New Delhi: Investigators suspect the alleged bomber in the Red Fort blast Dr Umar Un Nabi had prepared the cocktail of chemicals and explosives for serial blasts in his room in the Al-Falah Medical College in Faridabad.
Sources confirmed to ThePrint that traces of chemicals and IED materials had been found in Nabi’s room including his bed, window and floor.
“So far the probe has revealed that Nabi was the one who built the IEDs in his room. Others helped him do some assembling but he was the brain behind putting it all together. This is what the circumstances that have come up during the probe have also shown,” a source said.
According to sources, the white i20 that blew up at Red Fort was part of the “main plan” and not a back-up.
“The plan was to fit the explosives in several other cars and then place these cars at different locations. The i20 was bought for this purpose and they had plans to buy more such cars. The plan was to put all these rigged IED-laden cars around the same time frame to successfully execute serial blasts. The i20 was the first car that they had rigged,” the first source told ThePrint.
Last week, the Al-Falah Medical College had distanced itself from the accused doctors and their alleged activities, denying their labs were used to make the explosives.
Sources confirmed that forensic analysis of explosives used in the 10 November blast near Red Fort, that killed 13 and injured 31, was a mixture of ammonium nitrate and triacetone triperoxide (TATP)—an unstable and volatile combination.
“They are all doctors, they have knowledge of how to assemble. Umar Un Nabi was the expert who guided them,” another source said.
Dr Muzammil Shakeel, who was arrested on 31 October lived in the same block as Nabi at the Al-Falah Medical College in Faridabad. Shakeel, Dr Adeel Rather Ahmed, Dr Shaheen Shahid are among the other doctors arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police on terror charges for being part of this “white collar terror module”.
On Sunday, the NIA arrested Aamir Rashid who was seen with the i20 in a now viral photo. He had visited a local dealer in Faridabad to buy the car on 29 October with Nabi.
ThePrint had reported earlier that Nabi travelled to Nuh with the explosives in the i20 on the day Shakeel was detained. He hid there in a rented accommodation. Investigators had Nabi’s name on 3 November but couldn’t trace him because he used multiple mobile phones. The car is 13-14 years old and the dealer was contacted by Nabi and Rashid through OLX.
The probe into this terror module had begun with the local police probing pro-Jaish-e-Mohammed posters in Nowgam area of Srinagar on 17 October. The J&K police had arrested three overground workers that led them to a key suspect—Irfan Ahmad Wagay, a cleric from Shopian whose interrogation led the police cops to Shakeel.
Between 8 and 10 November, even hours before the blast, the J&K police and their Haryana counterpart had found 2,900 kgs of explosives from two of Shakeel’s rented accommodations.
(Edited by Viny Mishra)
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