Jamesha Mubeen, the mastermind of the car bomb explosion in front of Sangameswarar temple in Coimbatore on October 22 last year wanted to orchestrate an attack similar to the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, said the chargesheet filed by the National Investigation Agency against six out of the 11 accused in the case on Thursday. The NIA said a …
A pen drive recovered from Mohammed Asarutheen allegedly contained video recordings of Jamesha Mubeen, in which he had identified himself as a member of Daulat-e-Islamia. Mubeen was inspired by the bayans of Zahran Hashim, a radical Islamic cleric of Sri Lanka, who masterminded the Easter serial suicide bomb attacks in 2019 killing around 260 people. Handwritten notes were recovered from …
Investigations have indicated that the blast that occurred in front of the Kottai Easwaran Temple in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, is definitely a terrorist attack and the perpetrators involved are members of an Islamic State -inspired module, CNN-News18 has learnt. In fact, this can be termed as the first attempted ‘suicide attack’ by an ISIS sympathiser in India, though the only …
The National Investigation Agency on Thursday conducted searches at 43 locations in Tamil Nadu in eight districts, including Chennai, Coimbatore, Thiruvallur, Thiruppur, Nilgiris, Chengalpatu, Kanchipuram and Nagapattinam and one location in Kerala’s Palakkad in relation with the Coimbatore blast case. The blast in a car laden with explosives in front of Coimbatore’s Kottai Eswaran Temple killed a man identified as …