The strongest lead emerged from a CCTV feed in the Dhauj market in Haryana. The footage, dated October 30, shows Nabi at a medical store handling a black bag and two mobile phones at the same time one handed over for charging, the other kept close. (Image Source: X.com/ANI)
The probe into the deadly explosion outside Delhi's Red Fort last Monday, allegedly carried out by Dr. Umar Un Nabi, zeroes in on a digital ghost left by two crucial mobile phones he carried just days before the attack.
These devices, which remain stubbornly missing, are now considered the "single biggest missing piece" in unraveling the conspiracy.
Investigators of the National Investigation Agency, Delhi Police Special Cell, and Jammu & Kashmir Police are putting together a minute-by-minute account of Nabi's last 36 hours.
Their attention has turned with heightened intensity to the period between October 30 and November 10, during which it is believed that Nabi ditched his flagged numbers.
The main lines were reportedly shut off on the same day his close associate, Dr. Muzammil Shakeel Ganaie, was arrested a calculated step, it now appears, to snap all digital links that law enforcement could trace.
This prompted the switch to two new, prepaid numbers acquired under assumed identities. Officials theorize that this "white-collar" terror module, suddenly exposed, went dark, leading Nabi to adopt these burner phones for his final operational phase.
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However, the strongest lead emerged from a CCTV feed in the Dhauj market in Haryana. The footage, dated October 30, shows Nabi at a medical store handling a black bag and two mobile phones at the same time one handed over for charging, the other kept close.
This dual-device configuration suggests a segregated communication strategy: one for mundane contact, the other reserved exclusively for his handlers and sensitive operational messaging.
More than 65 CCTV clips have been tracked since then, mapping his movement across Haryana and into Delhi. However, in every confirmed sighting after the evening of November 9 including his 15-minute stop at the Faiz Elahi Mosque at Turkman Gate just hours before the blast the phones are conspicuously absent.
Investigators are thus presented with a distressing gap in the data. "The absence of data is itself a kind of evidence," one senior officer said, his suspicions about the time spent inside the mosque evident.
The working hypothesis remains that Nabi either shifted or deliberately discarded the operational devices just before the attack a final act to protect the identities of those who directed and paid for the deadly operation.
Tracing these two missing phones is now paramount to identifying the network behind the Red Fort blast and determining if the incident was a precursor to a larger, organized plot.
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