Srinagar: Body of Eisa Fazli, one of the three militants killed at Hakpoora Anantnag, on Monday reached native place, Ahmadnagar Soura where hundreds of people have assembled to offer his funeral prayers.
While hundreds of people have already assembled, many others were rushing to the area while the pro-freedom slogans rent the area. Father of Eisa announced that funeral prayers will be offered at 3pm as family awaits the arrival of brother of Eisa from outside the state. He made announcements, asking people to cooperate. ISIS flags were displa
yed in the assembly.
Eisa Fazli was among three militants claimed to have been killed by police in an overnight encounter along with army and paramilitary CRPF at Hakoora area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
A joint team of police’s SOG, army, and CRPF had launched a cordon-and-search operation at Hakoora village midnight, around 12:30 am.
A police spokesman said that “pursuing credible leads” about the presence of militants, the joint team started search in the Hakoora area of Anantnag.
“While the search was going on the hiding militants fired upon the search party. The fire was retaliated by the forces, ensuing an encounter,” he said. In the encounter, three militants were killed which include Eisa Fazli of Srinagar, Syed Owais of Kokernag. “The identity of the third militant is being ascertained,” he said.
In the process arms and ammunition which include AK 47 rifles, pistols, hand grenades were recovered from the encounter site, the spokesman said. “Further in the incident no collateral damage has taken place.”
It is pertinent to mention, the spokesman said that among the killed militants, one was involved in a recent attack on a police guard post at Soura in which one police constable was killed.
“In this connection a case has been registered and investigation has been started under the relevant provisions of the law by the Police.”
Belonging to Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen’s, Eisa Fazli alias Esha Roohula of Ahmadnangar Soura Srinagar and Syed Owais Shafi of Violoo Kokernag belonged to well-to-do families and were extremely brilliant in their studies, an official said.
