City police arrest 1 for alleged connection to M’luru cooker blast case

Hameed Ashraf | NT

Bengaluru: The Karnataka police, probing the cooker blast incident in Mangaluru, has picked up a person from the city for his alleged links to the prime accused in the case. The person was identified as Mohammed Ruhullah, a resident of Devara Jeevanahalli in Bengaluru.

According to the sources, Ruhullah was picked up by a team of police from Bengaluru East Division and handed over to the Mysuru police. A cooker fitted with detonators including wires and batteries exploded in a moving auto rickshaw in Mangaluru on Saturday evening near a police station, leaving the passenger and the driver injured.

Both were admitted to the hospital. Terming it an ‘act of terror’ the probe was intensified and the passenger of the auto-rickshaw was later identified as Shariq, the prime accused in the case. Sources from the district said he had received 40% burns and is under treatment at the hospital.

The driver Purushottam Poojary was also shifted to the hospital. A police probe revealed that Shariq, son of one Aseem Abdul Majeed, a resident of Thirthahalli, has been accused in three cases- two in Mangaluru and one registered in Shivamogga rural police station on September 19. ADGP (Law and Order) Alok Kumar, on Monday, said that the accused was on the run since August 20