All articles from the Hindustan Times. Teams are in UP, Bihar and Uttarakhand to verify identities as many users relied on pseudonyms and discussions were tightly moderated.
Delhi Police are probing two "closed user groups" on encrypted messaging apps, created in 2021 and comprising members from the medical fraternity. While their link to the Red Fort blast module is still unclear, Sherlocks said they have fanned out across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Uttarakhand to trace the members and examine their possible connection to the larger conspiracy.
At least seven members of these groups — most of them medical professionals — are under the scanner of the Delhi Police special cell teams assisting the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the blast probe, officers aware of the matter said. None of the seven have any connection with al-Falah University, which has emerged as the focal point of the multi-agency investigation after the alleged "white-collar" terror network was traced to the campus and to Umar Un Nabi — the 35-year-old doctor-turned jacket wallah.
Teams are currently camping in Deoband and Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, and in parts of Bihar and Uttarakhand, to identify, track and question the seven suspects believed to be linked to Nabi, a doctor from Jammu and Kashmir
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, at least two people aware of the matter said.
"We have found that the Telegram and Signal groups were tightly controlled spaces with restricted membership and guarded conversations. The Telegram group was created in 2021 — a year after the northeast Delhi riots. Its timing has prompted Sherlocks to examine whether the polarisation and tension following the riots played a role in drawing these individuals together," a senior officer said.
Another officer said Sherlocks are still working to confirm the real identities of the members, many of whom used pseudonyms and code words. While some information from the Telegram has helped police narrow down the seven suspects, they are yet to receive data from the second platform.
"Retrieving older chats from 2021 and 2022 is almost impossible, but Sherlocks are trying to piece together how the groups formed, how members found each other, who moderated discussions, and what was being exchanged," the officer added.
NIA gets custody of 20-year-old linked to Red Fort blast for ten days
November 19
NIA had stated that Wani allegedly provided technical support for carrying out terror attacks by modifying drones and attempting to make rockets ahead of the bomb blast.
A Delhi court on Tuesday sent 20-year-old Jasir Bilal Wani, alleged co-conspirator in the Red Fort bomb blast case, to 10 days of custody to the National Investigation Agency.
The accused was produced before Principal Districts and Sessions Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna of Patiala House Courts, amid tight security led by paramilitary forces.Bilal was formally arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police and handed over to the NIA on Monday, which secured his transit remand and brought him to the capital.
Wani, a student of Government Degree College Levodara in Kulgam, J&K,
…he is the mere grad student who Dr. Umar Un Nabi was trying to persuade to become a jacket wallah. When that didn’t work, and spooked when some of his fellow plotters were arrested, the good doctor loaded up a rented car with lotsa explosives, and drove into town to explode himself, whereupon all is being discovered… was initially picked up by state police from Qazigund in Anantnag district last week along with his uncle.
NIA had stated that Wani allegedly provided technical support for carrying out terror attacks by modifying drones and attempting to make rockets ahead of the bomb blast.
Bureaucrat school is not the best place to learn applied chemistry. A Delhi court had on Monday remanded another accused, Rashid Mir, NIA’s first arrest in the case, to 10 days in NIA’s custody. The agency had claimed in its remand that Mir provided logistical support to the main accused and purported suicide bomber who died in the blast, Umar Nabi, by assisting him in obtaining the i20 car that exploded in an arterial road near the historic Red Fort and weapons.
While Wani was represented by a legal aid lawyer, the NIA was represented by Special Public Prosecutors Kushdeep Gaur and Anil Dabas.
Wani was a neighbour of brothers Adil and Muzaffar Rather, two doctors who are allegedly part of the terror module behind the Red Fort blast. While Muzaffar is believed to be in Afghanistan at present, his younger brother Adil was arrested from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
Wani’s father, Bilal Ahmad Wani, had set himself ablaze on Sunday after police picked up his son and brother for questioning on Saturday. He died of his injuries on Monday.
Wani’s aunt Naseema said, “He kept in touch with the doctor as he was a doctor and the family had no suspicion that he was doing something else. My husband and Jasir were picked up by police. My husband is innocent and should be released. We belong to a very simple family.”
Red Fort blast: Role of rented i10 car in blast plot under lens
Nov 19
Officers from Delhi and Faridabad police said the car was rented and used between October 24 and 27, and could have been used in the movement of ammonium nitrate and other chemicals later recovered from the Faridabad accommodation of key accused Dr Muzammil Shakeel Ganaie.
Investigators probing the deadly blast near Delhi’s Red Fort suspect that a fifth vehicle – a rented Hyundai i10 – was used by the so-called “white collar” terror module to transport explosive material across Delhi-NCR in the days leading up to the attack. Officers from Delhi and Faridabad police said the car was rented and used between October 24 and 27, and could have beenused in the movement of ammonium nitrate and other chemicals later recovered from the Faridabad accommodation of key accused Dr Muzammil Shakeel Ganaie.
The discovery brings the total number of vehicles used by the module to five: the i20 in which suicide bomber Umar un-Nabi died; the red EcoSport registered in Umar’s name later found in a Faridabad village; a white Swift Dzire owned by accused Dr Shaheen Shahid; a silver Maruti Brezza bought by Shahid on September 25; and now the rented i10 traced this week.
Special Cell officers said they suspect Umar used the i10 to transport large quantities of ammonium nitrate purchased from shops across Faridabad, Delhi and parts of Haryana. Days before the blast, police recovered around 2,900kg of explosive precursors from Ganaie’s room and other locations in Faridabad.
“We have traced the i10. It belongs to a taxi owner who rented it for three days. The man who took it refused a driver and paid between ₹4,000 and ₹5,000. We will now seize the vehicle, send it for forensic examination, and show the taxi owner and driver Umar’s photograph to confirm whether he was the one who took the car,” an investigator said.
The car had no GPS device, making route reconstruction difficult. Police teams are now scanning CCTV footage from outside fertiliser stores and chemical suppliers across Delhi-NCR to map the vehicle’s movement. A second senior officer said the probe is also examining whether multiple rented vehicles were used to move explosive materials. “Initial questioning (of Shahid) indicates he frequently rented cars without drivers. It appears likely that several vehicles were used over months,” the officer said.
The focus on another vehicle comes even as images circulating on social media on Monday showed Dr Shahid and Dr Muzammil standing beside a car seized earlier, the Brezza, on the day of its purchase. Police officials confirmed the photograph was genuine. Both doctors, and Adeel Rather, an associate based in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, were arrested in a probe triggered by anti-India posters that appeared in Nowgam, Srinagar. Subsequent raids led to the recovery of explosive precursors as well the arrest of a cleric based in Faridabad.
Delhi Police Special Cell officials said they have questioned more than 50 people in the last week to determine whether the module had additional associates in the Capital. “We are ensuring there are no remaining caches or individuals linked to Umar’s mission,” an officer said.
Red Fort blast: ‘Traces’ of ammonium nitrate found in Dr Umar's Al Falah room as probe goes on
Nov 18
Investigators have detected “trace” amounts of ammonium nitrate on the bed, floor, window and even on recovered hair strands inside the Al-Falah University hostel room where alleged suicide bomber Umar un-Nabi worked and stayed, officials said on Monday.
The findings, based on a forensic sweep of Room No 13, suggest that Umar may have stored explosive materials in the room – either as stock, in test batches, or while assembling components of the bomb later used in the November 10 Red Fort blast, a senior police officer said. Umar died in the explosion after he allegedly detonated an improvised device inside a Hyundai i20, killing at least 11 others.
Police believe the module had prepared for “serial blasts” based on the quantity of material recovered across locations. Officers said the bomb that destroyed the i20 contained 30-40kg of a mixture of ammonium nitrate and triacetone triperoxide (TATP). “The traces found in the room match what we recovered from the blast site,” an investigator said.
Meanwhile, police said Umar’s close associate and fellow doctor, Dr Shaheen Shahid, has made key disclosures about the group’s operations. Shaheen, who allegedly visited Pakistan at least three times, told investigators that Umar was the “central planner” of the module and that the group used university space – including parts of the laboratory – to study explosive compounds.
Documents and academic research papers in Shaheen’s name were recovered from the campus lab. Police said three expired passports with different addresses were found in her possession, and she had recently applied for a fresh passport in Lucknow. Officers also identified seven bank accounts linked to her.
Investigators said Shaheen, Umar and another associate, Dr Muzammil Shakeel Ganaie, had travelled to Turkey and Pakistan, where they allegedly met their Jaish-e-Mohammad handler, identified as Dr Ukasha. “We have verified their foreign travel and have proof of meetings with their handler in Turkey,” a senior officer from the Special Cell said.
NIA tells court: Amir Rashid Ali was ‘logistical backbone’ in Red Fort blast
Nov 18
NIA claims Amir Rashid Mir aided the Red Fort blast, providing logistics, weapons, and a vehicle for the suicide bomber; he is now in custody for 10 days. |
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