J&K Police approaches Interpol for red corner notice on White Collar terrorists

To bring to justice all those absconding members of the ‘White Collar’ terror module, the Jammu and Kashmir police have now approached Interpol to issue a Red Corner Notice to track down their whereabouts. The first notice has been issued against Qazigund-based Dr Muzaffar, brother of Dr Adeel Ahmad Rather.

According to the probe agencies, Dr Muzaffar was part of the team of doctors who travelled to Turkey in March 2022. Dr Umar Nabi and Dr Muzammil Ganaie were other members of the group who visited Turkey for a three-week-long trip. In Turkey, the members of the White-Collar terror module were guided by one of their handlers to use encrypted messaging apps to avoid coming on the radar of the intelligence agencies, probe agencies revealed. 

Chasing some of the vital leads, when Jammu and Kashmir police officers, working alongside central intelligence agencies, started looking for Dr Muzaffar, they reportedly came to know that he may have fled the country and even stayed away from the marriage ceremony of Dr Adeel.

The terror module was unmasked by the Jammu and Kashmir police with the arrest of Dr Adeel Ahmad Rather from Saharanpur in the first week of November. According to the probe agencies, he is now emerging as one of the key members of the core group involved in planning the terror strikes at the behest of their Pakistan-based handlers.

He got married in the first week of October 2025. The local police authorities are also scanning the wedding guest list to verify whether other members of the ‘White Collar’ terror module were part of the marriage celebrations and visited the Kashmir valley. The police authorities are currently scanning CCTV footage and other videos to verify whether some of the suspected faculty members working in the Al-Falah University were also present in the valley to attend his marriage ceremony or not.

Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir police have been informed by their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh that they have also retrieved copies of the recent air travel tickets from the vicinity of his rented accommodation in Saharanpur.

According to UP police, Dr Adeel visited Delhi on October 31, ahead of his arrest. The police teams are also trying to establish the identity of those who may have met Dr Adeel during his stay in the National Capital region. Whether Dr Adeel visited the Al-Falah University campus is yet to be confirmed.