The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested two more terror operatives suspected of involvement in a November 2025 bomb blast case in Delhi's Red Fort area.
The arrested duo, both of whom are from Jammu and Kashmir, have been identified as Zameer Ahmad Ahangar from Ganderbal and Tufail Ahmed Bhat from Srinagar. With this, the total number of arrests made in the terror case has risen to 11.
The probe agency has alleged that Ahangar and Bhat were active over-ground workers (OGWs) for the Ansar Ghazwat Ul Hind (AGH), a banned terror outfit, and were involved in moving arms that were to be used in the terror plot on Indian soil.
More specifically, the NIA has alleged that the duo had supplied weapons to Dr Umar Un Nabi, the prime accused in the Red Fort blast case.
The doctor from Pulwama, who had driven the car that exploded in the Red Fort area on November 10 last year, killed himself, in addition to 12 others. The blast had also injured 32 more people in the vicinity.
The NIA's crackdown on the terror conspiracy in the Red Fort blast case, which has so far caught the main conspirators in the blast case—as well as a few of those who sheltered them—also comes amid recent potential terrorist threats on temples and other religious sites in the national capital.
"Blast alert in front of the Red Fort in Delhi. Terrorists may target a temple in Chandni Chowk. Lashkar-e-Taiba is plotting an IED attack. They are planning a major terrorist attack in India to avenge the February 6 mosque blast in Islamabad, Pakistan. Major temples in the country can be targeted by Lashkar-e-Taiba," an ANI report said last week, quoting intelligence sources.
