NEW DELHI, Nov 15:
Delhi Police has detained three persons, including two doctors from Haryana’s Al Falah University who were known to Dr Umar Nabi, the driver of the car that exploded near the Red Fort, officials said on Saturday.
Follow the Daily Excelsior channel on WhatsApp
They have questioned several individuals, including a tea seller in whose stall Umar had made a brief stop, and also visited a mosque where he prayed on the day of the blast.
The detentions were made during coordinated raids conducted on Friday night by the Delhi Police Special Cell and a National Investigation Agency team in Haryana’s Dhauj, Nuh and adjoining areas, officials said.
According to sources, they detained two Al Falah University doctors — Mohammad and Mustakim — from Nuh.
The two were allegedly in touch with Dr Muzammil Ganaie, who was arrested in connection with the wider probe into a “white collar terror module”. They were also close friends of Dr Umar Nabi, the sources said.
Initial interrogation revealed that one of the detained doctors was in Delhi on the day of the blast. He came to the national capital to appear for an interview at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), they said.
Further questioning of Mohammad and Mustakim is underway to ascertain the extent of their association with Dr Ganaie and whether they had any role in the wider conspiracy being probed, they added.
Meanwhile, in a parallel operation in Nuh, investigating agencies detained another man, identified as Dinesh alias Dabbu, for selling fertilisers without a licence.
It has emerged that the members of the terror module had pooled around Rs 26 lakh to buy explosive substances and spent Rs 3 lakh out of it to purchase NPK fertiliser, which is commonly used to make bombs.
It is being probed whether Dinesh sold the fertiliser to the suspects and if his activities extended beyond the illegal trade, officials said.
Separately, the officials said that Dr Shaheen Sayeed, another Al Falah University doctor arrested in connection with the terror module case, had recently applied for a passport.
A police verification was conducted for her application on November 3 at room number 29 of the university hostel and officers also photographed her as part of the routine procedure, they said.
Agencies are examining whether her application has any bearing on the ongoing investigation.
Investigating agencies have also detained a doctor from Punjab’s Pathankot for questioning in connection with the Delhi blast earlier this week, police sources said on Saturday.
The 45-year-old surgeon has been working at a private Medical College and hospital in Pathankot for more than two years, they said.
He had previously worked at the Al Falah University in Haryana’s Faridabad district, to which the prime suspects in the “white collar terror module” case were also linked, sources added.
Meanwhile, an MBBS student has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district for his alleged links to terror outfits, a senior police officer said on Saturday.
The accused, identified as Janisur Alam alias Nisar Alam, an MBBS student of Al-Falah University, Haryana, and resident of Ludhiana with ancestral roots in Konal village near Dalkhola in Uttar Dinajpur, was picked up from the Surjapur Bazar area on Friday morning, he said.
Alam was arrested from the Surjapur Bazar area in Uttar Dinajpur while returning from a wedding ceremony at his ancestral home, on suspicion of alleged terror links by sleuths of the NIA, he said.
“The youth is a medical student of Haryana’s Al-Falah University. He had travelled to his ancestral home with his mother and sister to attend a relative’s wedding. Officers of the NIA intercepted him on his way back after tracking his movements through mobile-tower location data,” the officer said.
In Kanpur, the Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College has removed the name of Dr Shaheen Saeed from its pharmacology departmental board after her name emerged during the ongoing Delhi blast investigation, a senior official said on Saturday. (PTI)
Follow our WhatsApp channel
