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Indian anti-terrorism officials are investigating Kashmir links DelhiSecurity forces on Friday demolished the house of a suspect in the Federal Himalayan region amid the Red Fort blast.
According to multiple media reports, Jammu and Kashmir authorities razed the house of Omar Nabi, a Kashmiri doctor working at Al Falah University in the city of Faridabad, near the Indian capital, in Pulwama city of Kashmir.
Investigators suspect Nabi was the driver of the explosive-laden Hyundai i20 car that exploded at a traffic signal near the iconic Mughal monument last week.
at least 8 people died And dozens of others were injured after the explosion, bodies of street vendors and pedestrians were thrown into the air and nearby vehicles caught fire.
Nabi’s identity was reportedly confirmed when DNA samples collected from the blast site were matched to his mother. However, authorities have not issued a formal statement on whether Nabi was driving the car and whether he was killed in the blast.
There is no provision in Indian law that allows this Destruction of suspects’ property As punishment. However, the practice has become increasingly common in states ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Shagufta Jaan, the doctor’s sister-in-law in Kashmir’s Pulwama district, said the family had not heard from him since last Friday, when he told them police were searching for him.
“He called us on Friday and I asked him to come home. He said he would come after three days,” he said. A few days after the explosion, Indian The government confirmed the attack as a “terrorist incident”, a classification which Threat to increase tension with Pakistan.
Home Minister Amit Shah, who is in-charge of internal security, said the entire world has recognized India’s fight against terrorism in the last 11 years, adding that Prime Minister Modi is at the forefront of leading this fight globally.
He said he has instructed officials to “hunt down each and every culprit behind this incident.”
Investigations are underway in several Indian states, including Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
Jammu and Kashmir Police said it has “intensified action against terrorist networks” in North and South Kashmir.
Raids and searches are going on across Kashmir after the blast.
Police said, “Six persons associated with the subversive network were brought to police stations and detained under law in Baramulla. 22 properties linked to terrorist associates were searched and 20 terrorist associates were detained and 02 were sent to jail under preventive custody.”
Mr Modi’s Cabinet, in a resolution, said: “The country has witnessed a heinous terrorist incident carried out by anti-national forces through a car blast.
“Cabinet directs that the incident be investigated with utmost promptness and professionalism so that the perpetrators, their associates and their sponsors are identified and brought to justice without any delay.”
According to reports, about 26 days before the Delhi blasts, posters declaring affiliation with Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed were seen in towns in Kashmir.
The poster warns people not to give shelter to Indian security forces, saying, “We warn of strict action against local people who do not follow this warning.”
At least seven people, including two doctors, were arrested and police seized weapons and a large quantity of bomb-making material in Faridabad, a city in Haryana state near Delhi.