Acting on specific and credible intelligence, the accused was arrested by a special team from the Anti-Terrorism Squad and Coimbatore City Police in the Vijayapura district of Karnataka.
Union Minister L Murugan on Wednesday condemned the DMK government in Tamil Nadu for allowing the funeral procession of SA Basha, the mastermind of the 1998 serial bombings in Coimbatore.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday while calling the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast incident that killed 58 people and left 250 injured, "atrocious", dismissed the bail pleas of some of the convicts.