Editor's Pick: The NIA on the Coimbatore blast

More than two weeks after a car blast in Coimbatore claimed the life of one man, the main suspect, the National Investigation Agency has said he had planned suicide attacks to cause extensive damage to symbols and monuments of a particular faith. The NIA also conducted simultaneous searches in 43 locations across Tamil Nadu and one place in Kerala. The blast on the morning of October 23 in the communally sensitive city had left a 29-year-old man, Jameesha Mubin, dead. The police had found two LPG cylinders in the car, one of which had exploded; and nails and marbles strewn around the site of the blast. During their investigation, they found explosive chemicals in Mubin’s house. Records also show that Mubin was questioned by the NIA in 2019 when the agency was questioning men suspected to be Islamic State sympathisers. Six people were arrested in the case that investigators suspect was a terror plot gone awry. Here is a detailed report on the incident and the investigation. The car explosion came days after the Home Ministry reportedly warned of possible attacks of leaders in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala by sympathisers of the banned Popular Front of India (To read more about the crackdown on the PFI, read this). As this editorial pointed out, this incident has thrown up some challenges for the M.K. Stalin-led DMK government, which has to “delicately balance the duty of taking along the minorities and the administrative need to uncompromisingly deal with religious fundamentalists, who propagate violence as an answer to political problems”. With the NIA’s latest findings, the need to maintain this delicate balance has become all the more necessary for a party that has been accused of being soft on terror in the past. As the findings have serious security implications, this is the top pick of the day. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Head over to our newsletter subscription page to sign up for Editor‘s Pick and more. Click here. 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The blast on the morning of October 23 in the communally sensitive city had left a 29-year-old man, Jameesha Mubin, dead. The police had found two LPG cylinders in the car, one of which had exploded; and nails and marbles strewn around the site of the blast. During their investigation, they found explosive chemicals in Mubin’s house. Records also show that Mubin was questioned by the NIA in 2019 when the agency was questioning men suspected to be Islamic State sympathisers. Six people were arrested in the case that investigators suspect was a terror plot gone awry. [Here]( is a detailed report on the incident and the investigation. The car explosion came days after the Home Ministry reportedly warned of possible attacks of leaders in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala by sympathisers of the banned Popular Front of India (To read more about the crackdown on the PFI, read [this](. As [this editorial]( out, this incident has thrown up some challenges for the M.K. Stalin-led DMK government, which has to “delicately balance the duty of taking along the minorities and the administrative need to uncompromisingly deal with religious fundamentalists, who propagate violence as an answer to political problems”. With the NIA’s latest findings, the need to maintain this delicate balance has become all the more necessary for a party that has been accused of being soft on terror in the past. As the findings have serious security implications, this is the top pick of the day. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Head over to our newsletter subscription page to sign up for Editor‘s Pick and more. 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