Overview
- Searches are underway inside the high-security Kot Bhalwal Central Jail as officers seek to expose networks reportedly operated from within the facility.
- The latest action follows multi-state arrests tied to a Faridabad-linked module, with an AK-47 recovered from an Anantnag medical college locker and explosive material seized in Faridabad.
- The Kashmir Counter-Intelligence wing detained cardiologist Dr. Umar Farooq Bhat and his wife, Shahzada Akhtar, for questioning over alleged links to JeM and Dukhtaran-e-Millat, with claimed revival efforts under investigation.
- Police say associate Dr. Umar Nabi died in the November 10 car blast near Delhi’s Red Fort that reportedly killed 13 civilians and injured others.
- Officials and local reporting cite roughly 2,700 raids across J&K to date, about 600 people questioned, and prior jail searches that recovered unauthorized phones and SIM cards.