The suspect, on March 1, was last spotted in CCTV footage at the Ballari bus stand around eight hours after the blast, at 8.58 pm, as per investigations. On March 6, five days after the blast, the NIA took four persons of a Ballari-based “ISIS module” into custody, according to NIA records available in the public domain.
The arrested suspects were previously detained in December 2023 in the Ballari ISIS module case.
Moreover, the suspect in the cafe bombing had taken two intra-state government buses to get to Ballari before continuing to an unspecified location.
Shabbir’s arrest from Ballari appears to have further strengthened the possible ISIS Ballari module link to the case.
CCTV videos of the prime suspect showed that he came on a public bus to the cafe. The investigating agency had also found his cap from near a mosque.
The person detained by the central probe agency has been identified as Syed Shabbir.
The cafe blast suspect’s trail has been pieced together through the CCTV footage on his escape route travelled by two intra-state government buses to get to Ballari and travelled further to another unidentified destination, police sources said.
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