Police in Srinagar conducted searches at mosques and madrasas on Thursday as part of an intensified investigation into what authorities described as networks linked to militant groups, following a deadly blast in Delhi earlier this month.

The inspections were carried out days after an explosion near the Red Fort metro station on Nov. 10 killed 13 people. Police have identified the suspected driver of the vehicle that exploded as Umar Nabi, a resident of Kashmir. The federal government later labelled the incident a terrorist attack.

Hours before the blast, police said they had dismantled an “inter-state and transnational terror module” during operations in Faridabad and in Saharanpur district in Uttar Pradesh. The discovery, along with the Delhi case, has triggered several rounds of security checks in Jammu and Kashmir.

On Nov. 12, police raided more than 300 locations across the Kashmir Valley allegedly linked to individuals associated with the banned Jamaat-e-Islami group. The raids followed intelligence inputs suggesting attempts to revive the organisation under new names.

Srinagar Police said teams accompanied by executive magistrates and independent witnesses searched several religious premises on Thursday, examining digital devices, documents and other material for evidence of “terror-linked or radical activities”. The searches were described as part of efforts to dismantle what authorities call a “terror support ecosystem” and to prevent plots aimed at disrupting public order.

Police said the operations were carried out in accordance with legal procedures and that similar actions would continue wherever credible information indicated the presence of individuals or material connected to extremist activity.