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November 11, 2025e-Paper
Updated – November 11, 2025 10:59 pm IST – New Delhi
Remains of vehicles at a cordoned off area following a blast that occurred near Red Fort Metro Station on Monday, killing at least nine people and gutting several vehicles, in New Delhi, on November 11, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI
The occupant of the car in which an explosion was reported on the evening of November 10, 2025, was likely Dr. Umar, a resident of Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, Government sources told The Hindu.
As the death toll in the Red Fort blast rose to 13 on Tuesday (November 11, 2025), a doctor from Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has emerged as the likely sole occupant of the car which exploded in the national capital on Monday (November 10) evening, senior government officials told The Hindu. Initial investigation seems to suggest that the bomb was premature and did not cause as much damage as it could have, as the suspect was acting hastily due to the pressure of police raids that had already led to the arrest of two of his colleagues.
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On Tuesday (November 11), the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) handed over the probe to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The doctor, identified as Umar Nabi, was teaching at the Al-Falah University in Faridabad, near Delhi. He was also killed in the explosion, officials said. His family said that he left Kashmir for Delhi in March 2024. A general medicine specialist, he had been a topper at General Medical College, Srinagar.
A preliminary probe has found that “powerful explosives” were used in the blast, whose impact was so strong that none of Dr. Nabi’s body parts could be retrieved from the car. The J&K police has collected DNA samples from his family which will be matched with the remains found in the burnt car.
Dr. Nabi had possibly been trying to escape an ongoing raid by the Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh police, which has led to the arrest of eight people over the past 15 days, including three doctors. Two of those doctors — Muzamil Ahmad Ganaie, 32, alias Musaib from Pulwama; and Shaheen, 40, a resident of Lucknow — were arrested in Faridabad on October 30 and November 8, respectively. They were also working at the Al Falah hospital, around 40 km from Delhi. The third doctor, Adeel, a resident of Wanpora in J&K’s Kulgam, was arrested from Saharanpur in U.P. on November 5.
These arrests became public only on the afternoon of November 10, after the Faridabad police conducted a press conference announcing the seizure of. The J&K police subsequently issued a statement saying that seven people had been arrested so far in J&K, Haryana, and U.P., while about 2,900 kg of explosives, weapons, timers, batteries, and metal sheets were recovered. It said that “the role of a few more individuals has surfaced who will be traced and apprehended.”
Another government source said that Dr. Nabi was initially not a suspect and by the time his role became clear, after the explosives were seized from Faridabad on November 9 and 10, “he went missing.”
“Raids by security agencies across multiple locations in Delhi-NCR and Pulwama, recovering significant quantities of explosives, are believed to have led the suspect to act hastily under mounting pressure. The bomb was premature and not fully developed, thus limiting the impact. It did not create a crater, and no shrapnel or projectiles were found,” the source said.
After the powerful explosion in the slow-moving Hyundai i20 car at around 7 p.m. on Monday (November 10), the investigating agencies scoured CCTV footage to look for clues. A government source told The Hindu that the car can be seen on the CCTV footage, entering Delhi from Faridabad through the Badarpur toll plaza at 7:04 a.m. on Monday (November 10) morning. In the video, accessed by The Hindu, the driver can be seen wearing a black mask and paying cash at the toll gate. A bag can be seen on the rear seat.
“The J&K police informed us that the suspect in the car could be Dr. Umar [Nabi] as raids were on to arrest him. On November 10, after Dr. Muzamil [Ganaie]’s rented room was raided, [Dr. Nabi] spent the entire day driving around Delhi and finally entered the parking lot near Red Fort around 3:15 p.m. He stayed in the vehicle for three hours and left the parking spot at 6:48 p.m. The blast happened at 6:52 p.m.,” said the government source.
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Another government official added that it was too early to conclude that this was a suicide attack. “We are waiting for the forensic report to ascertain the nature of the explosives. If it were a suicide attack, the suspect would have driven the car into a police post or a crowded place for maximum impact. This car exploded as it slowed down near a traffic signal. We cannot rule out anything,” the official said.
The car, with a Haryana registration number (HR 26CE7674), had been sold multiple times, and its last owner was Dr. Nabi, officials said.
A Faridabad police spokesperson said on Tuesday (November 11) that they had helped J&K police in the arrest of Dr. Ganaie on October 30 and had no information about the whereabouts of Dr. Nabi.
“After Dr. Muzamil [Ganaie]’s arrest, we got information from the J&K police to raid certain places. The raids started on November 8, which led to the recovery of explosives and weapons,” the spokesperson said, adding that the police are questioning the staff and administration at the Al-Falah University, a private institution established in 2014.
Following the incident, the Delhi Police’s Special Cell detained at least 10 people from Faridabad, Haryana and several locations in Delhi, a senior officer said. “We have detained these suspects for interrogation to understand their connection with the prime suspect and their roles in the blast,” said the officer.
Published – November 11, 2025 11:38 am IST
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