Red Fort Blast Probe: NIA revisits GMC Anantnag
Kashmir: As part of its ongoing investigation into the Red Fort blast and the recovery of explosives, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has once again visited Government Medical College (GMC) and its associated hospital in Anantnag district of South Kashmir, where a rifle was allegedly recovered from a doctor's locker last November.
Following this, an NIA team, along with Jammu and Kashmir Police officers and CRPF personnel, recently visited GMC Anantnag and checked the official documents of the accused, from whose locker a rifle was allegedly recovered. They also sought information about the one who had worked as a doctor at the hospital for some time and who allegedly carried out the blast at the Red Fort on November 10. However, fifteen people, including him, were killed in the incident.
In fact, the accused, arrested in November, was among nine people – mostly doctors – who were arrested as part of a module that led to the recovery of explosives and flammable materials from Faridabad in the National Capital Region, according to ET.
Last year, Medical Dialogues reported that amid the ongoing investigation into the white-terror module, the Government Medical College (GMC) and Sri Maharaja Gulab Singh (SMGS) hospitals in Jammu have begun checking lockers belonging to staff, students and doctors, officials said.
The move follows the discovery that some doctors were allegedly involved in a major terror module and the subsequent car blast near the Red Fort in Delhi on November 10, and the recovery of arms and ammunition, including an AK rifle, from the locker of a doctor at GMC Anantnag on November 8.
“We are conducting a check of all the lockers as part of a routine exercise. We have sought keys from the locker holders. They will be checked and re-allotted,” Principal of Government Medical College, Dr Ashutosh Gupta, told PTI.
