350 kg of explosives, an AK-47 rifle and loads of ammunition - all this, and more, were recovered from a J&K doctor in Faridabad, foiling a major terror plot.
Here’s how it happened.
The Jammu & Kashmir police launched a manhunt in October for a Dr Adil Rather. This was based on intelligence inputs on a potential terror operation. He was eventually nabbed in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh on October 27. During sustained interrogation, he pointed the police to Dr Mujahil Shakil, a student of Al Falah Medical College in Faridabad.
In a joint operation by the J&K Police, the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Faridabad police, Dr Shakil was apprehended on October 30. It was he who eventually led the police to the cache of weapons recovered from a house he’d rented in Dhauj three months ago.
Faridabad Police Commissioner Satender Kumar Gupta declared that both individuals were part of a larger terror module suspected to have cross-border links, their aim - planning large-scale attacks in northern India.
According to reports, the recovered ammonium nitrate and other materials were sufficient to make several high-intensity IEDs (improvised explosive devices), potentially capable of causing large-scale devastation.
Further investigations are underway, and multiple security agencies, including the National Investigation Agency (NIA), are likely to join the probe.
