Kochi: A special squad of the Ernakulam Rural Police visited Bangalore as part of the investigations into the suicide bomb attack threat on an Air India flight bound to Kochi on October 24 last.
The four -member squad led by Circle Inspector M K Murali went to Bangalore on Saturday soon after the arrest of Mehdi Masroor Biswas, the man allegedly behind terror group Islamic State's (IS) influential Twitter handle -- @ShamiWitness.
“The bomb threat then was in the form of an anonymous call received by the Director of Airports Authority of India, Kolkata region and was traced to a sim card in West Bengal.
The police is trying to find out whether Biswas, a native of Gopalpura Village in West Bengal’s Pargana district, has any connection to the incident,” said sources.
However, top police officials denied the special squad interrogated Biswas. “The team is in Bangalore as part of the investigations into the October 24 incident.
However, they are not interrogating the arrested youth,” said Satheesh Bino, Ernakulam Rural SP.
The team returned to Kochi late on Sunday. “The visit was part of a routine investigation and the attempt was to trace the SIM card details of the phone number from which the anonymous call was received. We have not quizzed Biswas,” said Murali.
On October 24 last, an anonymous call received by the Director of Airports Authority of India, Kolkata region, threatened a suicide bomb attack on a night flight from Ahmedabad to Mumbai and early Saturday morning flight from Mumbai to Kochi.
