Delhi 10/11 Probe: Suicide Bomber Handed Phone to Brother During Pulwama Visit, Ahead of Attack
Suicide attacker gave phone to brother days before Red Fort blast.
Investigators have confirmed that the disturbing martyrdom video recorded by Delhi suicide bomber Dr Umar Mohammad alias Umar-un-Nabi was filmed at least one week before he detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the Red Fort on November 10, killing 13 people. The footage was discovered only after authorities recovered a water-damaged phone that Nabi had deliberately handed to his brother during a visit to their family home in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir.
Sources revealed that Nabi travelled to Pulwama shortly before returning to Far (Faridabad), where he was employed as an assistant professor of General Medicine at Al Falah University. Prior to departing, he gave one of his two mobile phones to his brother and instructed him to keep it safe. As news broke of the successive arrests of Nabi’s colleagues — Dr Adeel Ahmed Rather on November 7, Dr Muzammil Shakeel on November 9, and Dr Shaheen Saeed on November 10 — the brother grew alarmed upon learning police were also searching for Nabi.
Fearing implication, the brother panicked and discarded the device into a nearby pond in Pulwama. When security agencies traced both of Nabi’s known phones and found one last active in Pulwama, sustained questioning of the family led to the phone’s retrieval. Despite extensive water damage and a malfunctioning motherboard, forensic experts eventually extracted the video several days after the bombing itself.
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In the recovered footage, Nabi calmly justifies suicide bombings as “martyrdom operations” permissible under Islam, arguing that death is predestined and should not be feared. Psychological analysis noted his steady delivery, absence of eye contact with the camera, and unwavering conviction, describing the message as carefully scripted and intended to convince viewers of the righteousness of his actions.
The revelation establishes that the video was likely recorded in Room 13 of Building 17 at Al Falah University — the same location where Nabi and his radicalised associates, allegedly linked to the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed, planned the attack and stored nearly 2,900 kilograms of explosives. Officials caution that the clip may have been intended either as Nabi’s personal manifesto or as propaganda to radicalise others within the module.
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