Chennai:The same mysterious cap, which hid the face of the main suspect in that viral CCTV footage related to the March 1 Rameshwaram cafe blast in Karnataka capital Bengaluru, has helped the National Investigation Agency to identify the suspect along with his accomplice.
In the ongoing investigation into the low intensity blast, which left 10 people including two restaurant workers injured, the NIA has revealed a Tamil Nadu link to the case with both the suspects believed to have stayed in Chennai in January where they bought the limited edition baseball cap from a mall in Mylapore.
NIA sources said that both the suspects were staying in Chennai's Triplicane area from the second week of January to the first week of February, and that's when the main suspect identified as Musavir Hussain Shazib along with his accomplice Abdil Mathern Taha bought the baseball cap at a shopping mall in Mylapore, Chennai.
The cap was found by the NIA abandoned around 3 km from the bombed cafe and had strands of hair in it which have been sent for DNA testing by the investigators. Sources said that the cap was found to be from a limited edition series with the serial number on it helping the NIA investigators trace it to the mall which sold it.