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New Delhi: Investigators probing the Red Fort blast have uncovered major forensic evidence linking Jaish-e-Mohammed operative Umar Nabi directly to the explosion, with clues indicating that he may have used a shoe-based ignition mechanism to trigger the deadly blast.

According to officials, security agencies recovered a shoe lodged near the right front tyre, beneath the driver’s seat, from Umar’s i20 car at the blast site. Inside the shoe, forensic teams found a metallic substance suspected to have been part of the detonation assembly. Crucially, traces of Triacetone Triperoxide - TATP, a powerful and highly unstable explosive known as the “mother of Satan", were found both on the shoe and the tyre fragments lifted from the s

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