UP Police, ATS probe two ‘missing’ Kashmiri IIT Kanpur PhD students amid Red Fort blast investigation
Investigative bodies have stepped up their inquiry into the Delhi Red‑Fort bombing, and UPS Police—according to sources—reported on Saturday that two Kashmiri PhD candidates at IIT Kanpur have gone missing under suspicious circumstances for the past 15 days. The university says it has no information on their whereabouts, but their “missing” status has sparked speculation in the wake of the November 10 blast. The State Investigation Agency, UP Police, the Local Intelligence Unit and other security forces visited IIT Kanpur and are conducting a detailed probe, reviewing student files, checking travel logs and gathering evidence to determine how the scholars vanished. One student has been absent since October 18, while the other disappeared on November 10. Both joined the institute’s PhD programmes in 2019. In a related move, the state government and police headquarters requested a comprehensive report on nearly 150 Kashmiri residents in the city. Meanwhile, the Jammu‑and‑Kashmir State Investigation Agency detained an electrician named Tufail Ahmad in Pulwama district as part of its ongoing investigation into the Delhi blast, which claimed 13 lives and injured about a dozen. SIA sources said Ahmad, a resident of Srinagar, was seized at the Pulwama industrial estate. On November 10, a Kashmiri doctor, Umar Nabi, who worked at Al‑Falah University in Faridabad, slipped past authorities after his terrorist associates were apprehended by J & K Police and Haryana Police in the Faridabad area. At the same time, a Special NIA Court in Delhi granted Jasir Bilal Wani—an aide of the Delhi blast bomber Dr. Umar Muhammad—to meet his lawyer for a single hour every other day while he remains in anti‑terror custody. The court allowed Wani 20‑minute consultations between 5 and 6 p.m., according to a lawyer. The NIA has classified Wani as an active co‑conspirator of Dr. Umar; he was arrested on November 17 in Srinagar on allegations of providing technical support for terrorist operations, including modifying drones and attempting to develop rockets ahead of the deadly car‑bomb attack.
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