A day after his arrest, top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Nadeem Abrar and a Pakistani national were killed in an encounter in Parimpora area of the town , police said on Tuesday.
Giving details of the incident, a police spokesman said Abrar — a top commander of LeT involved in many killings — was arrested during checking of vehicles at Parimpora on Monday and placed on sustained interrogation.
The LeT commander disclosed the situation where he had kept his AK-47 rifle in Maloora locality, the spokesman said.
There was a selected input about terrorists carrying an attack on highways. Keeping in sight the seriousness of the input, few joint checkposts of JK Police and CRPF were placed along the highway, he said.
‘On Parimpora naka (checkpost), a vehicle was stopped and their identity was asked. The person sitting at the rear 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 rear seat. Both the driving force and therefore the person sitting at the rear seat were taken into police custody. After beginning his mask, it had been identified that he was terrorist Abrar, a top LeT commander,’ the spokesman said.