Recovered from phone dumped in river, Red Fort bomber’s ‘martyrdom’ video was shot in April

New Delhi: Umar Un Nabi, the doctor at the centre of the Red Fort blast, had recorded the video, purportedly recovered from his cell phone, in April. Umar handed the phone to his brother when he last visited home before the blast, asking him to dispose of it if the police came knocking, ThePrint has learnt. The phone, said sources, was recovered from a river.

“He (Umar) shot the video in April. He carried two phones at that time and one he gave it to his brother Zahoor Illahi and instructed him to dump it. This video was saved on the phone which has now been recovered,” a source said. Both of Umar’s brothers, Illahi and elder brother Ashiq Hussain, were picked by police for questioning in the aftermath of the blast that has claimed at least 15 lives at the time of filing this report.