Lashkar e Taiba commander Naveed Jutt, who according to Jammu and Kashmir police was the prime accused in the killing of senior journalist Shujhaat Bukhari, and another militant were killed in a gun battle with security forces in central Kashmirs Budgam. Bukhari, the 50 year old editor in chief of the Rising Kashmir newspaper, was attacked by three motorcycle borne gunmen while he was entering his car in the Press Enclave area of Srinagar on June 14 this year.