Nazir, Shafas brought to Kannur Central jail

Sunday, August 14, 2011: Thadiyantevida Nazeer, self-styled south India chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba, sentenced to life imprisonment by the NIA along with his relative Shafas in the 2006 twin bomb blasts in Kozhikode were brought to Kannur Central jail. The two had requested to shift them to Kannur Central Jail.

Both were charged with waging war against the nation and taking part in “anti-national activities”. This is the first ever verdict in a case charge sheeted by the NIA in Kerala.

Nazeer was arrested in 2009 at the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya. The NIA took over the case from the Kerala Police Crime Branch. Nazeer is also allegedly involved in the 2005 terror attack on the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science in which a retired professor was killed.

Nazir, Shafaz found guilty in Kozhikode twin blast case

Thursday, August 11, 2011: The Ernakulam NIA court here on Thursday convicted the first accused Thadiyantavida Nazir and fourth accused Shafaz in the Kozhikode twin blast case. The verdict will be delivered Friday. Third accused Halim and ninth accused Yusuf were set free by the court.

The Kozhikode blasts has taken place on 3rd March ,2006 in two bus stands of the city. Two policemen and a porter were injured in the blasts.

A breakthrough in the Kozhikode blast case came after Abdul Sattar alias E T Zainuddin, an electronics engineer and a native of Malappuram who is based in Hyderabad, was arrested in January 2008 on charges of making the timer-fitted bombs which were used in the Bangalore blasts of July 2008.

He exposed LeT operative Thadiyentvida Nazir’s role in the Kozhikode blasts which is believed to have been carried out as a curtain- raiser for the Bangalore blasts. Meanwhile, Abdul Halim, another accused who was arrested by the police, confessed that the blast was planned by Nazir.

Nazir, Shabaz shifted to Poojappura central prison

Friday, June 24, 2011: Thadiyantavide Nazir, Shabaz and Yoosuf, the three accused in terrorist cases, were shifted from the Viyur-jail to the Poojappura central prison on Friday.

The accused have been shifted as per the directive of National Investigation Agency (NIA) special Court in Ernakulam.

Thadiyantevida Nazir is the first accused in the case related to burning of a bus belonging to the Tamil Nadu Transport Corporation at Kalamassery.