Investigators probing the Delhi Red Fort car blast that killed 10 people and injured over 20 others have traced the origin of the suspected doctors’ module to two Telegram groups believed to have played a key role in their radicalisation, Farzandan-e-Darul Uloom (Deoband) and another group run by Umar bin Khattab, a Jaish-e-Mohammad operative based in Pakistan.

According to the sources, Dr Umar Nabi, who is at the centre of the probe , and Imam Irfan Ahmad Wagay from Shopian, began their interaction through one of these groups. While the initial conversations focused on “Kashmir’s Aazadi” and the “suppression of Kashmiris,” they later shifted to broader themes of global jihad and retribution.

Investigators suspect that the group’s handlers met some of the members during their visit a

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