An accomplice of the alleged Delhi suicide bomber, Dr Umar Un nabi, was arrested on Sunday by the anti-terror agency National Investigation Agency (NIA) from the national capital, six days after the tragedy that claimed 13 lives.
This was the first time the probe agency has described Dr Umar Un Nabi, who was behind the wheel when the car exploded near the Red Fort on November 10, as a “suicide bomber”.
The arrested person has been identified as Amir Rashid Ali, a resident of Samboora in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pampore.
Investigators say that the arrested person “had conspired with the alleged suicide bomber to unleash the terror attack”.
“Amir had come to Delhi to facilitate the purchase of the car which was eventually used as a vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (IED) to trigger the blast,” the agency said in a statement.
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