Overview

• Coimbatore City Police and the ATS apprehended the fugitive in Karnataka after he evaded arrest under multiple aliases for 26 years
• Raja is accused of distributing bombs to Al Ummah cadres between February 12 and 14, 1998, in attacks that killed 58 people and wounded over 200
• Investigators say he rented a Ukkadam house where extremists manufactured and stored the explosives used in the serial blasts
• He also faces charges in three communal murder cases registered between 1996 and 1997 at Nagore, Race Course and Karimedu police stations
• Authorities are analyzing seized evidence and intensifying the hunt for remaining suspects, including key operative Mujibur Rehman