Bengaluru Blast’s ‘Pune connection’: Suspected terrorist suspected to be in Pune; Investigation agencies on alert
Bengaluru Blast’s 'Pune connection': Suspected terrorist suspected to be in Pune; Investigation agencies on alert
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has expressed the suspicion that the suspected terrorist who planted explosives in the Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru has come to Pune. It is suspected that the terrorist went to Ballari in Karnataka after the bomb blast, then changed buses and came to Pune via Gokarna. Accordingly, a team of ‘NIA’ has entered Pune for investigation, and the ‘CCTV’ filming is being checked.
On March 1, a bomb exploded at the Rameshwaram Cafe in the upscale neighborhood of Brookfield in Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka. Ten people have been injured in it. NIA has released the photograph of the suspected terrorist who escaped with a bag full of explosives in the cafe. A suspected terrorist has been found in the CCTV footage of the Rameswaram cafe after the bomb blast, and work is underway to identify him.
After detonating the bomb, the terrorist escaped from Bangalore in a public bus. Suspecting that he went to Tumkur and Ballari from there, NIA officials and Karnataka Police have seized the CCTV footage of both the places. After that, it has been found that the terrorist went to Gokarna via Ballari. The NIA team suspects that he came to Pune by bus from there.
The NIA team arrived in Pune on Thursday. However, the NIA officials have not confirmed whether the suspected terrorist has reached Pune, or whether he changed the bus again during the journey. Sources said that the investigation is on as to how this suspected terrorist spread and the CCTV footage of Bengaluru bus station, Tumkur, Ballari, Hospet, Bhatkal, Gokarna is being examined.
