Bengaluru: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the City police on August 15 arrested Mohammed Ali Khan Kutti (45), an alleged Al Umma suspect and key accused in the April 2013 Malleswaram bomb blast case from Satyamangalam in Tamil Nadu. He was produced before the local court there and brought to the city on Wednesday on transit remand.
Kutti had allegedly played an important role in the Malleswaram blast conspiracy and supplied explosives for the terror attack that was meant to target the BJP office in the vicinity.
“Kutti is an experienced hand of the banned terror organization – Al Umma – and was convicted by the TN Sessions Court in the 1998 serial blasts in Coimbatore, where former BJP president L.K. Advani was to address a rally. He was later released by the High Court. Kutti was also reportedly involved in the serial train blasts in the Chennai-Madurai Pandiyan Express at Tiruchirapalli, Chennai-Coimbatore Cheran Express at Erode and Chennai-Alappuzha Express at Thrissur in Kerala on December 6, 1997 and for planting a bomb outside the house of famous film director Maniratnam in Chennai,” said an official source. Kutti has nine cases of terrorism against him. The CCB has so far arrested 18 out of the 20 accused in the Malleswaram blast case.
