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| LeT plotted to kill Shujaat: Police | | |  Ishtiyaq Ahmad
Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 28: The Jammu and Kashmir Police Thursday said that conspiracy to kill Senior Kashmiri Journalist, Shujaat Bukhari was hatched by LeT in Pakistan.
Inspector General of Police, Kashmir Zone, SP Pani in a press conference here named four suspects in the murder of the Bukhari as Sheikh Sajjad Gul, Azad Ahmed Malik, Muzaffer Ahmed and Naveed Jatt.
The photographs of three motorcycle-borne militants who allegedly shot Bukhari and his security guards were also released by the police during the press conference. Police also released photograph of Pakistan-based blogger. According to Pani, Gul, a Srinagar resident, who is a key conspirator behind the assassination of Bukhari, was arrested by the Srinagar Police in 2016, obtained a passport fraudulently and is said to be in Pakistan. The IGP said that a lookout notice has been issued against him.
Editor-in-chief of English daily Rising Kashmir, Bukhari was shot dead by unidentified gunmen when he came out of his office in Press Enclave and was boarding his car. Two of his security guards were also killed in the incident.
The IGP further said that the conspiracy to kill Bukhari was hatched in Pakistan by a Kashmiri Sheikh Sajjad Gul and was executed by three LeT militants, including Naveed Jhat.
He said that Investigation so far conducted has disclosed that the person associated with publishing malicious articles on kashmirfight.wordpress.com is Skeikh Sajjad Gul @Ahmad Khalid, resident of Srinagar who is associated with LeT.
Three attackers who escaped on a motorcycle after carrying out the attack were identified as Azad Ahmed Malik from Arwani Bijbehara, Muzafar Ahmad Bhat from Sopat Qazigund and Naveed Jatt from Pakistan, he said.
"We have evidence to prove that Pakistan is involved in the killing of Bukhari,"said SP Pani. He stated there are two parts to this investigation: The conspiracy and the execution. Before the murder of Bukhari there were malicious online campaigns against him by Kashmirfight.wordpress.com, Facebook account "Kadwa sach Kashmir" and Twitter handle "Ahmad Khalid". Gul is one of the persons who created the blogs and write ups against Bukhari and there is very strong evidence against him, police said.
Naveed escaped from Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital (SMHS) in Srinagar on 6 February and has been active in many militancy-related incidents.
The police refused to answer the motive behind the murder. They stated that as of now the only information they could disclose is the identity of the accused. It is to mention here that Police earlier arrested a local who had escaped with a pistol belonging to one of Bukhari's guards and two mobile phones belonging to the journalist. |
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