1. Bengaluru Rameshwaram cafe blast | Karnataka govt hands over probe to NIA
The probe into the blast at The Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). At least 10 people were injured in a low-intensity explosion that took place in Brookfield outlet of the cafe in east Bengaluru on March 1. So far, Karnataka Police’s investigation of the blast has been assisted by officials of the NIA, National Security Group (NSG) and Intelligence Bureau (IB).
Owing to the similarities in assembling of the explosive, the detonator, timer and the mechanism used to explode the bomb between the explosion in the restaurant and the cooker bomb blast at Mangaluru on November 19, 2022, the police were in the process of probing the networks of the absconding accused — Abdul Mateen Taha, Musabir Hussain and a person known as ‘Colonel’ — in the Mangaluru case, the sources said.
