Delhi Blast: NIA Arrests 7th Accused Soyab for Sheltering Terrorist Umar Un Nabi

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said on Wednesday. They arrested a Faridabad resident for allegedly harbouring terrorist Umar Un Nabi immediately before the Delhi Red Fort car bomb blast. Soyab, a resident of Dhauj, Faridabad (Haryana), is the 7th accused to be arrested in the case, news agency ANI quoted the NIA as saying.

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Delhi blast

On the evening of Monday, 10 November, a high-intensity blast ripped through an explosive-laden car near Delhi’s Red Fort metro station and killed several people. The blast occurred just hours after authorities arrested eight people. Including three doctors connected to Al Falah University, and seized 2,900 kilograms of explosives. Authorities said the discovery exposed a white-collar terror module involving Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, spanning Kashmir, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. The agency said investigations revealed that Soyab had also provided logistical support to the terrorist Umar before the 10 November. Car bombing that killed several persons and injured many others outside the Red Fort in the national capital.

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Who was Umar Un Nabi?

Umar-un Nabi, a doctor and assistant professor at Al Falah University, has been identified as the suicide bomber who drove the explosive-laden Hyundai i20 car that detonated outside the Red Fort in Delhi on 10 November. Investigators established that Nabi had known links with a white-collar terror module. That authorities busted after recovering explosives primarily from Faridabad in Haryana, on 10 November. PTI earlier reported that officials described Nabi, a 28-year-old doctor from Pulwama. As the most radicalised and key operative in the network spanning Kashmir, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. Officials also believe that he planned a powerful Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) blast timed around the Babri Masjid demolition anniversary on 6 December.

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