Srinagar: When Adeel Ahmad Rather, a young Kashmiri physician, left the Government Medical College (GMC) Anantnag in October 2024 to join a private hospital in Uttar Pradesh, few could have imagined that his career shift would later be viewed as the starting point of one of India’s most chilling terror conspiracies in recent years.

According to intelligence sources, the move marked the beginning of a carefully orchestrated plan that would stretch across several States, culminating in the Red Fort car bomb blast in New Delhi on November 10 that killed at least 12 people. Investigators now believe the planning for what they describe as a “pan-India terror campaign” began more than a year ago — and that Rather’s transfer was not a coincidence but a strategic relocation designed to expand the

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