Red Fort blast: Umar’s ‘video’ surfaces, says ‘suicide bombing a misunderstood concept’

While the video has been doing rounds on social media, the Delhi Police said they are verifying it. It is suspected that he made this video and later circulated it to his associates, police sources said. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Delhi Police Special Cell are probing the blast case.

Umar was employed as an assistant professor in the general medicine department of Al Falah University in Faridabad.

Officials had earlier said DNA samples taken from Umar’s mother confirmed it was him behind the wheel of the car. The Indian Express earlier reported that investigators had relied on key forensic clues to establish that Umar was driving the car, including a charred portion of a leg found near the accelerator and a black sports shoe lying beside the wreckage.

The NIA has arrested two close associates of Umar — Amir Rashid Ali, a resident of Pulwama, and Kasir Bilal Vani alias Danish, a resident of Anantnag — in connection with the blast.

It was in Ali’s name that the Hyundai i20 was registered, said the agency. “Amir had come to Delhi to facilitate the purchase of the car, which was eventually used as a vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device to trigger the blast,” a spokesperson of NIA had said.

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