All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday issued a sharp condemnation of a controversial undated video featuring Dr. Umar Nabi, the prime accused in the Red Fort car blast. In the video—now widely circulating on social media—Umar is heard defending suicide bombings as “martyrdom operations,” claiming that the concept is “misunderstood” in public discourse.

Owaisi rejected Umar’s justification outright, declaring that Islam strictly prohibits suicide in any form and that killing innocent people is “a grave and unforgivable sin.” He stressed that no reinterpretation or theological spin can legitimise acts of violence against civilians. “This is terrorism—plain and simple,” Owaisi said, dismissing Umar’s narrative as a manipulated attempt to rationalise extremist ideology.

The AIMIM president also raised alarming questions about the emergence of the terror module to which Umar allegedly belonged. Citing Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s earlier statement in Parliament—where Shah asserted that no Kashmiri youth had joined terror organisations in the last six months—Owaisi questioned the intelligence gap. “Where did this group come from? Who is responsible for failing to detect this network before it carried out mass murder?” he asked.

The controversy intensified following the November 10 explosion, when a Hyundai i20 driven by Umar erupted in a massive blast near the Red Fort Metro station. The explosion killed 13 people, injured over 20 others, and set several nearby vehicles ablaze. Investigators later uncovered Umar’s links to a large explosive seizure in Faridabad, revealing what authorities now describe as a newly radicalised module of highly educated individuals, including doctors and professionals.

Security experts have taken note of Umar’s fluent English and composed manner in the video, calling it a disturbing signal of a shifting pattern—where radicalisation is increasingly targeting educated youth capable of ideological persuasion and operational planning.