Umar Nabi video on suicide bombing was found on his own phone, say investigators

With a video of Red Fort bomber Dr Umar Nabi, in which he refers to suicide bombing as a “ martyrdom operation “, emerging, investigators probing the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror module he was part of told The Indian Express it has been extracted from his own mobile phone.

According to highly placed sources, Umar had handed over the phone to his younger brother, who was picked up by the Jammu and Kashmir police from his Pulwama residence on the night of the Red Fort bombing. His older brother is also in police custody.

“He (the younger brother) had dumped the phone on Umar’s instructions,” said a source. “During questioning, he confessed that his brother handed him the device.”

They said the younger brother then led the police team to a drain, where the phone had been dumped. “