Doc module's bomber hunt began in '24

The sophisticated 'white-collar' terror module, spearheaded by a group of doctors recently busted by Jammu and Kashmir Police, had been actively scouting for a suicide bomber since last year, with key planner Dr Umar Nabi pushing the agenda, officials said on Sunday.

- Agencies

Interrogation of an arrested co-accused was indicative that Umar, believed to have been killed while driving the explosives-laden car that blew up near the Red Fort on November 10, was a "hardcore radical" and insisted that a suicide bomber was essential for their operations.

Immediately, Srinagar police sent a team to Qazigund in south Kashmir and detained Jasir alias 'Danish', a bachelor in political sciences, on the basis of questioning of the coaccused, including Dr Adeel Rather and Dr Muzzaffar Ganaie. Srinagar police led by its SSP, Dr G V Sundeep Chakravarthy, cracked the entire 'white collar' terror module.

The detained person agreed to have met the 'doctor module' in October last year at a mosque in Kulgam from where he was taken to a rented accommodation at the Al-Falah University in Faridabad, Haryana.