The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) on Wednesday filed a chargesheet in opposition to two accused concerned within the Islamic State (IS) sponsored strain cooker bomb blast in Mangaluru in November 2022.
One of many accused, Mohamed Shariq, had been carrying the improvised explosive machine (IED) in an auto-rickshaw when it exploded on November 19 final 12 months.
He had deliberate to plant the IED at Kadri Manjunatha Temple, Mangaluru, with the intention to create terror among the many Hindu neighborhood however the low intensify bomb unintentionally exploded on the best way.
A case was registered in reference to the blast on November 23, 2022.
Shariq was arrested by the NIA in July 2023, alongside together with his co-accused, Syed Shariq.
The NIA right this moment filed a chargesheet prosecuting each the arrested accused.
As per the NIA investigations, Shariq and Syed, together with a web-based handler, had deliberate the explosion as a part of a conspiracy to determine Caliphate (Sharia Legislation).
Mohamed Shariq had ready the strain cooker IED and Syed Yasin had offered materials help for the explosive.
Shariq first got here on the radar of safety forces in November 2020 when he was arrested by the state police for pro-terror graffiti in Mangaluru metropolis. He and his associates had put up the graffiti in help of the worldwide terror outfit, the Islamic State (IS).
Subsequently, Shariq was additionally named within the Shivamogga IS Conspiracy case of 2022, by which up to now 10 accused have been arrested.
Of those 10 arrested, 9, together with Shariq and Syed Yasin, have been chargesheeted on June 30 for radicalising and recruiting gullible Muslims, elevating funds, and additional conducting trial blast to additional the anti-India actions of IS.