The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case has detained a man from Ballari district, sources said on Wednesday. The man is said to have “some resemblance” with the prime suspect, the sources said.

“NIA sleuths are interrogating him to know his whereabouts on March one when the blast took place”, they said. The accused wearing a cap and mask placed a low-intensity bomb kept in a backpack in the popular eatery at Brookefield area near Whitefield here that went off injuring nine persons on March one.