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The car bomb blast near the Red Fort killed 11 people in Delhi on November 10, 2025. The total number of people chargesheeted in the case is 13 now. (File Photo)
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary chargesheet against three more accused, including an absconding prime suspect involved in the car‑bomb blast near the Red Fort that killed 11 people in Delhi on November 10, 2025, officials said on Saturday.
In the supplementary chargesheet, the NIA has named Zameer Ahmad Ahanger, Tufail Ahmad Bhat, and Muzafar Ahmad alias Faraz alias Zafar, all from Jammu and Kashmir. With this, the total number of persons chargesheeted in the case has risen to 13, including prime accused Dr Umer Un Nabi, who is dead.
According to the NIA, absconding accused Muzafar, a paediatrician with MBBS and MD degrees, is the elder brother of co-accused Dr Adeel Ahmed Rather and a founding member of AGuH Interim, which the agency has described as an offshoot of Al-Qaeda, and one of the principal architects of the conspiracy that led to the vehicle‑borne improvised explosive device blast.
The agency’s investigation found Muzafar to be among the key conspirators behind the vehicle-borne improvised explosive device blast, along with co-accused Umer, Muzammil, Adeel, and Mufti Irfan. “He had attended a secret meeting at Eidgah in Srinagar in June 2022, where AGuH Interim terror module was formed,” an NIA spokesperson said.
“Probe has also revealed that Muzafar played a central role in the manufacture, testing and storage of TATP-based IEDs at a clandestine facility allegedly run by Umer and Muzammil at Al-Falah University, Faridabad. A non-bailable warrant has been issued against him, and efforts are under way to trace and arrest him,” the spokesperson said.
Arms courier and supplier
The NIA said Zameer, described as an overground worker of AGuH Interim, remained in active contact with handlers and acted as a courier for arms, ammunition and cash for the module. Tufail, whom the agency described as a former overground worker of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Taiba, allegedly served as the module’s arms supplier.
The chargesheet states Tufail procured an AK‑47, a Krinkov rifle, a pistol, magazines and live ammunition via dead drops arranged by a handler and delivered them to Dr Umer for Rs 3 lakh.
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In the chargesheet filed before the NIA Special Court at Patiala House Courts in New Delhi, arrested accused Zameer and Tufail have been booked under several sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act on charges related to being a member of terrorist gang or terrorist organisation, conspiracy, unlawful activities etc, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita on charges related to criminal conspiracy, waging, or attempting to wage war, or abetting waging of war against the Indian government, conspiracy to commit offences against the state and acts endangering sovereignty unity and integrity of India.
The NIA said it had established linkages among the accused through forensic testing, geo-location mapping of conspiracy sites and financial trail analysis, and that further investigation in the case is continuing.
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