India, Nov. 12 -- The initial investigation into the bomb blast inside an i20 car on Monday evening at Red Fort has revealed that the vehicle's suspected driver, 35-year-old doctor Umar Un-Nabi, and his associate Dr Muzammil Shakeel Ganaie, visited Turkey in 2022.

The two doctors who have a long association-- they hail from the same village in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir and both worked at the same medical college in Faridabad. A police officer had told HT that the two had together visited areas around the blast near Red Fort and Chandni Chowk in January, based on their call records.

Muzammil was arrested around two weeks ago in a chain of events stemming from radical posters being put up in the Kashmir Valley. His interrogation and the ...