Overview
- The government says a committee was constituted on November 16 under the Principal Secretary, Home, with the Kashmir Zone IGP, Srinagar’s district magistrate and a CFSL senior scientist as members.
- Investigators have sealed the site and collected evidence, with NIA and FSL/CFSL teams examining materials while the exact trigger remains unestablished.
- The blast occurred during sampling of roughly 2,900 kg of explosives-making material, including ammonium nitrate, seized in Faridabad in an inter-state terror probe suspected to have links to the November 10 Red Fort incident.
- Nine people were killed and 32 injured, including 27 police personnel, and nearby homes suffered damage in the residential locality housing the station.
- Security experts and political leaders question why the cache was stored and handled at a crowded police station and why civilians were present, pressing for accountability and procedural clarity.