Delhi blast: New CCTV video captures exact moment i20 car exploded near Red Fort in huge fireball

A CCTV footage captured the exact moment when the high-intensity blast took place near Red Fort, Delhi, killing 12 people and injuring 20. The video, released by news agency PTI, showed the computer screen lighting up with a huge fireball exactly at 6:50 pm on November 10.

The blast from a slow-moving car ripped through the Red Fort metro station area on Monday evening, sending shockwaves across the nation. The blast was linked to a “white-collar terror module” busted in Faridabad just hours before the massive explosion.

Earlier, police had said a CCTV footage of the car that exploded showed a "masked man" driving the car. Multiple teams have been deployed to scan CCTV from the vicinity of the Red Fort and adjoining routes, officials said.

Delhi Red Fort Blast: What we know so far

1. The blast near the Red Fort occurred in a car on November 10. The National Investigating Agency (NIA) is investigating the incident.

2. Pulwama-based doctor Mohammad Umar Nabi is suspected to have been behind the wheel of the Hyundai i20. He was an assistant professor at Al-Falah University.

3. The police and investigation agencies are probing a "transnational terror module," establishing a link between the seized explosives in Faridabad and the blast near Red Fort in Delhi, which claimed the lives of eight people

4. Security forces also took strong action to bust inter-state Jaish-e-Mohammed module linked to the terror plot.

During the investigation of this case, two arrests were made from Shopian and Ganderbal between October 20 and 27 and on November 5. A medical practitioner Dr Adil was apprehended from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, sources said.

5. The accused revealed the names of other persons involved in this module. Subsequently, Dr Muzammil, a doctor from Al Falah Medical College in Faridabad, was arrested, the sources said.

Umar Nabi, who was suspected of driving the car in which the Red Fort explosion occurred, was allegedly a member of this module.

6. The explosion near Red Fort was caused by the same type of material stockpiled in Faridabad, from where nearly 3,000 kilograms of explosives were seized, the sources told PTI news.

7. A massive consignment of explosives, weighing 2,563 kilograms, was recovered from the house of Hafeez Mohammad Ishtiaq, a resident of Mewat and an Imam at Al Falah Mosque in Faridabad's Dhera Colony.

8. In subsequent raids, 358 kilograms of additional explosive material, detonators, timers, were seized, sources said, adding that approximately 3,000 kilograms of explosives and bomb-making equipment stored by this module was seized.

9. Essential DNA, explosive, and other samples have been collected from the site. The sources said Umar fled as he panicked by the successful crackdown of security forces and his anxiety and desperation likely led to the Red Fort explosion.

Whether it was deliberate or accidental will emerge in investigations, but it is certain that the blast was an integral part of the same chain of events during which a major terrorist module was exposed and a huge quantity of explosives seized, they said.

10. The Red Fort blast was also linked to the finding of posters in Srinagar which led to an FIR on October 19, according to a senior security source. The posters were found in an area under the Naugaum police post in the Jammu and Kashmir summer capital.

(With inputs from agencies)