New Delhi: In an undated video emerging a week after the Delhi blast, Umar un Nabi, the man who drove the explosive-laden vehicle near Red Fort, explained the rationale behind the act of suicide bombings, contending that they were “martyrdom operations”.
“One of the very misunderstood concepts is the concept of what has been addressed as suicide bombing. It is martyrdom operations, and it is known in Islam,” Nabi can be heard saying in the 80-second video that ThePrint has accessed.
“There are multiple arguments brought against it, the martyrdom operations. Where a person presumes that he is going for sure die at a particular place, at a particular time, he goes against the presumption..we don’t have situation…(sic),” Umar further said.
The location and recording of the video are unknown, but investigators suspect that the clip was shot at his accommodation in Faridabad’s Al-Falah School of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, where he was employed as a faculty member.
In fact, a preliminary probe by security agencies as well as police forces from Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana and Delhi suggest that the conspiracy for the Red Fort bombing was hatched at the college accommodation of the Al-Falah University in Faridabad’s Hauj village.
After completing his MBBS at Government Medical College (GMC) Srinagar, Nabi had moved to GMC Anantnag as a resident doctor. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, he went on to Al-Falah University. There, he served as an assistant professor in the Department of General Medicine at the Al-Falah School of Medical Sciences and Research Centre.
On Sunday, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had identified Nabi as a “suicide bomber” who drove the i20 car fitted with Improvised Explosive Device (IED). The explosion, so far, has killed 15 people and injured several others.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police had arrested Muzammil Shakeel, another Kashmiri doctor employed with Al-Falah college, on the grounds of being a member of the terror module behind the Delhi blast. However, before he could reveal the other members and the extent of the module’s objectives, Umar had slipped away from the college campus.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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