Pramesh S Jain
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fficials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday morning brought the two suspected terrorists in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case to the crime scene in Brookefield for a spot inspection.
The National Investigation Agency team probing the Rameshwaram Cafe blast visited the site where the explosion occurred on Monday and conducted a spot investigation along with two accused in the case.The NIA team has so far arrested five persons in connection with the case.
The team probing the explosion visited the blast site during the early hours of Monday as part of their investigation to recreate the scene of crime.
“A team of NIA probing the Rameshwaram Cafe blast came here this morning at the Cafe for spot inspection along with two of the accused as part of their internal investigation into the case.
Police personnel were deployed outside the cafe and the surrounding area was barricaded for the probe on Monday.
The NIA has conducted extensive searches at more than 29 locations across the country as part of the probe into the blast which occurred on March 1.
The NIA team arrested two accused in the case–mastermind Adbul Matheen Ahmed Taahaa and his accomplice Mussavir Hussain Shazib–from Kolkata on April 12 from their hideout in Kolkata. The accused were staying under false identities.
A low-intensity blast occurred in Bengaluru’s famous eatery in Brookefield on March 1. As many as nine people, including seven customers, were injured in the blast. A woman who was sitting near the bag sustained grievous injuries.
Mussavir Hussain Shazib,the suspected bomber, and Abdul Matheen Ahmed Taahaa, the alleged mastermind of the blast on March 1 that injured 10, were brought to the popular eatery and mosque amid heightened security.
Shazib and Taahaa were arrested by the NIA from their hideout in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district on April 12. The duo were staying under assumed identities, the probe agency had said.
