Red Fort module linked to al-Qaeda affiliate: NIA
New Delhi, May 15 -- The November 10 car bomb explosion near the Red Fort that killed 12 people was part of an operation called Heavenly Hind launched in 2022 by a group of self-radicalised medical professionals linked to the al-Qaeda affiliated Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH), the National Investigation Agency said in a charge sheet filed in a Delhi court on Thursday.
The 7,500 page charge sheet filed in a special court at Patiala House courts in Delhi names four doctors - Muzamil Shakeel, Adeel Ahmed Rather, Shaheen Saeed, and Bilal Naseer Malla. It also names other co-conspirators Jasir Bilal Wani, Aamir Rashid Mir, Yasir Ahmad Dar, Soyab (one name only) and Mufti Ahmad Wagay, who allegedly played a key role in the radicalisation of the module members. The charges against Dr Umar un-Nabi, who was driving the car, have been proposed to be abated since he died in the blast.
The charges include the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), the Explosives Act, the Arms Act, and the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.
"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-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)," NIA said in a statement. AQIS and all affiliated organisations were notified as terrorist organisations by the ministry of home affairs in June 2018.
AGuH was formed in July 2017 by Zakir Rashid Bhat alias Zakir Musa, once a close aide of Burhan Wani, after parting ways with Hizbul Mujahideen. In the initial days, the AGuH coordinated with other outfits in Jammu and Kashmir, but a continuous crackdown by the security forces led to its activities coming to an end. Officials in the intelligence community said AGuH was not widely accepted in Kashmir. And after the killing of Musa by the security forces in May 2019, it became defunct.
NIA said on Thursday that the accused reconstituted the AGuH as 'AGuH Interim' after a clandestine meeting in Srinagar in 2022.
The charge sheet details how earlier that year, four doctors, including Nabi and Muzammil, travelled to Turkey and met their handler, who went by the codename Ukasha, people familiar with the matter said. But a plan to further travel to Afghanistan failed to come to fruition, an officer said.
Following the blast, NIA's forensic experts established the identity of the deceased bomber Umer Un Nabi through DNA fingerprinting.
So far, the agency has arrested 11 persons in the case while a probe is on to track absconders....
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