Kashmir police said on Friday they had arrested two members of a pro-India militant group allegedly involved in the murder of five Muslim villagers earlier this week.
Gunmen, some of them wearing army uniforms, had broken into two houses on Tuesday in the northern district of Baramulla and shot dead five villagers.
An army spokesman said the gunmen were Muslim militants disguised as soldiers, but witnesses blamed the attack on members of the army's counter-insurgency wing working with a pro-India militant group, Ikhwan.
Ikhwan was formed by renegade militants in 1994 to battle their former colleagues.
The members of the group work closely with the Indian security forces. "We have arrested Akbar Khan and Altaf Ahmed," a senior Baramulla police officer said.
He said that both belonged to Ikhwan and were working with Indian army's counter-insurgency wing, the Rashtriya (National) Rifles.
"Both of them have been booked under murder charges," he said. Bureau Report