Nabi’s house demolished after Delhi blast
A multi-storey house, belonging to Dr Umar Un Nabi, who allegedly triggered the car blast near the Red Fort Metro station on November 10, was demolished using explosives during the intervening night of November 13-14 in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
A total of 13 people were killed and 20 others were injured in the terror attack orchestrated by the members of a ‘White Collar’ terror module. Investigation into the blast has so far revealed that Umar, a doctor at Al-Falah University in Faridabad, was driving the Hyundai i20 car that exploded near a traffic signal on the Netaji Subhash Marg near Red Fort.
His presence in the car was later confirmed by matching DNA samples found at the blast site and collected from his mother. To avoid collateral damage in the built-up area, the neighbours and the family members of the terror suspect were directed to shift to safer locations before the house was demolished. The local police authorities have not issued any statement on the demolitions till late evening.
The demolition of his house in Kashmir is aimed at sending a stern message to those backing terrorist activities on Indian soil. Earlier, homes of local terrorists of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba—Adil Hussain Thoker of Bijbehara and Aasif Sheikh of Tral and others were razed to the ground after the Pahalgam terror attack. Their names figured in the list of local terrorists who were part of the bigger terror module behind the Pahalgam massacre.
The car blast near the Red Fort was triggered within hours after a recovery of about 2,900 kg of bomb-making material and sophisticated weapons, such as assault rifles, from Faridabad. This recovery was made from Muzammil and Shaheen Saeed, doctors and associates of Umar. Both doctors are now in custody and are being questioned to unravel the conspiracy behind amassing explosives in Faridabad. Investigators suspect that the module linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat Ul-Hind plotted to carry out a much bigger attack, and the Delhi blast was the result of Umar panicking after his associates were arrested.
Reacting to the demolition of Dr Umar Nabi’s home, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti said the “harshest recourse” should be taken against those involved in the Delhi blast, “but as per the law”.
Srinagar MP Aga Ruhullah Mehdi said that demolishing a home doesn’t deliver “punishment”, but that it only inflicts collective suffering. “Making an entire family homeless during the harsh winter of Kashmir without evidence/court order, or any law linking them to the incident is an act of cruelty. It doesn’t bring justice to the innocent lives that we lost in the terror attack, and it doesn’t achieve the ends of justice,” he said.
