During questioning it emerged that Singh had taken them to Jammu in 2019 also, the officials said.
The alarming incident occurred during the funeral of Fayaz Ahmed alias Setha, a resident of Qaimoh area of Kulgam, who was killed in retaliation on Saturday after terrorists had fired upon a police party which had gone to Mir Bazaar area to investigate a road accident.
The EC notification said the state administration apprehends that "violent attempts" can be made by miscreants to thwart the poll process.
Aurangzeb's father ask the govt to eliminate insurgency from the state.
Lance Naik Wani was martyred on November 26 while fighting six terrorists in South Kashmir's Shopian district. He was killed after he was hit by a volley of bullets when he stormed the target house.
4 civilians were also killed and dozens of others injured in clashes that broke out between protestors and security forces following three separate encounters.
Abdul Gani Dar was shot at three times from a close range with an AK assault rifle, he said, adding two bullets hit him in the chest and one in the shoulder.
The stage is set for the second phase of assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir which will seal the fate of 175 candidates, including the deputy speaker, four ministers and 11 other sitting MLAs, amidst tight security in Kulgam and Kupwara districts following the murder of a sarpanch by militants.
Two Hizbul Mujahideen militants were on Thursday gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Shopian district of Kashmir, the police said.
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Wednesday sacked police constable Tawseef Ahmed Mir, who has been accused of actively working for Hizbul Mujahideen and trying to kill two of his colleagues, and four more employees for alleged links with terror groups.
Security forces are carrying out searches in various areas to nab the six terrorists, the source said.
The 48-year-old trooper prepares ration packets, using his savings, for the poor in his village.
The separatist Hurriyat Conference is finished in Jammu and Kashmir but attempts are being made to keep it alive from Pakistan, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh said on Monday, adding that the militancy in the region is "on crutches".
Seven terrorists, including terror outfit Ansar Ghazwatul Hind chief Imtiaz Ahmad Shah, were gunned down by security forces in two encounters in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian and Pulwama districts, police said on Friday.
There are always attempts from across the border to push in more terrorists before the onset of winter and closure of tracks due to heavy snowfall, but the security forces are alert and would foil any infiltration bids, Border Security Force Director General Nitin Agrawal said in Srinagar Thursday.
An army official said the slain youths were "hardcore terrorists" who used a lot of ammunition and grenades against the security forces during the encounter.
A youth died in clashes between stone-pelters and security personnel near the encounter site.
The agency said it has found several digital devices containing large volumes of incriminating data during the searches.
The militants had ambushed a BSF convoy at neighbouring Goriwan area at Bijbehara in South Kashmir killing three of its personnel.
The accused, identified as Tariq Mir, a resident of Maldoora of Shopian district in south Kashmir, was the fifth person arrested in the case which came to light when Singh was arrested along with three terrorists including a most wanted Hizbul Mujahideen commander in January this year.
Terrorists had laid an ambush and fired indiscriminately when the troops approached the village.
An army major, who killed two terrorists in an encounter in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, has been posthumously conferred the highest peacetime gallantry medal Ashok Chakra on the occasion of Independence Day.
Kashmir witnessed a spontaneous shutdown to mourn the killing of Hizb commander Sabzar Bhat in an encounter with security forces in Tral area of south Kashmir's Pulwama district on Saturday. Soon after the news of Sabzar's killing spreads shopkeepers lowered their shutters and public transport disappeared from the roads. Students took to streets in several areas of Ganderbal district of central Kashmir, where a spontaneous shutdown is being observed in the district.
An official said the slain duo were involved in killing civilians, including a government employee.
Rawat was briefed on the prevailing security situation in J&K Valley and recent operations conducted by the security forces.
Earlier in 2010, the highest number of 156 terrorists were killed between January and July that year.
Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Javed Ahmad Qadri from Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir allegedly thrashed a voter inside a polling station, claiming that the latter had entered the booth without a voter slip.
Areas falling under the jurisdiction of 11 police stations Srinagar were also placed under curfew.
Security agencies braced for a march called by separatists on Monday.
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Two of the terrorists belonged to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
After initial 'zero infiltration' in the wake of renewed ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan in February, fresh attempts are on to push terrorists from across the border where 250 to 300 terrorists are trained and waiting on the launch pads, Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh said on Tuesday.
The duo aspires to join 'operation all out' against terrorists in Kashmir and fight against the enemies of the nation.
Ten incidents of stone pelting were reported from Srinagar, Anantnag, Pulwama, Kulgam, Shopian, Awantipora and Sopore.
Waseem Shah, who was wanted in various terror-related cases, was killed along with Naseer, another local boy who had joined the insurgency in May this year.
Gen Raju said Pakistan was "not happy" with the peaceful situation in the valley.
At least 11 people, including two army jawans, were killed while over 100 others were evacuated to safety as the unprecedented snowfall in March triggered avalanches and damaged over 150 structures including dozens of houses in Jammu and Kashmir.
The policemen were abducted nearly three weeks after terrorists had abducted relatives of policemen from various places in south Kashmir on August 30.
The encounter started when security forces launched a joint operation in Posta-Potra village in Gundana area, 26 km from Doda town, following information about presence of some terrorists, the officials said.
Curfew remained in force in the five districts of Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama, Shopian and Baramulla.
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