Bengaluru Rameshwaram cafe blast | Not possible to say if any outfit is involved yet, says Karnataka Home Minister

Bengaluru Home Minister updates on bomb blast investigation, analyzing CCTV footage, forming teams, and ensuring culprit's capture.

Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara on March 2 said the police are conducting an in-depth investigation into the bomb blast at the Rameshwaram cafe and are looking into all angles.

He said investigators have gathered certain information from CCTV footage, adding that the footage from the city's public transport buses is also being analysed as part of the probe to nab the culprit.

A meeting of senior Home Department officials with the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has been convened this afternoon.

A detailed discussion will be held at the meeting following the Friday's incident at the quick-service eatery in Brookefield area in information technology corridor in east Bengaluru, that left ten people injured, and the government will give certain instructions to the officials.

"Several teams have been formed to investigate. In depth investigation is going on with seriousness, some traces have been found. Some information has been gathered from CCTV footage. At that time on that route number 26 buses had gone. There is information that he (suspect) has come by bus. So, (route number) 26 buses have been verified at Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC)," Mr. Parameshwara said.

Addressing reporters, he said, "on the basis of the theory of elimination", more buses are being verified for footage, as BMTC buses have cameras.

"We expect information from it. Gathering all this information we will nab the culprit. At no cost we will let go. No matter how much they try to escape, we will not leave them," he added.