- By Raju Kumar
- Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:17 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Delhi Red Fort Blast: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a key associate of the terrorist - "suicide bomber" Dr Umar Nabi - involved in the Red Fort car blast on November 10 for allegedly providing technical support for carrying out terror attacks by modifying drones and attempting to make rockets" ahead of the terror attack. This was the second arrest of a close aide of "suicide bomber", Nabi. The death toll in the November 10 car blast near the Red Fort, meanwhile, rose to 15 after two more injured persons succumbed to their injuries at the LNJP Hospital in Delhi.
The anti-terror agency apprised a Delhi court that it arrested two close aides of Dr Umar. The first aide was Jasir Bilal Wani, a resident of Qazigund in Anantnag. The NIA on Monday described him as an "active co-conspirator" of Nabi. Another key accused, Amir Rashid Ali allegedly arranged a safe house and provided logistical support to the bomber, the NIA told.
Wani allegedly provided technical support for carrying out terror attacks by modifying drones and attempting to make rockets ahead of the deadly car bomb blast, the NIA said in a statement. Wani, who also goes by the alias of Danish, was arrested from Srinagar by an NIA team, it said. "The accused, a resident of Qazigund in Anantnag district of J&K, was an active co-conspirator behind the attack and had worked closely with the terrorist, Umar un Nabi, to plan the terror carnage," it said.
What Was Amir Rashid Ali's Role In The Red Fort Blast?
The explosive-laden i20 involved in the blast was registered in he name of Ali. Ali, also a resident of Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi in the first arrest by the NIA in the blast case.
Here Are The Other Highlights In The 'White-Collar Terror Module'
- The ED on Tuesday morning raided the Okhla (Delhi) office of Al-Falah University, a focul point of the probe.
- "Several teams of the anti-terror agency are pursuing multiple leads, and are conducting searches across states to identify every person involved in the terror attack." Jasir alias 'Danish', a bachelor in political sciences, was intensely brainwashed by Nabi for several months to become a suicide bomber, it was stated.
- He had agreed to meet the 'Doctor module' in October last year at a mosque in Kulgam in Kashmir from where he was taken to a rented accommodation at the Al Falah University in Faridabad in Haryana.
- Wani, who was earlier detained by Jammu and Kashmir, had told during his questioning that while others in the module wanted him to be an over-ground worker (OGW) for the banned Jaish-e-Mohammed(JeM), Nabi brainwashed him for several months to become a suicide bomber.
- The plan, however, collapsed in April this year after the man backed out, citing his poor economic condition and the belief that suicide was forbidden in Islam.
- The suicide bomber scouting plot adds a dangerous new dimension to the investigation into the inter-state terror network linked to the JeM. Ali, a resident of Pampore in South Kashmir, was brought to the court of Principal District and Sessions Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna at the Patiala House courts complex amid tight security.
- It said that Ali allegedly provided logistical support to Nabi. The remand paper also claimed that he had arranged a safe house for Nabi in the days leading up to the blast. The agency said that the blast's precision and intensity had been deliberately designed to instil fear in the minds of the public, besides causing alarm and panic.
- NIA said Ali would be taken to Kashmir for further investigation. He was likely the last person to have been in contact with Nabi.
- The NIA investigation showed that the vehicle used in the blast was registered in the name of Ali, who had travelled to Delhi specifically to facilitate the purchase of the car.
(With PTI inputs)