Red fort blast: Alleged conspirator remanded to 10-day NIA custody

A Delhi court on Tuesday remanded an alleged key associate of Umar Nabi, the doctor who was believed to have been driving the car that exploded near the Red Fort metro station, to 10 days custody of the National Investigation Agency, ANI reported.

Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, a resident of Qazigund in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, was arrested on Monday from Srinagar.

“NIA investigations have revealed that Jasir had allegedly provided technical support for carrying out terror attacks by modifying drones and attempting to make rockets ahead of the deadly car bomb blast…” the agency said then.

Wani was an “active co-conspirator” behind the attack and had worked closely with Nabi to “plan the terror carnage”, the agency alleged.

The blast near the Red Fort metro station on November 10 had left 13 persons dead. Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident”.

Wani was produced before a special National Investigation Agency court in Delhi on Monday for a closed courtroom hearing.

The agency told the court that the blast intended to create an atmosphere of panic in the country, ANI reported quoting unidentified persons.

Hours before the blast, the police said that it had cracked an “inter-state and transnational terror module” in Faridabad and Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur. Two doctors from Kashmir –...

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