An A+++ category terrorist, Dujana had taken over the reins of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba in the Kashmir Valley after the group's divisional commander Abu Qassim was killed in 2013.
The Hollywood blockbuster 'Zero Dark Thirty', it is learnt, played in the minds of security officials when they got tip of top LeT terrorist.
The officer made attempts to get the terrorist to give up by reminding him of his parents and wife.
The encounter took place at Aribagh in Nowgam area on the outskirts of Srinagar, the official said.
As the security forces were engaged in the counter-militancy operation, over 100 protesters pelted stones on them, an army official said.
The encounter broke out as security forces were conducting search operations in Puchal area of Awantipora and hots were heard from nearby Goripora village, an official said.
The chargesheet highlighted his links to Pakistan-trained Abu Dujana and Abu Qassim, who were killed in separate encounters with security forces, and went on to allege that he used to meet them personally as well as through Over Ground Workers.
The train, Akal Takht Express was halted at the Akbarganj Railway station at 1:14 am.
The number of terrorists killed in the past seven months this year is the highest in the same period over the past seven years.
29-year-old Riyas A, also known as Riyas Aboobacker or Abu Dujana, a resident of Palakkad was a follower of Sri Lankan Easter bombing mastermind Zahran Hashim.
The terrorists -- Umer Fayaz Lone alias 'Hamad Khan' of Seer village, Faizan Hamid of Mandoora and Adil Bashir Mir alias 'Abu Dujana' of Monghama -- were wanted for their complicity in terror crimes, including attacks on security establishments and civilian atrocities, a police spokesman said.
Most of these new recruits came from Pulwama, Shopian and Kulgam districts in South Kashmir, which had become the hub of tech-savvy, young militants.
Mir was allegedly involved in the killing of former sarpanch Fayaz Ahmad of Kakapora in March.
The officer claimed 88 Kashmiri youths joined militancy in 2016.
Earlier in 2010, the highest number of 156 terrorists were killed between January and July that year.
The special NIA judge charged him with being a member of a terror group, raising funds for them as well as aiding an outfit.
The NIA had alerted the island nation that ISIS terrorists were planning to carry out strikes there.
For a Valley on the boil, there is ample proof that New Delhi simply does not care.
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