In short, India’s anti-terror arm has cast a wider net over the Red Fort case. With this new filing, the number of accused is up to 13. They are making an issue of a doctor who is on the run and is said to have been involved in putting together TATP-based IEDs and building up a terror cell.
What the new chargesheet adds
You will find the latest chargesheet with the NIA Special Court at Patiala House in New Delhi. It is for case RC-21/2025/NIA/DLI, which is about the car bomb that went off by the Red Fort in November 2025 and left 11 dead.
The NIA has put forward the names of Zameer Ahmad Ahanger, Tufail Ahmad Bhat and Muzafar Ahmad (also known as Faraz or Zafar), from Jammu and Kashmir. The 13 on the list now also includes the late Dr Umer Un Nabi, who was the prime accused.
Alleged roles and network
Muzafar Ahmad, who is currently at large, is a paediatrician with his MBBS and MD, and the older brother of co-accused Dr Adeel Ahmed Rather. The NIA calls him one of the founders of AGuH Interim, an offshoot of Al-Qaeda.
They say he was in on the VBIED attack of November 10, 2025, along with Umer, Muzammil, Adeel and Mufti Irfan. The NIA has him down as having been at a hushed-up meeting in Srinagar back in June 2022 to put the AGuH Interim module in place.
There is also the matter of a hidden spot at Al-Falah University in Faridabad. The agency alleges Muzafar was at the centre of making and stashing TATP explosives there, with Umer and Muzammil running the show.
Arms supply trail
Zameer Ahmad Ahanger is put forward as an OGW for AGuH Interim who kept in touch with his superiors and made deliveries of arms and money. Then you have Tufail Ahmad Bhat, an ex-OGW of Lashkar-e-Taiba, who is said to have been the one to source the hardware via dead drops.
Tufail is on record for having come by an AK-47, a Krinkov, a sidearm and some live rounds, and turning them over to Dr Umer for 3 lakh rupees.
Legal steps and evidence cited
A non-bailable warrant is out for Muzafar and they are after him. As for Zameer and Tufail, who are in custody, the NIA is pressing charges under the UAPA and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Since Muzafar is a no-show, they have brought in other sections of the law, including the Explosive Substances Act and the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act. The NIA says it has the forensics, the geo-maps and the money trail to back it up.
Key official actions now in motion:
– Non-bailable warrant issued against Muzafar Ahmad
– Supplementary chargesheet filed in RC-21/2025/NIA/DLI
– Proceedings before NIA Special Court, Patiala House
– Raids intensified across multiple states
Why this development matters
This is the NIA’s way of drawing a line from the top of the chain to the ground level: the leaders, the bomb-makers, the ones moving guns. Pointing to a covert set-up in Faridabad and the use of TATP, they are showing how the operation was done and paid for.
With 13 accused, the matter is now in court for the taking. The ones in hand are being dealt with by the special court, but Muzafar is still the one they want. The NIA has it on file that the work is not done yet.
