Authorities have identified the prime suspect behind the Delhi car bomb blast as Dr. Mohammad Umar from Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir. The identification was made using CCTV footage from the blast site near the Red Fort. Officials revealed that Umar, born on February 24, 1989, worked at Al Falah Medical College and is suspected to be the suicide bomber behind the attack. The car that exploded reportedly belonged to him. Police released his photograph and stated that Umar had close links with Dr. Adeel Ahmad Rather and Dr. Muzammil Shakeel — two doctors arrested earlier in connection with a “white-collar” terror module jointly busted by the Jammu & Kashmir and Haryana police.
According to sources, all three individuals were associated with the same terror group. After learning about the arrest of his associates, Dr. Umar allegedly fled from Faridabad. Preliminary investigation suggests he panicked over the police crackdown and executed the blast himself. Officials believe Umar, along with two other accomplices, had prepared the car by fitting it with a detonator and planning the attack well in advance.
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CCTV footage from the area shows the I20 vehicle, bearing registration number HR 26 CE 7674, parked near the Red Fort metro gate for over three hours. The footage records the car entering the parking zone at 3:19 PM and leaving around 6:30 PM, just before the explosion occurred. Police traced the car’s last known owner to Tariq, a resident of Pulwama. Further examination revealed that the car had several traffic challans within the Delhi-NCR region, all of which had been cleared recently — a detail that investigators are now scrutinizing closely.