Six months after a deadly vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) blast rocked the Red Fort area in New Delhi on November 10, 2025, resulting in 11 fatalities and multiple injuries, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has submitted a comprehensive 7,500-page chargesheet. The chargesheet was filed on Thursday before a special NIA court at Patiala House Courts in the national capital.
Information was available with The Chenab Times that the NIA’s extensive investigation has linked all 10 accused individuals, including the alleged driver of the explosives-laden car, Umar Un Nabi, who is now deceased, to Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH). AGuH is an offshoot of Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), an entity designated as a terrorist organisation by the Ministry of Home Affairs in June 2018.
The chargesheet has been filed under various stringent laws, including sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UA(P) Act) 1967, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, the Explosive Substances Act 1908, the Arms Act 1959, and the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act 1984. Charges against Umar Un Nabi, a former assistant professor of Medicine at Al-Falah University in Faridabad, Haryana, are proposed to be abated due to his demise.
Besides Nabi, the chargesheet names Aamir Rashid Mir, Jasir Bilal Wani, Dr. Muzamil Shakeel, Dr. Adeel Ahmed Rather, Dr. Shaheen Saeed, Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay, Soyab, Dr. Bilal Naseer Malla, and Yasir Ahmad Dar as accused. The VBIED blast on November 10, 2025, had not only claimed lives but also caused significant damage to property in the vicinity of the historic Red Fort.
The extensive investigation by the NIA, which spanned across the states of Jammu & Kashmir, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and the Delhi NCR region, has formed the basis of this chargesheet. The investigative agency has meticulously gathered evidence, including oral testimonies from 588 individuals, over 395 documents, and more than 200 seized material exhibits.
According to the chargesheet, the NIA has uncovered a significant Jehadist conspiracy through detailed scientific and forensic analysis. The investigation revealed that several accused, including some radicalised medical professionals, were inspired by the ideology of AQIS/AGuH to execute the attack. The chargesheet details how the accused had reconstituted the AGuH terror outfit as “AGuH Interim” during a clandestine meeting in Srinagar in 2022, following a thwarted attempt to travel to Afghanistan via Turkey. Under the banner of this reconstituted outfit, they had launched “Operation Heavenly Hind” with the avowed aim of overthrowing the democratically established Indian government and imposing Sharia rule.
The NIA probe further detailed that, as part of “Operation Heavenly Hind,” the accused actively recruited new members, disseminated the violent Jehadist ideology of AGuH, stockpiled arms and ammunition, and manufactured explosives on a large scale using commercially available chemicals. The investigation found that the accused had fabricated and tested various types of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
The explosive used in the Red Fort blast was identified as Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP). The accused had clandestinely procured the necessary constituent ingredients and conducted experiments to perfect the explosive mixture. The NIA, which took over the investigation from the Delhi Police, confirmed the identity of the deceased accused, Umar Un Nabi, through DNA fingerprinting.
Evidence collected from the crime scene and various locations identified by the accused in and around Al Falah University in Faridabad, as well as in Jammu & Kashmir, underwent thorough forensic examination, including voice analysis. The NIA investigation also uncovered the accused’s involvement in the illegal procurement of prohibited arms, including an AK-47 rifle, a Krinkov rifle, and country-made pistols with live ammunition. They had also experimented with rocket and drone-mounted IEDs, with the intent to target security establishments in Jammu & Kashmir and other parts of India.
Further revelations from the investigation indicate that the accused had procured laboratory equipment, including specialized items like MMO Anode, electric circuits, and switches, from various online and offline sources. Their plans extended to expanding their operations to other regions of the country, but these designs were thwarted with the busting of the terror module.
A total of 11 individuals have been arrested in the case thus far. The NIA continues its efforts to apprehend absconders whose roles have emerged during the investigation. Earlier, on February 13, a Delhi court had granted the NIA an additional 45 days to submit its chargesheet, after the agency sought a 90-day extension from the Additional Sessions Judge Prashant Sharma of Patiala House.
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