How Srinagar SSP Chakravarthy foiled 'doctor

Srinagar: The “doctor terror module” may have been conceived in secrecy, but it took a doctor in uniform to uncover it — and, in the process, prevent another tragedy from being written into India’s terror history.

Last month, a few Jaish-e-Mohammed posters appeared on walls in Srinagar’s Nowgam area — a routine act of propaganda in a city long familiar with the signs of militancy. But for Dr G V Sundeep Chakravarthy, the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Srinagar, something did not add up. The language was unusually coded, the timing odd, and the location deliberate.

What looked like a small act of intimidation turned out to be a clue to one of the most sophisticated terror plots in recent years — a network run by highly educated professionals, including doctors.

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