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.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has apprehended two more terror operatives allegedly involved in the Delhi Red Fort area bomb blast conspiracy, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 11.
— ANI (@ANI) February 25, 2026
The duo, identified as Zameer Ahmad Ahangar of Ganderbal (J&K) and…
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.
At the time, the probe agency had found that Muzammil Ganai, Shaheen Saeed, Mufti Irfan, and Adeel Ahmed Rather had co-conspired in the plot masterminded by Dr Nabi. The others arrested back were mainly those involved in sheltering the accused.
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 the few 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.
Pakistan had alleged that the blast at a Shia mosque during Friday prayers, in which at least 31 people lost their lives, had links to India. New Delhi has categorically dismissed the allegations.
