New Delhi: At least nine people were killed and another 27 injured in a massive explosion that rocked the Nowgam police station in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar Friday night. The explosion took place when a team from the forensic sciences laboratory was examining seized explosives stored in the police station compound.
Videos from the scene placed the explosion, which also led to several vehicles parked in the compound catching fire, at around 11.22 PM. Sources told ThePrint Friday night that the origin of the explosion was suspected to be explosives seized by the J&K Police from Haryana’s Faridabad in connection with a probe into a module of the terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM).
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On Saturday, Prashant Lokhande, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs explained the sequence of events and confirmed that the incident took place when the FSL team was collecting a sample from the explosives recovered as part of the probe into the JeM terror module.
He ruled out any other cause for the explosion, and said it happened only in an accidental manner on the second day of the sampling of the explosives.
“During investigation of FIR of PS Nowgam, a huge cache of explosive substances, chemicals and reagents were also recovered from Faridabad on 9 and 10 November, 2025. The recovery was transported and kept securely in the open area of the Nowgam PS. As part of the prescribed procedure, the samples of the recovery had to be forwarded for further forensic and chemical examination,” Lokhande told media persons Saturday.
“On account of the voluminous recovery, the said process was going on for two days by the FSL team. Owing to the unstable and sensitive nature of the recovery, it was being handled with utmost caution. However. during the same, an accidental explosion took place at about 11:20 PM on 14.11.2025 (yesterday night). Any other speculation into the cause of this incident is unnecessary.”
However, he also said that an investigation was underway to determine the cause of the incident.
He added that the nine people who died in the explosion included one personnel from the Police’s State Investigation Agency, three members of the FSL team, and two personnel from the crime wing of the UT police. Two revenue officials and one tailor present at the site also succumbed to injuries.
The Nowgam police station was at the centre of J&K Police’s crackdown against a JeM terror module allegedly involving doctors of Kashmiri origin living and working outside of the Union Territory. The same module is suspected to be behind the blast near the Red Fort in New Delhi that claimed 13 lives on 10 November.
The module was brought to the attention of the Nowgam police station by pro-Jaish posters discovered on 17 and 18 October. This led to the registration of an FIR at the Nowgam police station and the subsequent arrest of multiple over-ground workers (OGW).
The investigators, including Srinagar SSP G.V. Sundeep Chakravarthy and Kashmir Zone IG Vidhi Kumar Birdi developed the case and arrested Irfan Ahmad Wagay, a preacher from Shopian who led them to the doctors who were later arrested from Shopian on suspicion of being part of the terror module.
According to investigators, one of the doctors, Umar Nabi, was at the wheel of the white i20 that exploded near Red Fort Gate No. 1 on 10 November. Termed an act of terror by the central government, the matter is being probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
In the days leading up to the explosion near Red Fort, J&K police had arrested two others, Muzammil Shakeel and Adeel Rather from Faridabad’s Al-Falah, a private medical college, and a private hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur. As ThePrint reported earlier, J&K police, in joint raids with Faridabad police, recovered ammonium nitrate in excess of 2,000 kg from the rented accommodation of Shakeel in Faridabad.
This is an updated version of the report.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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