Overview
- Multiple agencies are investigating potential links between a Faridabad-based terror module and the deadly car explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort, with the NIA now leading the blast case.
- Searches continue across Al-Falah University and its medical facilities, with investigators examining whether laboratories were misused to make or store explosives.
- Authorities say arrests include Dr Muzammil Shakeel, from whose rented rooms officers recovered ammonium nitrate, AK-series rifles, timers, batteries and remote-control devices.
- Reports differ on the quantity of explosive-making material seized, with specific recoveries cited around 350–360 kg and some accounts aggregating the haul to roughly 2,900 kg.
- Faridabad police conducted large-area combing and questioned more than 50 people linked to the campus, while the university’s website was reportedly hacked as officials stress cooperation with the probe.