Investigations have further revealed that illegal firecracker manufacturing was being carried out in several residential houses near the accident site. However, no arrests were made during the operati ...
The chargesheet, submitted before a special NIA court in Delhi, details what officials described as a meticulous, "almost laboratory-grade" approach adopted by the accused to fabricate and use IEDs.
According to the NIA, all 10 accused, including the main perpetrator Dr Umer Un Nabi (deceased), were linked to Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH), an offshoot of Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).
NIA, in a press release, stated that the investigation found the accused to have been radicalised into the ideology of the proscribed ISIS terror outfit by his associate.