Faridabad doctor terrorist link:
In a major security operation in Faridabad, a team of Jammu and Kashmir Police recovered 350 kg of explosives, suspected to be ammonium nitrate, along with an AK-47 rifle, a pistol, three magazines, 20 timers, a walkie-talkie set and ammunition from a rented house in Dhauj village, police said. A doctor from Jammu and Kashmir was also arrested during the operation. A Faridabad police Mouthpiece said members of the city police were also present during the operation.
It is learnt that the rescue operation was carried out after the arrest of Dr. Adil Ahmed Rather, a Kashmiri doctor, who was detained in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, on October 27, on charges of pasting posters in support of banned terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed in Srinagar.
Faridabad Police Commissioner Satyendra Kumar Gupta said at a press conference on Monday afternoon that during interrogation, Rather revealed information that informed the police about Dr. Muzammil Shakeel, another doctor from Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir, who was working at Al-Falah Hospital in Faridabad.
Police said that Shakeel, who had rented a house in Dhowje about three months ago, was arrested and recovered from his house in a coordinated operation on Sunday. The Faridabad Police Commissioner clarified that the substance was ammonium nitrate and not RDX, as was initially reported in some sections of the media.
Earlier, Jammu and Kashmir Police searched Rather’s locker at the Government Medical College in Anantnag, where he was working as a senior resident till October last year, and recovered an AK-47 rifle and ammunition. Rather has been booked under the Arms Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
So far, the police have not been able to determine the purpose of the explosives stockpiled near Delhi and how such a large quantity of explosives was transported undetected; further investigation is underway.