Title: ISI agent shot
dead in Andhra Pradesh
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Publication: Rediff
on Net
Date: April 7, 2000
The Andhra Pradesh police
claim to have shot dead an agent of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
Thursday evening in Jagityal town of Karimnagar district.
The slain, Azam Ghori,
is believed to have been involved in several offences in Maharashtra, Karnataka
and Andhra Pradesh. The encounter occurred near a bus stand.
A special police team
from Nizamabad and Karimnagar districts intercepted Ghori while he was
proceeding on a bicycle.
The 30-year-old, who
has been evading the police dragnet for several months, immediately
whipped out a pistol and fired, but was killed in the retaliatory firing.
Ghori was wanted by the
police of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh for his involvement
in a series of murders and bomb blasts. The AP police also suspect him
to have been behind a series of low-intensity bomb explosions at a cinema
theatre, police station and other places in Hyderabad early this year.
He is also said to be
involved in the murder of Devinder, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist,
in the city recently.
Unconfirmed reports say
that Ghori was a prominent member of the dreaded Kashmiri militant outfit
Lashkar-e-Toiba. However, the district police said he has been identified
as the commander of a little-known outfit, the Indian Muslim Mohammadi
Mujahadeen.
The police recovered
a Chinese-made 9mm pistol and 200 gm of explosive material, believed to
be RDX, from the slain terrorist.
Based on the specific
information that Ghori was moving around in the district, a special police
party, comprising Intelligence Bureau sleuths and anti-extremist personnel,
was deployed to trace him. A close watch was kept in and around Jagityal
town, which is also affected by Naxalite activity, to track him down.
Following the incident,
a general alert has been sounded across the state to prevent retaliatory
attacks from ISI-backed organisations, the police said.
