New Delhi: The bomb that left 12 dead near Red Fort is believed to have exploded accidentally while being driven around by a panicked doctor—who had escaped from Faridabad during a police raid—due to the instability of the device, ThePrint has learnt.

Sources in the security establishment said that a slip up by the terror module and a dogged probe by the Jammu and Kashmir Police team led by Srinagar SSP G.V. Sundeep Chakravarthy cut short a much more elaborate terror plan—launched post-Operation Sindoor—to strike multiple places in the national capital.

They said the ‘self-radicalised’ Dr Umar U. Nabi, who owed allegiance to Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind—a Jammu and Kashmir-based specific wing of Al Qaeda—was scared of being caught by police. He had panicked following a raid in Faridabad, Harya

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