Red Fort blast case handed over to NIA: MHA

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By: Express News ServiceNew Delhi | November 11, 2025 02:59 PM IST 2 min readNSG commandos at the site of the Car bomb blast near Red Fort on Monday. (Express Photo/Gajendra Yadav)A day after a Red Fort blast, the Centra has decided to hand over the investigation to the National Investigation Agency.The decision was taken during a high-level security review meeting which was chaired by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday morning at his residence.“Shah chaired a high-level security review meeting at 11 am. Union Home Secretary, Director IB, Delhi Police commissioner, and DG NIA attended the meeting. DGP Jammu and Kashmir also virtually joined the meeting,” an official said.A source said the directors general of police of Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir have collected information about the Red Fort blast and the operation of the police during which they seized 358 kg of explosives suspected to be ammonium nitrate from the rented accommodation of one of the accused in Faridabad’s Dhauj village Sunday.After the blast, Shah said the investigating agencies were looking at “all angles” and not ruling out any possibility. “I hope our agencies will reach a conclusion on the cause of the blast within a short time, and the senior-most FSL team has also arrived,” he said.Asked if it was a terror attack, Shah, who later visited the blast site, said, “It is difficult to say what caused the incident. Until the samples recovered from the blast site are analysed by forensic authorities and NSG, we can’t say anything. But we are not ruling out anything, and are investigating the matter from all angles.”On Tuesday, the Delhi Police said the Hyundai i20 car, which was the source of the explosion, was first spotted at around 7.30 am outside Asian Hospital in Faridabad and later entered the Capital from the Badarpur toll booth via the Faridabad road at around 8:13 am Monday.Story continues below this adInvestigators probing the Red Fort blast have zeroed in on a 34-year-old resident of Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama, who bought a Hyundai i20 on October 29.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© The Indian Express Pvt Ltd