The National Investigation Agency on Thursday said it has arrested four more persons linked to the November 10 blast near the Red Fort metro station in Delhi.
This takes the total number of arrests in the case to six.
The agency said that the four persons were identified as Muzammil Shakeel Ganai from Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama, Adeel Ahmed Rather from Anantnag, Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay from Shopian and Shaheen Saeed from Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow.
“The four accused were taken into custody by the NIA in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on production orders from the District Sessions Judge, Patiala House Court,” read the statement.
The agency claimed that all four of them played a “key role” in the attack.
The NIA said on Thursday that it is working closely with state police forces “to track and arrest every member of the terrorist module involved in the carnage.”
The blast near the Red Fort metro station on November 10 had left 13 persons dead.
A doctor named Umar Nabi was believed to have been driving the car that exploded. Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident.”
On Sunday, NIA had arrested an aide allegedly linked to Nabi, who was identified as Amir Rashid Ali. The NIA alleged that the Hyundai i20 car used in the blast was registered in Ali’s name. This was the first arrest in the case.
A day later, the NIA arrested another alleged associate linked to the doctor, identified as Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, a resident of Qazigund in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag, from Srinagar. A Delhi court on Tuesday remanded Wani to 10 days custody of the NIA.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday highlighted that “all Kashmiris are being looked at with suspicion” after the Delhi blast despite only “a few people” being responsible, and that a deliberate perception is being created to implicate the entire community, making it difficult for Kashmiri’s to leave for outside.
The Jammu and Kashmir Students Association on Monday flagged that Kashmiri students in several northern states are facing profiling, eviction and intimidation in the aftermath of the November 10 blast.
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