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The accused in the Rameshwaram Cafe bombing planned to attack the state BJP office in Bengaluru on the day of the Ram Mandir inauguration in Ayodhya, according to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) chargesheet. The NIA has filed charges against four individuals - Mussavir Hussain Shazib, Abdul Matheen Ahmed Taaha, Maaz Muneer Ahmed, and Muzammil Shareef - in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case. The investigation revealed that Taaha and Shazib, the person who planted the bomb, had been on the run since 2020 after the Islamic State's al-Hind module was uncovered. The NIA's extensive search led to their arrest in West Bengal, 42 days after the Rameshwaram Cafe incident. These two men, from Karnataka's Shivamogga district, were Islamic State radicals who had radicalized other young Muslims, including Maaz Muneer Ahmed and Muzammil Shareef. Taaha and Shazib used fraudulently obtained Indian SIM cards, bank accounts, and identity documents from the dark web. They were funded by their handler through cryptocurrencies.

The text mentions that the suspects planned the Rameshwaram Cafe blast in Bengaluru, which injured at least nine people. Investigations revealed that one suspect, Taaha, was introduced by an ex-convict named Shoaib Ahmed Mirza to another suspect, Mohammed Shaheed Faisal, who was an absconder in a previous case. Taaha then introduced Faisal, his handler, to two other suspects: Mehaboob Pasha, an accused in an Al-Hind ISIS case, and Khaja Mohideen, the Amir of ISIS South India, and later also to Maaz Muneer Ahmed.