<p>Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday said the terrorist who shot dead two Punjab residents last week had been arrested in Srinagar while the weapon used in the attack had been recovered.</p><p>Amrit Paul Singh (31) and Rohit Kumar (25), both residents of Punjab, were shot at from a point blank range at Shalla Kadal, a congested locality of central Srinagar, on February 7 evening. While Singh died on the spot, Kumar succumbed to his injuries in a hospital the next day.</p><p>Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Vijay Kumar said Adil Manzoor Langoo, the terrorist who opened fire on the two labourers, had been arrested. “Langoo was brought into terrorism by Pakistan-based handlers through social media. The accused was a highly motivated and radicalised individual,” he told reporters.</p>.Two terrorist hideouts unearthed by security forces in J&K.<p>“On the basis of technical and field analysis, police zeroed in upon certain suspects and later on, based upon clinching evidence, identified and arrested the main accused Adil Manzoor Langoo,” the ADGP said and added the handler provided him the weapon after which he motivated Langoo to carry out the attack.</p><p>The slain were working as carpenters in the Valley for the past several years, the police said.</p><p>The February 7 attack was the first militant attack on non-local residents in the Valley this year. The militants have regularly targeted the non-local workers in the Valley since the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in August 2019.</p>
<p>Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police on Tuesday said the terrorist who shot dead two Punjab residents last week had been arrested in Srinagar while the weapon used in the attack had been recovered.</p><p>Amrit Paul Singh (31) and Rohit Kumar (25), both residents of Punjab, were shot at from a point blank range at Shalla Kadal, a congested locality of central Srinagar, on February 7 evening. While Singh died on the spot, Kumar succumbed to his injuries in a hospital the next day.</p><p>Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Vijay Kumar said Adil Manzoor Langoo, the terrorist who opened fire on the two labourers, had been arrested. “Langoo was brought into terrorism by Pakistan-based handlers through social media. The accused was a highly motivated and radicalised individual,” he told reporters.</p>.Two terrorist hideouts unearthed by security forces in J&K.<p>“On the basis of technical and field analysis, police zeroed in upon certain suspects and later on, based upon clinching evidence, identified and arrested the main accused Adil Manzoor Langoo,” the ADGP said and added the handler provided him the weapon after which he motivated Langoo to carry out the attack.</p><p>The slain were working as carpenters in the Valley for the past several years, the police said.</p><p>The February 7 attack was the first militant attack on non-local residents in the Valley this year. The militants have regularly targeted the non-local workers in the Valley since the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in August 2019.</p>