A Delhi court on Thursday remanded Jasir Bilal Wani, a key accused in the Red Fort blast case, to seven days of National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody.
Wani was produced before the court by the NIA as his earlier 10-day custody, granted by Principal Sessions and District Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna on November 18, was set to expire on Thursday.
A resident of Qazigund in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, Wani was arrested in Srinagar by the NIA on November 17 for allegedly providing technical support to carry out terror attacks by modifying drones and attempting to manufacture rockets ahead of the November 10 blast.
NIA arrests Faridabad man for harbouring Dr Umar
Earlier on Wednesday, NIA had arrested a Faridabad resident for allegedly harbouring Dr Umar-un Nabi, the man who drove the explosive-laden car that blasted outside the Red Fort in Delhi on November 10. According to the official spokesperson, the agency arrested Soyab, a resident of Dhauj in Haryana's Faridabad, for allegedly providing logistical support to "terrorist Umar Un Nabi" before the Delhi terror bomb blast.
Soyab was the seventh accused arrested by the NIA in the case, part of a 'white-collar' terror module busted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police. NIA had earlier arrested six other key aides of the car bomber Umar over the course of its investigation in the case.
Soyab, who worked as a lab assistant at Alfalah University in Faridabad, allegedly helped Umar procure chemicals from the university laboratory.
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