Overview
- Footage recorded on December 25 around 18:15 in Anantnag’s Dangerpora market showed two suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives.
- Jammu and Kashmir Police, Army Quick Reaction Teams, and the CRPF were deployed rapidly in response.
- One suspect was named as Mohammad Latief Bhat, described as a recent recruit to the Kashmir Revolution Army, and he remains at large.
- Searches have widened to Qazibagh, Dantur, and Mattan with house-to-house checks and tighter monitoring at key entry and exit points.
- Counter-terrorism operations are also underway in forested and mountainous areas of South Kashmir as part of preventive area-clearing measures.