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Jammu: In a major success, security forces today gunned down top Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islamia militant Bashir Ahmed, who is believed to be the mastermind of the UP serial blasts, in a fierce gunbattle in a snow-bound area in Kishtawar district.
An AK rifle, magazines, ammunition rounds, satellite phones, radio sets, explosive material and important papers were recovered from the slain militant after the encounter in Doligam area of the district.
Deputy Inspector General of Police, Doda-Kishtwar-Ramban range, Farooq Khan told PTI that the police, assisted by 11 Rashtriya Rifle troops, set up ambush points in the area last night on a tip off about the presence of self-styled HuJI supreme commander Ahmed alias Sabba Hajia in snow-bound Doligam area of the district.
As the militant shifted from one hideout to another, the joint operation party challenged him to surrender but he fired on them, he said, adding that a fierce gun battle took place in the area in which the militant was killed this morning.
He termed it as a major success of the police as the militant was the mastermind of the serial blasts in Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow in November last year.
Ahmed's role was also being probed in the twin blasts at Hyderabad. | 
