Two clerics, 800 kilometres apart – in Kashmir’s Shopian and Haryana’s Faridabad – are among those arrested by the J&K police in the alleged terror module that has now been linked to the Red Fort blast . While one, police claim, indoctrinated some in the module, the other rented his premises to a doctor who allegedly stockpiled explosives there.

In Shopian’s Nadigam area, the family and colleagues of cleric Irfan Ahmad Wagay never had an inkling he was on the police radar. “I have never seen him do anything but pray,” said his wife, Fatima, sitting at their home.

Wagay, locally known as “mufti sahab”, is one of the seven men who were arrested before the Red Fort blast as part of the J&K police’s probe into the “inter-state and transnational” module, linked with proscribed terrori

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