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Delhi blast case: 45-year-old surgeon detained from Pathankot
A 45-year-old surgeon has been detained from a private medical college in Pathankot by the central agencies for questioning in connection with the Delhi Red Fort blast.
A 45-year-old surgeon has been detained from a private medical college in Pathankot by the central agencies for questioning in connection with the Delhi Red Fort blast.
According to police, the surgeon has been identified as Raees Ahmad Bhatt, who hails from Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir.
He was said to be employed for over two years at a private medical college and hospital in Pathankot situated near Mamun Cantonment in Pathankot.
According to information available with Punjab Police, central agencies have information that the doctor earlier worked at Al Falah University in Faridabad — an institution that has emerged as a key node in the probe, as several prime suspects in the terror conspiracy were also associated with it.
“It is also being suspected that the doctor was in touch with one of the module members involved in the Delhi blast. Detailed questioning by the agencies would unravel the real story,” said an official with the central agency, not wishing to be named.
Bhatt’s detention comes a day after two doctors from Haryana’s Nuh district were taken into custody for questioning. One of them had completed his MBBS apprenticeship at Al Falah University, which ended on November 2, while the other — also a former student of the same university — is currently affiliated with a private hospital in Nuh.
On November 10, agencies had busted a “white collar terror module” with links to terrorist outfits Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, and spread across Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. They had seized 2,900 kg of explosive substances and arrested eight people, including three doctors linked to Al Falah University.
Hours later, a high-intensity blast ripped through a slow-moving car in the heavily crowded Red Ford metro station area in Delhi, killing 13 people and injuring several others. A DNA test confirmed that Dr Umar Nabi, an assistant professor at the university, was driving the exploded car.
