New Delhi: A week after the role of terror operatives who were professional doctors emerged in the Red Fort blast, the Jammu and Kashmir Police Tuesday detained another doctor employed at Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital.

Along with the doctor, identified as Umer Farood Bhat, the counter intelligence unit of the UT Police also detained his wife, Shahzada Akhtar, on charges that included promoting terrorism and radicalising youth. A resident of Kulgam, she lives with her doctor husband in Srinagar’s Shireen Bagh.

“By leveraging their professional status and societal standing, the involved individuals were allegedly using social media platforms to spread disinformation, radicalise youth, incite violence and disturb public order, posing a serious threat to the peace and soverei

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