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    COVER STORY                                                       NOVEMBER 28, 2025        |  The Indian Eye                    4

                                                   INDIA’S CHALLENGE

                         THE ENEMY

                                            WITHIN

               India confronts a chilling new reality as educated professionals from Kashmir and
                            other parts of the country emerge at the center of terror attacks.

            OUR BUREAU                                                                                            the old images of militancy.
                                                                                                                      As  NIA  teams worked  across
            New Delhi  / Srinagar
                                                                                                                  Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar
                  he  November  10  suicide  blast                                                                Pradesh, and Haryana, they encoun-
                  outside Delhi’s Red Fort — a                                                                    tered an ecosystem of encrypted
            Tfiery explosion inside a moving                                                                      channels, carefully coordinated move-
            Hyundai i20 that killed 15 people and                                                                 ments, and personal networks built
            injured more than two dozen — has                                                                     over years. This was not an impulsive
            become a defining moment for India’s                                                                  act carried out by impressionable
            internal security establishment. It                                                                   youth. It was a structured, ideologically
            wasn’t merely the scale of the attack,                                                                driven operation — its members edu-
            nor the location, nor even the ruth-                                                                  cated, mobile, and socially integrated.
            lessness of its execution. It was the                                                                     This is the  unsettling  truth  that
            identity of those behind it. For years,                                                               India now confronts.
            security agencies warned of a shifting                                                                      Hidden in Plain Sight
            trend in homegrown extremism. Now,
            with the Red Fort attack, that shift has                                                                      ith the arrests came a wave
            arrived with terrifying clarity.                                                                              of scrutiny over the institu-
                The men at the center of the                                                                      Wtions and environments that
            bombing  are  not  faceless  infiltrators                                                             shaped the accused. One name sur-
            crossing mountain passes under cover                                                                  faced repeatedly: Al-Falah University
            of darkness. They are doctors, schol-                                                                 in Faridabad. The suicide bomber, Dr.
            ars, clerics, and professionals who                                                                   Umar Un Nabi, had worked there as
            studied, taught, healed, and worked                                                                   an Assistant Professor. This was not
            within India’s mainstream social fab-                                                                 the first time the university found it-
            ric. The suicide bomber himself — lat-                                                                self mentioned in the same breath as
            er identified through forensic analysis                                                               terrorism.
            — was not a hardened militant hiding                                                                      Intelligence inputs revealed that
            for years in the shadows. He was an                                                                   years earlier, another alumnus, Mir-
            Assistant Professor of General Medi-                                                                  za  Shadab  Beg, had  become  a  key
            cine at a private university in Haryana.                                                              figure in the Indian Mujahideen. An
             This is the new face of terror in India.                                                             engineering graduate from the same
                  This is the enemy within.                                                                       institution, he was linked to the 2008
                The National Investigation Agen-                                                                  Ahmedabad and Jaipur bombings,
            cy (NIA), which took over the case a                                                                  the  Udupi  explosives  procurement,
            day after the blast, has made six arrests                                                             and the Gorakhpur serial blasts. He
            so far. The first two included the man   Dr Muzammil Shakeel Ganai of Pulwama (J&K), Dr Adeel Ahmed Rather of Anantnag (J&K), Dr   remains absconding, believed to be
            in whose name the car was purchased   Shaheen Saeed of Lucknow (U.P.), and Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay of Shopian (J&K), who was   somewhere in Afghanistan.
            and a technical facilitator. But it was   arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with Delhi blast case, being   As  the  Red  Fort  blast  brought
            the next set of arrests that jolted the                                                               Al-Falah back under the scanner, a
            nation: Dr. Muzammil Shakeel Ganai         brought to Patiala House Court, in New Delhi on Thursday. (ANI Photo)  parallel investigation by the Enforce-
            of Pulwama, Dr. Adeel Ahmed Rath-                                                                     ment Directorate unearthed a web of
            er of Anantnag, Dr. Shaheen Saeed of   and produced before the Special NIA   these profiles — physicians, academ-  alleged accreditation fraud and mon-
            Lucknow, and cleric Mufti Irfan Ah-  Court  in  Patiala  House,  where  they   ics, a mufti — pointed to a new and   ey laundering linked to the universi-
            mad Wagay of Shopian.             were remanded to ten days of custody.   more deeply embedded pattern of   ty’s administration. The arrest of the
                All four were arrested in Srinagar   For investigators, the implications of   radicalization, one that no longer fits   Continued on next page... >>

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