Search Operation on in Faridabad after Recovery of Huge Explosives
Faridabad: A massive combing and search operation was being carried out in parts of the district on Tuesday, a day after 2,900 kg of explosives and flammable material were seized from two rooms rented by a Kashmiri doctor in Faridabad.
Preliminary investigation into the explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort on Monday evening, which killed seven people and injured 20, also suggested links to the alleged terror module unearthed in Faridabad.
A senior police office said on Tuesday that the police had a team camping at Al Falah University, where the Kashmiri doctor had been living for the last three-and-a-half years, and questioning staff and doctors at the university there.
He said that a large number of police personnel were searching the Dhauj police station area.
The investigation so far has shown that a clergyman detained by the police here rented his room to a car driver and asked Dr. to keep his “luggage” in the room. He revealed that he gave it to Muzammil.
Eight persons, including the Kashmiri man and his two doctor friends, were arrested for allegedly being part of a white-collar terror module comprising Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind and covering Kashmir, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
Two other doctors, Adeel and Shaheen, were also arrested in connection with the incident.
A large quantity of arms and ammunition was seized from two rooms rented by Muzammil Ganaie alias Musaib (35) in Faridabad. A native of Koil in JK’s Pulwama district, he was a doctor working at Al Falah University in Dhauj, about 45 km from Delhi.
The explosion in Delhi occurred hours after 2,563 kg of explosives and flammable material were seized from the Dahar Colony in Fatehpur Taga village on Monday.
Previously, approximately 360 kg of suspected ammonium nitrate and some weapons and ammunition were seized. The rescue operations were carried out from the accommodation rented by the Kashmiri doctor in Faridabad, on the border with Delhi.
A high-intensity explosion ripped through a slow-moving car at traffic signals near the Red Fort subway station Monday evening, killing at least nine people and gutting several vehicles, authorities said.
Around 2,900 kg of flammable and explosive material was seized in a joint operation by Faridabad Police and Jammu and Kashmir Police, Faridabad Police said on Monday.
Muzammil was arrested after JK Police named him as a wanted person in a case related to putting up posters supporting Jaish-e-Mohammad in Srinagar.
After Muzammil’s activities were found suspicious during the investigation, a team from Nowgam police station in Kashmir arrested Muzammil with the help of Faridabad Crime Branch.
Police said that 358 kg of explosive material suspected to be ammonium nitrate, a Krinkov assault rifle with three magazines, a pistol with 2 cartridges, 91 live bullets and two magazines were seized from the room of a house located just 500 meters from Al Falah University in Dhauj on Sunday.
Police seized timers, batteries, remote controls, electrical circuits, cables and a metal chair, among other items from the room.
