The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered an First Information Report (FIR) with regard to a terror conspiracy case initially registered by the Shivamogga Police in Karnataka in September where Mangaluru blast case accused Mohammed Shariq’s suspected efforts at building bombs first emerged, The Indian Express reports on November 14. The Shivamogga Police had registered an FIR in September naming Shariq, 24, Maaz Ahmed, 22, and Syed Yasin, 22. Shariq is a suspect in the accidental Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast that occurred in an autorickshaw in Mangaluru on November 19. The NIA registered the FIR in the Shivamogga case four days before the Mangaluru blast. The trio “hatched a conspiracy to further the terrorist activities of the banned terrorist organisation Islamic State and to disturb the unity, security, and sovereignty of the country and wage war against India,” the NIA has said, quoting an original FIR registered by the Shivamogga Rural Police on September 20.