Doctors Held, Arms Recovered: What We Know About J&K Police's 'Terror Module' Bust

Srinagar: While it is unclear whether the spree of detentions and arrests in Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana and the explosion that killed at least 13 people and injured dozens of civilians in the national capital are related, reports quoting unnamed officials have linked the two.

Earlier this week, the J&K police said that it busted the terror module during investigations into an unspecified number of posters, purportedly issued by the Jaish-e-Mohammad which were found pasted in parts of the summer capital Srinagar’s Nowgam locality on October 19.

These posters “threatened and intimidated police and security forces” following which a case was filed at Nowgam police station under FIR No 162/2025 (under sections 13, 16, 17, 18. 18-B, 19, 20, 23, 39 and 40 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and section 61 (2), 147, 148, 152, 351(2) of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, 2023, section 4/5 of the Explosive Substance Act and sections 7, 25 and 27 of the Arms Act.

Over the last three weeks, more than 1,200 persons, described by police as “overground workers and sympathisers” of militants, were questioned in parts of Kashmir and some of them were detained in connection with the case.

'Doctors'

The police said it got its first breakthrough in the case after its investigators recovered an AK-47 rifle from the official locker of Dr Adeel Ahmad Rather at the Government Medical College (GMC) in Anantnag district.

Rather, a resident of Kulgam district, worked as a senior resident doctor at the GMC Anantnag before quitting in October last year and the police haven’t so far clarified why his locker in a busy hospital where dozens of doctors cater to thousands of patients on a daily basis remained unopened for months.

He was arrested on November 6 from a hospital in Saharanpur of Uttar Pradesh where he had taken up a job recently.

On Monday, Faridabad police commissioner Satender Kumar Gupta said that Dr Muzammil Ahmad Ganaie, the second doctor allegedly involved in the module who worked at a university in Faridabad, was arrested in a joint operation with J&K Police.

The police have not yet specified the details about the roles of the doctors in the 'terror module'. None of the two doctors have any previous criminal background, according to the information available so far.

'White collar'

In a statement, J&K police said that the module was linked to the proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammad and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind militant outfits.

“Besides, the role of a few more individuals has surfaced who will be traced and apprehended,” said the police statement, adding that two AK rifles, two pistols, ammunition and 2900 kg of “IED making material” was recovered along with “incriminating documents and electronic devices”.

Labelling it as “white collar terror ecosystem”, the J&K police said that the members of the module relied on encrypted channels “for indoctrination, coordination, fund movement and logistics” support, without specifying more details.

“Funds were raised through professional and academic networks, under the guise of social/charitable causes. The accused were found involved in identifying persons, to radicalise, initiate and recruit them to terrorist ranks, besides raising funds, arranging logistics, procurement of arms/ammunition and material for preparing IEDs,” the police statement said.

The statement didn’t specify the details of “academic networks” which were involved in the alleged terrorism activities.

Delhi blast

Meanwhile, unnamed Delhi police officials quoted in reports appear to have claimed today (November 11) that Dr Umar-un-Nabi, a resident of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, was driving the Hyundai i20 car which exploded in the Red Fort area.

Another report identified him as Dr Umar Mohammad who worked at a university in Faridabad.

The Delhi Police have registered a case under various sections of the UAPA, Explosives Act and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita in connection with the blast.

A CCTV camera captured the car in the Red Fort area on Monday evening which purported to show only one male occupant driving the car before it exploded in a ball of flame.

The sound of the explosion was heard from more than two kilometres away.

The car which was registered in Haryana is believed to have changed multiple owners before it was purchased by Dr Nabi who the Delhi police said was linked to the terror module.

Three persons including two brothers were detained in south Kashmir’s Samboora on Tuesday in connection with investigation into the car ownership.

The other accused who have been arrested in the terror module case are Arif Nisar Dar, Yasir-ul-Ashraf and Maqsood Ahmad Dar, all residents of Nowgam in Srinagar, Irfan Ahmad, a resident of Shopian who led prayers at a local mosque and Zameer Ahmad Ahanger from Ganderbal.

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