With this, the total number of militants killed in the encounter has risen to three, they said. Security forces were engaged in an exchange of fire with militants in Hadipora area of south Kashmir s Shopian districts. One militant was killed on Saturday. Two more militants have been killed in the operation at Hadipora, a police official said. According to the police, one of the slain militants was newly recruited and security forces made sincere efforts to make him surrender. Parents also made appeals. But other terrorists didn t let him surrender, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said. The encounter broke out after security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Hadipora following inputs about the presence of militants there.
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The CBI on Sunday questioned two personal staffers of former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in connection with the allegations of corruption levelled against him by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh, officials said. Deshmukh s personal assistant Kundan Shinde and personal secretary Sanjeev Palande were asked to appear before the CBI team in connection with its ongoing preliminary enquiry (PE) into the case following directives of the Bombay High Court, they said. Both of them were being questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) at the DRDO guest house in suburban Santacruz, the officials said. Singh had in a letter alleged that Palande was present when Deshmukh allegedly asked suspended cop Sachin Waze to allegedly extort over Rs 100 crore a month from bars and restaurants of Mumbai, they said.