Logistics, transport routes prepared in F’bad college

FARIDABAD: Room 13 in Building 17 of Al-Falah Medical College in Faridabad has become central to investigations into the Red Fort blast and the recovery of nearly 2,900 kilograms of explosive material from Faridabad’s Dhauj and Fatehpur Taga villages.

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The room, occupied by Dr Muzammil Shakeel Ganaie from Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, is suspected to have been used for planning and coordination by the alleged terror module, investigators said. Police believe the suspects — including faculty member Umar un-Nabi, the man purportedly behind the wheels of the car that exploded, and Dr Shaheen Shahid, a doctor from Lucknow — used the room to plot logistics and transport routes for ammonium nitrate intended for multiple blasts across the Delhi-NCR.

The investigation has thrust Al-Falah Medical College — a 72-acre campus in Faridabad established in 2014 with a self-described mission to provide affordable medical education to students from underprivileged backgrounds — into the centre of one of India’s largest terror probes in years,

What was founded as an institution serving minorities and rural students, drawing hundreds from Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, is now being called the “Faridabad node” of a wider terror network. The Hyundai i20 that exploded near Red Fort was parked inside the campus for nearly 20 days, police said.

“The door of Room 13 was always closed. We often saw unknown people entering late at night or early in the morning,” said a student living two doors away. “Unlike other students who kept their rooms open, this one always had visitors, but no one ever spoke much.”