Coimbatore car blast case: Tamil Nadu Police hands over case documents to NIA

Seven accused have been arrested in the case by the Tamil Nadu Police. So far, the NIA has not made any official statement on the case

PGurus Newsdesk

October 30, 2022

Seven accused have been arrested in the case by the Tamil Nadu Police. So far, the NIA has not made any official statement on the case

Tamil Nadu Police complete car blast probe, hands over documents, evidences to NIA

In the latest development in connection with the Coimbatore car blast case, the Tamil Nadu Police have handed over all the documents to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had on Thursday ordered NIA to take over the probe after which it registered an FIR. The NIA then filed an FIR in this respect.

Seven accused have been arrested in the case by the Tamil Nadu Police. So far, the NIA has not made any official statement on the case.

The FIR reads that a search operation was conducted at the house of the deceased Jameesha Mubin in which a number of incriminating documents were found. As many as 109 articles were seized during that raid. Mubin was previously questioned by the NIA in 2019 regarding his social media contact with the main accused in the Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka.

Notebooks were recovered in which their missions regarding Jihad were mentioned. Black powder, potassium nitrate, nitroglycerin, PETN powder, aluminum powder, Sulphur powder, and sterile surgical was also recovered in the search.

The probe agency is also investigating whether C.A. Rauf, the Kerala state secretary of the banned Islamist organization, Popular Front of India (PFI) who was in hiding ever since the outfit was banned, had any role in motivating the youngsters including Mubin to take the extreme terror steps. The NIA sleuths late Thursday night arrested Rauf from his residence in Pattambi located in Kerala’s Palakkad district.

On October 23, a blast took place near a temple in Coimbatore in which Jameesha Mubin, an engineer, was killed. Initially, the Tamil Nadu Police were looking into the matter, and later on, the demand for an NIA probe was raised.

[With Inputs from IANS]

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