the city.

A few joint checkposts of JK Police and CRPF were placed along the highway after a specific input about terrorists carrying an attack on highways, he said.

The spokesman said, ‘On Parimpora naka (checkpost), a vehicle was stopped and their identity was asked. The person sitting at the back seat tried to open his bag and took out a grenade. The police party swiftly swung into action and grabbed the person sitting at the back seat. Both the driver and the person sitting at the back seat were taken into police custody. After taking off his mask, it was identified that he was terrorist Abrar, a top LeT commander.’

He added that some hand grenades and a pistol were recovered from Abrar’s possession.

Abrar was then taken to the house in order to recover the weapon (AK 47 rifle). Spokesman said that one of his associates, a Pakistani terrorist hiding inside the premises, fired at the party on entering the house.

3 CRPF personnel were injured in the initial round of fire. Abrar accompanying the search party also got wounded, the spokesman said.

He said that the force was strengthened and they retaliated with heavy firing. ‘In the ensuing gunfire, the foreign terrorist who fired from inside the house got neutralised and Abrar also got killed. Two AK-47 rifles along with ammunitions were recovered from the site,’ he added. Abrar was also involved in several killings of security force personnel.