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| Delhi Police's claim about operation in J-K under cloud | | | New Delhi | Sep 19
Delhi Police's claim about participating in a gun battle that resulted in the killing of two top militants in Bandipora has come under a cloud as their counterparts in Jammu and Kashmir have said that the operation was executed by the army with assistance from local police.
While Delhi Police claimed yesterday that it had been at the spot in Bandipora, highly placed sources in Jammu and Kashmir Police said only local Sub-Divisional Police Officer Ghulam Jeelani and his team accompanied a Rashtriya Rifle unit to Khayyar village in the district to trap Jaish-e-Mohammed militants.
The sources said Delhi Police had on September 15 shared a "technical input", which was further developed by Central security agencies and passed on to the army and Kashmir Police for action.
The input related to the movement of JeM commander Ammanullah Bhukhari and his men from Khayyar on the intervening night of September 17-18.
The army unit and the Special Operations Group of Kashmir Police laid a trap and killed two militants -- divisional commander Abu Bakar alias Osman of Pakistan and district commander Mohammad Tariq of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir -- though Bhukhari managed to escape into nearby forests.
Furthermore, a Delhi Police release had claimed that Sopore's superintendent of police had led the local police forces but this was denied by Kashmir Police, who said there was an Additional SP in Sopore, Imtiyaz Ahmed Mir, who had no jurisdiction over the area where the operation was carried out.
Delhi Police's Special Cell had earlier come under the scanner for its role in arresting innocent Kashmiri youths. The CBI recently named some of its decorated officials in the Delhi High Court for having allegedly framed two Kashmiri youths as Al-Badr militants.
The inspector whose name was mentioned in the official release as having led the team to Kashmir also figures in the CBI report, which accused him of framing evidence against two Kahmiri youths in 2005.
Senior Kashmir Police officals said it was not a healthy practice for Delhi Police to claim credit for an operation which they had not executed or participated in.
Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has been briefed about these developments and the matter is likely to be taken up with the Union home ministry, the officials said.
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