Srinagar: A Kashmiri doctor earning one of the highest private-sector salaries in Uttar Pradesh is now at the centre of a multi-state terror probe that has shaken both the medical community and national security agencies.

30-year-old Dr Adeel Ahmad Rather, a physician from south Kashmir’s Anantnag, was drawing Rs 4 lakh a month plus accommodation under a contract signed on November 24, 2024 with V Bros Hospitals, Saharanpur — a unit of Oscar Group of Hospitals.

The agreement, a copy of which lies with DH, confirms a generous package and professional privileges rarely seen outside metropolitan hospitals. Less than a year later, on November 6, 2025, Dr Rather was arrested from Saharanpur by a joint team of the Jammu & Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh Police for his alleged links to a Jaish-e-Moha

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