Written by PragyneshNew Delhi | November 17, 2025 12:58 PM IST 3 min readThe detentions came after Delhi Police Special Cell sleuths camped in the Nuh and Mewat region for nearly five daysIn fresh detentions related to Red Fort blast case, two men who allegedly sheltered the prime accused, Umar Nabi, in Nuh have been picked up by the Delhi Police for questioning, officials said.A Delhi Police investigator revealed that one of the men, a peon-cum-electrician at the Al-Falah University in Faridabad, who knew Umar as he was a doctor there, was contacted by him for a room about 10 days before the blast.“He took Umar to Sahar Hidayat colony in Nuh, where his brother-in-law lives. He asked him to give Umar a room in his house for some days, and his brother-in-law obliged,” a police officer said. The brother-in-law, however, started having issues with Umar as he was very ‘unhygienic’, the police officer said.“Umar stayed there for about 10 days and then left. As of now, it seems that the brother-in-law was unaware about who Umar was… but Umar did stay at his house and plan the blast,” the police officer said.The Indian Express had earlier reported that Umar had left the Al Falah campus after another doctor at the university, Muzammil Ganai, was picked up by Jammu & Kashmir Police on October 30, and had travelled to Nuh in the Hyundai i20 — that later blew up near Red Fort. Umar had returned to Delhi only on the day of the incident.The peon and his brother-in-law were detained from Nuh on November 15, a police officer said. The detentions came after Delhi Police Special Cell sleuths camped in the Nuh and Mewat region for nearly five days, where they tracked nearly 200 contacts related to Umar and co-accused Ganai.Investigators also revealed that staff of a hospital inside the Faiz-e-Illahi mosque in Central Delhi, where Umar was seen for 15 minutes before he went to the Red Fort parking lot, have also been questioned, but no links have emerged so far.Story continues below this ad“The staff, a man who was seen following Umar, were all questioned in detail, but no links with the accused have been established. The peon (at Al Falah) is being questioned further to see if he was aware of Umar’s plans or has any kind of links with the terror module,” a senior police official said.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:delhiRed Fort Blast