Union Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha that all the three terrorists, who carried out the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, were killed in the Indian Army's Operation Mahadev. The slain terrosist have been identified as Suleiman (Faisal Jatt or Hashim Musa), Afghan and Jibran.
Shah confirmed the news in the Lok Sabha during the debate on Operation Sindoor. "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," Shah said.
Amit Shah's Address In The Lok Sabha:
"In the Operation Mahadev, Suleman alias Faizal..., Afghan and Jibran, these three terrorists were killed in a joint operation of the Indian Army, CRPF and J&K Police. Suleman was an A-category commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. Afghan was an A-category Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist. And Jibran was also an A-grade terrorist... All three terrorists who killed our citizens in the Baisaran valley have been eliminated," he stated.
How Terrorists Were Identified?
Giving details about Operation Mahadev, Shah told the Lower House that the operation was launched on May 22. The Union Home Minister said that the people who used to supply food to the terrorists 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 told the Lok Sabha.
"The FSL report of the cartridges from the terror attack was already ready... Yesterday, the rifles of the three terrorists were seized and matched with the FSL reports... Further tests were carried out in Chandigarh yesterday, after that it was confirmed that these three were those who carried out the terror attack," he added.
Taking a dig at the Opposition, Shah said, "I was expecting that when they hear this news of killing of the Pahalgam terrorists, they will be happy, but instead they don't seem happy about it."
Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba's (LeT's) shadow organisation, The Resistance Front (TRF), initially claimed the responsibility for the Pahalgam attack. However, TRF later denied its role.
On the intervening night of May 6 and 7, India launched Operation Sindoor against nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) to avenge the terror attack.
