Security up in jail as Mangaluru cooker blast accused faces threat to life

MANGALURU: The prime accused in the Mangaluru cooker bomb blast case, Mohammed Shariq, is facing a threat to his life at Parappana Central prison in Bengaluru.

Based on Intelligence inputs, the Parappana Agrahara prison staff have moved Shariq directly to the jail cell without being putting him to the quarantine cell, with four police personnel each deployed in three shifts. Additional CCTV cameras have been installed. He is also suffering from skin problems.

The cooker bomb was allegedly designed to carry out a large-scale attack to fuel communal tension in the coastal region and in the state.

Shariq was treated at the Victoria hospital for over two-and-half months. The accused had suffered 45 per cent burns after the explosive he was carrying in a pressure cooker exploded in an autorickshaw at Nagori on the outskirts of the city on November 19 last year.