Islamabad: Pakistani officials have informed an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi the details of training received at Lashkar-e-Taiba camps by the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks. Judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman on Saturday recorded the statements of five inspectors of crime investigation department who are prosecution witnesses, the daily Dawn reported on Sunday. They informed him about the training received by the accused, including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, alleged mastermind, at LeT...
06:36 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday said that he hopes that when Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik visits India later this month, he carries the voice samples of 2008 Mumbai terror attack suspects with him. India has been demanding voice samples of the accused who were giving instructions to the 10 terrorists during the November, 2008 attack. Former home minister P Chidambaram, had made a similar...
06:08 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Mumbai: LeT operative and a key 26/11 Mumbai attack handler Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal sent money to India at least twice after the Mumbai attack, the chargehseet filed against him in another case here says. Jundal is an accused in Aurangabad arms haul case here. According to police, Jundal had gone to Dhaka in May, 2006 and from there he reached Pakistan on a Pakistan International Airlines flight...
06:40 AM, Nov 09, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai terror attack convict Ajmal Amir Kasab is suffering from fever and undergoing treatment in the high security Arthur Road jail in Mumbai, police said on Sunday. "Kasab is being treated for fever for the past few days. Suspecting that the prisoner could be suffering from dengue, three tests were conducted on him by a team of doctors of JJ hospital but the results were negative. Doctors do not...
04:29 PM, Nov 04, 2012
Mumbai: The youth wing of the Samajwadi Party's Maharashtra unit Saturday protested against filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma, who is shooting a movie based on the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. Nearly 200 Samajwadi Youth Party (SYP) activists led by their president Abu Farhan Azmi shouted slogans and waved black flags near Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel which was the main centre of 2008 Mumbai terror attack. "When we asked the...
11:23 AM, Nov 04, 2012
New Delhi: Alleged 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed has said that he condemns the attacks and is willing to answer questions by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that will soon be visiting Pakistan in connection with the ongoing trial in the case. This is the first time that the Jamaat-ud-Dawat (JuD) chief has condemned the terrorist attacks in which nearly 164 people died and several others were injured....
07:06 AM, Nov 03, 2012
Gurgaon: India on Friday made it very clear that its decision to resume cricketing ties with Pakistan was not a "dilution" of its demand for action against perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack and said Islamabad must deliver on its "frequently indicated promise" in this regard. Articulating India's expectation from Pakistan in the 26/11 case, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said, We do hope this (resumption of cricketing ties) will...
07:10 PM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan may allow a team of Indian investigators a visit to examine evidence collected by Pakistan against November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, but the dates are yet to be decided, an official said on Monday. "Pakistan has in principle agreed to allow the National Investigation Agency (NIA) team a visit," a home ministry official said here Monday. "We are awaiting intimation of the dates on which the team...
02:11 AM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday welcomed the Home Ministry's decision to reject 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab's mercy petition and demanded that he be hanged at the earliest to send across a stern message to terrorists and terror sponsors. "We welcome this decision of the government against Kasab. It should be implemented immediately now that the Home Ministry has rejected his mercy plea. Doing so will send a strong message...
06:56 PM, Oct 23, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Ministry on Tuesday recommended the rejection of the mercy petition of Pakistani terrorist and 26/11 lone survivor Ajmal Kasab. Senior lawyer Ujjwal Nikam has welcomed the development, saying "President has to study the recommendation of MHA. It's a positive phase in the case. It's a good development." K Unnikrishnan, NSG martyr Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan's father, said, "I am happy that we did not make a mistake....
05:16 PM, Oct 23, 2012
New Delhi: India is unlikely to permit a Pakistani judicial commission to visit here again to cross examine the Mumbai terror attack witnesses unless an NIA team is allowed to go to that country first and determines the necessity of such an exercise. India wants to send a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) to Pakistan to examine the material evidence collected against arrested 26/11 terror attack prime accused including...
11:55 AM, Oct 21, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai police on Tuesday filed a supplementary chargesheet in the 26/11 attacks case naming Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist and Mumbai attacks handler Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal as the main conspirator. The chargesheet filed by the police is voluminous and runs into 56 volumes. The documentation includes the alleged confession of Jundal and details of how he hatched the deadly terror conspiracy. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has Jundal's...
04:43 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Islamabad: The trial of seven suspects, including LeT's operational commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, involved in 2008 Mumbai attack case has been adjourned till November 3 as the judge of the Pakistani court hearing the case has been admitted to hospital, a prosecutor said on Saturday. Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman would be on leave till October 26 due to his health problem, special public prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali said. The trial has...
02:48 PM, Oct 13, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday granted more time to 26/11 suspect Abu Jundal to scrutinise the chargesheet filed against him by Delhi Police. Jundal had requested Metropolitan Magistrate Ajay Malik for more time to scrutinise the chargesheet, supplied to him October 8. The court fixed October 25 as the next date of hearing. Jundal is in the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) till October 20. The...
04:54 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Mumbai: The deadline for Mumbai's Anti-Terrorism squad to hand over the 26/11 key handler and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal to the Delhi Police ends on Friday. A fresh production order was issued last month after the ATS had failed to present Jundal in Delhi. Earlier the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was given Jundal's custody till the October 20. The anti-terror agency had sought Jundal's custody for 15 days saying...
08:36 AM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: The 26/11 key handler and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal was remanded on Monday in the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) custody till October 20 by a Delhi court. Jundal, who was produced before District Judge HS Sharma in an in-chamber proceeding, was handed over to NIA for 12 days. The anti-terror agency had sought Jundal's custody for 15 days saying he is required to be thoroughly interrogated. The...
04:55 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Mumbai: City police would soon file a supplementary chargesheet in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks case, describing LeT operative Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal as one of the main conspirators who was briefed about the terror operation four months in advance by his bosses in Pakistan. In the chargesheet, which is expected to be filed in a fortnight, the investigators would mention that Jundal, who had completed first year Masters...
07:15 AM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: The 26/11 key handler and LeT terrorist Abu Jundal was on Thursday remanded in judicial custody by a Delhi court after the Mumbai ATS produced him before it saying he was no longer wanted for his interrogation in cases registered against him in Maharashtra. Jundal was produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Parkash by the Mumbai ATS and was sent to Tihar Jail. Mumbai ATS had secured his...
02:42 PM, Oct 04, 2012
New Delhi: The "high professional ethics" of counsel Raju Ramachandran and Gaurav Agrawal, who sought to donate to the legal service authority their fees worth around Rs 15 lakh, earned for helping the court as amicus curae in deciding the appeal of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist Ajmal Kasab, on Wednesday won the wholesome praise of the Supreme Court. Appreciating their gesture, a bench of justices Aftab Alam and CK Prasad...
08:10 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi: India is planning to send a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials to Pakistan to examine the evidence related to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Sources say the Home Secretary has written to the Foreign Secretary asking him to inform Pakistan about India's proposal to send its investigators. The NIA team would physically examine all material evidence collected by Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the 26/11...
03:33 PM, Oct 03, 2012
