An LPG cylinder burst inside a Maruti 800 car in Coimbatore at around 4.30 am on Sunday (Oct 23), causing the vehicle to explode. The explosion was initially believed to be an accident. A thorough investigation into the incident, however, showed that the cylinder explosion was a terrorist attack committed by Islamic terrorists during the Diwali festival.
Six men were detained by police and booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with the incident. Some of them had previously visited Kerala, according to Coimbatore Commissioner Balakrishnan, and the NIA questioned them in 2019. Later, the case was transferred to National Investigation Agency (NIA) by the Tamil Nadu government.
On November 2, the Coimbatore blast investigation has been taken over by the NIA, which carried out several raids. More incriminating evidence has been recovered from the house of the suicide bomber Mubin.
In the latest development in the Coimbatore car blast case, some drawings, including the ISIS flag, have been recovered from the deceased Jamesha Mubin’s residence, implying a clinching flow chart of jihad. According to the flow chart drawing, children and elders are weak, whereas youth are strong, so they must carry out jihad.
According to hand-drawn flow charts discovered in Mubin’s house, humans were classified as Kafirs (Arabic for infidels) and Muslims. One of them read that jihad is the responsibility of young people, not children or the elderly. A third described Hadees (a report attributed to the Prophet Muhammad).