- By Shivam Shandilya
- Fri, 24 May 2024 07:28 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Rameshwaram Cafe Blast: Amid a massive crackdown across four states in the Rameshwaram Cafe Blast Case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested one more accused in the case. According to news agency ANI, the convict has been named as an ex-convict in a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror conspiracy case. Shoaib Ahmed Mirza, alias Chhotu, the 35-year-old man, is a resident of Hubbali City, Karnataka. He is the fifth accused to be arrested in the case.
Three days after a massive crackdown across four states in the Rameshwaram Café Blast Case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) today arrested one more accused, identified as an ex-convict in a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror conspiracy case. 35-year-old Shoaib Ahmed Mirza… pic.twitter.com/zEPTnasj7j
— ANI (@ANI) May 24, 2024
"Three days after a massive crackdown across four states in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case, the NIA on Friday arrested one more accused, identified as an ex-convict in a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror conspiracy case," it said.
The probe by NIA reveals that Mirza got involved in this fresh conspiracy after being released from jail. In 2018, he befriended and introduced accused Abdul Matheen Taahaa to an online handler suspected to be abroad. Further, Mirza provided an e-mail ID for encrypted communication between the handler and Abdul Matheen Taahaa, who was arrested on April 12 from his hideout in Kolkata (West Bengal) along with co-accused Mussavir Hussain Shazib, it said as quoted by news agency PTI.
NIA has conducted raids at 29 locations across India during the course of its investigation into the Rameshwaram Cafe blast. The blast took place on March 1 this year.
Further investigations into the role of handler and larger conspiracy behind the blast, which left several injured and caused extensive damage to property, are continuing, the statement added.
(With input from agencies)