• Source:JND

Faridabad Terror Plot: During an operation in Faridabad’s Fatehpur Taga, Jammu and Kashmir and Faridabad Police recovered 2,563 kg of explosives packed in 50 sacks from the home of an imam, a close associate of terrorist Muzammil Shakeel. Shakeel is a doctor from Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama, and a key link in the interstate and transnational terror module of Jaish-e-Mohamamd and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind outfits.

The police teams have been raiding the house belonging to Irfan, the mosque's imam, since Monday morning.

The huge recovery  comes a day after 350 kg of explosives and several arms and ammunition were recovered from a rented accommodation on Sunday in Faridabad. According to the initial police probe, the recovered substance is likely ammonium nitrate.

Both the accommodations were rented by Shakeel.

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Additionally, the police have arrested a woman doctor working at the Al-Falah Medical College and Hospital after an assault rifle and a pistol were recovered from her car. The woman doctor was traced after Shakeel’s interrogation.

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Shakeel also worked at Al-Falah Medical College and Hospital. He was arrested 10 days ago after evidence linking him to Jaish-e-Mohammed emerged.

Earlier, a Kashmiri doctor from Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur, Dr Adil Ahmad Rather was arrested for allegedly sticking posters in support of Jaish-e-Mohammed (a terror outfit) in Srinagar.

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