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Top Militant Commander Killed near Delhi

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A top Commander of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) outfit was killed in an encounter with a joint team of Special Task Force and Noida Police in Noida, adjoining Delhi, in the wee hour of Wednesday.

Manjoor Dar alias Sirajudin Khan, JeM area commander of Baramulla district in Kashmir, was killed at around 2:30 am in the satellite town of Noida in Uttar Pradesh, police said.

An AK-47 rifle, two hand grenades and a large quantity of ammunition were recovered from him.

Dar was traveling on a motorcycle from Delhi to Muradabad in Uttar Pradesh when he was intercepted following a specific information, police said.

Dar was planning an attack in Delhi or Mumbai, police said.

Police said that Dar had come to Delhi in September last year and had carried out recce of Parliament House, India Gate and someother crowded places.

Later, he went to Mumbai where he conducted recce of Mumbai Stock Exchange and other crowded place with an intention of carrying out an attack, police added.

Police said that they had arrested two of his associates in Muzaffarnagar from whom police got information about Dar and laterlaid a trap in Noida. Police are looking for some more of his associates, he added.

Police said it was the plan hatched by Dar and his associates that had heightened the threat perception to India Gate prompting the authorities to close the memorial, a big tourist attraction and also a popular place for locals, to public for about two weeks from Feb. 21.

It was, however, reopened to public recently.

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