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New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Continuing its investigation into the Red Fort area car bomb blast case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested another key associate who had provided technical support to the terrorists involved in the blast. An officer gave this information.
Jasir.
The NIA investigation has revealed that Jasir had allegedly provided technical support to carry out terrorist attacks by modifying drones and attempting to make rockets before the deadly car bomb blast that killed 10 and injured 32.
The accused, a resident of Qazigund in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, was an active co-conspirator behind the attack and had worked closely with terrorist Dr. Omar Muhammad Nabi to plan the massacre.
NIA is continuing the investigation from various angles to unearth the conspiracy behind the bomb blast. Multiple teams of the anti-terrorism agency are working on multiple leads and conducting searches across the states to identify every person involved in the terror attack.
Earlier in the day, Delhi sent Aamir Rashid Ali, a Kashmiri resident accused of conspiring with Dr Omar Muhammad Nabi, who carried out the November 10 terror attack near the Red Fort, to 10-day NIA custody.
On November 16, the NIA arrested Ali, in whose name the car used in the attack was registered. He was caught in Delhi during a massive search operation launched by the agency after taking over the case from Delhi Police, an officer said in a statement.
According to the NIA investigation, the accused, a resident of Samboora, Pampore, Jammu and Kashmir, had conspired with alleged suicide bomber Umar Nabi to carry out the terrorist attack. The agency said Ali had traveled to Delhi to seek assistance in procuring a car, which was later used as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (IED) to carry out the blast.
The NIA has forensically identified the deceased driver of the vehicle-borne IED as Dr Umar Nabi, a resident of Pulwama district and assistant professor in the department of General Medicine at Al Falah University, Faridabad.
–IANS
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