All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief, Asaduddin Owaisi has strongly condemned the undated video in which Dr Umar Un Nabi, the prime accused in the Delhi Red Fort blast, is heard defending suicide bombing as “martyrdom”. Owaisi described the recent explosion near the Red Fort as a clear act of terrorism.
“Suicide is haram in Islam and the killing of innocents is a grave sin. Such acts are also against the law of the land. They are not ‘misunderstood’ in any way. This is terrorism and nothing else,” said Owaisi.
The Lok Sabha MP, turning his criticism to the government, also challenged Home Minister Amit Shah on the issue of security. He referenced Shah’s previous claims, made during Operations Sindoor and Mahadev, that no Kashmiri locals had joined terror groups in recent months. Owaisi questioned this, writing on X, “Where did this group come from then? Who is accountable for the failure to detect this group?”
Authorities recovered a critical piece of evidence, an 80-second video from Dr Umar’s phone, in which he appears to justify suicide bombings. The footage was discovered following the interrogation of his brother, Zahoor Illahi, who had been driving the explosive-laden vehicle used in the November 10 blast that killed 12 people near the Red Fort.
Investigators say that Dr Umar was the most radical among the doctors allegedly involved in a terror network, and that he actively encouraged others, including Jasir Bilal (also known as Danish), recently arrested by the National Investigation Agency, to embrace suicide missions.
At the time of the explosion, police believe Dr Umar was carrying two mobile phones. They are now probing whether he had more devices or SIM cards, and are also working to determine where exactly the video was filmed, possibly by analysing his mobile camera data or other metadata.
