"We have arrested Wasim Ahmed Bhat from Jammu last evening," Superintendent of Police (Sopore) Imtiyaz Hussain said today.
He said Bhat was allegedly involved in the firing at the Sopore Police station on January seven in which one civilian was killed and five policemen were injured.
Immediately after this incident, Bhat had vanished from the state following heightened searches launched by the police to nab him.
Hussain said that he was wanted in connection with an FIR (No. 8/2012) registered at Sopore police station under various sections, including that of murder, of the Indian Penal Code.
A senior state police official said Bhat had again surfaced as Sopore police found out that he was at Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.
His movements were tracked carefully and when he entered into the jurisdiction of Jammu and Kashmir along with his friend Sajjad Ahmed Bhat, he was arrested by a Sopore police party which was monitoring his activities.
Sajjad, who is being interrogated, may be left after sometime, the SP said.
23-year-old Wasim Bhat is a locally trained militant who began with Lashker-e-Taiba terror group and later switched his allegiance to Hizbul Mujahideen.
He is also wanted in connection with the murder of a doctor in Handwara district in North Kashmir.
