Police reconstruct Red Fort blast suspect’s last hours using footage from 50 cameras

Delhi Police on Thursday, November 13, 2025, reconstructed the last hours of Umar Nabi, the sole occupant of the car that exploded near the Red Fort on Monday, November 10, killing 13 people so far. His movements, from his departure from Faridabad the night before the blast to his execution, were recreated using footage from more than 50 cameras.

Investigators also found that the three main suspects, medical doctors all affiliated with Al-Falah University – Nabi, Muzammil Ahmad Ganaie and Shaheen Shahid, who were behind the wheel of a Hyundai i20 filled with explosives – used the Switzerland-based encrypted messaging app Threema to plan and coordinate their activities related to the terrorist plot.

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Nabi had also created a Signal implementation group consisting of two to four members to coordinate its operations.

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Police investigating the blast said the suspects collected more than ₹ 26 lakh in cash, which was handed over to Nabi for safekeeping and operational use.

Dr. on Al-Falah University campus. Notebooks and diaries seized from the rooms of Ghanaie (Room 13) and Nabi (Room 4) contained various coded entries, names and numerical sequences dated between 8 and 12 November; This suggested detailed planning for multiple attacks. Police said they also rented accommodation to store explosives.

The harrowing hours of his journey from Haryana to the national capital are pieced together in a route mapping exercise, showing how he stopped for food at a roadside eatery near the Delhi-Mumbai highway and spent the night inside his car before entering the national capital the next morning.

A police source said that he started off using the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on Sunday, November 9, and then got off the highway and reached Firozpur Jhirka in Haryana’s Nuh district.

Later, on Monday morning (November 9), he was seen again on CCTV cameras installed along the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, slowly heading towards Delhi.

Police said Nabi entered Delhi from the Badarpur border the next morning, using the same route he used from Faridabad.

“He appeared to have planned every step, including the means of entry and exit, to avoid detection,” the police source said.