3-ft-Terror from JeM Suspected to be Behind Recent Kashmir Attacks
Tantray is said to have played a role in the recent JeM attack on the BSF camp which left one BSF officer dead.
A three-feet tall militant has reportedly taken over terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad in South Kashmir.
47-year-old Noor Mohammad Tantray, a resident of Tral is suspected to be behind the recent attacks in Kashmir that were conducted by JeM, The Indian Express reported.
Tantray was arrested from Delhi’s Sadr Bazaar in 2003 and sentenced to life in 2011 by a POTA court. According to The Indian Express, in 2015, he was released on parole, when suddenly he went underground and is said to have rejoined militancy a few months ago.
JeM militant Gulzar Dar who was arrested on 13 October over his involvement in a grenade attack on a Naeem Akhtar— a minister of Jammu & Kashmir, admitted that he had hurled the grenade on the instructions of JeM commander Mufti Vaqas, a resident of Pakistan, and Noor Mohammad Tantray, a local resident.
Tantray is also said to have played a role in the JeM attack on the BSF camp on 3 October which left one BSF officer dead.
Police sources told The Indian Express that the three-feet-tall militant in a close aide of Jaish commander Ghazi Baba — the mastermind of the 2001 attack on the Parliament.
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