Security forces late on Thursday demolished the house of Dr Umar Nabi, the suicide bomber in the Delhi Red Fort bomb blast case, in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
Officials said the action was initiated
after explosives were recovered from his residence during searches. The demolition, carried out between Thursday and Friday, was a follow-up to a massive blast that destroyed the house, prompting security forces to cordon off the entire area.
A high alert was declared across South Kashmir, with additional forces deployed to prevent any law-and-order issues as searches continued through the night.
Forensic teams were expected to examine the debris to gather further evidence.
The exercise was similar to how the houses of the Pahalgam terror attack accused were demolished, after forces had claimed that there were explosions in their houses during the odd hours.
The car blast near the Red Fort on Monday night claimed 13 lives and injured several others.
The impact of the explosion was such that several vehicles were damaged, and visuals from the site showed mangled bodies and scattered debris.
Umar was behind the wheel of the Hyundai i20 that was laden with explosives.
His identity was confirmed after DNA samples collected from the blast site matched those of Dr Umar’s mother.
Umar, who was known as an academically accomplished professional in his circle, allegedly turned radical over the past two years.
Investigators said he had joined several radical messaging groups on social media.
It was also revealed that Umar was seen in multiple CCTV clips recorded across Delhi on the day of the incident.
One particular piece of footage from the Sunehri Masjid parking lot near the Red Fort shows him entering at 3.19 pm and leaving at 6.28 pm, barely 24 minutes before the explosion occurred.
Umar was a key member of a “white collar” terror module busted earlier this week. He hails from Koil village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama.
Hours after police busted the terror module with links to proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, and arrested eight people, including three doctors, the high-intensity blast ripped through a slow-moving car near Delhi’s Red Fort area.
Around 3,000 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, potassium chlorate and sulphur were seized after police busted the terror module, which spanned across Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
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