Delhi Blast Probe: ED Raids Al Falah University

New Delhi: Nearly a week after the Red Fort blast that killed 15 people, a chilling undated video of suicide bomber Mohammad Umar Nabi, equating his act to “martyrdom”, has surfaced. Meanwhile as a sweeping multi-agency crackdown gathers pace, the ED on Tuesday arrested Al Falah group chairman Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui after day-long raids in a terror-financing probe, while a Delhi court sent Jasir Bilal Wani, an “active co-conspirator” of Nabi, to 10 days’ NIA custody.

In the video, which lays bare the depth of radicalisation, Nabi, appearing calm and in control, claims, "One of the misunderstood concepts is the concept of what has been labelled as suicide bombing. It is a martyrdom operation..."

The breakthrough came after Jammu & Kashmir police recovered the damaged mobile phone of Nabi after detaining his brother Zahoor Illahi. During questioning, Illahi revealed that Nabi had visited Kashmir between October 26 and 29 and handed him a mobile phone with instructions to “dump it in water” if anything went wrong.

Illahi led investigators to the dumping site, enabling retrieval of the phone and its data.

Forensic experts extracted several videos in which Nabi justified the suicide attack as a religiously “praised act”, referencing ISIS and Al-Qaeda propaganda theme material officials say confirms his deep immersion in violent extremist content. The device has been handed over to the NIA for full analysis.

Nabi had also made various videos of him talking about the suicide attack and claimed that such acts were one of the most praised acts in the religion. The nearly two-minute-long video has also made rounds on social media.

In Delhi, Wani, alias Danish, a native of Anantnag, who was arrested on Monday, was sent to 10 days' NIA custody by a court. The agency said he provided technical assistance, modifying drones and experimenting with crude rockets to support the module’s plans.

With several suspects emerging from medical backgrounds, the probe agencies have widened the investigation, launching an intensified nationwide scrutiny of foreign-educated doctors, especially those from Pakistan, Bangladesh, the UAE and China. Hospitals and nursing homes have been directed to submit their lists, though some have asked agencies to access records directly from the Delhi Medical Council.

"Kindly provide details of the doctors working in your hospital who have obtained degrees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, UAE and China, in view of the prevailing situation following the bomb blast at Red Fort on 10.11.2025. Kindly treat this as most urgent," the Delhi police in a letter to hospitals and nursing homes stated.

The agencies plan to question these doctors to determine if they had any knowledge of the alleged "doctor terror module" or were in contact with its members.

All institutes, nursing homes and hospitals have been directed to provide details of doctors on their payrolls, particularly those with educational backgrounds in the four specified countries.

"Agencies will question all doctors who completed their degrees from these four countries. Their criminal records and financial transactions will be thoroughly checked," sources said.

In another development, the Central financial probe agency arrested Siddique after it raided over 25 locations in Delhi-NCR linked to the Faridabad-based Al Falah University and its trust, whose faculty and premises appear repeatedly in the terror investigation.

The ED is probing suspected shell companies, money laundering, false compliance filings, overlapping signatories and common contact trails across nine entities linked to the group.

The ED official said "key" personnel overseeing finance and administration of the trust and the university have also been covered in the raids.

The ED investigators have also found an absence of EPFO/ESIC filings inconsistent with the reported scale of operations and overlapping of directors/signatories and weak KYC trails across entities.

Instances of minimal salary disbursal through banking channels and absence of human resource records, apart from synchronised incorporation patterns and common contact coordinates across firms, have been detected at the varsity, the officials said.

In addition, prima facie discrepancies have been noted in claims regarding UGC and NAAC recognition which indicate alleged non-compliance with norms established for educational institutions, the officials said.