City police file charge sheet in Malleswaram bomb blast case

The incident left 18 injured, damaged 23 vehicles and 56 houses A file photo of the bomb blast site near the BJP office in Malleswaram in April. City Police, on Saturday, filed a charge sheet before First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in connection with a bomb blast incident near BJP office in Malleswaram on April 17 this year. Filing of charge sheet is claimed to be a significant development as it is for the first time in the history of the State that probe in a terror case was completed and charge sheet filed within the 180 day deadline. The incident left 18 persons injured, besides damaging 23 vehicles and 56 houses and buildings resulting in estimated loss of Rs 50 lakh. Investigating Officer J?C?Nagar sub-division ACP Omkaraiah (ACP special investigation squad of CCB when blast took place) filed the charge sheet, which is in three volumes with 7,445 pages of material, amassing of 201 documents and citing 260 witnesses in all. The case was registered at Vyalikaval Police Station for offences under IPC?sections 120 (B), 121, 121 (A), 123, 332, 307, 435 and 201 and under Section 3, 4, 5 and 6 of The Explosive Substances Act, 1908 and under Section 4 of Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act 1984 and under Section 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. The charge sheet was filed against: Baasir, 30, resident of Hameempuram, 7th Street, Malapayam, Thirunalveli, Tamil Nadu, Kichan Buhari, 38, VallakaTekkuthil Village, Melapalyam, Thirunalveli, Sait Azgar Ali, 29, Airgnar, Annanagar, Madukarai Market road, Ichanari, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Rehamathulla, G M Nagar, Tippuveedi, second street, Coimbatore, Valayil Hakeem, 32,  first cross, Ilahinagar, Saramedu, Karumbakadai, Coimbatore, Syed Suleman, 24, PFI Office, 9th cross, Karumbakadai, Azad Nagar, Coimbatore, Suleman, 31, Vincent road, Kotaimedu, Coimbatore, Zulfikar Ali, 24, fourth street, Punnaga Nagar, Karumbakadai, Coimbatore, Mohammed Salin, 30, Asuran East street, Melapalyam, Thirunalveli, Panna Ismail, Maila Khadar Road, Melapalyam, Thirunalveli, Bilal Malik, Karimasha Pallil Vasal, 4th Cross, Munni Chalai Road, Nelapet Vellage, Mudurai, Fakruddin @ Police Fakruddin,  Karimasha Pilli Vasal, 4th Cross, Munni Chalai Road, Nelapet Village, Madurai, Pravai Basha, Thirunalveli, Ali Khan Kutti, Thirunaveli. Probe The roles of other accused Panna Ismail, Bilal Malik, Police Fukruddin, Paravai Basha, Alikhan Kutti and others are being further probed. Peer Mohiuddin was accused number one, while Saddam?Hussein was accused number 14 and Tenkasi Haneef number 17.?The police have temporarily left out their names from the charge sheet as there were no substantial evidences against them.?The police arrested them after the case. The police would file additional charge sheet if they get substantial evidences against them during their course of interrogation. The city police on Saturday filed a chargesheet in the April 17 Malleswaram bomb blast case naming 14 people as the accused. Among the 14 accused are three — Panna Ismail, Bilal Malik and Police Fukruddin — who were recently arrested by the Tamil Nadu police at Puttur, Andhra Pradesh. The chargesheet was submitted to the First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court here on Saturday. According to the 7,445-page three-volume chargesheet, 260 witnesses were examined and 201 documents collated. The police said that 18 people were injured in the blast near the BJP office in Malleswaram on April 17, while 23 vehicles and 56 buildings were damaged resulting in an estimated loss of Rs. 50 lakh. All the accused named in the chargesheet are from Tamil Nadu. The accused are Basheer (30), Kichan Buhari (38), Sait Azgar Ali ( 29), Rehamathulla, Valayil Hakeem (32), Syed Suleman (24), Suleman (31), Zulfikar Ali (24), Mohammed Salin (30), Panna Ismail (38), Bilal Malik (25), Fakruddin (38), Pravai Basha and Ali Khan Kutti. The police sources said that the role of Panna Ismail, Bilal Malik, Police Fukruddin, Paravai Basha, Alikhan Kutti and few others in the terror attack is being probed further. Panna Ismail, who was nabbed after a fierce gun battle in Puttur, is believed to be the person who planted the bomb near the BJP office in Bangalore. Those arrested in Puttur have not yet been brought to the city. The suspects, Basheer and Peer Mohiddeen (39), were arrested from a lodge in Chennai while Kichan Buhari, who was sentenced in the 1998 Coimbatore blast case, was nabbed from Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu in April. Among the five arrested, Peer Mohiddeen is the only one who has not been named so far in the chargesheet. The case was registered in the Vyalikaval Police Station under various sections of the IPC, the Explosive Substances Act, 1908, and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, along with Section 4 of Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act 1984.