Arrested doctor, car driver visited Red Fort in January

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Security officials investigating the November 10 car detonation adjacent the Red Fort said connected Wednesday (November 12, 2025) that 1 of the accused successful the case, a doctor, and the operator of the explosives-laden vehicle, besides a doctor, had visited the monument successful January this year.

Officials said they recovered a photograph of Dr. Umar Nabi, believed to beryllium the sole occupant of the car, and Dr. Muzamil Ahmad Ganaie, 32, visiting the Red Fort successful January. Dr. Ganaie was arrested by Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Police connected October 30. The photograph was retrieved from Dr. Ganaie’s phone, they said.

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The doctors, hailing from Pulwama successful southbound Kashmir, were moving astatine Al Falah University successful Faridabad, Haryana.

A elder authorities authoritative said Dr. Ganaie and his brother’s sojourn to Turkiye a fewer years agone was besides nether investigation. Officials fishy that during the visit, the accused doc met 1 of his handlers from the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a Pakistan-based panic outfit.

The Faridabad constabulary connected Wednesday (November 12, 2025) evening traced a reddish Ford EcoSport car with registration fig DL 10 CK 0458, flagged by the Delhi Police and linked to the November 10 blast, to a colony named Khandawali. The Delhi Police sounded an alert for the car, said to beryllium purchased by Dr. Nabi. “The conveyance was recovered parked astatine a location successful Khandawali colony successful Haryana,” a constabulary spokesperson said. Forensic experts are examining the vehicle, the spokesperson said.

According to Delhi Police sources, Dr. Nabi utilized a fake code to acquisition his 2nd car. “He utilized the code of a madrasa successful northeast Delhi. The constabulary raided the spot precocious connected Tuesday (November 12, 2025) nighttime and interrogated the maulvi,” said a elder officer. The constabulary learnt that Dr. Nabi had utilized the fake code to acquisition the car and aboriginal got it registered astatine the Rajouri Garden RTO connected November 22, 2017.

The police, aft tracking respective CCTV camera footage, person travel to the decision that the premier fishy was not carrying a mobile phone. “On the CCTV footage, obscurity tin we spot him utilizing a phone. His past phone’s determination was traced adjacent Al-Falah connected October 31, since erstwhile it has been switched off,” an serviceman said.

The serviceman added that the constabulary were investigating the beingness of tele-selectors by going done the information of the signals astir the Red Fort parking complex, wherever Dr. Nabi had parked his car for astir 3 hours.

“He did not permission the parked conveyance for 3 hours and since helium seems to not person a phone, it could mean that helium was utilizing a tele-selector to pass with his handlers,” said the officer. A tele-selector is simply a instrumentality utilized for connection by violent organisations to evade surveillance and forestall their trails from being mapped back.

The J&K Police, portion probing a poster that surfaced successful Srinagar connected October 17 informing section radical not to assistance the constabulary and information forces, unearthed a panic module involving doctors and clerics which led to the betterment of 2,921 kg of explosives and aggregate blase weapons from J&K and Haryana successful the past 20 days.

At slightest 10 radical person been arrested truthful far. The module has been linked to the violent incidental astatine the Red Fort. Dr. Nabi, a subordinate of the module, is apt to person escaped the constabulary raids successful Faridabad connected November 9 and 10 and caused the blast.

The elder authorities authoritative said that connected November 8, “more rifles, pistols and gunpowder were recovered from Al-Falah Medical College”. The authoritative added that of the 2,921-kg of suspected explosive material, astir 2,560 kg was recovered from the location of Hafeez Mohammad Ishtiaq, a nonmigratory of Mewat and a cleric astatine Al Falah mosque. Dr. Ganaie had taken the location connected rent a fewer months ago.

The aforesaid day, Dr. Shaheen Saeed, 40, a nonmigratory of Lucknow who was moving astatine the college, was besides detained and aboriginal arrested by the J&K Police. The constabulary person besides detained her member Parvez Saeed Ansari, besides a doc who was surviving astatine Saharanpur successful Uttar Pradesh. His Lucknow residence was searched by the constabulary and a fewer basal mobile phones and knives were recovered.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Delhi Police, and the J&K Police besides conducted raids astatine respective places.

The Directorate of Communications, Turkiye, released a statement, saying that Turkiye firmly rejects each acts of terrorism, careless of wherever oregon by whom they are committed, and stands arsenic a starring state successful the combat against coercion done practice with the planetary community.

“The deliberate reports successful definite Indian media outlets claiming that Türkiye is linked to violent acts successful India and provides logistical, diplomatic, and fiscal enactment to violent groups are portion of a malicious disinformation run aimed astatine damaging bilateral relations betwixt the 2 countries,” it added.

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