Kochi, Wednesday, 30 June 2010: Two accused of Kozhikode twin blast case have been declared ‘fugitives’ by the NIA Court, here, today. The second accused Mohammed Azar and the eighth accused P.P Yusuf were the declared fugitives. The NIA court had issued the order on the petition filed by the investigating team.

The Court had also ordered to seal their assets incase they fail to appear before it.
Even though NIA had already got information that both of them were abroad they failed to bring them back.

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 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.

The NIA suspects that Nazir conducted the Kozhikode blasts as a trial to convince his masters, who are operating from abroad, of his capability to handle such tasks.