The Delhi blast case that killed 15 people near the Red Fort on November 10 has taken a new turn, adding some new info to the case. It has been recently discovered that one of the co-accused, Muzammil Shakeel Ganaie, used a flour mill to prepare chemicals used for making explosives. 

This information was shared with NDTV, which also accessed pictures of the flour mill, a grinder, and several electronic machines recovered from a house in Faridabad, Haryana.

Ganaie is from Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir and has been arrested for playing a key role in planning the blast. He was working as a doctor at Al-Falah University in Faridabad, which has now become the centre of the investigation. 

Police recovered 360 kg of ammonium nitrate and other explosive materials from his rented room on November 9, just one day before the blast. During questioning, Ganaie told investigators that he used a flour mill to grind urea and separate ammonium nitrate, which is used to manufacture explosives. He had reportedly been doing this for a long time to refine and prepare explosive chemicals.

Sources said that Ganaie first took the flour mill and other machines to the house of a taxi driver in Faridabad, telling him they were gifts for his sister’s wedding. Later, he shifted the machines to his own rented room, where he secretly worked on the explosives.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is handling the case, has detained the taxi driver for questioning. The driver told investigators that he met Ganaie around four years ago when he took his son for treatment to Al-Falah Medical College and Hospital, where Ganaie worked.

So far, Ganaie and two other colleagues from Al-Falah University have been arrested. They are Shaheen Saeed from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, and Adeel Ahmed Rather from Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir.

The blast was carried ]out using a Hyundai i20 car driven by a suicide bomber, identified as Umar un Nabi, who was also a Kashmiri doctor and connected to Al-Falah University. The explosion killed 15 people and injured many others.

Just hours before the blast, the Jammu and Kashmir Police had announced that it had uncovered a large interstate and international terror network linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group.

Police had also seized nearly 2,900 kg of explosives, including ammonium nitrate, which was reportedly used in the Delhi blast. The investigation is still ongoing, and more arrests are possible as authorities continue to uncover how the blast was planned and executed.