SRINAGAR: Police today arrested a top TRF militant from Samba district who was allegedly involved in the killing of three BJP workers and a policeman in Kulgam district of South Kashmir last year.
Inspector-General of Police, Kashmir range, Vijay Kumar told Excelsior that a team of Police from Anantnag arrested the militant, Zahoor Ahmad Rather alias Sahil alias Khalid of TRF from Samba last night. He said that Zahoor Ahmad Rather was hiding in Samba and was arrested following specific information by Anantnag police.
“He was involved in the killing of three BJP workers in Kulgam last year and one policeman at Furra in the South Kashmir district,” the IGP said.
He is being brought to Kashmir for further investigations.
The three Bharatiya Janata Party workers, Fida Hussain Yatoo, Umer Rashid Beigh and Umer Ramzan Hajam, were killed in YK Pora area of Kulgam in October last year.
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