Flour Mill Used For Bomb Making Found In Terror Doctor's Home: Sources

The co-accused in the Delhi blast case, Muzammil Shakeel Ganaie, used a flour mill to prepare chemicals for explosives, sources told NDTV on Friday.

NDTV also accessed the pictures of the flour mill and electrical machinery, which were recovered from the house of a taxi driver in Haryana's Faridabad.

Ganaie, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama who has been arrested for playing a key role in the deadly blast near Red Fort on November 10, used the flour mill at his rented room in Faridabad, from where the police recovered 360 kg of ammonium nitrate and other explosives on November 9.

He used to grind urea in the flour mill to make it fine and then refine it with an electrical machine and prepare chemicals.

During the interrogation, Ganaie, a doctor at the Faridabad-based Al-Falah University, which is now central to the Delhi car blast case, said that he had been using the flour mill to separate ammonium nitrate from urea for a long time and to refine the explosives.

A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the blast that left 15 people dead, has detained the taxi driver for questioning.

The driver told the NIA that he met Ganaie when he had taken his son for treatment to the Al-Falah Medical College and Hospital about four years ago, sources said.

Ganaie and his two colleagues from the Al-Falah University - Shaheen Saeed of Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow and Adeel Ahmed Rather of Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag - have also been arrested in the Delhi blast case.

15 people were killed and many others injured when a Hyundai i20 car, driven by a suicide bomber, Umar un Nabi, exploded near the Red Fort.

Umar, a Kashmiri doctor, was also affiliated with the Al-Falah University.

Hours before the Red Fort blast, Jammu and Kashmir Police had announced that it had cracked an interstate and transnational "white-collar" terror module, linked to the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, an al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group.

It said it also seized 2,900 kilograms of explosive substances, including ammonium nitrate, which was reportedly used in the Delhi blast.