PM to chair CCS meet today, Shah to brief panel on probe

After the deadly Red Fort Metro Station blast that killed 13 and injured over 20, India’s top security review body, the Cabinet Committee on Security, will meet here on Wednesday to take stock of the situation and consider the way forward.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the review which will also discuss the status of investigations into the Delhi blast and take a call on the way forward.

Home Minister Amit Shah, who held two high-level review meetings with top security agency leaders on Tuesday, will present his report to the CCS, which consists of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. Principal Secretaries to PM Modi and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval will also attend.

All angles of the blast are being studied before India can officially announce the nature of the blast and its motives.

So far, no terror organisation has come forward to claim responsibility for the attack although a preliminary probe has been launched to explore linkages to the Faridabad RDX haul.

If the Monday blast turns out to be a terror attack (Delhi police has already invoked anti-terror provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act), the CCS would need to take stock of the next move.

India’s new war doctrine — adopted after the Pahalgam attack — says every terror attack on its soil will be treated like an act or war. PM Modi has repeatedly stressed Operation Sindoor was ongoing.