00:00They only win one time and we win every time.
00:08That line from the family man echoed in real life when a car exploded near Delhi's red fort, killing more than 10 people and injuring over 20.
00:18Weeks, days, hours before the blast, Delhi police and anti-terror agencies were already chasing threads.
00:24Jaish-e-Mohamed posters in Srinagar, doctors on telegram discussing martyrdom and a medic in Faridabad suspected of making bombs.
00:31Down in a reddit rabbit hole, a user was warning of something big about to happen.
00:38October 19, Srinagar. Overnight, Jaish posters appear across the city. Police file cases under the UAPA and the Arms and Explosives Act.
00:46October 30, Faridabad. The trade leads to a telegram group of medical professionals. Among them is 27-year-old Dr. Muzumil Shaqeel from Pulwama, now a resident doctor at Alphala Medical College.
00:59He is arrested by JNK police. During questioning, Shaqeel points investigators to a rented home in Thawj village, Faridabad. The raid shocks everyone.
01:07360 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, detonators, wiring and assault trifles are found.
01:12November 9, Gujarat. In another case, the ATS arrests another doctor, Ahmed Moyuddin Syed. They seize weapons and chemicals used to make ricin, a lethal toxin derived from castor beans.
01:24Syed had allegedly surveyed crowded sites in Lucknow, Delhi and Ahmedabad and was in touch with handlers abroad.
01:30November 10, Morning. A second raid takes place in Fatehpur, Taga village, not far from Thawj. Police recover an additional 2,500 kilograms of ammonium nitrate,
01:38stacked inside another rented home registered under one of Shaqeel's associates. By afternoon, the police link both seizures.
01:46They track movements of people tied to the module, including a white Hyundai I-20 registered to a Pulwama resident named Parikh Ahmed Bhatt.
01:54Around the same time, a chilling post trends on Reddit, predicting an incident in the capital.
01:59November 10, 6.50pm, that same white I-20 halts at a signal near Red Force Gate 1. Seconds later, a massive explosion.
02:05Investigators now suspect the Srinagar posters, the Faridabad explosives and the Red Force Blast may have been threads of one coordinated terror module.
02:15Tell us what you think. I'm Manish Adhikari. Thank you for watching for Sims Fast.
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