Kolkata court grants 3-day transit remand of Bengaluru cafe blast accused to NIA

A city court on Friday granted three-day transit remand to two accused in the Bengaluru cafe blast case, allowing the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take them to the Karnataka capital for further investigation.

The Chief Justice of the city sessions court here granted transit remand to the NIA after the agency’s request. The NIA said the accused Adbul Mathin Ahmed Taha and Musavir Hussain Shajib were arrested from a hotel in the seaside tourist town of Digha in East Medinipur district, about 190 km from Kolkata.

Officials said Taha was the mastermind behind planning and executing the blast and Shajib had planted the improvised explosive device (IED) in the cafe.

Meanwhile, the arrest of two accused from West Bengal on Friday in the Bengaluru cafe blast case has added to the political turmoil in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, with the opposition BJP claiming that the TMC regime has turned the state into a safe haven. . For terrorists.

TMC and West Bengal Police reacted to BJP’s comment, stating that the NIA arrested the accused with the help of the state police.

“NIA detained two main suspects in Rameshwaram cafe blast, attacker Musavir Hussain Shajib and accomplice Abdul Mathin Ahmed Taha, from Kolkata. Both possibly belong to ISIS cell in Shivamogga, Karnataka. West Bengal, unfortunately, under Mamata Banerjee A safe state has become a haven for terrorists,” BJP co-in-charge of West Bengal Amit Malviya posted on Twitter.

Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, said that due to the appeasement politics of the TMC government, the state has turned into a “link” of various terrorist activities across the country in the last few years.

Senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh said that under TMC rule, West Bengal is sitting on a ticking time bomb and expressed concern over the deep roots of the terror module in the state.

He said, “If these terrorists were hiding here for the last few days, then it is quite clear that their support cells are working here. The state police was sleeping for so many days, they took action only after being informed by the NIA.” of.”

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