New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a meeting with top officials of probe agencies on the Delhi blast and instructed them to quickly hunt down each culprit. In a message on X, HM Shah shared details of the incident and said, “Chaired review meetings on the Delhi car blast with the senior officials. Instructed them to hunt down each and every culprit behind this incident. Everyone involved in this act will face the full wrath of our agencies.” In the morning, the Home Minister took a briefing from security agencies on the investigation and the multi-state searches being conducted.
During the meeting, HM Shah reiterated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resolve to bring the culprits to justice. Chairing a meeting at his residence with top security officials, the Home Minister issued strict instructions to officials to get to the bottom of the conspiracy at the earliest. The meeting was attended by Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, Intelligence Bureau Director Tapan Kumar Deka, Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golcha and National Investigation Agency (NIA) Director General (DG) Sadanand Vasant Date, while the Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Nalin Prabhat joined virtually. A team of more than 500 security officials has been formed to investigate the blast, while security has been ramped up across Delhi-NCR, with NSG commandos deployed at key installations.
More than 1,000 CCTV footage clips are being scanned by investigative agencies, which suspect that the car explosion could have been a suicide attack aimed at causing maximum damage, Delhi Police sources said.