(MENAFN- Live Mint) A Delhi court sent a Red Fort blast accused to the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for 10 days. The accused, Amir Rashid Ali, was produced before the Principal District and Sessions judge at the Patiala House Court complex by the NIA on Monday, November 17.

"Personnel from the Delhi Police and the Rapid Action Force [RAF] were deployed in and around the court complex," a police officer told PTI, adding that anti-riot gear-equipped teams were on standby to prevent any untoward incident.

Who is Amir Rashid Ali?

As per officials, the NIA had arrested Amir Rashid Ali on Sunday. The Hyundai i20 car that exploded near the Red Fort metro station was reportedly registered in his name.

He was arrested from Delhi by the NIA, which had launched a massive search operation after taking over the case from Delhi Polic a day after the blast that occurred around 7 pm on November 10.

In a statement, the NIA said its investigations revealed that the accused, a resident of Samboora, Pampore in Jammu and Kashmi, had conspired with the alleged“suicide bomber”, Umar Un Nabi, to unleash the terror attack, ANI reported.

According to the anti-terror agency, Amir had come to Delhi to facilitate the purchase of the car, which was eventually used as a vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (IED) to trigger the blast.

Delhi Read Fort blast

Thirteen people were killed and several were injured after an explosives-laden car exploded near the Red Fort in the national capital on November 10.

A doctor from Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama, Umar Nabi, was driving the car and had links to a "white collar" terror module busted with the recovery of explosives mainly from Faridabad in Haryana.

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The NIA has forensically established the identity of the deceased driver of the vehicle borne IED as Umar Un Nabi, a resident of Pulwama district and Assistant Professor in General Medicine Department in Al Falah University at Faridabad.

The NIA also seized another vehicle belonging to Nabi.

The vehicle is being examined for evidence in the case, in which NIA has so far examined 73 witnesses including those injured in the blast that rocked the national capital on November 10.

Faridabad police question over 2,000 Kashmiri students, tenants

As security agencies continue to probe the possible links to Delhi blast, Faridabad Police on Monday continued questioning multiple Kashmiri students living on rent in the city in an effort to see whether any other possible leads and links could be found into the alleged "white collar terror module" responsible for the blast.

According to police officials, atleast 2,000 tenants and students who are living in the city have been questioned till now, with further questioning underway.

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"Following the blast near the Red Fort, police have been questioning Kashmiri students and tenants living on rent in Faridabad. So far, Faridabad police have questioned over 2,000 tenants and are continuing to question them further," according to a statement from Faridabad Police.

Faridabad's Al-Falah university is where one of the first connections to the alleged "terror module" were revealed by authorities, with officials finding caches of arms, explosives, Ammonium Nitrate among other things.

(With inputs from agencies)

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