Armed, dangerous meet this 3 ft tall Jaish-e-Mohammad commander in Kashmir

Noor was brought into the Jaish by another commander, Ghazi Baba.

He is armed, dangerous, radicalised and he is three feet tall. This is Noor Mohammad Tantray, the new chief of the Jaish-e-Mohammad in the Kashmir Valley.

The 47 year old terrorist who has directed the recent attacks carried out by the Jaish in Jammu and Kashmir is now top on the wanted list of the security forces.

Noor is a resident of Tral in Pulwama district and he recently took over the command of the outfit following the death of Khalid in an encounter. Tantray ironically was sentenced to life imprisonment by a POTA court. He was arrested in Delhi in the year 2003.

He was sentenced to life in 2011. Recently he was granted parole, but he jumped the same and returned to the Jaish-e-Mohammad.

In recent times, he directed two major attacks that were carried out by the Jaish. The one on the District Police Lines at Pulwama and another on the BSF camp near the Srinagar International Airport were both attacks that were directed by Noor, investigations have shown.

Noor was brought into the Jaish by another commander, Ghazi Baba. Following the killing of Baba in an encounter, Noor was arrested from Delhi on August 31 2003. The Delhi police which carried out the arrest also recovered Rs 19 lakh in cash from him. He was lodged in the Tihar jail in Delhi, but later shifted to a prison in Srinagar.

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court had granted him parole in 2015 and the same was extended several times. However three months back, he jumped parole and returned to the Jaish.

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