Abu Dujana (LeT Commander)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Abu Dujana

• Did Abu Dujana smoke?: Not Known

• Did Abu Dujana drink alcohol?: Not Known

• Abu joined the Lashkar-e-Taiba at the age of 17.

• He had infiltrated into the Kashmir Valley in 2013 and was sent to south Kashmir, where he operated under the command of Abu Qasim, a ‘commander’ of the Lashkar-e-Taiba.

• In 2015, he was made the top commander of Lashkar in the Kashmir Valley after the death of Abu Qasim.

• He was in ‘direct and regular’ contact with Sajid and Waleed, Lashkar-e-Taiba ‘commanders’ based across the Line of Control.

• He masterminded the ambush of a BSF convoy in Udhampur in August 2016, the ambush of a CRPF convoy outside Srinagar and subsequent 3-day encounter at a multi-storey building housing the Entrepreneur Development Institute in February 2017, and killing of 2 policemen in Anantnag in July 2017.

• He was an “A++” category terrorist and there was a reward of INR 15 lakh on his head and a huge manhunt was launched to track him down.

• On 1 August 2017, the Security forces in Kashmir killed Abu Dujana and his local associate, Arif Nabi Dar, in an encounter in Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir.