Overview
- A fire was set at the Blossom plant nursery in front of the Kadavumbhagam Synagogue and the police arrested 32-year-old Ebin B Paul within hours of the October 12 incident.
- Investigators traced a blue Maruti Ignis using CCTV footage, technical forensics and interviews with about 150 people and found the accused hiding in a rented house in Puthencruz.
- A preliminary forensic review of the suspect’s phone reportedly found videos of the attack, messages referencing Jewish sites and a person called 'Boss', plus material suggesting a link to an earlier Muvattupuzha arson.
- Police seized multiple suspected narcotic and psychotropic substances from the accused’s rented home, recorded in the FIR as including heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone, alprazolam and ketamine.
- A Special Investigation Team has been formed and central agencies including IB and the NIA are conducting detailed device, communications and financial forensics while officials say no conclusive international terror link has yet been established.