CCB gets custody of 2008 Bengaluru blasts accused

Bengaluru | Friday | 12th October, 2018

Summary:

more-inOver a decade after serial bomb blasts rocked Bengaluru on July 25, 2008, sleuths from the Central Crime Branch (CCB) arrested a key accused — Mohammed Saleem alias Raisal — from Kannur, Kerala, on Wednesday. The next day, eight serial blasts rocked the city. Alok Kumar, then Joint Commissioner (Crime), had led the probe into the 2008 serial blasts case. Saleem, named as the 20th accused in the charge-sheet, had evaded arrest for a decade and was absconding. The First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court remanded him in CCB custody for 14 days on Thursday..