In a statement, the National Investigation Agency said the car that detonated on 10 November was registered to Amir Rashid Ali, who it claimed had travelled from Indian‑controlled Kashmir to New Delhi to arrange the vehicle’s purchase.
By Asaye Bankole
India’s anti‑terror agency announced on Sunday that it had arrested a man from Indian‑controlled Kashmir for allegedly conspiring with a suicide bomber in a deadly car explosion in New Delhi.
In a statement, the National Investigation Agency said the car that detonated on 10 November was registered to Amir Rashid Ali, who it claimed had travelled from Indian‑controlled Kashmir to New Delhi to arrange the vehicle’s purchase.
The agency described Ali’s arrest as a “major breakthrough” in the case.
The explosion near the city’s historic Red Fort killed 10 people and injured 32 others
Indian officials described it as a “heinous terror incident” committed by “anti‑national forces.”
Hours after police in Kashmir announced they had dismantled a suspected militant cell that was operating from the disputed area—arresting at least seven people, including two Kashmiri doctors from Indian cities, and seizing a large amount of bomb‑making material—the car blast occurred.
The investigating agency identified the car driver and suspected suicide bomber as Umar Un Nabi, a Kashmiri doctor who taught at a medical college in Faridabad, near New Delhi. Officials said government forces demolished his family home in Pulwama’s southern district on Thursday night as a reprisal for the attack.
Indian security agencies also conducted a series of raids across Kashmir, questioning thousands and detaining hundreds of people as part of the investigation.
On Friday night, explosives seized from Faridabad and transported by police to Srinagar detonated inside a police station, killing at least nine people and injuring 32 others.
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