Overview
- Federal investigators said forensic tests identified Dr Umar Un Nabi as the deceased driver and confirmed the blast was a vehicle-borne IED, as the NIA arrested Kashmiri resident Amir Rashid Ali, in whose name the car was registered.
- Teams are reconstructing the bomber’s cross-state route through extensive CCTV, call data and tower dumps, have seized another vehicle linked to Umar, and have examined 73 witnesses in a coordinated multi-agency investigation.
- Police recovered two live 9mm rounds and one empty shell near the burnt Hyundai i20 with no weapon found, and are probing how prohibited-calibre cartridges reached the site.
- Agencies are tracking a suspected Rs 20 lakh hawala trail tied to associates, including about Rs 3 lakh allegedly spent on NPK fertiliser purchases, while forensic analyses examine components consistent with TATP and ammonium nitrate.
- Al-Falah University connections remain under scrutiny, though four detainees — including two doctors and a fertiliser dealer — were released after no concrete links were found, and a separate accidental blast at Nowgam police station handling seized explosives is under official inquiry.