The Bengaluru police, who initially suspected the involvement of the Tamil Nadu-based terror module, a regrouping of remnants of Al Ummah, who allegedly carried out the Malleswaram bomb blast here in April 2013, almost ruled out their role in the Sunday blast on Church Street that claimed the life of a woman and injured three.
Suspicion has fallen on a group of six SIMI activists led by Abu Faisal, arrested for communal violence and SIMI links in 2011, who fled from the Madhya Pradesh prison on October 1, 2013.
The kingpin Abu Faisal was arrested in December 2013, while the other five are at large. Agencies have now established their involvement in a bank robbery in Karimnagar through CCTV footage and are also probing whether the money robbed ended up in Bardhaman, West Bengal.
The module is suspected to be involved in the May 1, Chennai Central blast on the Bengaluru-Guwahati Express and another blast in a parking lot of a police station in Pune on July 10, earlier this year.
Meanwhile, intelligence agencies have provided city police with the photographs of all the five fugitive SIMI activists and CCTV footage of Karimnagar, Vellore Railway Station and Pune where the gang members were reportedly sighted during various attacks.
City police are now analysing the CCTV footage recovered from Church Street.
CompensationMr. Siddaramaiah announced a compensation of Rs. 5 lakh for the family of the deceased woman, Bhavani Devi, while her body was shifted to her hometown Chennai on Monday afternoon. All medical expenses of the injured would be bore by the government, he added.
