The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) on Friday detained the 2 key accused within the Rameshwaram Cafe blast in Bengaluru final month. Mussavir Hussain Shazeb and Abdul Matheen Taha had been arrested from Kolkata this morning, the company mentioned.
Whereas Shazeb planted the explosive machine inside a bag on the cafe, Taha was accountable for planning the assault and their subsequent disappearance, the anti-terror company mentioned. One other key conspirator, Muzammil Shareef, who prolonged logistical assist to the principle accused, was arrested on March 26.
On Friday morning, a NIA group traced the 2 males to Kolkata the place they had been residing beneath faux names. In a joint operation, central intelligence businesses and police of West Bengal, Telengana, Karnataka, and Kerala police detained the accused.
The company had recognized Shazeb and Taha, each residents of Thirthahalli in Shivamogga district of Karnataka, as prime accused final week and carried out searches at 18 places in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh to arrest them.
Ten clients and lodge workers members had been injured within the blast at standard Bengaluru cafe on March 1.
After the blast, the company launched a number of pictures and movies of the important thing accused seen on CCTV cameras throughout Bengaluru. Within the clips, the accused, along with his face coated with a masks, could be seen boarding a bus nearly an hour after the blast occurred on the cafe.
The company had declared a reward of ₹10 lakh on data resulting in the arrest of every of the important thing accused. It had additionally questioned their acquaintances, together with school and college associates.
The Rameshwaram Cafe, which suffered in depth injury after the IED blast, reopened eight days later with enhanced safety measures together with steel detectors.
”We’ve strengthened our safety group and are additionally making an attempt to arrange a separate panel involving ex-servicemen who might prepare our safety guards in any respect our branches,” the cafe’s co-founder Raghavendra Rao had mentioned.