Tamil Nadu blast: UAPA invoked, BJP wants NIA probe

The blast site in Coimbatore, on Sunday. Pic/PTI

The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act has been invoked in the case relating to a car explosion in the city that killed one person.

Police have arrested Md Talka, Md Azharuddin, Md Riyaz, Firoze Ismail and Md Nawaz Ismail, all in their 20s. They will probe all angles, including terror. They are also probing if the deceased, Jemisha Mubeen, had links with Mohammed Azharuddin, an accused in the 2019 Easter Sunday blasts in a Sri Lankan church.

With some of them being enquired by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2019, the police were also probing their activities after that, City Police Commissioner V Balakrishnan said.

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Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai said the state police should accept it as a "suicide attack" and hand over the probe to the NIA.

19 detained in Guj communal clash

Members of two communities clashed over the bursting of firecrackers near the Muslim Medical Centre in Vadodara, Guja-rat, on Diwali, following which police detained 19 people from both sides, a cop said on Tuesday.

In Shivamogga town of Karnataka, cops have beefed up security after 3 men shouting anti-RSS slogans attacked a man.

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