Bengaluru, Mar 6: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been successful in nabbing Thufail MH, who is a prime accused in the sensational Praveen Nettar murder case.
Thufail was in his house at Amruthahalli when NIA set up the plot to nab him. As per sources, he was the former PFI district secretary of Kodagu and the present head of PFI ‘Service Team’ which is also called the hit squad.
NIA was in search of Thufail and they had announced a bounty of Rs. 5 Lakh for the information leading to his arrest. He was on the run along with other accused Masud KA, Abubakkar Siddik, Kodaje Mohammed Sherif, Ummar Farook and Musthafa Paichar. NIA has named a total of 20 accused in the chargesheet.
The accused are members of the banned PFI and had planned and executed Nettaru’s murder to “to create terror, communal hatred and unrest in society and to further its agenda of establishing Islamic rule by 2047”, the NIA had stated in the chargesheet.
According to the NIA, Thufail had played a significant role in PFI’s larger conspiracy to murder leaders of a particular community. He had also provided shelter and safe harbour to the three assailants in the Nettaru case at Ashiyana Residency of Koppa village, Mysuru district, who had recced and then hacked Nettaru to death.”
Thufail was accused in the Prashanth Poojari murder case registered in Kushalnagar Rural police station and also a case of attempt to murder VHP leader Ganesh.
