Srinagar, Nov 17: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday was granted a 10-custody of the Delhi blast suicide bomber’s aide Amir Rashid Ali by the special anti-terror agency court in Delhi.
Amir, according to the anti-terror agency, was arrested for conspiring with the suicide bomber – Dr Umar – to carry out the terror attack which claimed 10 lives and left 32 others injured near Delhi’s historic Red Fort.
Per details available with news agency Kashmir News Observer, Amir was produced in the court today. The court granted 10-day custody of Amir to the NIA.
Amir had come to Delhi to facilitate the purchase of the car which was eventually used as a vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (IED) to trigger the blast, the NIA said on Sunday.
It added that the NIA has forensically established the identity of the driver of the vehicle as Umar Un Nabi, a resident of Pulwama and assistant professor in general medicine department in Al Falah University at Faridabad—(KNO)
