Delhi blast case: NIA raids eight locations in Jammu and Kashmir

The National Investigation Agency on Monday conducted raids at eight locations in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama, Shopian and Kulgam districts in connection with the November 10 Delhi blast, PTI quoted unidentified officials as saying.

The central agency raided the homes of Adeel Ahmad Rather in Kulgam and Muzamil Shakeel Ganai at Koil village in Pulwama, The Indian Express quoted officials as saying. The homes of Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay in Shopian and Amir Rashid at Samboora village in Pulwama were also raided.

All four men had been arrested in connection with an alleged terror module, which also included Umar Nabi, the doctor who is believed to have been driving the car that exploded near the Red Fort metro station in Delhi on November 10. The blast killed 13 persons.

Nabi was a key person in the terror network spanning Kashmir, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, according to reports.

Hours before the blast, the police said that it had cracked an “inter-state and transnational terror module” in Haryana’s Faridabad and Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur. Rather and Ganai, also doctors, were among those arrested in the case at the time.

Rashid and Wagay were arrested after the blast.

The raids came after the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday carried out inspections at mosques and madrasas as part of a crackdown on “individuals and networks associated with terrorist organisations”.

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