NIA arrests two more in Delhi blast case

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The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday said it has arrested two more persons in connection with the November 10 blast near Delhi’s Red Fort.

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This took the total arrests in the case to 11.

The two men are Zameer Ahmad Ahangar from Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal and Tufail Ahmad Bhat from Srinagar. The agency has alleged that they supplied weapons to the prime accused in the case.

The blast near the Red Fort metro station left at least 11 persons dead and several injured. Umar Un Nabi, a doctor, was believed to have been driving the car that exploded. Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident”.

The National Investigation Agency, which is investigating the case, said its probe had found that Ahangar and Bhat were active overground workers of banned terror organisation Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind.

Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind was formed in Kashmir in 2017 when some militants broke away from Hizbul Mujahideen – the largest indigenous militant organisation in Kashmir – and claimed that they were affiliated to terror group Al Qaeda.

The agency stated that it had established through examination of evidence the involvement of the two men not only in...

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