Political Tempers Soar in Peak Bihar Poll Season
Srinagar/New Delhi: The joint Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana police claimed they found 12 suit cases, 20 timers and weapon from car of doctor in a major counter-terror operation by Gujarat ATS and central agencies.
It has come in the middle of high-voltage Bihar elections, after two doctors from Jammu & Kashmir and another module linked to ISIS were arrested in separate raids across Faridabad, Saharanpur and Gujarat.
According to reports, Mohammad Adil Ahmad — a government-hospital doctor from Kashmir — was picked up from Saharanpur. Investigators claim he was linked to Jaish-e-Mohammad and was allegedly tasked with recruiting highly educated professionals, including doctors and engineers, into the outfit.
An AK-47 rifle and grenades were reportedly recovered from his residence.
During questioning, Adil is said to have revealed the name of another doctor, Mujahil Shakeel from Pulwama, currently living in Faridabad. A subsequent raid allegedly led to a massive seizure of nearly 300 kg of RDX, with officers claiming the material was meant for coordinated blasts in crowded Delhi markets.
In a parallel crackdown, Gujarat ATS said it had nabbed three ISIS-linked suspects who had been under surveillance for a year and were experimenting with “highly dangerous explosive mixtures”.
The arrests immediately spilled into the election arena. Opposition leaders accused the NDA government of “timing” high-profile operations to harvest political advantage during peak Bihar campaigning — a charge the ruling alliance dismissed as “shameful, irresponsible and baseless”.
Social media exploded with arguments. One side questioned how such suspects managed to roam free while allegedly preparing major attacks, while the other warned political parties against casting doubts on national-security operations.
Security experts say the case has again highlighted how radicalisation can cut across academic and professional lines, and how terror outfits often target highly trained individuals for specialised operations — a point now being fiercely debated online with sharply polarised interpretations.
The agencies are continuing interrogations and forensic analysis of the explosives to get to the bottom of the terror networks.
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