Jaish Handler ‘Hanzulla’ Sent Bomb-Making Videos to Accused

GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 21st Nov: A Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed handler, known by the alias ‘Hanzulla’, shared bomb-making videos with Dr Muzamil Shakeel — one of the four doctors arrested in connection with the car blast near Delhi’s Red Fort that killed 15 people — according to security sources.

Preliminary investigations suggest ‘Hanzulla’ is a pseudonym. Posters seen in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nowgam in October carried the name “Commander Hanzulla bhai”, which first alerted agencies to possible Jaish-linked activity in the region.

Investigators believe the handler established contact with Shakeel through Maulvi Irfan Ahmed, a cleric from Shopian who allegedly radicalised medical professionals and formed what is being described as a “white-collar terror module”. Shakeel, formerly associated with Al-Falah University in Faridabad, had his medical licence revoked after the arrests. He is accused of transporting explosives and facilitating the handover of the white Hyundai i20 used in the blast to suicide bomber Umar Mohammad, alias Umar-un-Nabi.

Officials say the module, believed to be linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed, had been planning multiple attacks targeting high-profile areas in Delhi, Gurugram and Faridabad. They allegedly prepared around 200 powerful IEDs and used coded messages over Telegram — including “biryani” for explosives and “daawat” for a specific attack event — to avoid detection.

DNA analysis confirmed Umar as the bomber whose vehicle exploded near the Red Fort last week. Sources suggest he may have triggered the blast prematurely after the arrest of Shakeel and another accused doctor, Adeel Ahmad Rather, and the recovery of nearly 2,900 kg of explosives from Faridabad on the same day.

Al-Falah University Under Intense Scrutiny
Al-Falah University has emerged as the central point of the investigation, with multiple raids and financial probes underway. The university’s founder, Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate earlier this week in an alleged terror-financing case linked to money laundering and forgery of accreditation documents.

Over ₹48 lakh in cash, digital devices and key documents were seized during searches at more than 25 locations, including the university’s Okhla headquarters.

Faridabad Police on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe activities linked to the institution as part of the broader crackdown on the radicalised network.