Overview
- The data-collection exercise is underway across the Valley, with village numberdars tasked to gather completed forms from mosques and madrasas.
- The forms seek institutional details such as sect affiliation, construction costs, funding sources, monthly budgets, bank accounts, management structure, seating capacity, and land status.
- Imams, khateebs, teachers, and committee members are asked for Aadhaar, voter ID, passport and travel history, bank and card details, PAN, social media handles, phone models and IMEI numbers, income and expenditure, property holdings, family particulars, and any past cases.
- Officials privately link the drive to a November probe into a ‘white-collar’ terror module that led to arrests and a large explosives seizure, saying the mapping aims to track financing and possible radicalisation pathways.
- The MMU led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and leaders including Aga Ruhullah Mehdi, the AIP, and Imran Reza Ansari have urged withdrawal of the exercise, while police have issued no public explanation of its legal basis or intended use.