Two weeks before the Delhi blast, accused Dr Umar-un-Nabi travelled to his family home in Quil village of Pulwama, where he met only his brother and handed him a mobile phone with instructions to destroy it if anything happened to him, agencies said on Wednesday. Investigators later recovered the phone from a nearby pond and extracted crucial data that pointed to his radicalisation and alleged role in the conspiracy.

During this visit, he met his brother and handed him a mobile phone with instructions to destroy it in water if anything happened to him. The brother followed these instructions, but investigators recovered the device from a pond near their home in Pulwama and successfully extracted the critical information.

Forensic experts later recovered data from the water-damaged device

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