Delhi Red Fort Terror Attack: Doctor's Network Behind Bombing That Killed 13

The car bomb detonated at a traffic checkpoint near the Red Fort on November 10

New Delhi:

Amir Rashid Ali, the terror suspect who assisted a suicide bomber in planning and executing the November 10 attack near Delhi's Red Fort, played a crucial role in creating the explosives that claimed 13 lives, according to court documents reviewed by NDTV.

Ali was apprehended yesterday in Delhi by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Today, they brought him before a special NIA court and secured a 10-day custody period for the terror suspect.

The investigators' justification for detaining him - as stated in court papers - included his involvement in providing logistics and purchasing materials to create an improvised explosive device (IED) for the suicide bomber, Umar Un Nabi, whose identity was confirmed through DNA testing.

Ali regularly visited a safehouse arranged by Nabi, where both developed their terror strategies, the documents reveal. He assisted Nabi in constructing the IED, thus directly contributing to the suicide car bomb attack in Chandni Chowk, one of the busiest districts in the national capital.

The NIA will transport Ali to Jammu and Kashmir to gather more information about the white-collar terror network - all members turned out to be doctors - that police dismantled in Haryana's Faridabad, sources indicated.

Nabi, the suicide bomber, was also a physician from Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama. The Hyundai i20 utilized in the attack was registered under Ali's name.

Ali, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir's Pampore, traveled to Delhi to purchase the i20 from a used car market and transformed it into a platform for use as a suicide vehicle-borne IED, or SVBIED.

Faridabad's Al Falah University, where all the white-collar terror suspects worked, is under investigation across multiple aspects from financial to administrative. The NIA has also confiscated a vehicle registered to the suicide bomber.