Some of the outfit’s key members, including S A Basha, former Al Umma president, Mohammed Ansari, who anointed himself as the outfit’s president following a power struggle, and Basha’s son Siddiq Ali are now among the 167 accused in the case and lodged in the Coimbatore prison.
Incidentally, in the recent Assembly election, the performance of the DMK and its allies was the worst in Coimbatore. They won just four of the 14 Assembly seats in the district. It seems the rich textile town is yet to forgive the DMK for its February 14 nightmare.
(Tomorrow: Why comrades and Congress love him in Kerala)
The VVIP prisoner
• Accused No. 14 Mahdani is one of the key conspirators in the Coimbatore bomb blasts case
• Accused of collecting and transferring explosives to the town, ripped by a series of bomb blasts on February 14, 1998
• Charged under Sections 302 IPC (Murder), 307 IPC (Attempt to Murder), 153-A IPC (Creating hatred among communities), Section 5 of the Explosives Act and Section 25 of the Arms Act
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