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A Delhi tribunal connected Wednesday (January 14, 2026) extended till January 16, 2026 the NIA custody of 5 accused successful the Red Fort blast lawsuit including 3 doctors and a maulvi.
Principal District and Sessions Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna allowed the agency's plea to widen the custodial interrogation of Dr. Adeel Rather, Dr. Shaheen Saeed, Dr. Muzammil Ganaie, Maulvi Irfan Ahmad Wagay and Jasir Bilal Wani.
The agency, successful its remand paper, said that the accused persons are required to beryllium confronted with different co-accused, suspects and witnesses connected definite contradictory points.
It underlined that the accused persons possessed exclusive cognition of definite facts and circumstances astatine assorted locations, including Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR).
The remand insubstantial said that specified facts were revealed by immoderate witnesses and by the method investigation of the extracted information retrieved from the seized integer devices.
It said "certain codification words" and "other incriminating material" which surfaced aft the earlier custody of the accused persons required to beryllium explained.
It further said that the accused's hold of custody was besides needed to unearth the larger conspiracy and place further radical connected to it.
NIA's plea besides underlined the request to hint the travel of communications and movements linked to the contiguous case, too carrying retired "crime simulation".
Suicide bomber Umar-un-Nabi, was driving the explosive-laden car that detonated extracurricular the Red Fort connected November 10, past year, leaving 15 radical dead.
The National Investigating Agency has arrested 9 accused persons successful the case.
