The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday carried out searches at the Government Medical College (GMC) in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the “white collar” terror module busted in November last year, officials said.
An NIA team reached the GMC campus and conducted detailed searches as part of the ongoing probe. Officials said the action is linked to the recovery of a rifle from the locker of a doctor during earlier investigations in November.
Dr Adeel Ahmad Rather is among the nine persons arrested in the case involving the suspected terror module. The investigation had earlier led to the recovery of a large quantity of explosives from Faridabad in the National Capital Region (NCR), pointing to a wider network, officials added.
Meanwhile, security forces also launched a search operation in the Koil Karewa area of Pulwama district following specific intelligence inputs about the possible presence of terrorists in the area.
Officials said the operation was continuing, and so far no arrests or recoveries have been reported.
