New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has revealed that the accused in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case had originally planned to attack the BJP state office in Bengaluru on January 22, the day of the Ram Mandir inauguration in Ayodhya. According to the chargesheet, four men – Mussavir Hussain Shazib, Abdul Mateen Ahmed Taaha, Maaz Muneer Ahmed, and Muzammil Shareef – have been charged in connection with the blast.The investigation uncovered that Taaha and Shazib, a key accused in the case, had been on the run since 2020 after the Islamic States al-Hind module was exposed. The NIA arrested them 42 days after the blast during a manhunt that led them to West Bengal. The two men were Islamic State radicals who had radicalized several young individuals, including Maaz Muneer Ahmed and Muzammil Shareef.Dark web resources crackdown the scene The group used dark web resources to obtain fake Indian and Bangladeshi identity documents, as well as cryptocurrency funding to orchestrate violence, including a failed IED attack on the BJP office in Malleshwaram, Bengaluru.After the failed attempt, the group orchestrated the Rameshwaram Cafe blast on March 1 in Bengalurus Brookfield area, which left nine people injured. Investigations have since linked the accused to other terror networks, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba Bengaluru conspiracy case.
