Overview
- Delhi’s Patiala House Court granted the NIA custody of Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay, Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, Dr Adeel Rather, Dr Shaheen Saeed and Dr Muzamil Shakeel Ganie until January 16.
- In remand papers, the agency said custodial questioning is needed to explain code words flagged by forensic analysis of the accused persons’ digital devices.
- Investigators plan to confront the accused with co-accused and witnesses, conduct crime simulation, and trace additional locations and associates across Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and the National Capital Region.
- The probe centers on an alleged white-collar module that includes medical professionals, with nine arrests made so far in the case that killed 13 near the Red Fort on November 10.
- Officials have forensically tied Umar un Nabi to the blast vehicle through DNA matching with his mother, and they are tracing his communications, including reported links to handlers in Afghanistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.