'Spectacular attack' foiled: DNA confirms Umar as Delhi car bomber; Ayodhya was also target

NEW DELHI: Umar Un Nabi, confirmed by a DNA trial arsenic the bomber successful Old Delhi, and his module had planned to transportation retired a "spectacular terror attack" with aggregate vehicle-borne IEDs followed by firing with battle rifles.

They had procured 3 vehicles - an i20, a reddish Ford Ecosport and a Brezza - for their mission, sources successful the information constitution said connected Wednesday.

While the i20 exploded, cops issued a BOLO (be connected the lookout) announcement for the different 2 cars, an denotation that much explosives whitethorn person been hidden by the module. The Ecosport, which has a Delhi registration fig ending successful 0458, was located Wednesday successful Faridabad.

A hunt is connected for the Brezza. The cars were allegedly procured by Umar. The probe truthful acold has revealed that too Delhi, they were readying to people Ayodhya too. An effort was to beryllium made connected Nov 25 during the hoisting of a saffron emblem atop the Ram temple, said a root successful a information agency. The suspects person revealed they were readying to use, and had collected, a substance of ammonium nitrate and RDX, but it's unclear if that was the explosive successful the car.

The crippled was hatched successful Turkiye mode backmost successful 2022. As reported by TOI connected Wednesday, Umar was acting connected instructions from his Turkiye-based handler, identified by his codename Ukasa. Shah directs agencies to hunt down each culprits successful case A time aft a car blast killed a twelve radical adjacent Red Fort, location curate Amit Shah chaired a acceptable of meetings with the information brass and instructed agencies to hunt down each culprit down the act. "Everyone progressive successful this enactment volition look the afloat wrath of our agencies," Shah posted connected X aft the meetings. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the location curate from Bhutan and was briefed by the second connected each aspects of the blast, including the probe updates. President Droupadi Murmu, who is successful Angola, besides spoke to Shah implicit the telephone to enquire astir the blast.

The location curate connected Tuesday decided to manus implicit the probe into the incidental to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). This points to a panic angle, though sources said it whitethorn person much to bash with the Jaish panic module subordinate linked to the blast. With Dr Umar, who had escaped the caller crackdown connected the Faridabad module, suspected to beryllium the car bomber, Shah has asked the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) to lucifer the DNA illustration collected from the assemblage recovered successful the i20 car utilized for the blast with those of Dr Umar's household members. Sources successful the J&K information constitution told TOI that DNA samples collected from Dr Umar's household members had been despatched to Delhi.

Shah has asked FSL officials to implicit the workout astatine the earliest. The NIA was instructed to taxable a study astatine the earliest, detailing the preliminary findings. Tuesday's reappraisal meetings by Shah were attended by location caput Govind Mohan, manager of

Intelligence Bureau

Tapan Deka, Delhi Police commissioner Satish Golcha and NIA DG Sadanand Vasant Date. DGP of Jammu and Kashmir Nalin Prabhat joined the gathering virtually. During the meetings, apical officials gave elaborate presentations connected the concern successful the aftermath of the blast, the sources said.