Overview
- Police have circulated four-page forms seeking extensive personal, financial, and digital identifiers from imams, teachers, and mosque committee members, along with institutional funding and sect affiliation details.
- Officials tie the initiative to November’s bust of a “white-collar” terror module that led to nine arrests and the seizure of nearly 2,900 kg of explosives across Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana.
- Village numberdars have been tasked with collecting completed proformas from mosques and madrasas throughout the Valley.
- Authorities say the database is intended to trace financial flows, map ideological trends, and detect foreign contacts or misuse of religious institutions for radicalisation.
- Mutahida Majlis-e-Ulema, led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, has urged the administration to withdraw the exercise, noting the police have not publicly explained its scope or legal authority.