Red Fort car blast: Key accused used fake identity online to procure explosive materials

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) probe into the deadly Delhi Red Fort car blast uncovered however the cardinal accused allegedly utilized fake individuality and a makeshift laboratory successful Faridabad to procure chemicals and experimentation with explosive materials, authoritative sources said connected Tuesday.The bureau precocious filed a 7,500-page chargesheet against 10 accused successful transportation with the high-intensity vehicle-borne IED blast that rocked the nationalist superior connected November 10 past year, sidesplitting 11 radical and injuring respective others.According to the probe, the premier accused, Dr Umer Un Nabi, who was driving the explosives-laden car and died successful the blast, had researched offline and online resources related to assorted chemicals. Umer utilized a fake individuality nether the sanction “Mr Rahul Bhat” connected the IndiaMART commercialized level to procure materials required for the experiments. Under the account, helium listed his “product of involvement arsenic a fertiliser bag, acetone solvent, anode and chemicals, etc”.Investigators, arsenic cited by PTI, said helium had besides acceptable up a makeshift laboratory astatine his level successful Al Falah University, Faridabad, wherever helium carried retired experiments aimed astatine manufacturing a prototype explosive material.

Investigators said Umer contacted a Mumbai-based trader successful August 2024 and paid Rs 25,000 done the integer outgo level PhonePe for a customised mixed metallic oxide (MMO)-coated titanium anode, a specialised electrode utilized successful the electrolysis process.During the investigation, NIA officials recovered a transportation challan dated September 25, 2024, from the trader, which helped them hint the proviso concatenation utilized for procuring explosive-making materials.The challan showed that though Umer had purchased the anode, the buyer’s sanction and mobile fig mentioned successful the papers belonged to idiosyncratic else. The trader aboriginal dispatched the anode done a courier institution to a determination extracurricular Al Falah University, from wherever Umer collected it, according to the chargesheet.According to revelations made during interrogation, the electrolysis process was conducted astatine Umer’s level to nutrient chlorates and perchlorates from a communal brackish solution, a method helium had learnt done his research.Chlorates and perchlorates are explosive substances commonly utilized successful fireworks.Using the aforesaid fake identity, Umer aboriginal negotiated for 10 much anodes, but the woody did not materialise aft the alleged Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH) interim panic module linked to Al-Qaida successful the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) was busted, the probe revealed.The probe besides recovered that Umer and co-accused Dr Muzammil Shakeel travelled to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, connected April 12 past twelvemonth to procure chemicals for manufacturing explosives. After offering prayers astatine a adjacent mosque, they returned to Al Falah the pursuing day.According to officials, the accused followed extremist jihadi lit portion conducting these experiments. The worldly was aboriginal recovered from their mobile devices during the investigation.