The National Investigation Agency (NIA), on Sunday, November 15, arrested Kashmiri student Amir Rashid Ali, believed to be a key aide of Dr Umar Nabi, the alleged suicide bomber in the Delhi Red Fort blast case.
This is a major breakthrough in the terror attack case, which claimed 13 lives and injured over 30 on November 10.
According to NIA, the Hyundai i20 car that exploded is registered under Rashid Ali’s name. A resident from Samboora village of Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir, he had conspired with Nabi to carry out the attack.
Dr Nabi worked as an assistant professor in the General Medicine department of Al Falah University at Faridabad.
So far, 73 witnesses, including those injured in the blast, have been interrogated by the NIA.
It is also revealed that 28-year-old Dr Umar Nabi emerged as the most radicalised and key operative in the network spanning Kashmir, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, and officials believe he was planning a powerful vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) blast timed around the Babri Masjid demolition anniversary on December 6.
However, he planned to place a VBIED around a crowded place, either in the national capital or at some place of religious importance, and disappear, the officials said, piecing together the evidence.
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