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NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Said to be one of the brains behind the 2005 serial blasts in Delhi, Abu Huzefa alias Abdullah Wahi was shot dead in an encounter with a joint team of Rashtriya Rifles, J&K Police and Delhi Police in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday morning. Huzefa, district commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Srinagar, had worked in tandem with Abu Alqama, a Pakistan-based LeT operative, to engineer the blasts which rocked the Capital on October 29 last year. Huzefa belonged to Pakistan and was involved in several sensational encounters with security forces in the past few years. Monday’s encounter, which...