Rameshwaram Cafe Blast Case: Two Coimbatore doctors questioned by NIA

Chennai: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) searched the residences of two Coimbatore-based doctors in Tamil Nadu in connection with the blast at the Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru on March 1.

According to the investigating agency sources, the raids were connected to the blast at the Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru on March 1. A low-intensity IED bomb had exploded at the cafe injuring 10 people.

According to sources, two teams of NIA were conducting the raids at the residences of the two doctors at Narayanaguru Street in Sai Baba colony.

NIA sleuths seized mobile phones and SIM cards from the duo, residing at Saibaba Colony in Coimbatore. They had enrolled in a two-year post doctoral fellowship programme at a private hospital in the city. While one of them had completed the course, the other was yet to do so, a source in the hospital said.

Two suspects in the case, Mussavir Hussain Saheb and Abdul Matheen Thaha, were arrested in West Bengal on April 12, news agency IANS reported.

On October 23, 2022, there was a car bomb explosion in front of the Arulmigu Kottai Sanagameswar temple in Ukkadam, Coimbatore. Later a charred body of a 29-year-old youth, Jamesha Mubin was found at the blast site.

The suicide bomber was planning to explode himself along with the car near a market on October 23, 2022, which was Diwali eve. However, the blast occurred before the expected time thus saving several people. Several people and organisations in the Coimbatore region have been under the radar of the Central agencies ever since this attack.