The Faridabad Police have questioned over 2,000 Kashmiri students living on rent in the city to check if any possible links could be found to the “white collar terror module” responsible for the recent blast in Delhi.
"Following the blast near the Red Fort, police have been questioning Kashmiri students and tenants living on rent in Faridabad. So far, police have questioned over 2,000 tenants and are continuing to question them further," Faridabad Police said in a statement.
Earlier this month, the Jammu and Kashmir police busted a major terror module based in the Haryana city by recovering nearly 3,000 kg of explosive materials, including ammonium nitrate. Over a dozen people, including three doctors linked to Faridabad-based Al-Falah University, have been arrested in the case.
Police have identified the man who drove the car that exploded near the Red Fort in Delhi on November 10 as Umar Un Nabi, a Kashmiri doctor at the Al-Falah University, who had managed to evade arrest during the raids.
The investigators have uncovered a fund trail of Rs 20 lakh linked to Umar and two other arrested doctors—Muzammil and Shaheen. According to intelligence sources, the amount is suspected to have been routed by a Jaish-e-Mohammed handler through a hawala network.
The National Investigation Agency has been carrying out a massive search operation in different states ever since it took over the probe into the Delhi blast.
On Sunday, the agency arrested Amir Rashid Ali, a Kashmir resident who had allegedly conspired with Umar to carry out the terror attack, which claimed 13 lives.
Ali, in whose name the car involved in the blast was registered, has been arrested from Delhi.