Centre calls Delhi blast ‘terror incident’ as probe net widens

A rush-hour explosion near the Red Fort in Delhi that killed 10 people was a “heinous terror incident” by “anti-national” forces, the Union government confirmed on Wednesday, as security agencies worked to nab the remaining members of a module operating from Faridabad that allegedly carried out the blast.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting of the cabinet committee on security and separately met Union home minister Amit Shah and national security adviser Ajit Doval, on a day the Faridabad Police rounded up a red Eco-Sport car, which they said was owned by the prime suspect of the blast, Umar Un-Nabi, a doctor hailing from Pulwama in Kashmir who was working in Faridabad.

Police are also investigating several new suspects, including another doctor from the Al-Falah University in Faridabad that has allegedly emerged as a common link between the main people accused of running the terror module.

“The country has witnessed a heinous terror incident, perpetrated by anti-national forces, through a car explosion near the Red Fort on the evening of 10 November 2025...the Cabinet reiterates India's unwavering commitment to a policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism in all its forms and manifestations," said a government statement.

Separately, authorities confirmed that 35-year-old doctor Nabi and his alleged associate Dr Muzammil Shakeel Ganaie, visited Turkey in 2022, and that the two men who accompanied Nabi in the Hyundai i20 car that stopped at a petrol pump in Sector 27 Faridabad for a PUC certificate on October 29 were allegedly Amir Rashid Mir, a Kashmir-based plumber, and Sonu, who worked at the second-hand car dealership from where the i20 was eventually purchased by Mir.