The blast had occurred on March 1, when an IED explosion was set off in the cafe in the heart of the citys tech hub, injuring 10 people. CCTV footage showed a bearded man wearing a mask, cap and spectacles leaving a bag behind in the cafe, which detonated about an hour after he left.
While former Crime Branch police inspector Sridhar Pujar’s anticipatory bail plea was rejected, the bail plea of former Crime Branch technical cell inspector Prashanth Babu was allowed in the Karnataka Bitcoin scam case.
The purchase of a new laptop, the procurement of three hardware crypto wallets and a digital trail that suggests the transfer of a large amount of Bitcoins are part of the evidence the SIT has found in the multi-crore Karnataka Bitcoin scam.
Mehdi Masroor Biswas was held in 2014 after the UK’s Channel 4 revealed he was behind the @shamiwitness Twitter handle that helped British ISIS recruits join the outfit in Syria.
Mehdi Masroor Biswas, who went by the name @shamiwitness on X (formerly Twitter), used the social media handle to sympathise with the outfit during the rise of the IS in Syria in 2014.