NIA arrests Shoaib Ahmed Mirza, ex-LeT convict, as fifth accused in Bengaluru's Rameshwaram Cafe blast case.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested Shoaib Ahmed Mirza, an ex-convict in a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror conspiracy case, as the fifth accused in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case in Bengaluru. Mirza was previously convicted in an LeT Bengaluru conspiracy case and was released from jail later. In 2018, he befriended and introduced accused Abdul Matheen Taha to an online handler suspected to be living abroad. Mirza also provided an email ID for encrypted communication between the handler and Abdul Matheen Taha.