Hours after a car bomb left three policemen and a woman dead outside the Central Jail in Srinagar late Saturday afternoon, J&K Police announced a Rs 10-lakh cash award for information on Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) Divisional Commander Abdul Rehman, whom the police suspect of having masterminded the attack.

Initial investigations, the police said, had revealed that the bombing was carried out jointly by LeT and Hizbul Mujahideen and planned by Rehman. “Intelligence inputs have indicated that this attack was carried out on the orders of Lashkar Divisional Commander, Abdul Rehman,” DIG (Kashmir) Hemant Kumar Lohia told The Indian Express.

Lohia said the little-known Jamait-ul-Mujahideen claiming responsibility for the bombing was a ploy to divert attention from LeT and Hizb modules. Though Rehman, a Pakistani, has been on the police radar for some time now, he has overnight become one of the most wanted after militants in the Valley after the attack.