New Delhi: Investigators probing the horrific car bomb explosion at Delhi’s Red Fort have uncovered a chilling trail of radicalization among a group of young Kashmiri doctors, who were systematically groomed into terrorists during their medical training, according to sources familiar with the probe.
The devastating attack on November 10 claimed 15 lives and injured more than a dozen others when a Hyundai i20, steered by Umar-un-Nabi—a doctor from Kashmir tied to Al-Falah University in Faridabad—detonated near the historic landmark.
Authorities have pinpointed the main suspects as Muzammil Shakeel Ganai, Adeel Ahmed Rather and his sibling Muzaffar Ahmed Rather—all Kashmiri physicians associated with Al-Falah University—alongside Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay, another Kashmir native. While Muzammil, Adeel, and Mufti, plus their associate Shaheen Saeed, a Lucknow resident who lectured at the same university, are in custody, Muzaffar is believed to have escaped abroad.
According to the sources speaking to NDTV on Monday, the men’s descent into extremism unfolded over the past five years, starting amid their MBBS studies or internships. Their overseas manipulators initiated contact around 2020, methodically indoctrinating them to embrace suicide missions. To fuel their fury, the handlers circulated artificial intelligence-crafted videos falsely portraying mass killings of Muslims, planting the seeds for violent recruitment.
This cadre formed a sophisticated “white-collar” terror network connected to the Pakistan-headquartered Jaish-e-Mohammed and the al-Qaeda offshoot Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, dismantled in the nick of time before the Red Fort outrage.
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The sources detailed how Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay ignited the group’s transformation, first ensnaring Muzammil Shakeel Ganai during a 2023 encounter at Srinagar’s Government Medical College. Muzammil, in turn, drew in Adeel Ahmed Rather, Umar-un-Nabi, and Shaheen Saeed, broadening the cell’s reach.
The inquiry has exposed ambitions far beyond the single blast: blueprints for up to 32 vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices targeting Delhi and beyond.
Just hours prior, Jammu and Kashmir Police had touted the breakup of this cross-border “white-collar” syndicate, confiscating 2,900 kilograms of bomb-making materials, including ammonium nitrate—the very compound implicated in the capital’s carnage.
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