New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Police have recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including 2,900 kilograms of IED-making material, from Haryana’s Faridabad after busting an inter-state terror module.
J&K Police, jointly with the crime branch of Haryana Police, recovered a 2,500 kg cache of IED-making material Monday during a raid at the rented premises of a doctor, Muzammil Shakeel, in Fatehpur Taga village in Haryana’s Faridabad district.
This included around 360 kg of highly inflammable material, suspected to be ammonium nitrate, along with chemicals, reagents, other inflammable materials, electronic circuits, batteries, wires, remote controls, timers, and metal sheets, were found.
The raid in the area under the Dhauj police station came on the heels of the doctor’s arrest.
Originally from J&K’s Pulwama district, Muzammil Shakeel had been teaching at Faridabad’s Al-Falah University and Hospital since he moved to the district nearly three-and-a-half years ago, sources in Haryana Police told ThePrint.
The J&K Police traced Shakeel through another doctor, Adeel Ahmad Rather, hailing from South Kashmir’s Kulgam district. Adeel was arrested from a hospital located in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur, which is his current base.
The doctors’ arrests are a part of a J&K Police manhunt launched after multiple posters in solidarity with the terrorist outfit, Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), turned up in the Bunpora Nowgam area of Srinagar. The posters contained threats to police and security personnel.
Officers said that their investigation into the posters led them to seven individuals, including the two doctors, all of whom have been arrested. The J&K Police have linked the accused to JeM and the Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH), a J&K-specific wing of Al Qaeda.
(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)
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