The National Investigation Agency on Thursday said it has arrested four more prime accused persons linked to the November 10 blast near the Red Fort metro station in Delhi. This takes the total number of arrests in the case to six.

The agency said that the four persons were identified as Muzammil Shakeel Ganai from Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama, Adeel Ahmed Rather from Anantnag, Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay from Shopian and Shaheen Saeed from Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow.

“The four accused were taken into custody by the NIA in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on production orders from the District Sessions Judge, Patiala House Court,” the statement added.

The NIA claimed that all four of them played a “key role” in the terror attack.

The blast near the Red Fort metro station on November 10 had left 13 persons dead. A doctor named Umar Nabi was believed to have been driving the car that exploded. Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident”.

On Sunday, the agency had arrested an aide allegedly linked to Nabi, who was identified as Amir Rashid Ali. The NIA alleged that the Hyundai i20 car used in the blast was registered in Ali’s name. This was the first arrest in the case.

A day later, the NIA arrested another alleged key associate linked to the doctor, identified as Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, a resident of Qazigund in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag, 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.

A Delhi court on Tuesday remanded Wani to 10 days custody of the NIA.

The NIA said on Thursday that it is working closely with state police forces “to track and arrest every member of the terrorist module involved in the carnage”.

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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