A Delhi court on Tuesday remanded an alleged key associate of Umar Nabi, the doctor who was believed to have been driving the car that exploded near the Red Fort metro station, to 10 days custody of the National Investigation Agency, ANI reported.

Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, a resident of Qazigund in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, was arrested on Monday from Srinagar.

“NIA investigations have revealed that Jasir had allegedly provided technical support for carrying out terror attacks by modifying drones and attempting to make rockets ahead of the deadly car bomb blast…” the agency said then.

Wani was an “active co-conspirator” behind the attack and had worked closely with Nabi to “plan the terror carnage”, the agency alleged.

The blast near the Red Fort metro station on November 10 had left 13 persons dead. Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident”.

Wani was produced before a special National Investigation Agency court in Delhi on Monday for a closed courtroom hearing.

The agency told the court that the blast intended to create an atmosphere of panic in the country, ANI reported quoting unidentified persons.

Hours before the blast, the police said that it had cracked an “inter-state and transnational terror module” in Faridabad and Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur. Two doctors from Kashmir – Adeel Ahmad Rather and Muzamil Shakeel – were among those arrested in the alleged case.

The police said at the time that it had recovered 2,900 kg of improvised explosive device-making material in raids in several states.

In the backdrop of the blast and the terror module case, the Jammu and Kashmir Police on November 12 conducted raids at more than 300 locations in the Kashmir valley allegedly linked to persons affiliated with the banned Jamaat-e-Islami.

The actions came after intelligence that elements linked to the Jamaat-e-Islami, banned under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, were trying to revive the organisation under different names, the police said.

The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have not officially linked the terror module and blast cases with the ongoing raids.

The Jammu and Kashmir Students Association on Monday flagged that Kashmiri students in several northern states are facing profiling, eviction and intimidation in the aftermath of the November 10 blast.

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