A terror module of five—Maulvi Irfan Ahmad Wagay, a cleric; Dr Adeel Ahmed Rather, a native of Anantnag who worked at a hospital in Saharanpur; Dr Muzammil Shakeel Ganai of Pulwama and Dr Shaheen Shahid of Lucknow working at Faridabad’s Al Falah university and suicide bomber Dr Umar un Nabi—was the core group that facilitated the car blast near Red Fort in Delhi. But who facilitated their movements? Who provided the financial support, and who all were in touch with them?

As the National Investigation Agency (NIA) pieces together the terror conspiracy to expose the role of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed—whose handlers guided the perpetrators to execute the blast—the first step is to gather evidence of their overground and underground networks in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Jammu and Ka

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