Residents of Shivamogga district, the two men were involved in radicalising and recruiting gullible Muslim youths, including the co-accused in the case.
The NIA, in its charge-sheet in the Rameshwaram blast case, revealed that the accused had planned to blow up the BJP HQ in Bengaluru on the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha day.
Reportedly, NIA is now looking for their handler identified as one "Colonel". The handler has been in touch with both suspects since their association with the IS Al-Hind module in 2019-20.
NIA officials intend to interrogate Tahaa and Mussavir Hussain Shazib regarding the 'colonel's' identity, the frequency of their meetings with him, methods of payment for terrorist activities, and their future intentions.
The sources told News18, “The way they have been absconding for so long and yet carried out a blast again clearly suggests they are getting financial and logistics support from outside India.”
It has been the norm for Islamic terrorists and Jihadis to assume and use Hindu names while carrying out terror attacks in India while targeting innocent individuals for their extremist cause
A reward of Rs 20 lakh has been announced by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for information on the two suspects in the Bengaluru cafe explosion case
In a major breakthrough in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested a key conspirator named Muzammil Shareef