The Police was capable of arrest the accused after he reamained on the run for practically 29 years. The arrested accused was then recognized as Sadiq alias Raja alias Tailor Raja alias Valarntha Raja alias Shahjahan Abdul Majid Makandar alias Shahjahan Shaik.
The accused is a local of Coimbatore and has been absconding for the previous 29 years and has by no means been arrested since 1996, they stated.
In line with a launch, appearing on particular and credible intelligence, the accused was arrested by a particular crew from the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Coimbatore Metropolis Police within the Vijayapura district of Karnataka.
The arrested accused is concerned in a number of terror instances and communal homicide instances, together with the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blasts that claimed 58 lives and injured 250 individuals. He's additionally accused of 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 current weeks, the Anti-Terrorism Squad, in coordination with the Coimbatore Metropolis Police, has arrested India's most wished accused, Abubacker Siddique and Mohamed Ali alias Yunus, from Annamayya District in Andhra Pradesh.The arrest of Sadiq alias Tailor Raja from Vijayapura district, Karnataka, marks the third profitable apprehension of a long-absconding accused concerned in terror-related instances.The blast in 1998 had claimed the lives of 58 individuals and 250 suffered accidents when 19 bomb explosions rocked Coimbatore metropolis in Tamil Nadu between February 14 and 17, 1998.
The improvised explosive units, with time delay mechanisms, had been positioned in automobiles, two-wheelers, deserted luggage, push carts, tea cans, and so forth.
Following the incident, the Tamil Nadu authorities banned the ‘Ummah' organisation, whose founder, Basha, was a mastermind within the incident.
The Madras Excessive Courtroom, in its verdict in December 2009 on the appeals filed by these convicted by the trial courtroom, stated that February 14, 1998, was a day of “unimaginable terror and horror as bombs repeatedly exploded within the metropolis of Coimbatore.”
Of the 166 accused within the case, the trial courtroom, in August 2007, pronounced 69 individuals responsible of assorted offences.
