Srinagar, Jan. 4 -- A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant was arrested from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday morning.

The 23-year-old militant Nissar Ahmad Dar, who hails from Wahab Parray Mohalla at Hajin, was active for the last few years and is a categorised militant in security establishment's data base. He was in the wanted list of security forces.

He is involved in eight cases, seven in 2016 and one in 2019. He was detained twice under Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA) - first time in 2016 and then in 2017. He is an associate of Salim Parray, a top militant of Lashkar-e-Taiba.

"Dar is an associate of Salim Parray, who is top militant of Lashkar-e-Taiba in North Kashmir, and earlier escaped from an encounter in which a...