Mangaluru : The III Additional District and Sessions Court on Wednesday posted the framing of charges against the six alleged associates of Indian Mujahideen operative Yasin Bhatkal, who were arrested for alleged illegal possession of explosives in 2008, to January 28.

Sayyed Mohammed Naushad and Ahamad Bava Abubacker were among the six arrested by police for the alleged illegal possession of explosives.

The city police had filed a chargesheet under sections of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Naushad and Abubacker were lodged in a prison in Mumbai.

On Wednesday, Naushad and Abubacker were produced by the Mumbai police before the district court.

The judge adjourned the case to January 28 for framing of charge.

In the chargesheet, the city police have made a mention of presence of Indian Mujahideen operative Yasin Bhatkal and three other persons in the house in Ullal.

The police have said these four persons had managed to escape just as the house was raided. Yasin Bhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal, Mussaffar Yasin and Kayamuddin Sarfuddin have been mentioned as absconding accused.

Yasin Bhatkal and another IM operative Asadullah Akhtar were arrested by the National Investigation Agency sleuths on August 30, 2013. Yasin Bhatkal was yet to be produced before this court in connection with the case registered in Ullal.