NEW DELHI: The first lead in J&K police's investigation into Jaish-e-Muhammed's multi-state terror network involving Kashmiri doctors - now busted with nine arrests and a massive haul of over 2,900 kgs of explosives, bomb-making material and two AK-series weapons so far - was as innocuous as a set of Jaish posters that had come up secretly in Nowgam, Srinagar in mid-October. The Jaish posters threatening attacks on security forces - common until 2019 but a rare occurrence now - fuelled the curiosity of Srinagar SSP G V Sundeep Chakravarthy, who had also led the J&K police component in Operation Mahadev that neutralised the three Pahalgam attackers. He insisted on finding out who put up the posters; and CCTV camera footage nailed three overground workers with a history of stone-pelting.

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