Red Fort car bomb blast: NIA gets 10-day custody of four more accused

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Security unit   astatine  the blast tract  adjacent   the Red Fort connected  November 10, 2025.

Security unit astatine the blast tract adjacent the Red Fort connected November 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) connected Thursday obtained 10-day custody of 4 much premier accused progressive successful the November 10 blast adjacent the Red Fort, taking the full fig of arrests successful the lawsuit to six.

The accused were taken into custody by the NIA successful Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, connected accumulation orders from the District Sessions Judge, Patiala House Court. They were produced earlier the court, which sent them to 10 days’ custody of the NIA.

The bureau has identified them arsenic Dr. Muzammil Shakeel Ganai of Pulwama successful Jammu and Kashmir, Dr. Adeel Ahmed Rather of Anantnag successful Jammu and Kashmir, Dr. Shaheen Saeed of Lucknow successful Uttar Pradesh, and Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay of Shopian successful Jammu and Kashmir. They had each played a cardinal relation successful the panic onslaught that killed respective persons and near galore injured, arsenic alleged by the NIA.

The 4 accused were antecedently held by the Jammu and Kashmir Police for their suspected links with a “terror” module. The constabulary had besides seized astir 2,900 kg of explosives, including ammonium nitrate, during the raids successful Haryana’s Faridabad connected November 9 and 10.

The investigators person recovered that Dr. Saeed, Dr. Ganai, and Dr. Rather worked with Al Falah University, Faridabad, arsenic besides Umar un Nabi, who was allegedly down the instrumentality of a weaponry laden car that exploded connected November 10 adjacent the Red Fort.

Earlier this week, the NIA arrested 2 different accused, Amir Rashid Ali, successful whose sanction the car utilized successful the blast was registered; and Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, who had allegedly provided method assistance to the violent progressive successful the deadly attack. They are presently successful NIA custody.

Published - November 20, 2025 09:51 p.m. IST

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