Red Fort Blast Probe Uncovers 17-Hour Car Trail Before Deadly Explosion

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Delhi Police, assisted by the National Investigation Agency, has reconstructed the movements of a white Hyundai i20 involved in Monday's blast at the Red Fort. The car was first spotted at a toll plaza in Haryana's Mewat region around Sunday midnight and remained parked at the Red Fort parking lot near Sunehri Masjid for over three hours. According to officials, the car's occupant, Umar Un Nabi, a Faridabad-based doctor, did not meet anyone during this period, sparking suspicion that he was waiting for instructions. CCTV footage shows Umar checking his phone and moving around the car without speaking to anyone. The car's trail, established through scanning CCTV cameras, reveals that it moved slowly through heavy traffic in the evening before the blast occurred near Red Fort police post at around 6:52pm. Investigators believe Umar may have assembled the explosives using materials found in the area. The car's movements over the past 17 hours have been crucial in the investigation, with officials tracing its path from a toll plaza in Mewat to the Red Fort parking lot, and then to various locations in Delhi, including Connaught Place and Daryaganj. The car was seen moving slowly due to heavy traffic before taking a U-turn near the Chatta Rail Cut traffic signal, ultimately leading to the blast site. Umar's phone was switched off for the past two days, and officials suspect he was on the run after his colleagues at the Al-Falah medical college and former colleagues at Government Medical College, Anantnag, were arrested by Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana police. The investigation is ongoing, with officials working to establish whether Umar had any contact with others during his 17-hour journey. The car's route and Umar's actions have led investigators to believe that he may have chosen to detonate the explosives near Red Fort out of desperation.