Argus News - 'Conspirators Won’t Be Spared': PM Modi's Stern Message From Bhutan

New Delhi, Nov 11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the nation on Tuesday, vowed that the "conspirators" behind the deadly blast near Delhi’s iconic Red Fort “won’t be spared”.

Speaking from Bhutan, where he is on a two-day state visit, Prime Minister Modi emphasised that the government would “get to the root of the conspiracy” and reaffirmed India’s zero-tolerance stance on terrorism.

"Our agencies will get to the bottom of this conspiracy. The conspirators behind this will not be spared. All those responsible will be brought to justice," said the Prime Minister.

The explosion, which occurred in a crowded area of the capital on Monday evening, killed at least eight people and left several injured.

Sources said that Umar Mohammad, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama, owned the car, a white Hyundai i20, and is believed to have been driving the car when the blast was triggered.


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Umar, a doctor by profession, has also been a member of a radical doctors' group that coordinated on Telegram and has links to the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a Pakistan-based terror group, it added.

Hours before the blast in Delhi, the police had recovered 2,900 kg of explosives and inflammable material from two rented rooms of a Kashmiri doctor, Muzammil Shakeel, in Haryana's Faridabad.

Shakeel and another Kashmiri doctor, Adeel Ahmad Rathe, are among eight people arrested for allegedly being part of a "white-collar terror" module involving the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind and spanning Kashmir, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, officials said.