New Delhi: Umar un Nabi, the doctor involved in last year’s Red Fort blast tested IED-rockets in the forests of Jammu and Kashmir. He also planned to drop IEDs on sensitive locations using drones, the chargesheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the matter has said.
Nai was part of a terror module,, linked to an al Qaida offshoot, which allegedly used artificial intelligence and digital platforms such as ChatGPT and YouTube to make IEDs, it has been stated in the document.
“One of the chargesheeted accused, Jasir Bilal Wani, had used YouTube and ChatGPT to research how to make rockets and IEDs. Jasir allegedly prepared rocket IEDs and tested them in the Qazigund forest along with the co-accused,” an NIA official said, as reported by The Telegraph Online.
These details are part of the 7,500-page chargesheet filed earlier this month before a Delhi court against 10 accused persons, including doctors, in connection with the car bomb blast in November last year that killed 11 people and injured several others, the official said.
The NIA has ascertained that the high-intensity blast was carried out by a “white-collar” terror module linked to Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind – an offshoot of al Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).
“Jasir had stayed at the Al Falah University campus in Haryana on two to three occasions during 2024-25 to provide technical support for the conspiracy. He utilised digital platforms to research various aspects of specialised equipment and chemical compositions related to the incident,” the o
fficial said.
The university in Faridabad came under the scanner during the probe into the terror module following the alleged involvement of three doctors working there, including the alleged suicide bomber.
Dr Nabi, the lone occupant of the car that blew up near the Red Fort, worked at Al Falah Hospital along with his colleagues, Dr Muzammil and Dr Shaheen Sayeed.
The chargesheet also names Aamir Rashid Mir, Jasir Bilal Wani, Dr Adeel Ahmed Rather, Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay, Soyab, Dr Bilal Naseer Malla and Yasir Ahmad Dar, apart from Nabi, Muzammil and Sayeed.
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs notified AQIS and all its manifestations as terrorist organisations in 2018.
“Jasir was introduced to the Pulwama-based Dr Nabi, who drove the explosives-laden car, by Dr Rather. Rather was instrumental in supplying IED ingredients, including powdered sugar and potassium nitrate, to Jasir. Nabi is said to have conducted research on rocket IEDs and provided guidance,” the NIA official said.
He claimed that Jasir had used YouTube and ChatGPT, searching for “how to make a rocket and in what proportion should the mixture be”.
Jasir allegedly prepared rocket IEDs and tested them in the Qazigund forest along with Dr Nabi, Dr Shakeel, and the other co-accused, the chargesheet says. Remnants of the devices were recovered from deep inside the forest by NIA teams based on disclosures made by Jasir.
Nabi had spotted Jasir’s potential and provided him with two drones with instructions to improve their flying range and payload capacity. They had allegedly planned to weaponise the drones by fitting them with explosives to attack security installations in Kashmir and other parts of the country, the chargesheet said.
According to the NIA, the explosive used in the blast outside the Red Fort was Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP), which was manufactured clandestinely by procuring ingredients and conducting experiments to perfect the mixture.