Coimbatore, July 16 -- A Judicial Magistrate's Court in Coimbatore on Wednesday granted five-days' police custody of Tailor Raja, a key accused in the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast case and multiple communal murder cases, to Tamil Nadu Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS).

According to the official, the accused will be produced in court again on July 21 after the custody period ends.

Earlier, the Police was able to arrest the accused after he reamained on the run for nearly 29 years.

The arrested accused was then identified as Sadiq alias Raja alias Tailor Raja alias Valarntha Raja alias Shahjahan Abdul Majid Makandar alias Shahjahan Shaik.

The accused is a native of Coimbatore and has been absconding for the past 29 years and has never been arres...