Mangaluru: Cooker bomb blast accused shifted to Bengaluru
Mangaluru (PTI): The prime accused in the cooker bomb blast case here, has been shifted to a hospital in Bengaluru on the advice of authorities and the doctors treating him here.
Mohammed Shariq was taken to Victoria hospital in the state capital at 6 am on Saturday, police sources said.
The accused had suffered 45 percent burns after the explosive he was carrying in a pressure cooker exploded in an auto rickshaw at Nagori on the outskirts of the city on November 19. The autorickshaw driver, who was also injured in the blast, is being treated here.
A little-known terror outfit, the Islamic Resistance Council (IRC) had later owned responsibility for the blast and warned of another attack on their darknet.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), currently probing the case and its link with terrorist activities, have already questioned him at the hospital here.
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Drug peddler's property worth Rs 1 crore attached in Srinagar
Srinagar (PTI): Property worth Rs 1 crore belonging to a notorious drug peddler was on Saturday attached in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar, police said.
A double-storey house on eight marlas of land situated at Wantpora Eidgah, belonging to Basit Bilal Dar, a notorious drug peddler, valued at approximately Rs 1 crore, a police spokesperson said.
He said Dar is involved in two cases registered under various sections of the NDPS Act.
During investigation, it was established that the accused had acquired the said property through illicit proceeds generated from drug trafficking activities, the spokesperson said.
Consequently, the property was attached under the provisions of the NDPS Act. The attachment proceedings were conducted in the presence of the two independent witnesses, strictly in accordance with the prescribed legal procedures, he said.
As per the attachment order, the owner has been restrained from selling, leasing, transferring, altering, or creating any third-party interest in the property till further orders, the spokesperson added.
