JeM Terrorist Commander Shamsuddin Sofi Killed In Kashmir

JeM Terrorist commander Shamsuddin Sofi Killed In Kashmir: Jaish’s dreaded commander Sophie was rewarded with five lakhs, was involved in many incidents.

The killing of terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed’s dreaded commander Shamsuddin Sofi alias Sham Sofi in South Kashmir’s Awantipora encounter is a big success for the security forces.

Sophie had a reward of five lakhs. During the last two years, Shamsuddin was involved in about two dozen incidents of attacks on panchayat representatives, civilian killings, firing on security forces.

He also used to identify local youths for recruitment in terrorist organizations. Eight terrorists have been killed in five encounters in Kashmir in the last three days.

He was arrested in 2004 and was in jail for two years under the Public Safety Act.

After his release from jail, he became a terrorist and was caught again after some time. He went to jail again and was released through court.

Terming the death of Shamsuddin Sofi as a big success, Kashmir IGP Vijay Kumar said that he was like a backbone in Jaish’s network in Tral and its adjoining areas.

He was first caught in 2004 and was jailed under the Public Safety Act for two years.

After his release from jail, he became a terrorist and was caught again after some time. He went to jail again and was released through court.

After this, he started working as an overground worker and in June 2019 he became fully active in Jaish.

He often lived with the foreign terrorists of Jaish and also made arrangements for safe havens and other equipment for them.

According to the information, the police got the news in the morning that two to three terrorists have been seen in the Vagad area of ​​Awantipora.

At the same time, the police along with the CRPF and 42 RR personnel of the Army conducted a search operation.

While searching, when the soldiers started entering the Tilwani locality, the terrorists hiding there, while trying to escape, started firing on the soldiers to break the siege.

The soldiers, while protecting themselves, entangled the terrorists in the encounter. After this, fierce firing started from both sides.

JeM Terrorist commander Shamsuddin Sofi Killed: The opportunity is given several times to surrender:

The security forces gave the terrorists a chance to surrender several times during the encounter, but they continued to fire.

The encounter started at around one o’clock in the afternoon and after about one and a half hours, the firing by the terrorists was completely stopped.

After this, the soldiers went ahead and searched the encounter site, then they found the body of a terrorist riddled with bullets.

The slain terrorist has been identified as Jaish commander Shamsuddin Sofi.

Before becoming a terrorist, he used to steal wood from the forest:

Sources said that before becoming a terrorist, Shamsuddin was notorious for illegal felling of trees in the forest and theft of timber from the forest.

He was jailed for the first time under the Public Safety Act in the case of theft of wood from the forest. One of his brothers, Nazir Ahmed, was once an active terrorist of Hizbul Mujahideen.

He had joined Jaish due to differences with the local Hizbul commander. It was he who helped Pakistani terrorist Rashid Bhai to set up a network in Tral.

Rashid was close to Ghazi Baba, the main conspirator of the Parliament attack. Nazir was killed by Hizbul Mujahideen commander Salim Khan in early 2003.

After that, his wife was killed by Jaish terrorist Mushtaq alias Waleed on suspicion of being an informer of the security forces. Shamsuddin was also initially a terrorist of Hizbul Mujahideen.

After being caught and released from jail, he remained active for Hizbul as an overground worker for some time, but later he also started working for Jaish. It is said that he was the father of six children.

Weapons sent from POK recovered:

Meanwhile, security forces recovered a cache of weapons sent from POK at Reshipora in Kupwara along the LoC in North Kashmir.

Apart from this, three state-of-the-art wireless sets have also been recovered.