The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday said it has arrested a man for allegedly harbouring and providing logistical support to Umar Nabi, the doctor who is believed to have been driving the car that exploded in Delhi on November 10.
The agency identified the seventh person arrested in the case as Soyab from Dhauj in Haryana’s Faridabad. Apart from harbouring Nabi before the blast, Soyab also provided logistical support to him, the NIA claimed.
The blast near the Red Fort metro station left 13 persons dead. Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident”.
On November 16, the agency arrested an aide allegedly linked to Nabi, who was identified as Amir Rashid Ali. The NIA alleged that the Hyundai i20 car used in the blast was registered in Ali’s name. This was the first arrest in the case.
A day later, the NIA arrested another alleged associate of the doctor, Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, from Srinagar. Wani is a resident of Qazigund in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag.
On November 20, four more persons were arrested. They were identified as Muzammil Shakeel Ganai from Pulwama, Adeel Ahmed Rather from Anantnag, Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay from Shopian and Shaheen Saeed from Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow.
The NIA said on Wednesday said that it was pursuing several leads in connection with the “suicide bombing”, and has been conducting searches across states in coordination with the police forces to identify and track others involved in the attack.
“Efforts to unravel the entire conspiracy behind the deadly terror attack are continuing,” it added.
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 – Adeel Ahmad Rather and Muzamil Shakeel – were among those arrested in the alleged case.
The police said at the time that it had recovered 2,900 kg of improvised explosive device-making material in raids in several states.
In the backdrop of the blast and the terror module case, the Jammu and Kashmir Police on November 12 conducted raids at more than 300 locations in the Kashmir valley allegedly linked to persons affiliated with the banned Jamaat-e-Islami.
The actions came after intelligence that elements linked to the Jamaat-e-Islami, banned under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, were trying to revive the organisation under different names, the police said.
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