A constable with the Jammu and Kashmir Police, Javaid Ahmad Dar, who was abducted by terrorists from a medical shop in Shopian district of South Kashmir on Thursday night, has been found dead.
The mutilated body of Javaid Ahmad Dar was found lying outside the Kachdoora village of Shopian in South Kashmir on Friday morning.
Dar was a resident of Kachdoora village.
Security forces had launched a hunt to trace the kidnappers and the constable abducted by them.
Police said Dar’s bullet-riddled body was found in Kachdoora village where security forces had eliminated five top terrorists in an encounter in April.
Security forces have launched a massive hunt for the terrorists in and around Kachdoora village.
This is the second such incident in the last one month when a man in uniform was abducted and killed by militants in Kashmir.
Just ahead of Eid, Aurangzeb, a rifleman with Army was abducted and killed by four terrorists of Hizbul Mujahedeen and Lashkar-e-Tayiba on 14 June. He was going home to celebrate the festival with family when the militants waylaid the vehicle he was travelling in and abducted him. Aurangzeb’s body was found a few hours later.
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Meanwhile, militants fired at Muhammad Ashraf, a cleric, in Pulwama district. His condition is said to be critical.
Also, two overground workers of a terrorist organisation were arrested at Bijbehara in South Kashmir. Arms, ammunition and chemicals used to make explosives were recovered from them, the police said.
The incident occurred on a day Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh was in the state and reviewed the security situation. He attended a high-level meeting in Srinagar with Governor N N Vohra, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba and top civil and police officials.