Delhi bomber visited Pulwama home before attack; discarded phone led to recovery of suicide video

According to NDTV's sources, this was when he handed over one of his two phones to his brother… a phone that would later become the key to exposing his disturbing “martyrdom” video.

After Nabi returned to Faridabad, where he worked as an assistant professor at Al Falah University, his brother began hearing that several of Nabi’s close colleagues had been arrested: first, Dr Adeel Ahmed Rather in Srinagar, then Dr Muzammil Shakeel in an explosives case, and finally Dr Shaheen Saeed.

Fearing police were closing in on Nabi, too, the brother dumped the phone into a pond near their home.

When investigators tried tracing Nabi’s devices, both were switched off- one last active in Delhi, the other in Pulwama.

A search of his home and sustained questioning led the brother to confess what he’d done, setting off a frantic recovery operation, media reports said.

The phone, badly water-damaged, took days to yield its contents. But once it did, officers discovered the now-viral video of Nabi defending suicide bombings as “martyrdom operations,” insisting believers should not “fear death.”

A psychological analysis of the clip suggests Nabi was rehearsed, unwavering, and fully convinced of his justification.

Officials say the video was filmed in a room at Al Falah University where radicalised doctors allegedly linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed held their secret meetings — and where nearly 3,000 kg of explosives were later found, said reports.

This places the recording at least a week before the blast, possibly even earlier.