Police reconstruct Red Fort blast suspect’s last hours using footage from 50 cameras

The Delhi Police on Thursday (November 13, 2025) reconstructed the last hours of Umar Nabi, the lone occupant of the car that exploded near Red Fort on Monday (November 10), killing 13 people so far. His movements, right from leaving Faridabad the night before the blast to its execution, have been reconstructed using footage from more than 50 cameras.

The investigators also found that the three main suspects, all medical doctors linked to the Al-Falah University — Nabi, who was behind the wheels of the Hyundai i20 that was laden with explosives, Muzammil Ahmad Ganaie, and Shaheen Shahid — allegedly used a Switzerland-based encrypted messaging app Threema to plan and coordinate their activities related to the terror conspiracy.

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Nabi had also created a Signal app group with two to four members to coordinate their operations.

Chemical purchases

Police investigating the blast said the suspects had pooled more than ₹26 lakh in cash, which was handed over to Nabi for safekeeping and operational use.

Notebooks and diaries recovered from the rooms of Dr. Ghanaie (Room 13) and Nabi (Room 4) at the campus of Al-Falah University contained several coded entries, names, and numerical sequences dated between November 8 and 12, suggesting detailed planning for multiple attacks. They also had rented accommodations to store explosives, the police said.

The chilling hours of his journey from Haryana to the national capital have been pieced together bit by bit in a route-mapping exercise, showing how he halted for food at a roadside eatery near Delhi-Mumbai expressway and spent the night inside his car before entering the national capital the next morning.

A police source said he started on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on Sunday (November 9) and then got off the expressway, reaching Firozpur Jhirka in Haryana’s Nuh district.

Later, on Monday morning (November 9), he was again seen on CCTV cameras installed along the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, driving slowly towards Delhi.

Police said Nabi entered Delhi the following morning through the Badarpur border, using the same route he had taken earlier from Faridabad.

“He seemed to have planned every step, including his entry and exit routes, to avoid detection,” said the police source.