Srinagar Police conducts searches at mosques, madrasas in crackdown on ‘terror-linked networks’

The Srinagar Police said that it carried out inspections at mosques and madrasas on Thursday as part of a crackdown on “individuals and networks associated with terrorist organisations”.

The intensified checks come in the aftermath of the blast near Delhi’s Red Fort metro station on November 10, which left 13 persons dead.

The doctor believed to have been driving the car that exploded was identified as Umar Nabi, a resident of Kashmir.

Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident”.

Hours before the blast, the police said that it had cracked an “inter-state and transnational terror module” in Faridabad and Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur.

The case, along with the recent detection of the alleged terror module, has prompted multiple rounds of checks in the Valley.

On November 12, the Jammu and Kashmir Police conducted raids at more than 300 locations in the Kashmir valley allegedly linked to persons affiliated with the banned Jamaat-e-Islami. The actions came after intelligence that elements linked to the Jamaat-e-Islami, banned under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, were trying to revive the organisation under different names, the police had said at the time.

On Thursday, the Srinagar Police said that search teams accompanied by executive magistrates and independent witnesses inspected several premises to collect evidence related to “terror-linked or radical activities...

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