Delhi Blast Live Updates: J-K cops detain Haryana preacher in ‘white collar’ terror module case

On November 7, three days before an i20 car exploded near the Red Fort, Dr Umar Nabi Bhat, the man said to be driving the vehicle, called his sister-in-law in Pulwama to say that he would return home in three days.

On Monday night, as the family in Koil village of Pulwama waited for Umar’s return, police showed up and asked for his brother Zahoor Illahi. They took him away, only to return sometime later to take away his elder brother Ashiq Hussain. The Bhats said they were not given any reason. Umar’s father Ghulam Nabi Bhat was picked up for questioning while his mother was taken away, reportedly for DNA sampling.

Most MBBS students at Al Falah Medical College in Faridabad’s Dhauj did not have any real interaction with Dr Muzammil Ganai, a junior resident doctor working in the emergency wing of the institute, who was arrested on October 30 after J&K Police linked him to “interstate and transnational terror module”.

"We are worried about our job prospects after graduation. Who will want to hire after these arrests,” said a third-year MBBS student at the college.

At Al Falah University, five batches of MBBS courses with 150 to 200 students each are conducted every day. Established in 1997 as a dispensary, the college began Btech courses as a college in 2003. In 2014, it began UG and PG degree courses after being upgraded to university status. In 2019, it began UG medical classes and two years ago, it also began PG medical classes. It has an ‘A’ grade accreditation from NAAC.

Security forces continue checks with K-9 squad dogs at the blast site outside the Red Fort. The car blast on the evening of November 10 claimed 13 lives.

On the Delhi blast, Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao says, "It is clearly an intelligence failure. Such incidents must not happen in other states. My deepest condolences to those who died and those who were injured. The NDA government must take this seriously. This happened in Delhi, then it might as well take place in some other state."

Haryana DGP OP Singh has said that thousands of police personnel across Haryana have been put on high alert after the Delhi blast. "A state-wide high alert protocol has been issued. All suspicious locations and parking areas are being thoroughly checked... We are fully engaged in the operation along with other agencies."

Hours before the explosion in a car near the Red Fort in Delhi killed nine people on Monday evening, the J&K Police said they had busted an “inter-state and transnational” terror module linked with terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH), and that they had arrested seven people.

Who were the people arrested?

Two cartridges, including live ammunition, and samples of two different types of explosives are among more than 40 samples that have been collected by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team from the blast site near the Red Fort on Wednesday, reported news agency PTI.

Security has been tightened in Gonda in Uttar Pradesh after the blast near Delhi's Red Fort. Police are combing the area with sniffer dogs at regular intervals.

Haryana preacher Maulvi Ishtiyaq, who has been detained by the J &K Police in a 'white collar' terror module case, is likely to be placed under arrest. He will be the ninth person to be nabbed in the case by the Jammu and Kashmir police, which carried out an interstate raids on November 10 along with their counterparts in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, to unravel a 'white-collar' terror network of banned Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, reported news agency PTI.

Explosive material was stored at his rented residence by Dr Muzammil Ganaie alias Musaib and Dr Umar Nabi, the man who was driving an explosives laden car which detonated outside Red Fort on Monday evening killing 13 people.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police has detained a preacher from Haryana in a 'white collar' terror module case. The module was operating from a university in Faridabad, officials said. The preacher, identified as Maulvi Ishtiyaq, was taken to Srinagar after being detained from his rented house within the Al Falah university complex in Faridabad. The police had recovered more than 2,500 kg of ammonium nitrate, potassium chlorate and sulphur, the officials said.

He is likely to be placed under arrest, reported news agency PTI.