SRINAGAR: The Nationwide Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday performed intensive searches at almost a dozen areas across south Kashmir’s Pulwama, Shopian and Kulgam districts in connection with its probe into the November 10 car bomb blast shut to Delhi’s Red Fortress that claimed 15 lives and injured several others.
The raids basically focused suspects linked to a elaborate “white-collar” fear module allegedly accountable for radicalisation, recruitment, funding and execution of the excessive-depth explosion in the center of the national capital.
The NIA sources acknowledged that the blueprint of Moulvi Irfan Ahmad Wagay who served as an imam in a mosque in capital Srinagar modified into raided and thoroughly searched in Nadigam village of Shopian. Wagay, thought to be the mastermind in the wait on of the radicalisation and recruitment network of the module, modified into on the foundation arrested by Jammu and Kashmir Police in October 18 and later taken into NIA custody in November after the company took over the Red Fortress blast investigation.
The premises linked to Dr Adeel Ahmad Somewhat in Pulwama, who modified into arrested from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, in the first week of November were also searched by the NIA sleuths assisted by the local police. In addition they raided and as a result of this fact searched the properties and associated areas of Dr Muzamil Shakeel Ganai -also called Muzamil Mushtaq -and Amir Rashid, besides several over-ground workers (OGWs), the sources acknowledged.
Extra than one sites in Koil, Chandgam, Malangpora and Samboora areas of Pulwama that were beforehand identified as hideouts or assembly aspects for oldsters connected to the case were also searched, the sources acknowledged.
Native police sources acknowledged the simultaneous raids, which began early Monday morning and persevered till gradual evening, were aimed at making improvements to digital devices, documents, financial records and any incriminating field materials that can also save the funding trails, conversation networks and logistical strengthen extended to the perpetrators of the Delhi blast.
Up to now, the NIA has arrested nine other folks in the case RC-21/2025/NIA/DLI, alongside with mavens and professional formative years allegedly radicalised on-line and thru non-public contact by Wagay and his friends.
Amir Rashid Ali modified into arrested on November 16 from Samboora, Pampore in Pulwama for providing vehicle registration and logistical strengthen. Jasir Bilal Wani, alias Danish, a resident of Qazigund in Anantnag, modified into picked up from Srinagar on November 17 for offering technical strengthen alongside with drone modification and rocket makes an are attempting. On November 20, 5 accused were taken into NIA custody after preliminary arrest by J&Ample Police—Dr. Muzammil Shakeel Ganai, a doctor at Al Falah College in Faridabad who modified into smitten by planning and facilitation, Dr. Adeel Ahmed Somewhat from Pulwama for equivalent planning roles, Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay for preaching and ideological strengthen, and Dr. Shaheen Saeed, alias Shaheen Shahid or “Madam Surgeon”, a pharmacologist on the equivalent college who modified into tasked with recruiting females.
Soyab modified into arrested on November 25 from Dhauj in Faridabad, Haryana, for harbouring the bomber and providing logistical lend a hand and, in the kill, on November 28, Mohammad Asif, the imam of Bilali mosque in Banbhulpura, Haldwani, Uttarakhand, modified into arrested for ideological and logistical links, together alongside with his affiliate Nazar Kamal, an electrician who allegedly supplied technical and logistical strengthen.
Investigators possess described the community as a “white-collar fear module” as a result of several accused take care of loyal positions — doctors, engineers and teachers — and were utilizing their educated duvet to additional the phobia agenda.
The extremely efficient improvised explosive instrument (IED), planted interior a parked car shut to Gate No. 3 of the Red Fortress, detonated on the evening of November 10, inflicting immense-scale damage and dread in a single in all Delhi’s most crowded and historically major areas.
The NIA registered the case rapidly after the blast and has been aggressively pursuing leads across several states. Monday’s raids trace a main escalation in the investigation as the company makes an are attempting to dismantle all of the strengthen ecosystem of the module running from Kashmir.
