Jammu and Kashmir Police have recovered a mobile phone of the Red Fort suicide bomber, Dr Umar-un-Nabi, and the extracted data has provided chilling evidence to show that he had prepared a video justifying the suicide attack as a ‘martyrdom operation’. Umar was driving the explosive-laden car that blasted outside Red Fort on November 10 killing 15 people.

The critical evidence was unearthed after the detention and subsequent interrogation of Zahoor Illahi, his brother, who was detained by the Jammu police, officials said on Tuesday. Initially feigning ignorance, Illahi eventually cracked under sustained questioning and told interrogators that Umar, who was in the Kashmir valley between October 26 and 29, had handed him the mobile phone with explicit instructions to “dump it in water” if any news about him surfaced, the officials said.