Were planning something big? NIA recovers bomb-making material from house of car owner in Coimbatore blast case

Coimbatore, October 29: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the Coimbatore cylinder explosion case, has recovered bomb-making materials from the residence of Jamesha Mubeen, who died in the blast in the car. Apart from that, NIA, during the search also sized notebooks with details of Islamic ideology and details about Jihad.

 

 

As per the media reports, NIA sized, 109 articles including potassium nitrate, black powder, matchbox, cracker fuse length about 2 meters, Nitro Glycerin, red phosphorous, PETN powder, Aluminium powder, OXY 99 Breathe pure Oxygen cylinder, Sulphur powder, Sterile Surgical blade, and other bomb-making materials.

 

The NIA took over the case after the Counter Terrorism and Counter Radicalisation unit of the Home Ministry issued an order for the same. The order came a day after Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin, in a letter to the MHA, recommended for NIA probe in the case.

 

 

 

On 23 October, a car loaded with two gas cylinders exploded near a temple in Coimbatore. It was being driven by one Jameesha Mubin, a 29-year-old engineering graduate. Mubin had attempted to get past a police check post near the temple but fled after failing to do so, state police chief C Sylendra Babu told reporters on Monday.

 

Police have arrested five people who had been in contact with Mubin, and charged them under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

 

 

Mubin was under the NIA radar in 2019 in the aftermath of the Easter bomb blasts in Sri Lanka, but no case was filed against him, police said.

 

Reportedly NIA is also looking into the possible link of C.A.Rauf, the Kerala state secretary of the banned group Popular Front of India (PFI), with Mubin. Rauf was in hiding since PFI was banned, and he was arrested by the NIA from his residence in Pattambi in Kerala on Thursday night.