Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jun 22: On December 28, 2005, terrorists had attacked the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus here in which Prof Manish Chandra Puri was killed. Terror suspect Habib Miya was arrested by the central crime branch police relating to this case from Tripura in 2017.

The said attack had left the people of Bengaluru traumatised. After about 12 years, in 2017, the police had arrested terror suspect, Habib Miya, from Tripura. The case has been on for the last 16 years. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court, which came to the conclusion that the case suffers from lack of evidence against the terror suspect, has absolved Miya of the charges he was facing. Therefore, Habib Miya, who was in jail from 2017, has been released from jail.

Indian Institute of Science (file photo)

After the death of Manish Chandra Puri, the police faced a huge challenge of arresting the terror suspect. With their incessant efforts, the CCB police succeeded in taking into custody Habib Miya from Tripura in 2017. They had filed a charge sheet in the NIA special court. But in the charge sheet, the police had record the statement of accused No.1, Shabauddin. Other than that, no document, witnesses or evidence had been provided to the court. Because of this, the court felt that the case suffers from lack of evidence. The court ordered for the release of Habib Miya. The police also were asked to release him from jail.