Abbas Sheikh, leader of the militant group The Resistance Front (TRF) and Saqib Manzoor were killed during a shooting in Srinagar, the main city of Indian Kashmir, Kashmir police chief Vijay Kumar said.
Kumar said the militants were involved in dozens of targeted killings, including the killings of Babar Qadri, a prominent lawyer, and some workers of the country’s ruling party Bharatiya Janata (BJP).
The TRF is a branch of Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, Kumar said.
More than 50,000 people have died in more than three decades of insurgency in Kashmir that India accuses Pakistan of encouraging support for Muslim militant groups fighting Indian security forces in its part of the divided region .
Pakistan says it only offers political support to its fellow Muslims in the Himalayan region.