Bengaluru: Two prime suspects of The Rameswaram Cafe blast case taken for medical examination from the Directorate of Forensic Science Laboratories, Karnataka.
They were arrested from West Bengal yesterday and brought here on a three-day transit remand by NIA.
The two key absconders in the Rameswaram Cafe blast case, identified as Adbul Matheen Taha and Mussavir Hussain Shazeb, were traced out to their hide out near Kolkata and were apprehended by the NIA team, officials said.
Mussavir Hussain Shazib is the accused who placed the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at the cafe and Abdul Matheen Taha is the mastermind behind the planning, execution of blast and subsequent evasion from the clutches of law.
On early morning hours on Friday, NIA said, its teams were successful in tracing the absconding accused near Kolkata, where they were hiding under false identities.
The arrests come days after the anti-terror agency in a bid to bolster its investigation into the case, widened its scope by delving into the social circles and past associations of the accused, including friends in school-time and college.