Tamil Nadu Police’s Anti Terrorism Squad on Thursday stated it has arrested Sadiq, a key accused within the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast case, wherein 58 folks had been killed and 250 others had been injured.
Additionally, a key accused in communal homicide instances throughout Tamil Nadu, he has been absconding for 29 years and by no means been arrested since 1996.
Appearing on “particular and credible intelligence,” a particular group of Anti-Terrorism Squad and Coimbatore Metropolis Police arrested the accused at Vijayapura district of Karnataka, the ATS stated in an official launch.
Sadiq, a local of Coimbatore used a number of aliases and it contains Raja, Tailor Raja, Valarntha Raja, Shahjahan Abdul Majid Makandar and Shahjahan Shaik. He’s additionally an accused within the 1996 petrol bomb assault in Coimbatore, which resulted within the loss of life of Jail Warden Boopalan; the 1996 Sayeetha homicide case in Nagore; and the 1997 homicide of Jailor Jayaprakash in Madurai.
“In latest weeks, the Anti-Terrorism Squad, in coordination with the Coimbatore metropolis police, has arrested India’s most wished accused Abubacker Siddique and Mohamed Ali @ Yunus from Annamayya District in Andhra Pradesh.
The arrest of Sadiq @ Tailor Raja from Vijayapura district, Karnataka marks the third profitable apprehension of a long-absconding accused concerned in terror-related instances,” the ATS added.
Chief Minister M Okay Stalin lauded the Anti Terrorism Squad and the intelligence officers who guided the particular unit for the arrest of Sadiq and by doing so, establishing but once more that Tamil Nadu is on the forefront within the nation as regards inside safety.
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So as to pay particular consideration to anti-terror duties, the ATS, underneath the intelligence wing, was shaped in 2023 after the DMK assumed energy, he stated.
The ATS, via their wonderful work, have arrested three essential accused together with Abubacker Siddique, who couldn’t be apprehended in the course of the previous 30 years by the Tamil Nadu police, Central authorities’s probe businesses and police departments of neighbouring states. Stalin thanked Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh police for his or her help in arresting the three accused individuals.