Lucknow/Kanpur/Hapur: Investigating agencies on the trail of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) module behind the Delhi car blast detained Thursday two Kashmiri doctors who graduated from Faridabad’s Al-Falah University before moving to separate campuses in UP, one for postgraduation and the other to teach.A joint team of Delhi and J&K Police picked up Dr Mohammed Arif Mir (32), who is studying for a DM in cardiology at LPS Institute of Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery in Kanpur’s GSVM Medical College. Around the same time, Delhi Police detained Dr Farooq Ahmad Dar (34), an assistant professor at GS Medical College in Hapur.
Investigators said Arif, a native of J&K’s Anantnag who joined GSVM in Aug, was detained after he finished his afternoon shift and left the Kanpur campus for his rented accommodation in Ashok Nagar. Officers seized his mobile phone and laptop.Follow Delhi Blast Live UpdatesThe PG student had been allegedly in contact with Dr Muzammil Shakil, Dr Shaheen Shahid and other suspected members of the Jaish module, said a senior officer involved in the probe.Dar, from Budgam in J&K, had been living on the Hapur campus for nearly a year.Dr Farooq Ahmad Dar studied for his MBBS and MD from Al-Falah University before becoming an assistant professor in obstetrics and gynaecology, earning Rs 1.4 lakh a month, police said. Dar is allegedly an associate of Muzammil.Chief medical superintendent Dr Gyanesh Kumar said Mohammed Arif Mir ranked 1008 in NEET-PG and was offered a seat at SGPGI Lucknow during the first round of counselling.He chose not to join the institute, waiting until the second round to opt for GSVM, Kanpur.Also read | ‘Chilling 5-phase plan’: How Al-Falah university doctors built nationwide plot to ‘avenge’ Babri demolitionColleagues described the detained doctors as soft-spoken and diligent. Arif’s flatmate Dr Abhishek said he never saw any suspicious activity. “We share the flat but have separate rooms. We aren’t friends, just colleagues,” he said, mentioning the only personal information Arif shared with him was that his father was a cancer patient.GS Medical College’s deputy director Manoj Sisodia said cops visited the campus in the evening, enquired about Dar and spoke to him for some time in his hostel room before taking him away. “He is an intelligent doctor who treated patients with sincerity. There was never any indication of suspicious behaviour,” Sisodia said. “The college did a thorough background check before his appointment.”Also read | Delhi car blast ravages lives: Injured suffer severe hearing loss; only 8 victims identifiedHapur SP Kunwar Gyananjay Singh said a special Delhi Police unit arrived in Pilkhuwa around midnight Wednesday to detain Dar.NIA and ATS teams are gathering information about Kashmiri students in Kanpur as the investigation expands.College officials in Kanpur and Hapur said both doctors’ association with Al-Falah University could have drawn police’s attention to them.
