NIA Court Convicts Three Al-Qaeda Inspired Persons From Tamil Nadu In 2016 Mysuru Court Blast Case

The punishment for the trio will be pronounced on October 11.

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Chennai: The National Intelligence Agency’s Special Court in Bengaluru held three Al-Qaeda inspired persons from Tamil Nadu guilty for the bomb blast in Mysuru district court in 2016 on Friday.

The NIA Court's single-judge bench headed by Justice Kasanappa Naik found the three accused--Nainar Abbas Ali (a) Library Abbas, M Samsum Kareem Raja (a) Abdul Kareem, and Dawood Sulaiman-- all from Tamil Nadu guilty of the crime, as per reports on agencies.

The punishment for the trio will be pronounced on October 11.

The duo Ali and Sulaiman first formed the “Base Movement” in Tamil Nadu in January 2015 as sympathisers of Al-Qaeda and started recruiting other accused. They made a plan to threaten the government departments and especially courts as a way to question the atrocities and injustice reportedly done to a particular religious group, a report on PTI said. The trio also issued threats to police officials and jails. They even threatened the French embassy in India. 

Further, they conspired a series of five explosions through “Base Movement”. On August 6, 2016, the trio planted a bomb that blasted in the public toilet of the court premises at Chamarajapuram in Karnataka's Mysuru city. In 2016 alone, the three convicts of the base movement have also executed bomb blast operations in Chittoor Court at Nellore in AP, Kollam Court in Kerala, and Malappuram Court in Kerala at different months of 2016.

Following this, the NIA in May 2017 filed a chargesheet against Ali, Raja, and Sulaiman. The trial of the case was completed in September 2021.