J&K: Accidental blast at Nowgam police station during handling of Faridabad seized explosives; 8 personnel injured | India News

NEW DELHI: Eight personnel were injured in an accidental blast at the Nowgam police station in Srinagar late Friday night, officials told PTI.The explosion occurred while police were extracting samples from a large cache of explosives seized recently in the ‘white-collar’ terror module case. The material had been brought from Faridabad, Haryana, and was part of the 360 kg of explosive chemicals recovered from the rented residence of arrested doctor Muzammil Ganaie, officials said, PTI reported.Sirens echoed through the area as ambulances rushed the injured to hospital. Small successive explosions after the first blast briefly delayed rescue operations by the bomb disposal squad. It remains unclear whether the entire 360 kg of explosive material was being stored at the police station, where the main case is registered.The terror module was uncovered after threatening posters targeting police and security forces appeared on walls in Bunpora, Nowgam, in mid-October. Srinagar Police registered a case on October 19 and formed a special team to investigate.A detailed CCTV analysis led to the arrest of Arif Nisar Dar alias Sahil, Yasir-ul-Ashraf, and Maqsood Ahmad Dar alias Shahid, all previously booked in stone-pelting cases—who were seen pasting the posters. Their interrogation pointed to Maulvi Irfan Ahmad, a former paramedic-turned-Imam from Shopian, accused of supplying the posters and radicalising the doctors.The probe eventually led police to Al Falah University in Faridabad, where doctors Muzammil Ahmad Ganaie and Shaheen Sayeed were arrested, and where investigators seized the 360 kg of suspected ammonium nitrate, along with 2,900 kg of IED-making material, including chemicals, detonators, wires, and other bomb-making components, were seized.Also read: 2900 kg of explosives, 5 kg heavy metal: Major terror module busted in Delhi-NCR; what cops found in Faridabad