Fayyaz Premji, aged 39, had checked into a hotel in Mumbai’s Dongri area around a fortnight before Muharram. Premji is accused of attempting to distribute the poison-filled capsules among devotees during a Muharram procession in the city.

Pradeep Kurulkar, ex-Director of DRDO’s Research and Development Establishment (Engineers) came under the scrutiny after allegations regarding providing sensitive and confidential information to a woman claimed to be a Pakistani intelligence operative.

Yasin Malik, Kashmiri separatist leader, has been named main accused in the 1990 Sarla Bhat rape-murder case after the State Investigation Agency (SIA) filed 737-page chargesheet naming him the alleged mastermind in the case.