The conspirators of the 2025 Delhi car bomb blast raised the sum needed for the terror act on their own and were not funded by any foreign sources, a new report claimed.
The members of the doctors' module managed to pool an amount of Rs 26 lakh among them, which was reportedly used to get the explosives needed to carry out the attack. They started planning for the attack in 2023, one of the accused reportedly revealed during interrogation. After piecing together every confession and information gathered through other means, it is safe to believe that they wanted to execute simultaneous blasts at different locations.
Dr Umar Mohammad (Umar-un-Nabi), the man who died inside the car when the bomb went off, had made a contribution of Rs 2 lakh to the cause, NDTV said, quoting a source. Dr Muzammil Shakeel, another key member of the module, chipped in with Rs 5 lakh while Lucknow native Shaeen Saeed also contributed Rs 5 lakh. According to the report, two men identified as Adil Rather and Muzaffar Rather contributed Rs 8 lakh each. The common link connecting them all is the Al Falah University, where all of them worked together.
The module had entrusted Dr Muzammil Shakeel to buy the explosives needed for their "mission," and he went through tutorial videos and literature on explosives before setting out to get the raw materials, NDTV said. Later, he spent Rs 3 lakh from the sum to purchase 26 quintals of NPK fertiliser from Gurugram and Nuh in Haryana. They were to extract explosive chemicals from it instead of triggering any alarms by trying to purchase bomb-making stuff directly. Money was also spent on electronic components needed for the assembly, which was bought from two different markets in Faridabad. Muzammil bought a deep freezer to store the chemicals in a stable environment, the report added.
An AK-47 rifle that was recovered from Adil Rather's locker was also bought by Dr Muzammil, the investigators found out. It was purchased reportedly for a sum of Rs 6.5 lakh. However, everything was not always smooth between the terrorists: Umar and Muzammil had fought while at Al Falah University over monetary matters, and that is why Umar had to hand over his Red EcoSport car to the fellow conspirator, the report added.
The November 10 car blast outside the Red Fort Metro Station had claimed the lives of 15 people.
