Update on the Bengaluru blast: Police detains 4 people, victims remain optimistic for justice

On Saturday, the Bengaluru police detained four people for questioning, regarding the Ramashwaram blast

The Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara on 3rd march said that the material and method used to carry out the explosion appeared to be similar to that of the 2022 Mangalore blast, which happened in Karnataka.

The BJP, however, have made allegations that there is a connection between the pro-Pakistan sentiments being expressed in the Karnataka assembly and the blast.

Live Updates on the blasts

1. G Parameshwara said the authorities are investigating the case.

2. “We are continuing our investigation. 8 teams have been formed and all are working in different directions and looking at different aspects. We have collected several CCTV footage. We are examining every angle, including if there is any jealousy factor. I also appeal to the opposition to cooperate with us and not to make this a political issue…We do not know if there is any connection with the Mangaluru blast. They have used a similar material and the same system technically. Yesterday NSG arrived here. We will definitely find the person. We had a meeting yesterday and briefed the CM. Today, I have called a meeting of all the senior officers. The BJP should not issue negative statements,”

3. The Bangalore central crime branch on Saturday had detained four people. They are not currently accused of carrying out the blast. But, as per a police source,there is a  possibility that they may have helped the person who blasted the cafe. 
4. The Bengaluru police commissioner B Dayanand stated on Saturday: “Some people have been detained, however, no arrests have been made so far. Multiple police teams are examining various angles based on the clues gathered at the scene.”
5. Those detained are not suspects but are being questioned about the main suspect, who allegedly carried out the blast.
6. The police have found the CCTV footage that shows the suspect behind the blast entering the cafe. He ordered idli. He was talking to someone on his mobile phone while eating.
7. The police are trying to find the phone number of the suspect. They are also trying to find the link between the blast and the mobile phone that the suspect was using. There were 500 active numbers in use in the area at the time, They are going through all 500 phone numbers.
8. The bus in which the suspect allegedly travelled was going from Banashankari to ITPL. The suspect got on the Volvo bus number KA-57-F 186 near Kundalahalli and alighted at the CMRIT College stop.
9. Union minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar said that there’s a connection between ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ sentiments expressed two days ago and the explosion. “Pakistan Zindabad slogans were raised and then, after two days, an IED explosion rocked the Rameshwaram cafe in Bengaluru. There is a connection between these two,” he said. He also accused the government of appeasement politics.
10. Reacting to the BJP’s stark accusations, Karnataka deputy CM Shivakumar today said that the party is spoiling the honour of the state. “The police are investigating, the government has given free hand to them. The government has taken the issue seriously…It is a shame that the BJP has forgotten what happened during their time, I don’t like to do politics on such an issue. Let them do whatever politics they are doing. They are spoiling the honour of the state. In such a context, we should be aware of the unity and peace of the people of this country,” he said.
11. The Karnataka government has declared that it be paying  the cost of treatment of all 10 injured people in the cafe “The government will bear the treatment charges of all the patients. Around ten people were injured. Three are here in the Brookfield Hospital and six others are admitted in Vydehi Hospital. I am also going there. The patients are recovering and responding very well to the treatment,” CM Siddaramaiah told press.