Overview
- Delhi Police confirm 10 dead and 24 injured after a high-intensity blast in a Hyundai i20 outside Lal Qila Metro at 6:52 pm.
- CCTV shows the i20 parked at Sunheri Masjid from 3:19 pm to 6:48 pm before exploding four minutes later, a timeline investigators call suspicious.
- The vehicle’s ownership trail runs through Gurugram and Faridabad to Pulwama; owner Mohammad Salman was detained and buyer Tarik is in custody for questioning.
- NIA, Delhi Police Special Cell and CFSL teams collected blast samples, cases were filed under UAPA sections 16 and 18 and the Explosive Substances Act, and DNA and post-mortems are underway to identify victims.
- Agencies are examining a possible connection to a same-day J&K–Faridabad operation that seized about 2,900 kg of IED materials and led to multiple arrests including doctors, with no confirmed forensic link yet and security tightened at sensitive sites such as Vaishno Devi and Jammu.