Lucknow, Nov. 13 -- The ongoing investigation into a suspected terror module comprising medical professionals has taken a deeper turn in Uttar Pradesh, with Lucknow and Saharanpur emerging as crucial nodes of the network. The probe began after the arrest of Dr Adil Ahmad Rather from Saharanpur by the Jammu and Kashmir Police on November 6, which has now revealed how a "wedding event" allegedly served as a covert congregation for the module's operatives. UP police investigators, who coordinated the J&K police operation in Saharanpur and Lucknow, said they suspected Dr Adil's marriage ceremony in Srinagar on October 4 allegedly served as the meeting point for the module's key members and facilitators. Police investigators privy to the development said Dr Adil's two colleagues from the same Saharanpur hospital, reportedly attended the wedding. A senior UP police official confirmed that the Jammu and Kashmir Police, leading the probe, have detained both the colleagues of Dr Adil for questioning, while efforts are underway to identify other "special guests" present at the ceremony. The two doctors were released after questioning. He said investigators believe that the ceremony doubled as a meeting ground for key members and facilitators of the module. A senior UP police official, who coordinated with the Jammu and Kashmir police for their operation in UP, said, "We too are verifying on our part if any other doctors, including Lucknow-based Dr Parvez Ansari, who was taken into custody from Lucknow on Tuesday, and his sister Shaheen Shahid, who was arrested from Faridabad on Monday, had also attended the wedding." He said it was suspected that the day after the marriage ceremony, this terror module of doctors and medical professionals, began its operations, which included putting up threat posters targeting Indian soldiers, arranging weapons supplies, and mobilising funds through covert channels. He said Dr Adil was reportedly in-charge of the logistical and financial aspects of the network. He said the group's long-term plan was to exploit the cover of the medical profession to build a stable funding and transportation channel for their activities. He added Dr Adil himself used to earn Rs 5 lakh per month while working at the Saharanpur hospital, but his lifestyle and rented room near a slum suggested that he used most of the salary for arranging terror funds. Sharing details on how this terror module came to light, the official said the first clues about the module surfaced on October 19, when posters bearing the insignia of the banned outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed appeared in Kashmir's Nowgam area. "A case was registered there, and on October 27, another set of over 25 posters surfaced. The Jammu and Kashmir police team scrutinised footage of CCTV cameras around, eventually spotting Dr Adil moving around the areas where the posters had been pasted," he narrated the sequence of how Dr Adil came under the police radar. "Through phone surveillance, investigators found that Adil was in touch with Pakistani handlers. His location was traced to Saharanpur, leading to his arrest on November 6," he added. He also said Dr Adil's revelation led to the arrest of Dr Muzammil Shakeel Ganaie, a lecturer in Faridabad, the recovery of explosives, arms and ammunition. Thereafter, his alleged girlfriend and Lucknow resident Dr Shaheen Shahid was arrested from Faridabad on Monday. He said Shaheen, who completed her MBBS from Motilal Nehru Medical College in Prayagraj and served as an assistant professor at Kanpur Medical College for seven years, disappeared in 2021. She later came in contact with Dr Muzammil and, under Pakistani handlers' directions, began radicalising women online. She was arrested from a private medical university in Faridabad and later taken to Srinagar for questioning. The UP ATS has detained her brother, Dr Parvez Saeed Ansari, from Lucknow, who was serving as a professor at a private minority university. He has been taken to Faridabad by the Jammu and Kashmir police. He stressed that the findings point to a disturbing pattern - a network of educated professionals, primarily from the medical field, allegedly using their academic and professional networks to create channels for terror funding, logistics and recruitment....