India, Nov. 17 -- In a significant breakthrough in the Red Fort car bomb blast case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Kashmiri resident accused of conspiring with the suicide bomber behind the attack that killed 10 people and left 32 injured.

Officials said Amir Rashid Ali, a resident of Samboora, Pampore, was taken into custody in Delhi after NIA investigators established his direct role in procuring and facilitating the vehicle later used as a vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device in the November 10 blast near the Red Fort.

According to the NIA, the car used in the attack was registered in Amir's name, and he had travelled to Delhi specifically to help the suicide attacker, Umar Un Nabi, arrange the vehicle. ...