The Kashmir police on Tuesday detained fugitive Saradha Group chief Sudipta Sen and two of his aides from Sonamarg, a hill resort in Kashmir’s Ganderbal district 87 km northeast of Srinagar.

Militants today attacked a police party in a busy market area of Sopore town in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district, leaving a civilian dead and a policeman critically injured, the fourth attack on security forces in the state this month.

The police on Wednesday said preliminary investigations point to Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militants being responsible for the murder of a youth in a mosque in Sopore.

Gunmen shot dead an 18-year-old youth inside a mosque in Jammu and Kashmir’s north-western town of Sopore late Tuesday night.

Jammu and Kashmir police has detained Parandeep Singh, a daily wager with the public health department who allegedly provided shelter to two ‘fidayeens’ who carried out the suicide attack here on Wednesday, killing five CRPF men.

Militants pretending to be players and hiding automatic rifles and grenades in cricket kit bags opened fire on a makeshift CRPF camp, killing five jawans and injuring six others, at Bemina, a Srinagar

Pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen militant outfit today claimed responsibility for the attack on a CRPF camp here that left five security personnel and two ultras dead.

In the first suicide attack in Kashmir in three years, militants today stormed a CRPF camp in Bemina area of the city, killing five jawans and injuring seven others.

JKLF chairman Yasin Malik was today detained at Srinagar airport soon after his arrival from Delhi and “escorted to his home” here.

Normal life was affected in Kashmir for the third consecutive day today due to curfew in several parts of the Valley to prevent deterioration of law and order in the wake of killing of a youth allegedly in Army firing in Baramulla.