Coimbatore car blast | NIA files second supplementary chargesheet against two accused

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed the second supplementary charge sheet against two more accused involved in the car blast in front of the Sangameswarar temple in Coimbatore on October 23, 2022.

Mohammed Idris and Mohammed Azarudeen, alias Azar, residents of Coimbatore, were arraigned by the agency. They are the 12th and 13th accused in the case, which pertains to the explosion of a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device at Kottaimedu. ISIS sympathiser Jamesha Mubeen, 29, who triggered the blast, died on the spot.

The NIA probe revealed that Mubeen, along with other accused — Azarudeen, Umar Faaruq, Sheikh Hidayathullah and Sanofer Ali — conspired to carry out a series of suicidal terror attacks in the city, following a conspiracy hatched in a forest at Sathyamangalam in Erode district.