Police on Thursday said government forces gunned down Divisional Commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba, Abu Musaib, who was also nephew of LeT operational chief and alleged mastermind of Mumbai attacks, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi in an encounter at Hajin town of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district.The police here said that acting on specific information about the presence of militants in Para Mohallah locality of Hajin, police along with army’s 13 RR and 45 CRPF Battalion cordoned off the area and launched the search operation.“The hiding militant opened fire on the joint search party, triggering an encounter. The encounter ended with the killing a militant,” police said, adding that the slain was was identified as Abu Musaib – resident of Pakistan.”Musaib reportedly a nephew of Zaki Rehman Lakhvi, LeT operational chief of Pakistan was functioning as self style Divisional commander of LeT,” the police said, adding that one AK-56, 66 rounds, 03 Magazines, 01 radio set and 03 grenades were recovered from the encounter site. Police said that the slain was active in Bandipora and Ganderbal areas since August 2015.“He was involved in many militancy related activities which included weapon snatching of army personnel of 14 RR in Bandipora in October 2015. In 2016 he was involved in injuring a civilian at Hajin, and firing on the Army patrol of 13 RR in which two army personnel were killed,” the police added.Police also said that the slain commander was played an active role in organizing the Fidayeen attack at Old City’s Nowhatta area on August 15, 2016, in which a Commandant of CRPF was killed.(GNS)