 "Home Minister Amit Shah chairs review meeting on the Delhi car blast with the senior officials on Tuesday. Image Courtesy: @AmitShah")
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday chaired review meetings with senior security and intelligence officials in the wake of Delhi car blast and instructed agencies to “hunt down each and every culprit” behind the incident.
In a post on X, Shah 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.”
Shah’s comments came after chairing two subsequent security review meetings which were held in the wake of the Monday evening blast near Red Fort in Delhi that claimed 13 lives.
The first meeting was attended by Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan, Director of Intelligence Bureau Tapan Deka, Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golcha and NIA DG Sadanand Vasant Date.
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View AllDGP of Jammu and Kashmir Nalin Prabhat also attend the meeting virtually.
During the meeting, top officials gave detailed presentations on the situation in the aftermath of the blast, PTI quoted sources as saying.
Almost the same set of officials attended the afternoon security review meeting.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has also handed over the probe into the blast to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is mandated to probe into the terror cases only.
Shah has said that top investigating agencies were probing the blast, and will go in-depth into the incident.
The blast took place in a slow-moving car at a traffic signal near the Red Fort metro station on Monday evening, killing 13 people, injuring 20 and gutting several vehicles.
With inputs from agencies