Intel agencies identified 4 Jaish terrorists, who killed 50-year-old RSS leader in Kishtwar
   29-Apr-2019

 
 
 
Central Intelligence Agencies have identified four Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists, who had killed the 50-year-old Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Chandrakant Sharma and his Personal Security Officer Rajinder Kumar. The terrorists killed Sharma and his PSO inside the district hospital in Kishtwar on April 9.
 
They had fired indiscriminately at Sharma, a pharmacist at the hospital and had also decamped with Kumar's weapon. Sharma was a top RSS leader who had worked for the security of minorities at the height of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir in the early nineties.
 

 
 
 
The terrorists are identified as Zahid Hussain, Haroon Abbas Wani, Osama Bin Javed, and Naveed Shah. It was reported by the agencies that these terrorists are on the prowl to target political leaders and disrupt Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir. Intelligence agencies have also shared locations of these terrorists' hideouts. "They were last seen at Banjwar and Paribagh areas of Kishtwar district," intel agencies said in a communication to local police, Indian Army and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). All four terrorists have logistic support from locals and they are armed.
 
Naveed Shah was a constable of the Jammu and Kashmir Police. The Daily Pioneer has reported that the Jaish terrorists are planning to target a prominent VHP leader and a BJP MLA in the Kishtwar district. It is informed by the agency that another group of JeM terrorists have been given targets to carry out attacks on security forces. The agencies came to know about it following inputs extracted from a tanzeem -- a small terrorist group.
 
The valley witnessed its worst attack on February 14, in Pulwama where 40 CRPF personnel were killed in a fidayeen attack. The attack was planned for the first week of February in a run-up to the week-long anniversary ceremony of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat.