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SMHS Shootout: Govt suspends Central Jail Superintendent

INS Desk by INS Desk
February 8, 2018
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Injured cop succumbs, LeT commander who escaped from SMHS hospital was arrested in 2014
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Srinagar: Government on Thursday suspended Superintendent of central jail Srinagar in connection with the shootout that left two policemen dead and led to escape of Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Naveed Jaat alias Abu Hanzullah from police custody.
“Pending inquiry into the incident on February 6, 2018, at SMHS hospital, Srinagar, leading to the death of two constables and escape of a militant, Hilal Ahmad Rather, Superintendent, Central Jail, Srinagar, is hereby placed under suspension, with immediate effect,” reads an order issued by the Principal Secretary Home Department said.
The superintendent has been attached with Director General of Police, Prisons, till further orders.
Naveed escaped after his aides shot two of the three policemen who were accompanying him to Sri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital (SMHS) here for medical check-up on Tuesday.
One of the injured cops, Head-Constable Mushtaq Ahmed of f Dildar Karnah, died minutes after being shot, while the second cop, Babar Ahmad Khan resident of Shangus Achabal, who was battling for life in a City hospital died later in the Tuesday afternoon.
The attack by the LeT to free Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Mohammed Naveed Jat took place around 11.35 am inside the busy SMHS hospital complex in a high security area of this summer capital.
It ended with the killing of the two policemen as militants escaped into the narrow lanes of downtown Srinagar, a police official said.
Jat, the 22-year-old LeT militant from Pakistan who was caught in Kulgam in south Kashmir in 2014, escaped with the assailants, police said

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