NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency ( NIA ) on Monday filed a chargesheet against four accused in Bengaluru's Rameshwaram Cafe blast case and revealed how the ISIS-influenced conspirators had earlier plotted other attacks, including a failed one at Karnataka BJP office in Malleshwaram on the day of 'pran pratishtha' ceremony in Ayodhya. Those named in the chargesheet include Mussavir Hussain Shazib, who had planted bomb at the cafe on March 1. The explosion had injured nine people and caused damage to the cafe.
Others chargesheeted on Monday are Abdul Matheen Ahmed Taaha, Maaz Muneer Ahmed and Muzammil Shareef. The accused are now in judicial custody. NIA, which started investigating Rameshwaram Cafe blast case on March 3, conducted several technical and field probes in coordination with various state police forces and other agencies.
Investigations revealed that Shazib, along with Taaha, was absconding since 2020 after Al-Hind ISIS module was busted. Extensive searches by NIA had led to arrest of accused from their hideout in West Bengal 42 days after cafe explosion. Shazib and Taaha, both hailing from Shivamogga district of Karnataka, were indoctrinated and influenced by ISIS's violent ideology and had earlier conspired to perform 'hijra' (religious visit) to ISIS territories in Syria.
They were actively involved in radicalising other Muslim youth with ISIS propaganda, including other two chargesheeted accused, Ahmed and Shareef. Shazib and Taaha had used fraudulently-.
