In December last year, the NIA took over the investigation into the November 19 pressure cooker blast in an autorickshaw in Mangaluru wherein a passenger, identified as Mohammed Shariq, was carrying a pressure cooker bomb made from an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
Mohammad Sohail is the Udaipur district president of SDPI, the political wing of the Islamist organisation Popular Front of India (PFI) which has been banned in various states for extremist activities.
According to the NIA, anyone providing information regarding Mohammed Sherif and K A Masud, the two other absconding accused in Praveen Nettaru murder case, will be rewarded with Rs 5 lakhs