TN cops say no evidence to link Mangaluru with Coimbatore blast
Hindustan TimesTamil Nadu police are probing if the prime accused in the Mangaluru auto rickshaw blast case has any links with the prime accused and his associates in this year’s Coimbatore car blast, officials privy to the matter said on Monday. “As of now we have not found any evidence to link them,” said a top police official of Tamil Nadu. Accused Mohammed Shariq,24, is one of the two people who got injured and, suffered 50% burns, in the Mangaluru blast on Saturday, which the state has described as a “terrorist act”, police said. In case of Tamil Nadu blast, the NIA on November 10 had said that six of the arrested men had conspired with the deceased Mubeen to procure different chemicals for making IEDs from “online shopping platforms to commit sensational terrorist acts.” Before handing over the case to the NIA, the Coimbatore police had arrested six men invoking the Unlawful Activities Act and seized 75 kg of potassium nitrate, aluminium powder, charcoal, and sulphur used to make low explosive materials from Mubeen’s house.