Top militant & ISI agent killed in police encounter

According to district superintendent of police Nalin Prabhat, on specific information that Ghori was moving around in Jagtial, a special team was deployed to trace him. The police party spotted him on a cycle near the petrol station and intercepted him.

On seeing the police, Ghori tried to whip out a pistol, forcing the police to open fire. He died on the spot, the SP added.

Police recovered a fully-loaded 9 mm pistol with star marks on either side. Two hundred grams of explosive material, believed to be RDX, was also recovered from him, the district police chief added.

Ghori was also involved in the recent murder of Devender, an RSS activist in the state capital. Police probing the case recently arrested Asgar Ali, an associate of Ghori. The setting off of a crude bomb in a city theatre on the eve of Republic Day and in some other cinema halls in the state besides neighbouring Karnataka and Maharashtra were his handiwork, the SP added.

Nalin Prabhat claimed that special teams were constituted after movements of ISI agents were tracked down in Karimnagar and Nizamabad districts. A party comprising special intelligence bureau sleuths, anti-extremist team personnel and the Nizamabad police was keeping a close watch in Jagtial which resulted in the gunning down of Azam Ghori, the SP added.

Both Nalin Prabhat and Nizamabad SP Ravi Shanker visited the spot.

Information was passed on to senior police officials in Hyderabad and an alert was sounded in anticipation of retaliation from Ghori’s followers.