FARIDABAD: A day after nearly 2,900kg of explosive and inflammable materials were seized from Faridabad’s Dhauj area, police on Tuesday launched an extensive combing and search operation involving over 800 personnel across multiple locations under the jurisdiction of the Dhauj police station.
Investigators are probing whether the laboratory facilities at Al-Falah University were used to synthesise RDX or other advanced explosives.
The operation stems from the arrest of Dr Muzamil Shakeel, a Kashmiri medical professor teaching at the university, whose rented accommodation near the campus yielded explosives, detonators, batteries, timers, and weapons, including an AK-56 rifle and a Krinkov.
Police said the massive haul — the largest in recent years — points to preparations for a potential large-scale terror plot. Faridabad Police Commissioner Satender Kumar Gupta said teams are working to trace suppliers, identify accomplices, and verify whether university labs were misused for bomb-making.
A day after 2,900 kg of explosives and inflammable material was recovered from two rented rooms of a Kashmiri doctor in Faridabad, an extensive combing and search operation was being conducted in parts of the district on Tuesday.
Preliminary probe into the blast near Delhi's Red Fort on Monday evening that left 12 dead and many injured has also suggested links to the alleged terror module uncovered in Faridabad.
Police on Tuesday said a team is camping at the Al-Falah University, where the Kashmiri doctor lived for the past three-and-a-half years, and are questioning staff and doctors at the varsity, a senior police officer said.
Several police personnel are conducting searches in the Dhauj police station area, he said.
Investigation so far revealed that a cleric here who was detained by police revealed that he had rented out his room to an autorickshaw driver who then gave it to Dr Muzammil for keeping "luggage" in the room.
Eight people, including the Kashmiri man and two fellow doctors, were arrested for allegedly being part of a white-collar terror module involving the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH) and spanning Kashmir, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
Two other doctors, Adeel and Shaheen, have also been arrested in connection with the case.
A huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered from two rooms rented by Muzammil Ganaie alias Musaib (35) in Faridabad. A native of Koil in J&K’s Pulwama, he was a doctor working at Al-Falah University in Dhauj, around 45 km from Delhi.
The blast in Delhi occurred hours after the recovery of 2,563 kg of explosives and inflammables from Dahar Colony in Fatehpur Taga village here on Monday.
Earlier, around 360 kg of suspected ammonium nitrate and a cache of arms and ammunition were recovered from the Kashmiri doctor's rented accommodation in Faridabad, bordering Delhi.
A high-intensity explosion ripped through a slow-moving car at a traffic signal near the Red Fort metro station on Monday evening, killing at least nine people and gutting several vehicles, officials said.
On Monday, Faridabad Police said in a statement that approximately 2,900 kg of inflammables and explosive material was recovered in a joint operation by Faridabad Police and Jammu and Kashmir Police.
Muzammil was arrested after the J-K Police named him as a wanted person in a case involving putting up posters supporting the Jaish-e-Mohammed in Srinagar.
During the investigation, Muzammil's activities were found to be suspicious, following which a team from the Nowgam police station in Kashmir arrested Muzammil with the assistance of the Faridabad Crime Branch.
Police said that on Sunday, 358 kg of explosive material suspected to be ammonium nitrate, a Krinkov assault rifle with three magazines, a pistol with two cartridges, 91 live rounds, and two magazines were recovered from the room of a house in Dhauj, located just 500 metres from the Al-Falah University.
Among other articles, police had also seized timers, batteries, remote controls, electrical circuits, wires, and a metal seat from the room.
Investigators are probing whether the laboratory facilities at Al-Falah University were used to synthesise RDX or other advanced explosives.
The operation stems from the arrest of Dr Muzamil Shakeel, a Kashmiri medical professor teaching at the university, whose rented accommodation near the campus yielded explosives, detonators, batteries, timers, and weapons, including an AK-56 rifle and a Krinkov.
Police said the massive haul — the largest in recent years — points to preparations for a potential large-scale terror plot. Faridabad Police Commissioner Satender Kumar Gupta said teams are working to trace suppliers, identify accomplices, and verify whether university labs were misused for bomb-making.
A day after 2,900 kg of explosives and inflammable material was recovered from two rented rooms of a Kashmiri doctor in Faridabad, an extensive combing and search operation was being conducted in parts of the district on Tuesday.
Preliminary probe into the blast near Delhi's Red Fort on Monday evening that left 12 dead and many injured has also suggested links to the alleged terror module uncovered in Faridabad.
Police on Tuesday said a team is camping at the Al-Falah University, where the Kashmiri doctor lived for the past three-and-a-half years, and are questioning staff and doctors at the varsity, a senior police officer said.
Several police personnel are conducting searches in the Dhauj police station area, he said.
Investigation so far revealed that a cleric here who was detained by police revealed that he had rented out his room to an autorickshaw driver who then gave it to Dr Muzammil for keeping "luggage" in the room.
Eight people, including the Kashmiri man and two fellow doctors, were arrested for allegedly being part of a white-collar terror module involving the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH) and spanning Kashmir, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, officials said.
Two other doctors, Adeel and Shaheen, have also been arrested in connection with the case.
A huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered from two rooms rented by Muzammil Ganaie alias Musaib (35) in Faridabad. A native of Koil in J&K’s Pulwama, he was a doctor working at Al-Falah University in Dhauj, around 45 km from Delhi.
The blast in Delhi occurred hours after the recovery of 2,563 kg of explosives and inflammables from Dahar Colony in Fatehpur Taga village here on Monday.
Earlier, around 360 kg of suspected ammonium nitrate and a cache of arms and ammunition were recovered from the Kashmiri doctor's rented accommodation in Faridabad, bordering Delhi.
A high-intensity explosion ripped through a slow-moving car at a traffic signal near the Red Fort metro station on Monday evening, killing at least nine people and gutting several vehicles, officials said.
On Monday, Faridabad Police said in a statement that approximately 2,900 kg of inflammables and explosive material was recovered in a joint operation by Faridabad Police and Jammu and Kashmir Police.
Muzammil was arrested after the J-K Police named him as a wanted person in a case involving putting up posters supporting the Jaish-e-Mohammed in Srinagar.
During the investigation, Muzammil's activities were found to be suspicious, following which a team from the Nowgam police station in Kashmir arrested Muzammil with the assistance of the Faridabad Crime Branch.
Police said that on Sunday, 358 kg of explosive material suspected to be ammonium nitrate, a Krinkov assault rifle with three magazines, a pistol with two cartridges, 91 live rounds, and two magazines were recovered from the room of a house in Dhauj, located just 500 metres from the Al-Falah University.
Among other articles, police had also seized timers, batteries, remote controls, electrical circuits, wires, and a metal seat from the room.
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