JK News Today
Srinagar, November 01
In a major success , security forces eliminated a top militant commander of Hizbul Mujahideen Dr Saifullah in an encounter in Rangreth on the outskirts of Srinagar city.
The security forces were on hunt for Dr Saifullah who went by byword of terror in Kashmir for long. He was a close associate of Riyaz Naikoo, the top Hizb Commander in Kashmir . Naikoo was killed in a fierce encounter in May in south Kashmir this year.
Saifullah had taken charge of Chief operational commander of the militant outfit after Riaz Naikoo was killed.
Talking to reporters at the encounter site, the Kashmir police chief Vijay Kumar said that on the basis of a specific lead, joint teams of police and CRPF laid a cordon at Rangreth area and later army also joined in the operation. “I am 95 per cent sure that the militant killed in the gunfight is Hizb chief operational commander Dr Saifullah who had taken over the reins of Hizb after the killing of its chief Reyaz Naikoo in an encounter in May this year,” the IGP said
