Three local militants, who were behind marking the off-duty policemen of the Jammu and Kashmir Police for targeted attacks, were arrested in Srinagar. The militant module was also behind the attack on a policeman in Srinagar on December 9.
“During the course of investigations, it came to fore that the arrested trio had prepared a long list of policemen to be targeted. The trio worked at the behest of Pakistan-based handler Hamza Burhan, a resident of Pulwama,” Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) R.R. Swain said.
Burhan is a resident of Pulwama and at present operates from across the border for The Resistance Front, an offshoot of the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
