A legend that sprang up after the Turkman Gate killing is that when the shrine is disturbed, the government will fall, as it happened with the Indira Gandhi government.
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.
According to the police, a Special Task Force team retaliated when the gangster, recently released from prison on bail, opened fire at them after being cornered. His car had crashed into a pole.
Gufran, a resident of neighbouring Pratapgarh district, was injured in an exchange of fire with the Uttar Pradesh Police's Special Task Force near Samda village in the Kaushambi district, Superintendent of Police Brijesh Kumar Srivastava said.
As the security forces were engaged in the counter-militancy operation, over 100 protesters pelted stones on them, an army official said.
The train, Akal Takht Express was halted at the Akbarganj Railway station at 1:14 am.
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.
Four persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of local Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vijay Pandit, police said on Wednesday, claiming that the killing was the result of an "old enmity".
The number of terrorists killed in the past seven months this year is the highest in the same period over the past seven years.
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 conspiracy was unearthed when the Special Cell of Delhi police received an intelligence input about two suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives, identified as Dujana and Ukasha, who allegedly infiltrated in Jammu and Kashmir through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, following which an FIR was registered, said a police source.
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.
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 special NIA judge charged him with being a member of a terror group, raising funds for them as well as aiding an outfit.
The encounter took place at Aribagh in Nowgam area on the outskirts of Srinagar, the official 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.
The NIA had alerted the island nation that ISIS terrorists were planning to carry out strikes there.
Awan, a resident of Mohalla Miana in Mianwali area of Punjab in Pakistan, was indoctrinated by Lakhvi at his residence in Rawalpindi, officials said.
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.
For a Valley on the boil, there is ample proof that New Delhi simply does not care.
An audio conversation accessed by CNN-News 18 between the slain Hizbul chief and the man responsible for the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai reveals how the two forces wanted to combine and pose a united threat to India.
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