New details have emerged in the Red Fort car blast case that shook Delhi on Monday (10th November). According to police sources, one of the arrested accused, Dr Shaheen Shahid (mentioned as Shaheena in some reports), a member of the Faridabad terror module, has confessed during interrogation that she and her group of doctors were plotting terror attacks across India.
Shaheen told the J&K Police during interrogation that they had been collecting explosives for the last two years. The i20 car used in the blast had travelled through several parts of Delhi before reaching the Red Fort area. CCTV footage showed that the vehicle reached Connaught Place around 2:30 pm before heading toward the Red Fort, where the explosion occurred later in the evening.
According to the media reports, Dr Umar Nabi, an assistant professor at Al-Falah University in Faridabad, was under tremendous pressure due to raids by police at multiple locations in Delhi-NCR and Pulwama. Nabi, who belonged to the same module, fled Faridabad in a hurry with an incomplete IED (improvised explosive device) in the car. This, investigators believe, is why the explosion’s impact remained limited; there was no crater or metal shrapnel found at the site.
The blast, police clarified, was not a suicide car bombing. The vehicle, they said, neither hit any target nor crashed into a building. Umar Nabi died in the explosion, and police have collected DNA samples from his mother to confirm his identity using the remains recovered from the site.
The blast occurred near Gate No 1 of Red Fort Metro Station around 6:52 pm on Monday (10th November), killing 12 people. Police say the explosives used were identical to those seized earlier from Faridabad, confirming their link to the same terror module. This network is believed to have ties with terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, both active in Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh.
Dr Shaheen was in direct contact with Saadia Azhar, the sister of Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar, and was an active member of Jamaat-ul-Mominat, the women’s wing of the JeM terror outfit. The wing was established by Saadia in October 2025 to avenge her husband’s death during Operation Sindoor, an anti-terror strike by Indian forces.
The Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested Dr Shaheen from Al-Falah University in Faridabad and later took her to Srinagar for official custody.
Shaheen completed her MBBS from Allahabad Medical College (1996–2001) batch and later earned an MD in Pharmacology. From 2006 to 2013, she worked as an assistant professor at Kanpur Medical College after being selected through the UP Public Service Commission (UPPSC). After that, she suddenly disappeared. She was later dismissed in 2021 for not responding to college notices. After this, she started working at Alfalah University and where she came in contact with Dr Muzammil.