According to the NIA, all four played key roles in planning, financially supporting and facilitating the attack which killed several, and injured many others.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested four more “key accused” in the November 10 Red Fort blast, taking the total number of arrests to six as the probe into what officials describe as a “white-collar terror module” widens across Jammu & Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh.
Dr Muzammil Shakeel Ganai from Pulwama, Dr Adeel Ahmed Rather from Anantnag, Dr Shaheen Saeed from Lucknow, and Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay from Shopian—were all taken into custody in Srinagar through production orders issued by the District Sessions Judge, Patiala House Court, New Delhi.
According to the NIA, all four played key roles in planning, financially supporting and facilitating the attack which killed several, and injured many others.
The arrests come as part of a developing situation that has seen numerous medical professionals in scrutiny. Earlier this month, investigators swept all hospitals in J&K and raised concern around the depths of the module, following the recovery of an AK47 rifle from an unclaimed locker that was designated to Dr Adeel at GMC Anantnag.
Investigators stated that the arrested individuals were involved—through logistics, encrypted communication and ideological motivation—in the activities surrounding the suicide bomber, Dr Umar Nabi, who recorded videos rehearsing his justification for the attack.
The NIA had previously detained two additional suspects— Amir Rashid Ali, in whose name the vehicle used in the vehicle to kill these individuals was registered and Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, who allegedly provided technical support to the bomber.
Wani’s arrest signified a major turnaround when his father, Bilal Ahmad Wani, who had reportedly been refused permission to visit his sons in jail, set himself on fire in Qazigund; he ultimately died at the hospital in Srinagar, which resulted in protests and appeals for accountability in the inquiry.
Soon after the attack, the plans to hand the case to the anti-terror agency came followed the instructions of the Union Home Ministry, just law enforcement involved in the diversion of him as a threat; it is now working to interrogate all 6 of the accused as part of the objectives to plot the entirety of the conspiracy in case RC-21/2025/NIA/DLI.
Investigation officials outlined that the leap to the investigation had been focuses such as funding channels, online-related extremism networks and, possibly, cross-border coordination with indications that more arrests will be made as digital and financial evidence is probed.
The NIA also informed that they are working with several state police units to clue data in tracking support structures and overground facilitators thought to have provided cover and resources to the module.
