Overview
- Searches are underway inside Jammu's high-security Kot Bhalwal Central Jail, which houses high-profile Pakistani and local terror convicts and criminals.
- Officials say the jail operation aims to expose networks allegedly directed from inside the prison and linked to external modules.
- The crackdown follows arrests connected to a Faridabad-based module involving doctors, including recoveries of an AK-47 and explosive material, with one associate killed in the Nov. 10 car explosion near the Red Fort.
- The Kashmir Counter-Intelligence wing recently detained cardiologist Umar Farooq Bhat and his wife Shahzada Akhtar for questioning over alleged ties to Jaish-e-Mohammad and Dukhtaran-e-Millat.
- Police report thousands of raids across Jammu and Kashmir with hundreds detained for questioning, and earlier jail searches recovered unauthorised mobile phones and SIM cards.