The National Investigation Agency on Sunday said it arrested an alleged aide of Umar Nabi, the doctor who was believed to have been driving the car that exploded near Delhi’s Red Fort metro station on November 10.

The agency described the arrest, the first one in the case, as a “major breakthrough”.

The NIA identified the man as Amir Rashid Ali, a resident of the Pampore town in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district. It alleged that he visited Delhi to facilitate the purchase of the Hyundai i20 car that was “eventually used as a “vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device”.

The car was registered in Ali’s name, the National Investigation Agency said.

Ali had earlier been arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir Police, and was in their custody since the day of the blast.

The blast near the Red Fort metro station left 13 persons dead. Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident”.

The NIA on Sunday said it has forensically established that Nabi, an assistant professor of medicine at Al-Falah University in Haryana’s Faridabad, was driving the car that exploded. It added that it has also seized another vehicle belonging to him, and is examining it for evidence.

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