Encrypted chats, shadow financing and the dark web—the blast near the Red Fort metro station that killed 12 and injured several more has peeled back the layers of what the police and central investigating agencies are calling India’s ‘new-age militancy’ involving ‘educated’ operators.

As the information related to the chain of supply, and the series of communication that were in the works, emerge, it seems that the old playbook of arms, hideouts, and foreign handlers has now been modified. It is a digital architecture with fluid, faceless and frighteningly adaptive infrastructure, one that thrives in encrypted networks, invisible payments, and fragmented loyalties.

According to the sources in the central agencies involved in the investigation process, the preliminary probe suggests that

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