NEW DELHI, Nov 18: Jammu and Kashmir Police have recovered the mobile phone of Red Fort suicide bomber Dr Umar-un-Nabi, revealing a video he recorded glorifying the November 10 attack as a “martyrdom operation,” officials said on Tuesday. The blast, carried out using an explosive-laden car driven by Umar’s brother Zahoor Illahi, killed 15 people.

The breakthrough came after the detention and interrogation of Illahi by a special team led by Srinagar SSP G V Sundeep Chakravarthy. Initially denying involvement, Illahi later admitted that Umar — who was in Kashmir from October 26 to 29 — had handed him the phone with instructions to “dump it in water” if anything happened to him. He then guided police to the location where he had discarded the device.

Despite water damage, forensic experts r

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