{"id":308409,"date":"2019-01-22T12:09:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T12:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308409"},"modified":"2019-01-22T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T12:09:32","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-ips-officers-brother-among-three-terrorists-killed-in-encounter-in-shopian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-ips-officers-brother-among-three-terrorists-killed-in-encounter-in-shopian\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: IPS Officer&#8217;s brother among three terrorists killed in encounter in Shopian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299334 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/armie-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/armie-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/armie-432x420.jpg 432w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/armie.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The brother of an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer was among three terrorists killed on Tuesday in an encounter in South Kashmir&#8217;s Shopian district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the officials, the security forces busted their hide-out during a pre-dawn operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The deceased Shamsul Haq, brother of the IPS officer, had reportedly stopped pursuing his medicine degree and joined the terror group Hizbul Mujahideen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former DGP of Jammu and Kashmir, SP Vaid remembered the efforts made by Shamsul Haq\u2019s family and police to bring him back to the mainstream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cShamsul Haq, brother of IPS officer who had joined militant ranks was among the 3 terrorists killed today in Shopian. I remember the efforts that were made by his brother \/other family members and J&amp;K Police to bring him back to mainstream but he met a sad end today,\u201d Vaid tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police have recovered arms and ammunition from the site of encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jammu and Kashmir police tweeted, \u201c#Shopian encounter update: 03 #terrorists killed. Arms &amp; ammunition recovered. Case registered. Identities &amp; affiliations are being ascertained.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brother of an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer was among three terrorists killed on Tuesday in an encounter in South Kashmir&#8217;s Shopian district. According to the officials, the security forces busted their hide-out during a pre-dawn operation. The deceased Shamsul Haq, brother of the IPS officer, had reportedly stopped pursuing his medicine degree and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,2018],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308410,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308409\/revisions\/308410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}