Kollam: The police will produce the four youths belonging to Madurai, who are accused in the blast on the premises of the Kollam district court on June 15 last year, before the court on Wednesday to seek their custody for 12 days for evidence collection.
The accused-- Abbas Ali, 27, of Ismailpuram, Shamsoon Karim Raja, 22, house No. 17, Dawood Sulaiman, 22, house No 23, Karimsha masjid, fort street, Nelpetta, and Shamshudeen, 23, Nelpetta, Madurai-- are presently under the custody of the Nellore police in Hyderabad.
A police team from Kollam will bring them from Hyderabad on Tuesday and keep them in the district jail. They will be produced before the court by 11 a.m. on Wednesday after their arrest is recorded. The team had questioned them earlier at the Parappana Agrahara jail in Coimbatore.
The police had found that Karim Raja had visited the Kollam court complex a week before the blast to record the visuals on his mobile phone. He then reached Madurai and conspired with the other accused to conduct the blast. On the day of the incident, Karim Raja reached Kollam in a KSRTC bus from Thenkasi and returned after executing the blast. He later came to Kollam on September 12, the day on which the court complex blast in Nellore in Hyderabad took place.
The investigation team had found earlier that Karim Raja had recharged his mobile phone from a shop at Kottamukku when he came to Kollam on September 12. The arrested are also accused in the blasts at Nellore, Chittoor, Mysore, Kollam and Malappuram, according to the police. They were arrested by the NIA during their inquiry into the Nellore court complex blast.
