Red Fort bomb blast case: NIA files 7,500-page chargesheet against 10 accused

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a 7,500-page charge sheet against 10 accused persons in the Red Fort area car bomb explosion case.

“All 10 accused, including the main perpetrator, Dr. Umer Un Nabi (deceased), were linked to the organisation Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH) – an offshoot of the al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), as per the charges filed before the NIA special court at Patiala House Courts in New Delhi,” said the agency.

AQIS and all its manifestations were notified as a terrorist organisation by the Ministry of Home Affairs in June 2018.

Pulwama-based Dr. Nabi was allegedly driving the car when the bomb had exploded on the evening of November 10, 2025. He was an assistant professor of medicine at Al-Falah University in Faridabad (Haryana).

Apart from Dr. Nabi, the others named in the charge sheet are Aamir Rashid Mir, Jasir Bilal Wani, Dr. Muzamil Shakeel, Dr. Adeel Ahmed Rather, Dr. Shaheen Saeed, Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay, Soyab, Dr. Bilal Naseer Malla and Yasir Ahmad Dar.

“The chargesheet is based on extensive investigation spread across the States of Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and the Delhi NCR region. It includes detailed evidence in the form of 588 oral testimonies, more than 395 documents and over 200 seized material exhibits,” the NIA said.

The agency found that the accused, some of whom were radicalised medical professionals, were inspired by AQIS/AGuH ideology to carry out the deadly attack.

“At a clandestine meeting in Srinagar in 2022, the accused had reconstituted the AGuH terror outfit as ‘AGuH Interim’ following a failed Hizrat (migration) to Afghanistan via Turkey. Under the umbrella of the newly constituted outfit, they had launched ‘Operation Heavenly Hind’ aimed at overthrowing the democratically established Indian government and imposing Sharia rule,” it alleged.

The NIA further said the accused recruited new members, “actively propagated the violent Jehadi ideology of AGuH, stockpiled arms and ammunition, and manufactured explosives on a large scale using commercially available chemicals”.

The accused had configured fabricated and tested various types of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). “The explosive used in the blast was Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP) which was manufactured by the accused by clandestinely procuring constituent ingradients and conducting experiments to perfect the explosive mixture,” the agency alleged.

NIA, which took over the investigation from the Delhi police, established the identity of the deceased accused as Dr. Nabi through DNA fingerprinting.

The NIA probe further revealed that the group members were also allegedly involved in illegal procurement of prohibited arms, including an AK-47 rifle, a Krinkov rifle, and country-made pistols with live ammunition. “They had experimented with rocket and drone-mounted IEDs with the objective of targeting security establishments in Jammu & Kashmir and other parts of India,” it said.

According to the chargesheet, the accused procured laboratory equipment, including specialised items like MMO Anode, electric circuits, and switches, from various offline and online sources. They also had plans to expand their operations in other parts of the country, which were foiled by the busting of the terror module.

“A total of 11 persons have so far been arrested in the case, in which the NIA is continuing with its efforts to track absconders whose role had surfaced during the investigation,” the agency added.