Accident blast? Seized explosives from Faridabad detonate inside J&K police station: 10 things to know

NEW DELHI: Six radical were killed and respective others were injured successful a almighty accidental detonation astatine the Nowgam constabulary presumption connected the outskirts of Srinagar.According to officials, the blast occurred portion a constabulary and forensic squad was examining explosive worldly seized from Faridabad, portion of the 2,900 kg chemic cache recovered from an arrested doc successful the case.

The detonation caused successive smaller blasts and damaged the constabulary station.Here are the 10 things to cognize astir the incidental and the Faridabad-linked panic module:Accidental blast?The detonation happened precocious Friday nighttime during sampling of explosives stored astatine the Nowgam constabulary station, the superior presumption handling the Faridabad panic module case. The constabulary officials person said whether the blast was pre-planned oregon accidental volition beryllium determined successful further investigation. Over 2 twelve injured, mostly constabulary personnelAt slightest 27 radical — including 24 constabulary unit and 3 civilians — were injured, galore of whom are undergoing attraction successful Srinagar hospitals for pain injuries and blast trauma.

Officials said the detonation is linked to the aforesaid concatenation of events that led to the unravelling of a large panic module.Explosives brought from Faridabad for forensic examinationThe explosive worldly being examined had been transported from Faridabad, Haryana. It was portion of the cache seized during the probe into the white-collar panic module. The seized explosives, had exposed a “white-collar panic module” linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind operating crossed Kashmir, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh.

Cache included 360 kg of chemicalsInvestigators had earlier seized 360 kg of chemicals — ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate, sulphur and different materials — from a rented residence linked to arrested doc Muzammil Ganaie. Approximately 3,000 kilograms of explosives and bomb-making instrumentality stored by this module was besides seized.Explosion damaged the constabulary presumption buildingThe midnight blast shattered windows, damaged the presumption operation and disrupted the quiescent of the neighbourhood arsenic ambulances and constabulary vehicles rushed to the site.Case originated from menace posters successful NowgamThe panic module came nether the constabulary radar erstwhile posters threatening information forces appeared connected walls successful Bunpora, Nowgam, successful mid-October. This prompted Srinagar Police to registry a lawsuit connected October 19.CCTV investigation led to the archetypal arrestsFrame-by-frame scrutiny of CCTV footage helped place 3 suspects — Arif Nisar Dar alias Sahil, Yasir-ul-Ashraf and Maqsood Ahmad Dar alias Shahid. All 3 had past stone-pelting cases and were seen pasting the posters.Arrests revealed a caller plotInterrogation of the trio led to the apprehension of Maulvi Irfan Ahmad, a erstwhile paramedic-turned-Imam from Shopian. According to PTI, helium allegedly supplied the posters and radicalised young doctors by leveraging his entree to the aesculapian community.Faridabad nexus uncovered — doctors astatine the halfway of the moduleThe way past led investigators to Al Falah University successful Faridabad, wherever doctors Muzammil Ahmad Ganaie and Shaheen Sayeed were arrested. The monolithic explosive haul was seized there.Police judge the halfway of the module consisted of 3 doctors: Dr Muzammil Ganaie, Dr Umar Nabi, Dr Muzzaffar Rather. A 4th doctor, Dr Adeel Rather, was arrested separately aft an AK-56 firearm was recovered from him. His relation is nether investigation.Delhi blast linkThe blast comes 4 days aft a deadly car detonation successful Delhi, which killed astatine slightest 13 people. According to CCTV footage, the car successful which the Red Fort detonation occurred was being driven by Umar, a subordinate of this module. According to bureau sources, Umar fled arsenic helium panicked by the palmy crackdown of information forces and his anxiousness and desperation apt led to the detonation adjacent Red Fort.(With bureau inputs)