- Adeel Ahmad Rather, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam and a teacher at Al-Falah School of Medical Sciences & Research Centre in Faridabad, was arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur.
- Rather, one of the seven people arrested after an interstate and transnational terror module was busted by Jammu and Kashmir police, allegedly put up posters supporting the terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed in Srinagar on October 19.
- The recoveries were made after the police questioned Rather and conducted raids in Faridabad. The explosives and arms were stored at the rented house of another doctor identified as Muzammil Ahmad Ganaie.
- Ganaie, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama who worked with Rather at Al-Falah, has also been arrested.
- During the raid, around 350 kg of explosives suspected to be ammonium nitrate, one Carom Cok rifle, two automatic pistols, and 84 cartridges were recovered from Ganaie’s rented house in Faridabad, the police said.
- Five litres of chemicals, 20 timers with batteries, and 14 bags were also found.
- A rifle and some ammunition were found in a Maruti Suzuki Swift car, which belonged to a female doctor from Al-Falah Hospital.
- Police found that Rather was working at a government medical college in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag till October last year. When police searched his locker at Anantnag, an assault rifle was found.
- “The group has been using encrypted channels for indoctrination, coordination, fund movement and logistics. Funds were raised through professional and academic networks, under the guise of social/charitable causes,” the police said.
- 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 and ammunition and material for preparing IEDs, the police said.