The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on January 13, said it has filed a chargesheet against eight people in connection with the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) prison radicalisation and suicide attack conspiracy case, reports The Indian Express. The case was originally registered by the Bengaluru city police on July 18, 2023, following the seizure of arms, ammunition, hand grenades, and walkie-talkies from the house of one of the accused. According to the NIA, the probe revealed that T Naseer, who was involved in several blast cases, had come in contact with the other accused while they were all lodged in Bengaluru prison in 2017.
Naseer has been serving a life sentence since 2013, while two other accused, Junaid Ahmed and Salman Khan, are suspected to have fled abroad. The remaining suspects – Syed Suhail Khan, Mohammed Umar, Zahid Tabrez, Syed Mudassir Pasha, and Mohammed Faisal Rabbani – have been arrested. The NIA said Naseer had managed to get all the accused shifted to his barrack after carefully assessing whether they could be radicalised and recruited into the LeT. He first managed to radicalise and recruit Junaid Ahmed and Salman Khan and, thereafter, he conspired with Junaid Ahmed to radicalise and recruit the other accused.