Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav met Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president KT Rama Rao over lunch at Rameshwaram Café in Madhapur. Party leaders said the informal interaction reflected the warm personal rapport shared by the two leaders.
Officials reported that the NIA team traced and apprehended the two main absconders in the Rameswaram Cafe blast case, Abdul Matheen Taha and Mussavir Hussain Shazeb, at their hideout near Kolkata.
The NIA suspected the Al-Hind Islamic State module's involvement and compared the timer and detonator devices used in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast to the Mangaluru cooker blast.
Speaking to reporters, Divya Raghavendra Rao, co-founder of Rameshwaram Cafe, emphasized that hoteliers cannot compromise their integrity, as they play a vital role in nourishing the community.
The team arrived in the city during the early hours of Thursday, with sources indicating that over 10 NIA officers in two vehicles were collecting information.
CM Siddaramaiah suggested that protection should be provided to the people. He directed officials to identify densely populated areas and increase police patrolling in such areas.
They term it as a mild explosion. Do they expect deaths to happen to take a serious note of the incident? There was a big sleeper cell behind this incident, says Basavaraj Bommai
Hyderabad: India News Today includes Gautam Gambhir relief from political duties in Delhi, PM Modi roadshow in West Bengal, and Rameshwaram Cafe Blast handed over to the city crime branch in Bengaluru.
A low-intensity improvised explosive device at Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru, India, injured nine people. The incident was reclassified as a deliberate act of terrorism, prompting an FIR under anti-terrorism laws
The police after obtaining the CCTV footage of the suspected bomber -- with backpack allegedly carrying a bomb -- have launched a manhunt for the accused in Mangaluru city, neighbouring Kerala and in Tamil Nadu.
Apart from this, special police teams including the Task Force and Special Operations Team conducted searches at various hotels and lodges and railway and bus stations.
