'Restless': Nuh eatery staff recall final days of bomber

Investigators tracing the final days of Umar un-Nabi detained the owner of a medical shop in Dhauj who police described as a “friend” of Nabi and one of the last people to speak with him in Faridabad before the suspected suicide bomber moved base to Nuh under an alias.

- Leena Dhankhar

The shop owner, who investigators said had known the 35-year-old doctor for nearly a year, became a key figure on Sunday as teams in Faridabad tried to reconstruct how Nabi slipped out of the city, rented a room in Nuh as officials arrested his associates and unravelled their module.

Investigators said that CCTV footage from markets and testimonies from staff at eateries have given them a window into Nabi's final movements in the days leading up to the November 10 blast.

According to officials, CCTV footage recovered earlier this week showed Nabi visiting a med-