Investigating officers said the suspects, part of a group that called itself ‘The Base Movement of al-Qaida’, were former members of alUmmah, an organisation TN had banned in 1998.
The suspects set off the first explosion in a parking lot in a district court complex in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, on April 7. The group was then involved in a blast in a car park at a chief judicial magistrate’s court at in Kollam, Kerala, on June 15, followed by an explosion in a court complex in Mysuru, Karnataka, on August 1. The outfit then triggered another blast in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, on September 12. On November 1, a blast was reported in the toilet of a judicial magistrate’s court at Malappuram in Kerala.
