Red Fort terror attack finds mention in UN body report

New Delhi: In a significant development, the United Nation 1267 Monitoring Committee has stated in its latest report, released on August 10, that Al Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) was behind the November 2025 Red Fort attack and expressed concern over the group trying to establish cells in Bangladesh.

"The attack in November 2025 on the Red Fort in Delhi was officially attributed to AQIS. There was some concern about AQIS trying to exploit Bangladesh to establish cells there," noted the thirty-eighth report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of UNSC report.

The report observed, "Al Qaida and ISIL (Da'esh) have shown a sustained interest over many years in developing chemical and biological weapons but, so far, have failed to overcome the associated technical challenges. Instructions on how to develop such weapons have been shared widely within online terrorist communities. For example, in February, ISIL (Da'esh)'s English-language Invade magazine included instructions on how to develop botulinum toxin and cyanide," the 30-page report observed.


It further noted: "ISIL-Khorasan has shown a particular interest, and over the past 12 months circulated instructions on developing the toxin ricin. At the end of 2025, Indian authorities (Gujarat) arrested three people, including a doctor, who had been tasked by an ISIL (Da'esh) cell abroad to develop ricin."

The Red Fort attackers had used Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP) in the vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), which killed 11 persons and injured several others, according to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Ten accused, including Dr Umer-Un-Nabi, who was killed in the blast, were linked to Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind - an offshoot of AQIS.

The Gujarat anti-terrorism squad had arrested a Hyderabad-based doctor, educated in China, and two of his alleged accomplices - Dr Ahmed Mohiuddin Saiyad, who worked with Azad Suleman Sheikh and Mohammed Suhail Mohammad Saleem - on November 9, 2025, exposing a plot involving chemical weapons and connections with a global terror network.

The case was later transferred to NIA, which filed a charge-sheet against the three and alleged that the trio "had planned to use ricin, a highly toxic substance derived from castor seeds and classified under Schedule I of the Chemical Weapons Convention, to carry out the nefarious agenda of ISIS". On August 10, a special NIA court in Gujarat rejected the bail plea of Dr Mohiuddin, the main accused in the 2025 terror plot.