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| Militants strike with rifle grenade, IED in Sopore; 9 cops injured | | PS Gill’s confidante radio operator Inspector ‘Shabir Gill’ succumbs to injuries | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jul 6: After weeks of calm and tranquility in Baramulla district, militants today struck with a rifle grenade and a scooter bomb in apple town of Sopore, causing injuries to nine Police personnel. Meanwhile, an Inspector of J&K Police Telecommunication wing, who was known as right hand man of former IGP of Kashmir and today’s DGP of Punjab Mr P S Gill, today succumbed to injuries at SMHS Hospital. Suspected militants had pumped five rounds into Inspector Shabi’s body in Batmaloo area on June 29th.
Inspector Shabir Ahmed, currently posted in office of SSP Police Telecommunications, Naseer Ahmed, breathed his last at SMHS Hospital in the wee hours today. He battled for life for seven days after he was attacked by suspected militants at his home at Iqbal Colony (Bakhshipora) Batmaloo on June 29th. Doctors who treated him at SMHS Hospital said that five pistol shots had been pumped into Inspector Shabir’s body.
Even after attaining a high profile in counter-insurgency and becoming famous as then IGP Kashmir P S Gill’s confidante, Shabir had been living at his house in once militant-infested Batmaloo-Bemina locality. According to well placed authoritative sources, he came to be known as ‘Shabir Gill’ on account of his intimate association with Mr Gill, who, for years, remained unbeaten in his counter-insurgency profile in Kashmir. For several years, Gill planned and executed hundreds of counter-insurgency operations when he served as DIG of Central Kashmir followed by IGP Kashmir for four years.
In recent times, Inspector Shabir’s killing is the most important achievement for militants in central Kashmir as they have failed to strike on a significant target, hard or soft, in the last over three years.
Director General of Police, Jammu & Kashmir, Kuldeep Khoda, Additional DGP, Armed/Law & Order, K. Rajindra Kumar, IGP Kashmir Zone, S.M. Sahai, IGP Railways, J&K, Farooq Ahmad, IGP Armed/IR-Kashmir, Raouf-ul-Hassan, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Central Kashmir Range, Abdul Gani Mir, Deputy Inspector General of Police Traffic, Vijay Kumar, Deputy Inspector General of Police Armed Range Kashmir, T. Namgyal, Senior Superintendent of Police, District Srinagar, Syed Ashiq Hussain Bukhari, SSP, PCR Srinagar Javed Faroqui, SSP Telecommunication Kashmir Zone, Naseer Ahmad, all Srinagar based Commandants of JKAP/IR battalions, all Zonal SPs, SDPOs of District Srinagar joined in an impressive Guard of honor, followed by wreath laying ceremony, held at District Police lines-Srinagar, in the memory of the slain Inspector.
Meanwhile, authoritative sources in north Kashmir said that suspected militants fired a rifle grenade in the direction of Police Station at Sopore at 0900 hours today. Even as it failed to cause any damage and went off with a blast in the air, large number of Police officials and officers came out to make an inspection of the spot. Within minutes, an IED, planted in a parked scooter around the same spot, went off with a deafening explosion. It left as many as nine Police personnel wounded. They were all evacuated and rushed to different hospitals in Sopore and Srinagar. Sources said that four personnel, who sustained critical injuries, were battling for life at SKIMS Soura this evening.
A Police spokesman said in a handout that nine policemen were injured when militants triggered an IED in Sopore.Militants fired UBGL grenade on police station Sopore in the morning. Immediately, Police started a cordon and search of the adjoining area. During the process of laying the cordon, an IED planted by militants nearby went off and left nine Policemen wounded.
The spokesman identified the injured Police personnel as HC Ghulam Nabi No. 01/SPR, SgCt Morifat Hussain No. 1786/S, SgCt Farooq Ahmad No. 23/SPR, Ct. Abdul Rashid No. 279/SPR, Ct. Farooq Ahmad No. 741/ IRP 16th Bn., Ct. Amit Kumar No. 488/IRP 16th Bn., Mohammad Ramzan 124/SPO, Farooq Ahmad No. 485/SPO and Shakeel Ahmad 166/SPO. He said that SgCt Morifat Hussain No. 1786/S, SgCt Farooq Ahmad No. 23/SPR, Mohammad Ramzan 124/SPO, Farooq Ahmad No. 485/SPO were shifted to SKIMS Soura, where the condition of SgCt Morifat Hussain was stated to be critical.
Immediately after the explosion in Sopore, DGP Kuldeep Khoda and IGP Kashmir, S M Sahai, rushed to Sopore. Reports said that they took a detailed security review meeting with Police officers. DIG North Kashmir, Munir Khan, SP Baramulla, Dr Haseeb Mughal, SP Sopore, Altaf Khan, and other Police officers participated in the meeting. Sources said that DGP and IGP directed DIG North Kashmir besides SPs of Baramulla and Sopore, to launch proactive operations on the known militant sympathisers and former recycled militants so as to eliminate a network of over a dozen local and Pakistani militants active in Sopore area.
Meanwhile, A student Mohammad Yaseen Rather son of Mohammad Wahid Rather resident of Sonawar got injured today at Drangbal, Pampore, when a stone hit him. Yasin is a student at KCEF Law College Pulwama.He was traveling in a college Bus along with other students, when he was hit in his head. Driver told Police that the stone came from street and hit the student’s head. He was rushed to SKIMS, Soura, for medical treatment. It is first time in the last 10 months that a mysteriously pelted stone hit a commuter in the highway township of Pampore where dozens sustained injuries in stone pelting on vehicles from June to September last year.
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