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Al-Falah Imam's wife denies terror links, says accused misled husband
The Statesman Kolkata
|November 16, 2025
The wife of Al-Falah Mosque’s Imam Hafeez Mohammad Ishtiaq on Saturday insisted that her husband has no involvement in the terror plot, and the two doctors accused in the Delhi car blast case befriended their family and “misled” him.
Ishtiaq, who served as an Imam at the mosque in Faridabad's Dhera Colony, was detained earlier this week after investigators uncovered more than 2,540 kg of ammonium nitrate, potassium chlorate, and sulphur during a major anti-terror operation at his home at Fatehpur Taga. He was taken to Srinagar for interrogation. Speaking to agen
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