Srinagar: Dr Umar Mohammad drove the car – the Hyundai i20 – that exploded near Delhi’s historic Red Fort on Monday, claiming nine lives and injuring 20 others, confirmed the DNA test results on Thursday.
Details revealed that investigators had taken DNA samples of Dr Umar from the exploded car near the blast site on Monday.
Dr Umar was working as a senior doctor at the Al Falah University in Faridabad. “His DNA sample matched completely with that of his mother and brother. The DNA sample matched with several body parts of Umar recovered from the exploded car,” details revealed.
On Wednesday, investigators had collected DNA samples of Umar’s mother and mother after they were detained in Pulwama by the police following the deadly explosion in Delhi.
The blast occurred hours after Jammu and Kashmir police and Faridabad police recovered 2900 kg of explosives from two residential houses in Faridabad on Monday. The revelation about explosives being stored in Faridabad came after police arrested Dr Muzzamil Shakeel and Dr Adeel, both associates of Dr Umar.
Fearing arrest, Dr Umar drove the i20 car – laden with explosives – around Delhi in panic on Monday before reaching the Red Fort area on Monday.
According to details, around 50 CCTV cameras have been scanned by the investigators across Delhi, which had captured Dr Umar driving the car at several locations in the national capital including Connaught Place, Mayur Vihar, Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, central Delhi district and south Delhi district.
A CCTV footage showed his car on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, where, according to reports, he made at least two stops.
They said that he made one stop at a roadside dhaba where he ate, and another at a mosque in Firozpur Jhirka, Mewat district, where he was seen offering prayers. “Later, he parked his car near another eatery, reclining in the driver’s seat and spending the night there,” they said.
As probe in the Delhi blast case widens, investigations has revealed that the Faridabad terror module came to fore after Jammu and Kashmir police launched a routine probe into a poster pasting incident in Srinagar’s Nowgam area.
A top official said that J&K police were investigating into a routine incident after posters – linked to Jaish-e-Mohammad – were put up in Bunpora area of Nowgam on the intervening night of October 16 and 17 this year.
He said that the investigation led the police to Dr Adeel, who is believed to have been captured in a CCTV footage while putting up posters in the Nowgam area.
“As the investigation intensified J&K police traced Dr Adeel in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur. He was then arrested by the police on October 27. Following his arrest the lid was blown off the major terror plot that led to arrest of Adeel’s other associates Dr Muzzamil and Dr Shaheen and subsequently led to the recovery of 2900 kg of explosives from Faridabad,” he said.
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