On 25 October 2022, the Coimbatore City Police arrested five Islamist radicals in connection with the gas cylinder blast incident that happened on the wee hours of 23 October 2022 in which 25-year-old Jamesa Mubin of Ukkadam was killed.
In connection with the incident, the police have apprehended the following terror suspects – Mohammad Dhalha (25), Mohammad Azarudheen (25), Mohammad Riyaz (27), Feroz Ismail (27), and Mohammad Navaz Ismail (27) who are all from Coimbatore district.
On Tuesday, the police said that they had charged the five suspects under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
More worrisome information about the accused’s past emerged during the police investigation into the alleged Coimbatore “cylinder blast” case.
Further investigation by the Tamil Nadu Police revealed that one of the suspects, Mohammed Dhalka, who was detained for giving a car to the main accused Jamesa Mubin, who died in the blast, is the son of an accused involved in the 1998 Coimbatore serial blasts case.
In February 1998, a series of bomb blasts in Coimbatore targeting BJP leader Advani had killed at least 60 people.
The banned Islamic fundamentalist outfit Al-Umma, headed by one Syed Ahmed Basha was found to be responsible for the blasts who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2003.
Nawab Khan, Basha’s brother, was sentenced to one-life term and 27 years of rigorous imprisonment.
According to the police, Mohammad Dhalka is the son of Nawab Khan (nephew of S.A. Basha).
One of the 5 arrested in the Coimbatore 'cylinder' blast is the son of Coimbatore blast convict Navab Khan the brother of Baasha of the banned Al Ummah org. pic.twitter.com/7fK8HuQAvf
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