A medical college professor and a medical student, both from Jammu and Kashmir, were detained in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, in connection with the car blast near Red Fort.
The Jammu and Kashmir police issued a Red Corner Notice against another doctor from Kashmir, now believed to be based in Dubai, whose brother has already been arrested. Dozens of people have been detained in J&K raids of people and properties linked to terror networks.
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Haryana police have also recovered two vehicles owned by Umar Nabi, the prime suspect and lone occupant of the car that exploded in Delhi, killing 13 people, including one who succumbed to critical burn injuries on Thursday. Delhi police collected forensic evidence from a Jain temple and a market near the blast site and sources said that agencies have identified the shops from where the suspects sourced ammonium nitrate and have also detained the shopowners for further investigation.
The Union government has ordered a forensic audit of all records of the Al-Falah University in Faridabad, where a number of suspects studied or worked. The Enforcement Directorate and other financial investigative agencies have been asked to check the money trail of the private institution, sources told PTI after a high-level review of the situation chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
The Association of Indian Universities (AIU) also suspended the Al-Falah University’s membership, saying it “does not appear to be in good standing”. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council had earlier issued a show-cause notice to the university for displaying false certification on its website, which has since been taken offline completely.
Doctors held
Dr. Farukh, an assistant professor of obstetrics at Hapur’s GS Medical College, was detained by Delhi Police from the college campus on Wednesday night, PTI reported. He had completed his medical education from Al-Falah University.
Official sources said that Mohammad Arif Mir, a native of Khagund Qazigund in J&K and a first-year student at the Laxmipat Singhania Institute of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the state-run Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College in Kanpur, was also detained by the U.P. anti-terrorist squad. He is suspected of being in touch with Dr. Shaheen Sayeed, a former GSVM professor who worked at Al-Falah and has been arrested for “amassing explosives” over the past year. The U.P. ATS later searched Mr. Mir’s rented accommodation in Ashok Nagar, Nazirabad, and seized his mobile phone and laptop for forensic examination before taking him to Delhi for questioning.
J&K police are searching for Dr. Muzaffar, who is believed to have shifted to Dubai earlier this year. He is the brother of Dr. Adeel Ahmad Rather who has already been arrested. On November 7, an AK-47 rifle was recovered from Dr. Rather’s locker at the Anantnag medical college, where he worked as a senior resident until October 24, 2024. Official sources said the police were tracking the relatives of the arrested doctors who may have travelled to Turkey, Dubai and Afghanistan to identify any overseas links.
Forensic evidence
The Delhi police visited the Shri Digambar Jain Lal Mandir which lies across the road from the Red Fort, to collect pieces of blast evidence strewn across the temple premises. “The FSL team has collected all the evidence from the temple and sent it for further investigation,” said a senior Delhi Police officer, adding that the team had also visited the Lala Lajpat Rai market near the blast spot where a dismembered body part was found.
The Faridabad police detained a person who had parked a red Ford EcoSport car owned by Nabi, with registration number DL 10 CK 0458, at Khandawali village in Haryana a day ago, and handed the person over to the J&K police. Another white car which the J&K police had been looking for since the day of explosion was seized from the premises of the Al-Falah University, the Faridabad police said.
Tracking Nabi’s movements
The Delhi police complained of gaps in information shared between police teams in different States, with one Delhi police officer telling The Hindu that they had not been alerted about the movement of a “high profile suspect” by the J&K or Haryana police. “If we had been alerted that a suspect had gone missing from Faridabad, then we would have alerted all our check points, including the toll plaza,” the officer said, pointing out that Nabi can be tracked through CCTV footage, using the same vehicle. The Delhi police have reconstructed Nabi’s last hours, right from leaving Faridabad the night before the blast to its execution, using footage from more than 50 cameras.
The source further told The Hindu that they have learnt that Nabi visited Wazirpur at around 12 p.m. on Monday. “We are conducting raids door to door to establish his connection with his visit,” the police said. The police on Thursday also conducted door to door searches in the Jahangirpuri, Wazirpur and Ashok Vihar areas, where they interrogated residents.
J&K raids
Meanwhile, the J&K police said it has “intensified action against the terror networks” in north and south Kashmir. Raids and searches in Kashmir continued against the members of Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and the families of those who relatives are in Pakistan or Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK).
“Six individuals linked with subversive networks were brought to police stations and bound down under law in Baramulla. Twenty-two properties associated with terrorist associates were searched and 20 terrorist associates were bound down and 02 were sent to jail under preventive detention; two individuals booked under UAPA (presently on bail) were examined, one bound down under preventive law,” the police said.
The spokesman said eight bailed UAPA accused were identified for bail cancellation and two have been submitted before the competent court in the district. “Two Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) affiliates were searched to ensure compliance with law and two absconding UAPA accused were traced and legal action initiated,” the police said.
Anti-terror crackdown
In Shopian, the police said it carried out “extensive searches at multiple locations across the district linked with members and associates of JeI and J&K nationals operating from Pakistan.
“The searches are part of the ongoing crackdown aimed at identifying individuals and networks involved in providing any kind of assistance, logistical or financial, to terror-related activities,” the police said.
In Pulwama, Cordon and Search Operations (CASOs) were carried out at multiple suspected locations. “Several premises were searched, and identities of numerous individuals were verified during the exercise conducted jointly with security forces,” the police said.
‘Strictest possible punishment’
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the punishment for the culprits of the Delhi car blast will send a message to the world that no terrorist should even dare to think of committing such an act in India.
Mr. Shah said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the entire world has recognised India’s fight against terrorism over the past 11 years, adding that the Prime Minister is at the forefront of leading this fight globally. He stated that all those who committed this cowardly act and those behind it will be brought before the law and given the strictest possible punishment. The Indian government and the Ministry of Home Affairs are fully committed to ensuring this, he said.
(With PTI inputs)
Published – November 14, 2025 02:19 am IST
