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Mangaluru blast accused Mohammed Shariq pleads guilty in the court

Congress had refused to term the incident as a “terrorist act”

Bengaluru (Karnataka) – During the hearing of the 2022 cooker bomb blast case in Mangaluru, held at a special court in Bengaluru, the arrested accused Mohammed Shariq has admitted his guilt in court. It was stated that the incident involved a pre-planned conspiracy and that areas near Hindu temples were among the intended targets.

In 2022, D. K. Shivakumar, Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka and a leader of the Indian National Congress, had alleged that the then Bharatiya Janata Party government deliberately portrayed the blast as a terrorist incident for political gain. He had questioned whether the incident was comparable to major terror attacks like those in Mumbai, Pulwama, or Jammu & Kashmir.

Sequence of events

Mohammed Shariq, a resident of Shivamogga, was carrying around 3 kilograms of explosives in a pressure cooker inside an auto-rickshaw on 19 November 2022. Due to a malfunction in the timer device, the cooker exploded on his lap, leaving him seriously injured. He was subsequently admitted to a hospital in Mangaluru. After receiving treatment, he was arrested by the National Investigation Agency. Shariq was reportedly a member of a Shivamogga-based module linked to Islamic State and had connections to multiple terror-related activities. He was also accused in a September 2022 Shivamogga case involving explosive testing and had previously been arrested for writing anti-national slogans. (Instead of continuing to sustain or rehabilitate such accused terrorists, they should be given the death penalty, which is what the general public expects. The Congress party, taking positions seen as sympathetic in such cases, should face legal action and be banned. – Editor)

Editorial Perspective

The Indian National Congress has been supportive of jihadi terrorists and will continue to take such positions, and therefore a ban on the party has become necessary.

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