Involvement of radicalised doctors from Kashmir in Red Fort blast has shocked India

As personnel from Srinagar’s Nowgam police station examined the CCTV footage to find out who had pasted the threatening posters of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad at multiple locations in Bunpora Nowgam on October 19, familiar faces popped up on the screen. Their questioning led the Jammu and Kashmir Police to a cleric, Moulvi Irfan Ahmad Wagay, a resident of Shopian who conducted prayers at a Nowgam mosque.

Irfan, widely known as “Mufti Sahab”, was the first lead that blew the lid off a close-knit Jaish module working outside Jammu and Kashmir and comprising four doctors — Dr Umer-un-Nabi, who blew himself up in a car bomb explosion close to the Red Fort in Delhi on November 10, co-villager Dr Muzamil Shakeel Ganai, Dr Adeel Rather from south Kashmir’s Kulgam and a Lucknow resident, Dr Sh