It was a chance meeting between Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay, who had accompanied a patient to a hospital, and Muzammil Ahmad Ganai in 2023 that led to an “ideological bonding” which would transform into a close-knit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) module, investigators believe, based on the probe so far and the questioning of the accused in the Red Fort blast case .

Ganai is one of the four accused from the terror module busted this month; the others are Umar Nabi, who was driving the car that exploded at Red Fort and was his colleague from Faridabad Al Falah School of Medical Sciences & Research Centre; Adeel Majeed Rather, who was employed at a private hospital in Saharanpur; and Lucknow resident Dr Shaheen Shahid Ansari, who also worked at the Faribad institute. While Nabi and Ganai a

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