Kashmir cop who unearthed pan-India terror plot by seeing through a poster

Story by  ATV | Posted by  Aasha Khosa | Date 13-11-2025
G.V. Sundeep Chakravarthy, SSP and  Shahida Parveen Ganguly, IPS
G.V. Sundeep Chakravarthy, SSP and Shahida Parveen Ganguly, IPS

 

New Delhi

As police and the investigating agencies have launched a nation-wide operation to trace the roots of a seemingly pan-India network of white-collared terrorists who triggered a blast in Delhi and were caught preparing for a bio-warfare, two cops from Jammu and Kashmir are receiving accolades for their role in containing terrorism.

One is G.V. Sundeep Chakravarthy, senior superintendent of Police (SSP), Srinagar, is being credited with starting the probe into what was a normal violation of law in Kashmir by ordering to find the man who was pasting posters carrying threats to the Police in Srinagar.

Such posters have ben periodically appearing in public spaces as part of terrorists’ psychological warfare in J&K. The cops who are on a perpetual chase of terrorists, often treat this as trivia. They would peel off these posters and move on with their work.

However Chakarvarthy, chose to stick to basics of investigations – no clue is small or trivia. A 2014 J&K cadre IPS, Chakarvarty is a qualified MBBS doctor, and winner of the President's Police Medal for Gallantry 6 times in 11 years of service.

He was also involved in Operation Mahadev in which J&K Police led the operation to track down a high altitude camp of three Pakistani terrorists who had carried out the Pahalgam terrorist operation on April 22. He hails from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.

Sundeep Chakravarthy insisted that the source of the poster which appreaed in Nowgam, a Srinagar outskirts area, be traced, and refused to let it pass as just another poster incident.

That single decision, to investigate promptly, set off a butterfly effect. CCTV footage led to Dr. Adil Ahmed Rather of Saharanpur, which led to Dr. Muzzamil Shakeel, the seizure of 3,000 kg of IED-making material, and finally to a full-blown terror module stretching from Kashmir to Delhi and Faridabad

One blast did happen, but had the J&K Police not acted when they did, those explosives, ten to 15 times more than Pulwama, could have unleashed devastation on a scale this country hasn’t seen since 26/11.

Another J&K cop who came into the limelight during the investigations is the IPS officer Shahida Parveen Ganguly, former ACP, CID Cell J&K, and from elite Special Operations Group (SOG 1997 to 2002), also known as the “Lady Encounter Specialist,”

Shahida was spotted on the scene of blast in a Hyundai i20 car near the Red Fort a days after it killed ten persons and wounded at least two dozen others.

Her presence indicates that the case is linked to some old terrorist cases of Jammu and Kashmir.

Shahida Parveen Ganguly hails from Poonch area of Jammu and she is the first woman IPS officer from J&K.

During her tenure in J&K, she chased and killed many terrorists and led operations. She has figured in many motivational talks and is seen as an epitome of fearlessness.

Netizens are presenting Chavarkarthy as a Doctor, who saved tyhe country from a possible disaster through his work with the Doctors who are elleged to be behind the terror plot.

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They are also comparing the IPS woman office's name with her namesake Dr Shahida Shaheen from Lucknow who is believed to be one of the key figures in the terror plot which is unfolding.