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Red Fort Blast: On the second of a deadly car bomb blast which claimed 13 lives and left several injured near the iconic Red Fort in Old Delhi, the Delhi Police has been put on high alert, and massive checking drives are being carried out across the national capital. As two days have been spent in the probe of the fatal explosion, the probe agencies reportedly discovered terror links to the blast at the heart of the national capital.

 Meanwhile, NDTV, citing sources, reported that Muzammil, a doctor from Al Falah Medical College in Faridabad, had plotted a major bombing on January 26 (Republic Day) next year at several locations in Delhi, including the Red Fort. However, according to the first plan, they were to detonate the bombs in crowded areas during Diwali, but later postponed due to unkown reason.

Here Is What The Ongoing Probe Reportedly Found So Far

- The threads of the Delhi blast are linked to objectionable posters in the Nowgam area of Srinagar, for which an FIR was registered on October 19, ANI reported, citing sources. have said, noting security forces took strong action to bust an inter-state Jaish-e-Mohammed module linked to the terror plot.

- During the investigation, two arrests were made from Shopian and Ganderbal between October 20 and 27 and on November 5, a medical practitioner Dr Adil was apprehended from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.

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- Two days later, an AK-56 rifle and other ammunition were seized in an Anantnag Hospital, and more guns, pistols, and explosives were subsequently recovered from a place in Faridabad.

- Subsequently, Dr Muzammil was arrested. The sources said on the basis of these leads, more arrests were made and a large cache of weapons and explosives was seized.

- On November 9, a person named Madrasi, a resident of Dhauj, Faridabad, was arrested from his house. The next day, a massive consignment of explosives, weighing 2,563 kilograms, was recovered from the house of Hafeez Mohammad Ishtiaq, a resident of Mewat and an Imam at Al Falah Mosque in Faridabad's Dhera Colony.

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- 358 kilograms of additional explosive material, detonators, timers, were seized, sources said, adding that approximately 3,000 kilograms of explosives and bomb-making equipment stored by this module was seized.

- During these operations, Umar, also part of the module and working as medical practitioner at Al Falah Medical College, changed his location as he was under constant pressure from the security forces, the sources said.

- According to CCTV footage, the car in which the Red Fort explosion occurred was being driven by Umar, a member of this module. The explosion was caused by the same type of material stockpiled in Faridabad, from where nearly 3,000 kilograms of explosives were seized, the sources said.

- Security agencies and intelligence network successfully "dismantled this Faridabad module", recovered a large quantity of explosive material and prevented a major conspiracy aimed at causing large-scale damage in the country.

- The sources said Umar fled as he panicked by the successful crackdown of security forces and his anxiety and desperation likely led to the Red Fort explosion.

- Two cartridges, including a live ammunition, and samples of two different types of explosives are among more than 40 samples that have been collected by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team from the blast site near the Red Fort.

- Preliminary analysis suggests that one of the explosive samples appears to be ammonium nitrate, they said. On Monday, 360 kg of ammonium nitrate was recovered from Faridabad during an investigation in Faridabad.

(With ANI Inputs)

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