February 12
Hilal Ahmed Rather, the militants slain in a gunfight at Ratnipora in Pulwama district had hekped Naveed Jatt escape from the Police custody in Srinagar’s SMHS Hospital.
In February 2018, Naveed Jatt, a Pakistani Militant, who was later killed in November 2018 had escaped from SMHS hospital while he was being brought for treatment from Srinagar’s Central Jail.
After Hilal was spotted in the CCTV Footage available to the Police, Hilal too went missing from home and joined Militancy in February 2018.
As per Police, Hilal was working as over ground worker with Militants and soon Hilal went into hiding and actively joined the militant ranks and was affiliated himself with Hizb-ul-Mujahideen.
Hilal was early morning trapped in an encounter with Government Forces in Ratnipora area of Pulwama.
Hilal was killed and a residential house where the militants were hiding razed to rubble during the gunfight, sources said.
Sources also said that two to three militants escaped while taking advantage of darkness in the initial exchange of firefight during wee hours.