Bengaluru BJP office was first target of accused in cafe blast case: NIA
Hindustan TimesThe two key accused in the Bengaluru cafe explosion case were involved in a “failed IED attack” at the office of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the city on January 22, the day of the consecration ceremony at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the National Investigation Agency said on Monday, as it filed its charge sheet against four people in connection with the blast at the eatery. Bengaluru BJP office was first target of accused in cafe blast case: NIA In a statement, NIA said the accused – Abdul Matheen Taha, who planned the explosion and Mussavir Hussain Shazib, who planted the IED – were Islamic State radicals and were “actively involved in radicalising other gullible Muslim youth to the ISIS ideology”. These included a failed IED attack at the state BJP Office, Malleshwaram, Bengaluru, on the day of the Pran Pratishtha ceremony at Ayodhya on January 22, 2024, after which the two key accused planned the Rameshwaram Cafe blast,” it said. “Moving swiftly in its probe, NIA on Monday chargesheeted four accused in the high-profile Bengaluru Rameshwaram Café blast case,” the agency said.