In relation to the November 10 explosion near the Red Fort, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) searched several locations on Tuesday that were connected to Al Falah University, its trustees, and linked people and organizations.
The university’s head office in Okhla, Delhi, was searched as part of the raids, which started at around five in the morning. The ED is actively investigating any operational and financial connections to the case.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested the suicide bomber’s second assistant while the blast investigation continues. Later on Tuesday, another important suspect is anticipated to appear in court. In connection with the same case, the Crime Branch office in Chanakyapuri has also called Javed Farooqi, the founder of Al Falah University, for interrogation.
A Delhi court on Monday sentenced Aamir Rashid Ali, a Kashmiri resident accused of plotting with Dr. Umar Muhammad Nabi, the suspected suicide bomber who carried out the terror attack on November 10, to ten days in NIA prison as part of its ongoing investigation into the vehicle bomb blast. After the NIA took over the case from the Delhi Police, a large-scale search operation was conducted, which resulted in Ali’s arrest on November 16. The vehicle used in the assault was registered in Ali’s name, according to official confirmation.
Ali, a resident of Samboora in Pampore, Jammu and Kashmir, planned the attack with Umar Nabi, according to the NIA’s initial conclusions. According to investigators, Ali went to Delhi to help him buy the car and then turned it into a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (IED) that was used in the explosion.
Another important associate who allegedly gave the terrorists implicated technical assistance was detained by the agency later on Monday. As part of case RC-21/2025/NIA/DLI, an NIA squad in Srinagar captured Jasir Bilal Wani, a Danish resident of Kashmir. Officials claim that Wani provided the module with technological know-how prior to the fatal vehicle bomb explosion by altering drones and trying to create rockets.
Additional information regarding the “white-collar” terror module discovered in Faridabad has surfaced. The group utilized a peculiar lexicon of food-based code words to conceal their communications and depended extensively on Telegram, according to an NDTV article that cited investigative sources.
The names of common foods were coded references to explosives and planned assaults by the four doctors who were detained; their medical licenses have subsequently been revoked. “Daawat” denoted an upcoming action, while “biryani” denoted explosive supplies in their encrypted conversations. “Biryani is ready, get ready for daawat” is how the group informed one other when an IED was ready, according to investigators.
Muzamil Shakeel, Drs. Umar Muhammad Nabi, Shaheen Saeed, and Adeel Ahmad Rather were purportedly part of the module. Investigators have identified Imam Irfan Ahmad from Shopian as the mastermind behind their radicalization. According to reports, Ahmad first encountered Dr. Umar in 2020 while receiving medical care for his child at a hospital in Srinagar. Following this first encounter, there was continued communication, which ultimately led to Dr. Umar’s radicalization.
Ahmad gave Dr. Umar instructions to recruit individuals who shown “potential” when he was persuaded of his allegiance. Following their meeting with Jaish-e-Muhammad agents in south Kashmir, the group was given two AK-series assault guns, one of which was later found from Dr. Shaheen Saeed’s car.
Investigators have been informed by Saeed that she met the others approximately six months before to the Red Fort explosion and that she was not aware of the group’s actual intentions.
They are no longer able to practice medicine in India since their names have been removed from both the Indian Medical Register and the National Medical Register.
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