Home Minister Amit Shah informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (July 29) that three Pakistani terrorists who carried out the Pahalgam terror attack were killed in ‘Operation Mahadev’ in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.
“In a joint Operation Mahadev, the Indian Army, CRPF and J&K Police have neutralised three terrorists who were involved in the Pahalgam terror attack,” HM Amit Shah said in Lok Sabha, while speaking during a debate on Operation Sindoor on Tuesday afternoon.
“These were all top terrorists belonging to the Pakistan-based proscribed group Lashkar-e-Taiba,” Shah said in the house.
Twenty-six civilians were killed in the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, after which India retaliated through precision strikes under Operation Sindoor, targeting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir(PoK).
The home minister said the bodies of terrorists were brought to Srinagar and their identities were confirmed by those already in the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), for sheltering them.
“All three terrorists – Suleman, Afghan and Jibran were killed in yesterday’s operation. The people who used to supply food to them were detained earlier. Once the bodies of these terrorists were brought to Srinagar, they were identified by those who were kept detained by our agencies.” Shah said in the Parliament.
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The use of the same weapons by these three slain terrorists carried during the Pahalgam terror attack was confirmed through ballistic tests conducted by an FSL lab in Chandigarh, the Home Minister informed the Parliament.
