Lucknow Woman Doctor Arrested In 'White Collar' Terror Bust, AK-47 Recovered From Car

The Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested a woman doctor from Lucknow in the multi-state terror sweep being carried out by police forces of Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Dr Shaheen, a resident

of Lal Bagh, was arrested Monday and has been flown to Srinagar for custodial interrogation. An AK-47 was recovered from her car, officials said.Dr Shaheen is said to be an associate of Kashmiri doctor Dr Muzammil Ganaie who was arrested from Faridabad on October 30. Sources said that Dr Shaheen "was in touch with Dr. Muzammil, from whose rented residence Police recovered major cache of explosives."Ganaie, who worked as an assistant professor at Al-Falah University in Faridabad, lived in a rented apartment, from where the police seized nearly 360 kg of a highly inflammable substance, believed to be ammonium nitrate, along with arms and ammunition and bomb-making material, in a raid on Sunday.The police also recovered an assault rifle with three magazines, 83 live rounds, a pistol with eight live cartridges, 12 suitcases, a bucket filled with the explosive substance, 20 timers, remote controls and a walkie-talkie set.Days later, on November 6, the police also arrested a Pulwama-based doctor - Dr Adeel Ahmad Rather - from a hospital in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Adeel, a resident of south Kashmir's Qazigund, was wanted for putting up posters backing terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed in Srinagar.Adeel, who worked as a Senior Resident at GMC Anantnag until October 2024, went absconding after the incident. He was apprehended last week after the police acted on leads and tracked him to a private hospital on Ambala Road. A total of eight individuals have been arrested so far, including Dr Shaheen, Dr Ganaie and Dr Rather.The eight accused were linked to what authorities described as a "white collar" network connected to Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind. "The arrests led to the seizure of 2,900 kg of explosives," officials said.Police believe the terror module was planning large-scale terror attacks.The whole operation is being carried out jointly by police forces of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, along with central agencies.