In a major success, security forces gunned down Sajad Afghani, the chief commander of the frontline Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit, along with his guard on the shores of the Dal Lake in Srinagar on Thursday afternoon.
Following the incident, tension gripped the area and all shops have been shut down, the official said.
Clashes broke out on Friday between a group of youths and security forces in Srinagar during which some separatist elements waved flags of Pakistan, Lashker-e-Tayiba and ISIS.
"We are strengthening the security on the vital installations and increasing patrolling," official sources said on Tuesday.
In the petition, Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra's counsel Shariq Reyaz submitted that his client was investigated for the same offences by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) as well as the Counter Intelligence (Kashmir) wing of Jammu and Kashmir Police separately, which is in violation of laid down norms under the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Srinagar: Army major among five killed in car-bomb explosion
Monday's shooting in Lal Chowk triggered panic, sending tourists and shopkeepers in a tizzy with everyone running for cover in the adjoining by-lanes.
The J&K police's 81 medals are the maximum awarded to any police force this year, followed by the CRPF's 55.
A station house officer and his bodyguard were shot at and injured by terrorists in the Batmaloo area of Srinagar on Tuesday evening.
A 25-year old youth was killed and another wounded when security forces opened fire in the old city at the end of days polling in the prestigious Srinagar parliamentary constituency.
The cause of the incident is being investigated.
Curfew-like-restrictions were imposed on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar and other towns to scuttle the separatist called marches.
An indefinite curfew was imposed in Srinagar and other towns on Thursday evening to scuttle Friday's proposed separatist march to Eidgah grounds in the city.
Police sources said grenades were lobbed at the CRPF camp located in Budshah Chowk, near the city centre this afternoon. The injured have been rushed to the nearby hospitals, they added.
A local militant was killed on Saturday in an encounter with security forces in Pulwama district, about 35 kms from Srinagar, police said.
'Heinous murder case of TV artist Amreen Bhat solved in 24 hours...10 terrorists including three from Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and seven from Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfits killed in three days in Kashmir Valley,' said IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar.
Security forces killed five heavily armed foreign terrorists along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday and said it was the "biggest" infiltration bid to have been foiled since 2021, when India and Pakistan effected a ceasefire understanding.
The 20-hour gunfight between militants and security forces came to an end on Thursday when the forces gunned down the two militants holed up in a hotel at Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
The area has been cordoned off and a hunt launched to nab the attackers.
She was cremated on the banks of the Alaknanda at Shrinagar around 6.30 pm in the presence of commissioner, Garhwal, Sushil Kumar and Pauri district magistrate Vijay Kumar Jogdande.
Police on Thursday claimed to have cracked the twin grenade attacks that took place at Batamaloo and Baramulla in Kashmir in August this year by arresting two Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) operatives.
Appointed as the first female head of the state judiciary on August 3, 2018, she retired on December 8, 2020.
Sporadic incidents of violence in the Valley which erupted with the announcement on Friday evening of a 24-hour break in the curfew forced the administration to re-impose curfew and restrictions in parts of Srinagar and in some other towns on Saturday morning.
The horrific videos from Manipur have shocked India, leading to protests across the nation.
The police released the pictures late Thursday night and asked the public to help them identify the attackers.
A youth was killed and two others were injured when security forces fired at demonstrators in Srinagar.
Saifullah, who had taken command of the outfit after the killing of Riyaz Naikoo in May this year, was one of the most wanted terrorists in the Kashmir Valley and involved in several attacks on the security forces, an official said.
The infiltration bid was foiled by Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police early on Sunday morning.
Eight army soldiers were killed and 8 others wounded in a militant strike on the Srinagar Muzaffarabad road Monday afternoon.
A senior police officer said the terrorists opened pistol fire at the wine shop located at the Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Development Corporation-owned hotel on the famous boulevard road running along the shores of the Dal Lake.
A 12-member team of the Criminal Bureau of Investigation is arriving in Srinagar on Thursday to take over the investigation of the infamous Shopian rape and murder case.
A suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant was on Wednesday killed in an encounter with security forces in Kupwara district of north Kashmir, police said.
