A top Pakistani militant was killed by security forces on Tuesday when he went to visit his Indian wife in a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said. He waw carried a reward of Rs 15 lakh oo his head.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police, which had apparently been tracking the militant, called the killing of Abu Dujana, whom they described as the Lashkar-e-Taiba ' title=' Lashkar-e-Taiba '>Lashkar-e-Taiba commander active in southern Kashmir since 2012, as a "huge achievement".

His local accomplice who died with him in Hakripora village was identified as Arif Lalihaari.

"(A) huge achievement for the police and security forces," the police tweeted.

Dujana, a resident of Gilgit-Baltistan region in the Pakistan-administered Kashmir, was said to be responsible for a number of attacks on Indian security forces, including the August 2015 Udhampur strike that left two Border Security Force troopers dead and 12 injured.