In a big revelation in the Delhi blast case, key suspect Muzammil has told the investigators that he and Umar had recced the Red Fort before the explosion in the area left nine people dead. According to sources, Muzammil has been questioned and confronted with information recovered from his phone’s data dump. During questioning, Muzammil said there was an attack plan for January 26 next year, and the area around Red Fort was recced as part of it.
Muzammil, the sources said, has also told the cops that they had a plan to attack a crowded place this Diwali, but it could not be carried out.
A senior doctor, Muzammil, is being investigated after a blast near the Red Fort on Monday evening shook the nation and set off alarm bells in the security establishment. Umar, Muzammil’s aide and colleague at Faridabad’s Al Falah University, is believed to have died when the car exploded near a traffic signal near the Red Fort Metro Station.
The investigation into the blast near the Red Fort has revealed the alleged involvement of a highly educated group of medical professionals, many of whom were working at Al Falah University in Faridabad. Jammu and Kashmir police have referred to this network as a “white collar terror ecosystem”.
“The group has been using encrypted channels, for indoctrination, coordination, fund movement and logistics. Funds were raised through professional and academic networks, under the guise of social/charitable causes. The accused were found involved in identifying persons, to radicalise, initiate and recruit them to terrorist ranks, besides raising funds, arranging logistics, procurement of arms/ammunition and material for preparing IEDs,” he said.