Top Lashkar militant escapes from jail: J

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Srinagar, Dec 14 (UNI) The Jammu and Kashmir Police today informed the High Court that a top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant, wanted in several terror attacks and killings, has escaped from jail.

A single bench of Justice Mansoor Ahmed Mir had earlier asked the state police to submit case diaries and other documents regarding LeT militant Rafiq Ahmad Sheikh alias Mudasir Gujri alias Raju from Tilar, Kishtwar, in Doda district of the Jammu region.

Gujri's mother had filed a petition in the High Court seeking its intervention into disappearance of her son from the Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu.

Gujri, involed in several militancy-related incidents, including the suicide attack on a Congress rally here on May 21 this year, and carrying a reward of Rs five lakh on his head, was arrested along with four other associates on July 22.

He was also involved in attacks on tourists at Dalgate, Kothi Bagh, Ram Munshi Bagh, Ganderbal and Gulmarg and other places in the Kashmir valley.

The state police, in reply to the petition, said Gujri escaped from its custody on October 13 in Janipur area of Jammu where he was taken for recovery of arms and ammunition, Police also informed the court that a constable, Ashok Kumar, has been suspended in connection with the escape, said counsel for the petitioner Jaleel Andrabi.

Gujri was booked under the Public Safety Act and remanded in judicial custody at Kot Bhalwal jail in Jammu where he was last seen on October 28.

He had spent four years in Pakistan and had been working under different code names like Raju, Mudasir Gujri, Abu Aqeel, Javed, Shahnawaz, Shahzad and Abu Omar.

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