The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday said it has arrested two more persons in connection with the November 10 blast near Delhi’s Red Fort.

This took the total arrests in the case to 11.

The two men are Zameer Ahmad Ahangar from Jammu and Kashmir’s Ganderbal and Tufail Ahmad Bhat from Srinagar. The agency has alleged that they supplied weapons to the prime accused in the case.

The blast near the Red Fort metro station left at least 11 persons dead and several injured. Umar Un Nabi, a doctor, was believed to have been driving the car that exploded. Two days after the explosion, the Union government described it as a “terrorist incident”.

The National Investigation Agency, which is investigating the case, said its probe had found that Ahangar and Bhat were active overground workers of banned terror organisation Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind.

Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind was formed in Kashmir in 2017 when some militants broke away from Hizbul Mujahideen – the largest indigenous militant organisation in Kashmir – and claimed that they were affiliated to terror group Al Qaeda.

The agency stated that it had established through examination of evidence the involvement of the two men not only in the Delhi blast case but also in other alleged terror conspiracies.

It further alleged that the two “were engaged in the collection of arms and ammunition, intended for use against” India.

On December 18, the investigating agency had arrested Yasir Ahmad Dar, a resident of Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir. He was arrested in Delhi. Dar has been accused of being an “active participant in the conspiracy” behind the blast and of taking an oath for “carrying out self-sacrificial operations”.

Prior to that, on December 9, the agency arrested Bilal Naseer Malla from Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla, alleging that he harboured and provided logistical support to Nabi. He was also accused of destroying evidence related to the terror attack.

On November 26, another man identified as Soyab from Dhauj was arrested from Haryana’s Faridabad. He too was accused of harbouring and providing logistical support to Nabi.

On November 20, four other persons were arrested. They were identified as Muzammil Shakeel Ganai from Pulwama, Adeel Ahmed Rather from Anantnag, Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay from Shopian and Shaheen Saeed from Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow.

On November 17, the NIA arrested Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish from Srinagar. Wani, a resident of Qazigund in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district was accused of providing technical support “by modifying drones and attempting to make rockets ahead of the deadly car bomb blast”.

The first arrest was made a day prior, on November 16, when the agency arrested an alleged aide to Nabi, identified as Amir Rashid Ali. The agency alleged that the Hyundai i20 car used in the blast was registered in Ali’s name.

Hours before the blast, the police said that it had cracked an “inter-state and transnational terror module” in Faridabad and Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur.

The police had said at the time that it recovered 2,900 kg of improvised explosive device-making material in raids in several states.