NEW DELHI: Nisar Ul Hassan, a doctor who was sacked by J&K LG Manoj Sinha in Nov 2023 from Srinagar’s SHMS hospital over terror links, was hired by Al-Falah School of Medical Science and Research Centre, Faridabad, soon after and has emerged as a key suspect in the case relating to the JeM module behind Monday’s Delhi car blast.TOI had on Wednesday exclusively reported that Hassan’s role as the man behind radicalising and indoctrinating medical professionals including suspected car, bomber Umar Nabi, who worked with him in the general medicine department of Al-Falah, was under the scanner.Investigators suspect that given Hassan’s long history of “consistently providing moral and background support to the secessionists and terrorists within Kashmir and continuously fuelling and furthering, under the patronage of Pakistani proxies, separatist ideology within medical professionals of J&K”, he could well have been the mastermind and prime motivator of the doctors working for the Jaish module comprising the arrested Dr Muzammil, Dr Adeel, Dr Shaheen and Dr Parvez, besides the supposedly deceased Dr Umar. “The Hassan link… is a validation of dismissals that J&K LG Manoj Sinha has been ordering under Article 311(2)c to dismantle the terror ecosystem. But it now seems some of these elements managed a free run outside J&K,” said an officer.A source wondered how Hassan was immediately taken in by the Al-Falah University despite the public order by LG dismissing him for terror links. “Were no pre-hiring background checks run on him? Or was the university aware of his controversial past but still hired him?” asked an officer. Even Dr Shaheen was sacked by a Kanpur medical college for absence from duty, before being hired by Al-Falah. It is also intriguing how well-qualified Kashmiri doctors with MD degrees ended up working for the relatively unknown University at a nondescript location in Faridabad.As per the intelligence dossier prepared by J&K CID that had laid ground for Hassan’s dismissal in 2023, he was a self-styled president of Doctors Association of Kashmir (DAK) for last eight years without having participated in DAK elections and used the forum to issue controversial media statements backing separatists and terrorists and exhorting Kashmiri youths, including medical professionals, to “fight for the noble cause of freedom of Kashmir”. The dossier described Hassan as “a potential time-bomb, which can be re-installed by Pakistan and its terrorist-secessionist network at any given point of time to cause widespread violence and disturbance against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India”. Hassan, as per J&K CID, “clearly propagated a highly vicious ideology that so long Kashmir is part of India, nothing good can happen in Kashmir”. After four terrorists were killed by security forces when they attacked CRPF camp at Shopian in 2013, he “had brazenly provoked people to come in support of ‘terrorists’ by labelling them as ‘mujahids’ fighting for the freedom of Kashmir from India.” An official said he was an associate of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and after the latter was hanged in 2013, he issued a press statement exhorting youth to start a new struggle until the Kashmir issue was resolved.Hassan had rejected the 2014 polls in Kashmir.He also said Kashmiri doctors will provide free of cost treatment to all victims of “oppression”. In 2015, when he was suspended from SHMS hospital, separatists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Yasin Malik had come in his support.
