Delhi blast accused Umar Nabi wanted to avenge Burhan Wani's killing in 2016: Report

Umar-un-Nabi was driving the Hyundai i20 that exploded near Delhi's Red Fort on November 10.

Umar-un-Nabi, who was driving the Hyundai i20 that exploded near Delhi's Red Fort on November 10, killing 15 people, wanted to take revenge for the killing of terrorist Burhan Wani by the security forces in 2016.

Hizbul Mujahideen's Burhan Muzaffar Wani, 22, was killed in an intelligence-driven police operation in Anantnag.

A report by NDTV said Nabi used to call himself “emir” and told the other white collar terrorists of his module that he was their ruler and leader. The character descriptor "emir" of the suicide bomber was given by Muzamil Shakeel.

Shakeel, who was the doctor at Faridabad's Al-Falah University, was the first to be recruited into the terror module by the Jaish-e-Mohammed's main contact, Maulvi Irfan Ahmed.

Investigators told NDTV that Shakeel told them he was just a "mere labourer" compared to the status and experience that Umar Un Nabi had. The terrorists named their plan "Operation Emir", with the suicide bomber as their pointsman.

Shakeel told investigators that Nabi knew nine languages and was the most intelligent person in the terror module. "We couldn't resist him [Umar Un Nabi]. His words were full of facts and research. He always called himself emir and didn't talk much. Till the end he maintained that it was about religion and nothing else," Muzamil Shakeel told the investigators according to NDTV.

Sources told NDTV that Umar often told the other doctors of the white collar terror module that the atmosphere in India was bad for Muslims and a genocide was a possibility, so they must remain prepared.

Shakeel also told investigators that some events frustrated Umar to such an extent that he ended up as a suicide bomber. According to the NDTV report, scrapping of special status from Jammu and Kashmir made Umar develop deep hatred for the security forces. The communal violence in Haryana's Mewat-Nuh region in July 2023, and the murders of Nasir, 25, and Junaid, 35 allegedly by cow vigilantes in March 2023 also made him upset.