Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai requested the Congress management to make clear their stand on terrorism on Friday after the occasion’s state president DK Shivakumar questioned the probe into the Mangaluru blast.
The chief minister was reacting to Shivakumar’s assertion suggesting that the Mangaluru stress cooker blast was orchestrated by the BJP authorities to divert consideration away from the voter information theft scandal.
“I wish to ask Congress – Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi – are you in favour of terrorists? Or, are you with patriots?” Bommai mentioned.
“Congress’ coverage is such that earlier, too, they’ve trivialised terror incidents and have supported terrorists,” he added.
“They’d criticised the hanging of a terrorist. That is a part of their appeasement technique for elections. They really feel that they’ll get minority votes with such statements and have used the identical outdated method. However individuals are conscious, such issues gained’t work anymore,” Bommai instructed reporters in Bengaluru.
The chief minister additional mentioned questioning the police who’ve arrested a terrorist with adequate proof will have an effect on the morale of the police division and increase the morale of the terrorists.
Shivakumar on Thursday mentioned that the BJP authorities and the director basic of police(DGP) Praveen Sood are damaging the state’s picture on a worldwide stage.
KPCC president additionally mentioned that the Mangaluru blast was declared a terror exercise with out an investigation.
Talking to the reporters on Thursday, Shivakumar mentioned, “Hours after the Mangaluru blast, the ruling authorities and DGP instantly declared it a terrorist exercise with none investigation, as if it was just like the Mumbai terror assault. How can the police name somebody a terrorist with out even a fundamental investigation? If it was a terror assault, why didn’t they instantly hand over the case to Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA). BJP authorities is used to diverting the primary points by creating panic among the many public.”
On Friday, Shivakumar refused to take his assertion again. “My stand is evident. I’m not going to take again my phrases on the Mangaluru blast case. I’m not defending the accused however attempting to say that the BJP is utilizing such incidents to cowl their failures. Vital points like corruption and voter information rip-off are sidelined utilizing the blast case (however) by no means I had mentioned to not examine the accused,” Shivakumar mentioned.
On November 19, an explosion was reported in an auto-rickshaw in Mangaluru, injuring the motive force and the passenger. A day after the blast in Mangaluru, during which two individuals, together with Shariq, had been injured, state police chief Praveen Sood on November 20 had declared the incident an “act of terror to trigger critical harm”.
In the course of the probe, police recognized Shariq because the bomber. In response to police, movies on methods to make bike bombs and cooker bombs had been recovered from Shariq’s telephone. The investigation identified that the character of the IED reveals that the group didn’t have sufficient funding or assist. Police recognized the fabric used to make the IED has potassium chlorate, used to fabricate match containers and crackers.
The police have recovered 150 matchboxes, sulphur powder and gunpowder from a Mysuru home the place Shariq stayed earlier.
After the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) took over the case, two outdated instances involving him turned of curiosity to the investigating company. Police arrested Shariq in December 2020. The arrest was the results of an investigation into pro-terror graffiti on the partitions of a constructing within the East police station limits and on a wall within the North police station limits. Police arrested Shariq and Mazz Muneer Ahmed, aka, Mazz, who was then 21 years outdated.
It was two years later, in September, Shariq’s identify cropped up in one other terror-related case. Shivamogga police on September 23 had mentioned that two associates of an individual arrested in reference to the stabbing incident throughout a conflict over Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s poster in Shivamogga on August 15 have hyperlinks to the Islamic State.
One of many 4 arrested males instructed police that Mazz, who was arrested together with Shariq within the graffiti case, was an affiliate. When police took Mazz into custody, he instructed police that, together with Shariq, he had carried out trial bomb blasts alongside the banks of the Tungabhadra river.
(With inputs from PTI)