4-car fleet: How the module moved explosives and guns

The vehicles used by the module

- Leena Dhankhar and Jignasa Sinha

Another car — this time a silver Maruti Brezza — has been seized by investigators as they worked to piece together the logistics and transport chain behind Monday's Red Fort blasts, officials aware of the matter said on Thursday.

The vehicle (HR87 U 9988), registered on September 25 this year under the name of Dr Shaheen Shahid, is the fourth to come under the scanner in the investigation.

The others include the white Hyundai i20 (HR26 CE 7674) driven by Dr Umar Un-Nabi, which exploded outside Red Fort killing at least 11 people; a red Ford EcoSport found in a Faridabad village on Wednesday; and a Maruti Swift Dzire, also owned by Shahid, which was allegedly used by another accused, Dr Muzammil Ghanaie, to transport explosive materials.

Investigators suspect the module used these four vehicles to ferry firearms from Jammu & Kashmir to Delhi-NCR, as well as move ammonium nitrate and other explosive materials in Faridabad and the Capital as part of a wider terror network under probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and J&K Police.

Two of these vehicles ~ the EcoSport (DLIO CK 0458) and the Brezza (HR87 U 9988) - were traced to Faridabad over the past two days. Yashpal Singh, spokesperson for Faridabad Police, confirmed both were recovered and handed over to central agencies.