A joint team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the State Investigation Agency (SIA) conducted a raid at the rented residence of cleric Irfan Ahmed Wagay, who was arrested in connection with the blast near the Red Fort in Delhi. Maulvi Irfan, who served as the imam of a mosque in Nowgam, was residing in a room near the mosque. The NIA and SIA searched the premises as part of the ongoing investigation.
On Saturday, teams of the NIA and SIA, accompanied by personnel from the CRPF and local police, reached Naik Bagh and carried out a thorough search of Maulvi Irfan's room.
The NIA is probing his role in the Red Fort bomb blast case. The agency is also examining possible logistical support, communication links, and ideological connections with the perpetrators of the gruesome terror attack at the national capital on November 10.
The investigation is focused on uncovering the entire network behind the bombing, including whether additional accomplices were active in Jammu and Kashmir.
According to sources, the NIA has intensified searches and interrogations in connection with the Delhi bombing case.
Jaish-e-Mohammed posters were reportedly recovered from the cleric's room. Maulvi Irfan, a resident of Nadigam in Shopian district, is also an accused in an earlier Jaish-e-Mohammed poster case, in which similar material had been recovered from his residence. He is additionally accused of radicalising youth.
NIA nabs ninth accused in Delhi blast case
Earlier, the National Investigation Agency arrested another key accused on Friday, taking the total number of arrests in the case to nine. The latest arrest marks a significant breakthrough in unraveling the conspiracy behind the terror attack that claimed 11 lives and left several others injured last month.
According to an official spokesperson, the NIA arrested the prime accused in connection with the bomb blast that occurred near the historic Red Fort.
The ninth accused has been identified as Yasir Ahmad Dar, a resident of Shopian in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. He was apprehended from New Delhi and formally arrested under relevant provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, in case RC-21/2025/NIA/DLI.
Investigations have revealed Yasir's active involvement in the conspiracy behind the car bomb blast that rocked the national capital on November 10. A key participant in the plot, he had reportedly sworn allegiance and taken an oath to carry out self-sacrificial operations.
Further investigation by the anti-terror agency has established that Yasir was in close contact with other accused in the case, including Umar Un Nabi, the deceased perpetrator of the bombing, and Mufti Irfan Ahmad.
Working in close coordination with various central and state agencies, the NIA continues to act swiftly to dismantle the entire terror network behind the attack. Earlier this month, the agency conducted extensive searches at the premises of several accused and suspects in Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh, during which digital devices and other incriminating materials were seized.
These searches followed similar raids at the premises of prime accused Dr. Muzammil Shakeel Ganie and Dr. Shaheen Saeed at the Al-Falah University complex and other locations in Faridabad, Haryana.
