22
Nov
In the morning, Mohammad Shariq hailed an autorickshaw from Mangalore Railway Junction. He was secretly carrying a pressure cooker full of explosives. He instructed the auto driver to go to Pumpwell Circle. Shariq was fully prepared to implement his objective. But even the best plans can be the worst ones. Little did he know that within minutes of the auto ride, his precious cargo, an IED pressure cooker bomb, would explode, leaving him and the auto driver severely burned and hospitalized. The "mysterious explosion in a moving autorickshaw" immediately made nationwide headlines and put Sharik under intense scrutiny. As the…