New Delhi: Ayodhya attack mastermind and top Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militant killed in an encounter in Jammu early on Saturday morning. Security personnel also arrested four of his associates.
Saifullah Kari, the divisional commander of the JeM, was killed at Janipura area of the city by a joint team of the Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir Police at around 0200 hrs, IST Inspector General of Police (IGP), Jammu Zone, Dr S P Vaid told PTI.
Acting on information that the JeM was planning a major attack in Jammu on the eve of Independence Day, the joint police team cordoned off Ramzan colony and raided a house of a woman named Maqsooda Begum.
The sub-inspector of Delhi police, Devinder Singh, and a Pakistani militant were injured in the encounter.
The injured militant, Maqsooda Begum and her brother H A Siddiqi, were among the four persons arrested.
The injured SI and the militant have been admitted to a hospital.
A large quantity of arms, ammunition and explosives were recovered. Kari was the mastermind behind the Ayodhya attack in which six heavily armed terrorists -Abu Umar, Arfat, Mohammed Amin, Zubair, Arshad Ali and Arif of Pakistan, who made an attempt to storm the high-security makeshift Ram temple in Ayodhya were killed before they could make it to the shrine on July five, 2005.
The Plan was formulated jointly by JeM Chief Masood Azahar and Kari in Bangladesh.
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