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The security forces killed commander of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Noor Mohammad Tantray alias, Chhota Noora in an encounter in the Sambora village of South Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Tuesday.
The deceased commander was called Chhota Noora, as he was just four feet two inches tall and was responsible for reviving the JeM in Kashmir.
The 47-year-old Chhota Noora was reportedly the “chief architect” of a militant attack on a Border Security Force (BSF) camp outside the Srinagar International Airport in October. After reviving the JeM in July, he lobbed a grenade on the cavalcade of state minister Naeem Akhtar in Tral this year.
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The Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police, Shesh Paul Vaid, said Chhota Noora and his associates were planning to attack an Army convoy on the Jammu-Srinagar highway.
There was input about presence of two to three terrorists near the national highway who were “planning to attack convoy”, the DGP tweeted.
Terming the killing of 47-year-old Tantray as a “significant development”, the police said the terrorist was wanted in various terror incidents earlier this year, including a suicide attack at the BSF camp at Srinagar airport, and had become an irritant for the security forces.
A police spokesman said Tantray, who was a close aide of the 2001 Parliament attack case mastermind Ghazi Baba, was convicted in a case registered in 2003 in Delhi and sentenced to life by a The Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court in 2011.
However, he jumped parole and joined the JeM. Police said that he was convicted for life but the court allowed him to serve his life sentence in Kashmir.
Chhota Noora was granted 21-days parole in 2015, but he jumped the parole and never returned to jail.
Consequently, he remained in Tral and became a major Over Ground Worker (OGW) of JeM and after the Aripal encounter in July this year, when three JeM militants were killed, he went underground and soon became the key man of JeM.
Choota Noora was buried at his village in Tral area on Tuesday.
(With agency inputs)
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