Delhi Police has recovered three 9mm cartridges from the spot where a car exploded near the Red Fort earlier this month, killing 13 people and injuring several others, sources told India Today TV.
According to officers familiar with the probe, two of the cartridges are live rounds while the third is an empty shell.
The discovery is significant because 9mm ammunition is typically used by security forces and police personnel. However, officials said that no pistol or weapon part was found at the site, raising questions about how the rounds landed there.
Police have also verified the ammunition issued to their own staff present at the location, but none of their rounds were unaccounted for, ruling out the possibility that the cartridges belonged to personnel on duty.
Meanwhile, India Today TV has also accessed as many as 23 CCTV that trace the complete movement of the Hyundai i20 car driven by the primary suspect, Dr Umar Nabi, to Delhi’s Red Fort on November 10.
Officials confirmed Umar’s identity after DNA lifted from the blast site matched samples taken from his mother, formally tying him to the attack.
These never-seen-before images showed Umar’s movement with new clarity, following him from a Faridabad university campus to Old Delhi just hours before the explosion. Police sources said that officials stitched together this route using footage from over 5,000 CCTV cameras across multiple districts, highways, and key checkpoints in Delhi-NCR.
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