Overview
- Multi‑page proformas seek granular institutional, financial, personal and digital details, including sect affiliation, funding sources, Aadhaar, bank and card data, passport and travel history, IMEI numbers and social‑media accounts.
- Village numberdars have been tasked with distributing and collecting the forms across the Valley, with officials describing a focus on finances and creation of a comprehensive database.
- The Mutahida Majlis‑e‑Ulema and opposition leaders, including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi and Mehbooba Mufti, call the exercise intrusive and discriminatory and demand its withdrawal.
- Police have not issued an official statement explaining the purpose, legal basis or safeguards, and earlier mosque‑related verifications cited by locals were narrower than the current effort.
- Unnamed officials tie the drive to investigations after a November bust of a ‘white‑collar’ terror module, with probes examining radicalisation via madrassas and naming specific imams such as Molvi Irfan Ahmed Wagay.