SRINAGAR – Release of the top freedom fighter through an attack in Srinagarhas revealed that insiders were involved in the attack and subsequentrelease.
A Kashmiri freedom fighter fled the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS)Hospital in Srinagar, despite being guarded by three constables of theJammu and Kashmir Police. Two of those men were killed when the fugitive’saccomplices opened fire at them in the hospital’s parking lot.
The police are on the lookout for man -Mohammed Naveed Jat – but they’reeven more worried about a possible inside job. They believe Jat’s escapewas premeditated. Only they – and the hospital’s doctors – could have knownwhen he would arrive at SMHS.
In fact, a top source says an investigation is under way to determinewhether he was given a pistol before he reached the hospital.
Jat, 22, had been brought to the hospital for a medical check-up. As soonas he got off in the parking lot, two pheran-clad terrorists fired at thetrio of policemen accompanying him. One died on the spot. Another succumbedto his injuries later.
Jat (also called Abu Hanzullah) was arrested in 2014 at a hideout in thevillage of Sharmpora in Kulgam, a district in south Kashmir. He was theLeT’s deputy chief then, and his capture was touted as a huge success.
He is said to be behind the killings of an assistant sub-inspector inPulwama, and a CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) man.
A number of cases were slapped on him under the Ranbir Penal Code – similarto the Indian Penal Code but applicable only in Jammu and Kashmir.