Kochi, Thursday, 05 August 2010: A Special NIA Court here today posted further proceedings on Kozhikode twin blast case to 16th of this month. The Court has also ordered all the seven accused in the case to appear before it on the same day.

The charge sheet filed by NIA in the Court on Monday has named Lashkar-e-Taiba Commander Thadiyentvida Nazir as the prime accused. The six others, besides Nazir, are Mohammed Azar, Abdul Halim, Shafaz, Shammi Firoz, K.P Yusuf and Chettipadi Yusuf. Fayis, another accused, had died in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir while crossing the India-Pakistan border for getting training in Pakistan.

The accused had been charged with offences under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 and the Explosive Substances Act.

Earlier report

The Kozhikode blasts has taken place on 3rd March ,2006 in two bus stands of the city. Two policemen and a porter were injured in the blasts.

A breakthrough in the Kozhikode blast case came after Abdul Sattar alias E T Zainuddin, an electronics engineer and a native of Malappuram who is based in Hyderabad, was arrested in January 2008 on charges of making the timer-fitted bombs which were used in the Bangalore blasts of July 2008.

He exposed LeT operative Thadiyentvida Nazir’s role in the Kozhikode blasts which is believed to have been carried out as a curtain- raiser for the Bangalore blasts. Meanwhile, Abdul Halim, another accused who was arrested by the police, confessed that the blast was planned by Nazir.