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The scene, he remembers, was ghastly. There had been shattered glass items, dismembered physique components, streaks of blood, and damaged car components on Netaji Subhash Marg, the highway resulting in the Mughal-era sandstone construction.
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Dharmender, a resident of Greater Noida, an Uttar Pradesh suburb of Delhi, who had gone to buy within the Chandni Chowk space, recollects what occurred. “The site visitors was transferring actually slowly. Suddenly, the sky lit up and there was a loud noise. Those across the automobile didn’t even get an opportunity to try an escape. After the blast, we dragged out some seven cab drivers from the realm and positioned them in e-rickshaws. All I seen was that the car which had blown up had a Haryana quantity plate.”
Bhupender Singh, a 55-year-old resident of Noida, who occurred to be on the website, says he fled as ambulances carried injured individuals from the blast website to Lok Nayak Hospital, about 2 kilometres away. His fingers nonetheless shaking, Singh says he was metres away from the white four-wheeler that blew up. “The site visitors mild had simply turned inexperienced when the blast occurred. I rolled out of my car and ran in direction of the market space on the other facet,” he says.
Sonu, a guard working at a public bathroom within the space, recollects how he watched the scene with horror. He stays scarred on the sight of a limb falling close to a Jain temple and a disembodied head touchdown on the roadside.
The blast passed off lower than 500 metres away from the place Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made his Independence Day speech in August. He had declared {that a} “new regular” had been established after India’s Operation Sindoor towards Pakistan, in response to the phobia assault in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir (J&Ok) in April. At the blast in entrance of Red Fort, formally recognised as a “terror incident” on November 12, at the very least 13 individuals died and greater than 20 individuals had been injured.
A day later, the Delhi Police registered a First Information Report on the Kotwali police station below the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967; the Explosives Substances Act, 1908; and Section 103(1) (punishment for homicide), 109(1) (try and homicide) and 61(2) (felony conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. The case has been transferred to the National Investigation Agency. So far, the J&Ok Police have arrested 9 suspects in a case registered by them on October 19 and which is now intrinsically linked to the blast.
The three docs
Hours earlier than the blast, round 50 km away in Haryana, the Faridabad Police Commissioner, Satendra Kumar Gupta, addressed a press convention. He introduced that the police, in collaboration with the J&Ok Police, had recovered 360 kilograms of inflammable materials — presumably ammonium nitrate — stuffed into 12 suitcases, an AK-Krinkov rifle, magazines, walkie-talkies, timers, and batteries throughout a raid at a room at Fatehpur Taga village in Faridabad district. “The recoveries had been constituted of the room the place 32-year-old Muzammil Ahmad Ganaie had moved in 15 days in the past,” Gupta stated. Ganaie is a junior physician with the emergency wing of the hospital contained in the campus of Al Falah University in Dhouj
Later, sources stated that the room had been rented by Dr. Ganaie. On October 30, the police arrested Dr. Ganaie from the school.
At the identical time, the J&Ok Police introduced by way of a press launch that they’d busted an “inter-State and transnational terror module” linked to the Jaish-e-Mohammad and al Qaeda-affiliated Ansar Ghazwat ul Hind. They stated seven individuals, together with Dr. Ganaie and one other physician, Adeel Ahmad Rather, who Dr. Ganaie led them to, had been arrested. They additionally stated that they’d seized 2,900 kg of improvised explosive-device-making materials over 15 days. The police arrested Dr. Rather on November 5 from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, the place he was working at a personal hospital.
During their investigation following the blast, safety companies discovered that Dr. Umar ul Nabi — additionally working in Al Falah “needed” by the police, lacking since October 7, and a part of the ‘white collar’ terror module — was on the wheel of the white automobile that had gone up in flames that day. He died within the incident.
CCTV footage retrieved later confirmed him coming into the nationwide capital from the Badarpur toll plaza in south-east Delhi at 8.04 a.m. on November 10. According to sources, the automobile was first noticed outdoors Asian Hospital in Faridabad at round 7:30 a.m. Dr. Nabi left the car between 3:19 p.m. and 6:22 p.m. within the Red Fort parking zone. In the meantime, Dr. Nabi did a recce of a number of spots throughout Delhi, corresponding to Kashmere Gate, Sunehri Masjid, and Daryaganj. As he purchased the toll ticket carrying a black masks, cameras confirmed a big bag on the rear seat.
Delhi Police personnel stand guard on the blast website close to the Red Fort. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma
The safety companies suspect that Dr. Nabi panicked and triggered the bomb in haste because it was not correctly assembled. Only part of his physique could possibly be retrieved from the explosive-laden automobile. It was later matched with the DNA pattern of his mom who lives in Pulwama, south Kashmir. Officials say Dr. Nabi seems to be the mastermind of the blast.
Posters that gave it away
Weeks earlier, on October 17, posters printed in Urdu appeared at a number of locations in Srinagar’s Nowgam space. They informed native residents to not cooperate with police and safety personnel and never give them house to take a seat of their outlets.
These posters piqued the curiosity of a senior officer in J&Ok’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and he requested the native police to analyze them. After trying by way of CCTV footage, the police arrested three males — Arif Nisar Dar (22), Yasir-ul-Ashraf (19), and Maqsood Ahmad Dar alias Shahid (25). The males informed the police they had been requested by a neighborhood cleric, Irfan Ahmad (24), to stick the posters.
A senior authorities official says, “When the cleric was questioned, he tried to mislead us and led us to an individual from Ganderbal — Zameer Ahmad Ahanger alias Mutlasha, 29. He had a pistol. We arrested him. It was once we appeared by way of the cleric’s telephone that we discovered that he had been in contact with the three docs: Dr. Ganaie, Dr. Rather, and Dr. Nabi. This raised suspicion. Why would a Class V dropout, who gave spiritual sermons, be fascinated by speaking to docs?”
According to the senior authorities official, the cleric, Ahmad, had been roped in by the docs to radicalise others. “It was Dr. Ganaie who had requested him to flow into the pamphlets. The cleric had first met Dr. Ganaie in 2023 when he went with somebody to a authorities hospital in Srinagar for remedy,” he says.
The official provides that Dr. Nabi was extremely radicalised and satisfied Dr. Ganaie that the system ought to change. “He was upset with the current type of governance and needed to ascertain Islamic regulation. They had been amassing the ammonium nitrate or urea, simply accessible available in the market as fertilizers, during the last six months. The different two docs [Dr. Ganaie and Dr. Rather] stated that they acted on Dr. Nabi’s directions. He knew when and the way the concoction was for use,” says the official. “As docs, they knew a good bit about chemical compounds and many of the gadgets that they’d deliberate to make use of for making the bombs had been purchased from open markets.”
Another official says that the plan had been within the works for the final two years. “It was to flee scrutiny and create a second base that the docs, who had been working at authorities hospitals in Kashmir, relocated to personal hospitals in Faridabad and Saharanpur,” the official says.
Officials say it was the posters that helped them bust the community, because the docs had no earlier felony file. “We recovered an AK-56 rifle from the federal government medical faculty in Anantnag, the place Dr. Rather had labored earlier. He stated the weapon was not his. He stated it belonged to Dr. Nabi, who had bought it from a terrorist in Shopian,” says the official.
On November 8, the J&Ok Police recovered an AK-Krinkov from the automobile of one other physician working at Al Falah University — Dr. Shaheen Saeed. Police sources say she was a detailed pal of Dr. Ganaie and knew that her automobile was being utilized by him to ferry explosives. They arrested her and picked up her youthful brother, Dr. Parvez Saeed Ansari, from Saharanpur for questioning.
“Initially, we had been glad that we had recovered weapons. Only once we raided the rented premises of Dr. Ganaie on November 9-10 did we realise the enormity of the case,” the official says.
On July 30, whereas briefing Members of Parliament about Operation Mahadev, a joint counter terror effort to kill terrorists liable for the Pahalgam terror assault, Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated within the Rajya Sabha that no native had joined a terrorist group in J&Ok previously six -months. He stated these being killed in safety operations in J&Ok had been all foreigners.
Investigating whereabouts
The officers say they’re but to conclusively set up the goal of the assault or the deliberate dates of the phobia strikes. “Dr. Nabi had a stellar educational file,” says an official. “He was top-of-the-line docs in Kashmir. He had ranked first in his medical course. But he was elevating funds and was additionally in contact with their handler in Pakistan.” A press launch from the J&Ok Police on November 10 states, “The group has been utilizing encrypted channels, for indoctrination, coordination, fund motion and logistics. Funds had been raised by way of skilled and educational networks, below the guise of social/charitable causes.”
The official provides that the investigation and operation to bust the ‘white collar’ terror module had been initially saved below wraps as Dr. Nabi and others had not been arrested. However, the press convention by the Faridabad Police Commissioner modified issues. “We had alerted different States about Dr. Nabi however didn’t know concerning the depth of the case then. The announcement a few press convention had been made a day earlier and it was everywhere in the media. This presumably explains Dr. Nabi’s travails throughout the town on November 10. We don’t know what number of explosives he had,” the official says.
During their investigation, officers discovered that Dr. Ganaie and his brother had visited the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye in 2022. That go to is now being scrutinised. They additionally discovered that Dr. Rather’s brother, Dr. Muzaffar, whose final recognized location was the UAE, has been lacking since September. They suspect he’s in Afghanistan. The J&Ok Police have issued a purple nook discover towards him.
The ready youngsters
On November 11, a day after the blast, Sonu walked by way of the gates of the mortuary along with his eyes glued to his toes. He had come to remove the physique of his 23-year-old son, Nouman. “He had come to Delhi along with his pal to purchase some materials for his beauty store in Shamli [Uttar Pradesh],” says Sonu, sobbing. He doesn’t know what occurred to Nouman’s pal.
More than 5 km away, a 10-year-old lady saved ready for her father, Md. Mohsin, to return from work. “Mohsin had referred to as his spouse, Sultana, and had knowledgeable her that he could be late, however that he needed to eat dinner with the kids,” says Shabeena, Mohsin’s aunt.
In Dhouj, one other 10-year-old waited, alongside along with his three siblings and ailing mom, for his father’s return. “My father, Md. Ishtiyaq, was alleged to take me to the attention specialist on Monday after he completed his lunch. But simply when he had a chew of some roti, cops got here and took him away,” says the kid. The J&Ok Police arrested Ishtiyaq, the imam at Al Falah mosque, after 360 kg of explosives and ammunition had been discovered at his home in Fatehpur Taga, which he had rented to Dr. Ganaie.
Ishtiyaq’s daughter says he used to obtain a wage of ₹10,000 from the Al Falah School of Medical Sciences and Research Centre each month. “Everyone who lives in that space comes to wish within the mosque. Similarly, Dr. Ganaie too would come 2-3 occasions per week to wish. Sometimes, we offered him buffalo milk. But he by no means got here dwelling,” she says. The lady provides that her father and Dr. Ganaie bought in contact when her 7-year-old brother needed to bear an appendix operation in 2024, although he was not the treating physician.
The Faridabad police scoured by way of the homes of the residents of Fatehpur Taga, a village 5 km away, the place the imam had constructed a two-room home that he rented out to some and to Dr. Ganaie and which had been used to retailer explosives.
The home in Fatehpur Taga that was rented by Dr. Muzzamil Ganaie the place police recovered arms and ammunition. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma
Salim, 67, a resident of Fatehpur Taga, says he by no means noticed Dr. Ganaie and the villagers didn’t know the imam. “Md. Ishtiyaq was not a neighborhood. He got here from Mewat. He was an imam on the Al Falah mosque in Dhouj. That is all we all know; he by no means socialised with individuals on this village. The tenants right here saved altering,” he says.
For Hazi Madrasi, 85, a resident of Dhouj, renting out his room to the identical physician has price him dearly. “In September, he [Dr. Ganaie] got here to lease a room. He paid me an advance and left,” he says. On September 13, Dr. Ganaie dropped his belongings and by no means got here to remain there, he asserts. Madrasi says he requested Dr. Ganaie for his particulars, however all he bought was a handwritten word which learn, “DOCTOR — AL FALAH Rent — 1,200, Advance — Rs. 2,400, paid on 13/11/25.” Dr. Ganaie rented the room for 3 months, from September 13 to November 13.
After the blast, a number of J&Ok Police personnel got here and searched the room and seized Dr. Ganaie’s belongings. “I gave him the room considering he’s a health care provider and could be of assist throughout emergencies. Who knew these had been his intentions?”
At Al Falah University, college students and professors have remained on campus ever because the establishment got here below the radar of investigators. The samosa and tea stalls are abandoned. Security personnel stand in every single place.
A scholar says she had not seen Dr. Ganaie a lot. But after seeing his photograph, she recollects having seen him within the emergency ward. Another scholar says Dr. Shaheen Saeed, a senior professor on the college, was reserved however skilled. “She at all times got here ready and was fast to resolve all doubts, in courses and later,” he says.
While investigations proceed, restoration for most of the injured is a protracted highway forward. Shakir, a 35-year-old cab driver, continues to be within the intensive care unit of the Lok Nayak Hospital. He has incurred a number of burn accidents in his legs, ears, and face, and suffered a serious fracture in his foot. “When Shakir regained consciousness, he first enquired about his passenger,” says his brother, Taufiq. The passenger, Rinki Puniya, a resident of Haridwar, has additionally been admitted in the identical hospital with burn accidents and fractures.
Taufiq says Shakir has not spoken a lot about that day. “He isn’t mentally ready to speak about what he noticed,” he says. Given what he went by way of, “it’s a miracle that he’s alive.”
