Two days after a blast in an i20 car near Delhi’s Red Fort claimed 12 lives, the Jammu and Kashmir Police are on the lookout for another car—a Maruti Brezza—believed to contain explosives and linked to one
of the two lady doctors arrested during the crackdown on the Faridabad module.
CNN-News18 has accessed exclusive details of the probe that point to a meticulously planned network, radicalised under the influence of Maulvi Irfan, who is alleged to have indoctrinated the group during his tenure at a Srinagar hospital.
According to investigators, the arrested individuals form the core group of a larger organisation that aimed to carry out large-scale terror attacks in India. The members were reportedly influenced by the ideology of ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ and held strong anti-Hindu sentiments, as revealed in intercepted communications and interrogation reports.
The two women doctors, hailing from Srinagar and Anantnag, were responsible for coordinating logistics, fund movement, and online communication for the network. Digital forensic analysis has unearthed over 400 encrypted chats, where the women discussed movement of funds, safe houses, and recruitment plans.
Sources say that one of the doctors had received multiple foreign remittances through digital wallets from Istanbul and Doha between 2023 and 2024, which are now being traced to potential overseas handlers.
26/11 Style Attack?
According to NDTV, investigations into Monday evening’s blast have revealed that the terror module was planning a string of coordinated attacks in Delhi, modelled on the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. Their hit list included some of the Capital’s most iconic and crowded landmarks—Red Fort, India Gate, the Constitution Club, and the Gauri Shankar Temple—along with plans to strike railway stations and shopping malls in multiple cities across India.
The report also said the group had been assembling around 200 powerful improvised explosive devices (IEDs) with the intention to strike high-profile locations not just in Delhi, but also in Gurugram and Faridabad.
Sources revealed that the terrorists were plotting to stoke communal unrest by attacking religious sites, and that a few radicalised doctors from Pulwama, Shopian, and Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir had been recruited for the operation due to their “white-collar” cover. The group quickly set up a base in Faridabad, leveraging the doctors’ professional status to move freely across the NCR without attracting attention. They rented rooms in Dhauj and Fatehpur Taga to store explosives and conduct their activities discreetly, remaining under the radar of local authorities.
