Coimbatore Blast: October 2022’s car blast severely damaged Religious Symbols and Temples
In connection with the Coimbatore blast and Mangaluru bomb blast cases from the previous year, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is conducting raids at 40 locations in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka.
The searches took place months after the central agency conducted similar raids at 43 locations in Tamil Nadu in connection with the explosion that occurred on October 23rd in Coimbatore. Additionally, raids were conducted in Kerala’s Palakkad. The NIA has confiscated digital gadgets and incriminating documents from the suspects’ homes.
The NIA has asserted that Mubeen, after swearing an oath to the Islamic State, an international terrorist group, planned to carry out suicidal attacks and severely damaged religious symbols and temples to incite fear among a specific section of the community. The case has resulted in the arrest of at least six people. In January, the NIA additionally searched Jamesha Mubeen’s home. Police termed the explosion as a ‘Lone Wolf’ attack.
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Jamesha Mubeen seemed to have misled his wife and had bombs in the home, found the investigative team. He had shown the box’s contents to his deaf and dumb wife, Nazrath. In addition to the notes, written after reading radical religious speeches in Arabic and Tamil, police also came across a slate with a symbol like the ISIS flag from his place. City police searched his home and also found a pen drive with ISIS propaganda videos.
Following allegations that he was attempting to recruit members of ISIS, propagate their ideology, and plan terror attacks in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, he was questioned by the NIA in 2019.
Around five in the morning on October 23rd of last year, an explosion occurred in a car in front of the Kotai Eswaran temple next to the Coimbatore Town Hall. Two gas cylinders exploded in the car, and the vehicle split in half.
Following the incident, the CCTV footage of Jamesha placing a gas cylinder-like object into the car was brought to light. Jamesha’s home was searched, and several important documents were found there. That included information about government organizations and the names of some temples in the city. About 75 kg of chemical substances were found in his home. Police also discovered aluminum powder and potassium nitrate.
The NIA took over the inquiry into the Mangaluru bomb blast in Karnataka. An auto-rickshaw exploded, injuring two people—the driver and the passenger, Mohammed Shariq (24), who is also the case’s top suspect.
The NIA found that Shariq and his friends planned to set up an Islamic state camp in the forests of Karnataka during the investigation of the bomb case.
The NIA had examined Shariq’s homestay, and the information about the training he had received was collected during last year’s searches.
In connection with the investigation, the NIA also conducted 43 raids in eight districts of Tamil Nadu in November of last year. The NIA executed searches in the Tamil Nadu districts of Chennai, Coimbatore, Thiruvallur, Tiruppur, Nilgiris, Chengalpattu, Kanchipuram, and Nagapattinam. They also searched in the Keralan district of Palakkad,
Suspects identified as Ummer Farooq, Mohammed Thoufiq, Feroze Khan, Mohammed Talka, Sheikh Hidayathullah, and Sanofar Ali have all been detained by police thus far. The area’s CCTV footage also captured Mubeen and three of his accomplices moving two gas cylinders and some explosives inside the car that Mubeen had just taken.
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