Delhi Red Fort blast: Court sends accused Amir Rashid Ali to 10-day NIA custody

Delhi court on Monday sent Amir Rashid Ali, the accused in Red Fort blast to 10-day NIA custody.

NIA arrested him from Delhi on Sunday. Amir Rashid Ali is a resident of Samboora in Pampore, who had travelled to Delhi last year to help procure the vehicle used as a car-borne improvised explosive device (IED).

Mediapersons were barred from entering the court premises, which virtually turned the proceedings 'in-camera'.

Later, sources in the courtroom said the judge allowed the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) plea seeking custodial interrogation of the accused for 10 days.

A heavy deployment of Delhi Police and the Rapid Action Force (RAF) was seen outside the court premises, besides keeping personnel equipped with anti-riot gear on standby to maintain order.

Ali was likely the last person to have been in contact with Dr Umar Nabi, who was driving the explosive-laden car that detonated outside the Red Fort on November 10, killing 13 people.

The remand comes a day after the NIA announced Ali's arrest for allegedly conspiring with "suicide bomber" Nabi to execute the terror attack.

Forensic analysis has confirmed that the driver who perished in the blast was Dr Umar Un Nabi, a young Pulwama-based medical professional working as an Assistant Professor at Al-Falah University in Faridabad.

Thirteen people were killed and several injured after an explosives-laden car exploded near the Red Fort in the national capital on November 10.

A doctor from Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama, Umar Nabi, was driving the car and had links to a "white collar" terror module busted with the recovery of explosives mainly from Faridabad in Haryana.

(With PTI inputs)