Months after a low-intensity IED bomb exploded at the popular Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday morning conducted a spot inspection in connection with its probe into the matter. The anti-terror agency brought two main accused Abdul Matheen and Musavir Husain, to the cafe to reconstruct the events leading up to the blast. Meanwhile, more than 50 police personnel were deployed around the cafe to ensure the safety of the area during NIA’s inspection. 

The NIA has conducted extensive searches at more than 29 locations across the country during its probe into the Cafe blast. "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,” a police source told news agency PTI. 

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The officials stated that the NIA which took over the investigation into the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case on March 3, had arrested on April 12  two key accused – mastermind Adbul Matheen Ahmed Taahaa and Mussavir Hussain Shazib (the perpetrator of the attack)- from their hideout in Kolkata, where they were staying under assumed identities.

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The anti-terror agency has so far arrested five people in connection with the bomb blast at the Cafe in the Brookfield area of the city in which as many as 10 people sustained injuries on March 1, as reported by PTI. 

This comes months after a low-intensity improvised explosive device (IED) triggered a blast inside the Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru's Whitefield during the busy lunch hour on March 1, 2024. In a similar incident which occurred just a few days before this incident, a man allegedly walked into Rameshwaram cafe and placed a bag containing explosives nearby, with an hour-long timer set. Nearly 10 people sustained injuries in the blast.