New Delhi/Srinagar, Feb 15: Jammu and Kashmir Police busted a “white-collar” terror module involving radicalized doctors who formed “Ansar Interim” in 2022 to conduct attacks in the Union Territory and beyond, officials said Sunday. The NIA is now probing the case.
Dr. Umer-un Nabi, driver of the explosive-laden car that detonated outside Delhi’s Red Fort on November 10—killing over a dozen—had failed to join terror groups in 2016 and 2018. Evidence shows doctors Muzamil Gannie, Umer (deceased), and Adeel Rather, plus absconder Muzzafar Rather, Maulvi Irfan, Qari Aamir, and Tufail Gazi met at Srinagar’s Eidgah in April 2022. They named Adeel “Ameer,” Irfan “Deputy Ameer,” and Gannie treasurer; “Ansar” links to Al-Qaeda.
Severed ties with militants prompted the new group. Umer coordinated finances and procurement with Gannie, sourcing fertilizer from Haryana’s Sohna and Nuh, plus NPK from Faridabad. He self-taught IED-making via videos, producing TATP explosives.
Adeel recruited Danish (alias Jasir) from South Kashmir, taking him to a Faridabad hideout where Umer and Gannie prepared TATP. Umer urged a suicide attack, but Danish refused, citing poverty and Islamic prohibitions.
The 28-year-old Pulwama doctor, most radicalized, planned a VBIED strike in crowded Delhi spots or religious sites, intending to escape. Panic followed Gannie’s arrest and explosive seizure by Srinagar police, leading to Umer’s botched Red Fort blast.
The network surfaced after JeM posters appeared in Srinagar’s Bunpora on October 19. CCTV led to three arrests with stone-pelting histories, tracing to Maulvi Irfan, who radicalized the doctors.
