New Delhi: Suspected Hizbul militant Liaqat Shah on Monday approached a special NIA court in the capital seeking bail in a case of alleged conspiracy to carry out terror attacks in Delhi, claiming that no concrete evidence had been found against him during probe.
Forty five-year-old Shah, who was arrested by the special cell of Delhi Police on March 20, moved the bail application during an in-chamber hearing before District Judge IS Mehta who posted it for hearing on May 15, court sources said.
Shah was produced before the court after expiry of his judicial custody and the court extended it till May 18, they said. The sources said Shah, in his application, has said that he should be granted bail as he is in custody since March 20 and no concrete evidence has been found against him by the probe agencies as yet.
He was sent to judicial custody on May 1 after National Investigation Agency (NIA) had said that he was not required for further custodial interrogation. The court had on April 26 allowed the NIA's plea and remanded Shah in NIA's custody for five days after the agency had said that they need to take Shah to Sunauli border, one of India-Nepal crossing points near Gorakhpur, from where he was allegedly arrested....
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06:21 PM, May 13, 2013
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02:12 PM, Apr 29, 2013
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12:36 AM, Mar 27, 2013
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday handed over Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah's case to National Investigation Agency (NIA), relenting to Jammu and Kashmir government's pressure, which had demanded the case be transferred to NIA for a "time bound speedy probe". NIA will now probe the circumstances under which, Liaqat was arrested. ...
11:49 PM, Mar 25, 2013
New Delhi: Unfazed by the controversy over the arrest of alleged Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Liyaqat Shah, the Delhi Police on Sunday released the sketch of the second suspected Hizbul man who it claimed was linked to the terror strike which was planned in the national capital on the occasion of Holi. Police claim the sketch is of the person who checked into a guest house in Old Delhi and left...
07:35 PM, Mar 24, 2013
New Delhi: The controversy over the arrest of Liaqat Shah continues. Is he a rehabilitated militant or an active operative planning a terror strike in Delhi? Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah wants the NIA to probe the matter. Delhi Police sources Liaqat is part of a terror plot to strike the capital around Holi but the Kashmir government says he is a rehabilitated militant. His family said that...
09:47 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday spoke to Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and demanded that the case of arrest of an alleged Hizbul Mujahdeen terrorist by Delhi Police be transferred to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for a "time-bound speedy probe". The Chief Minister took up the matter with Shinde over phone as the latter was away in Maharashtra with President Pranab Mukherjee. ...
07:51 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Liaqat Shah, arrested by the Delhi police on Friday, was allegedly planning terror attacks ahead of Holi in Delhi. The Delhi Police sources insist Liaqat was a senior terrorist named in a 2011 FIR for promoting terror from PoK and he had come to India to carry out recces for fidayeen attacks. ...
08:38 AM, Mar 23, 2013
The Delhi Police on Thursday arrested a suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist from Gorakhpur who revealed that there were plans of terror strikes on the occasion of Holi in the national capital. The police said the suspected terrorist, identified as Liaqat Shah, was sent by Pakistani agencies and was being trained in Pakistan. ...
03:42 PM, Mar 22, 2013
The Delhi Police has arrested a suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist from Gorakhpur. Sources say he has revealed that there were plans of terror strikes on the occasion of Holi. ...
09:18 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Two fidayeens - men of the suicide sqaud - armed with grenades and AK rifles in their sports kits, entered the Police Public School and mingled with the cricket-playing youth. As soon as the duo saw the CRPF contingent on duty, they fired indiscriminately, leading to casualties. With this brazen attack, terror has once again shattered the calm of the Valley after three years. ...
09:59 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in the heart of Srinagar, which left five CRPF personnel dead and seven injured. Two terrorists, who were part of a fidayeen squad that carried out the attack were also killed in the gunbattle. ...
09:45 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in the heart of Srinagar, which left five CRPF personnel dead and seven injured. However, senior police officials have hinted that the attack bears Lashkar signature. ...
06:53 PM, Mar 13, 2013
A deadly terror attack in the heart of Srinagar, the first in almost three years, has caught the security establishments unawares and left the government groping for answers as it already faces flak over Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's hanging. ...
06:15 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in the heart of Srinagar, which left five CRPF personnel dead and seven injured. Two terrorists, who were part of a fidayeen squad that carried out the attack were also killed in the gunbattle. ...
04:50 PM, Mar 13, 2013
New Delhi: Hizbul Mujahideen and Lashkar-e-Toiba continue to be the dominant militant groups in some areas of Jammu and Kashmir and the issue was also taken up with Pakistan, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told a Parliamentary panel. Addressing the Consultative Committee of Members of Parliament attached to the Home Ministry that reviewed the security situation in the northern state on Wednesday, Shinde said the two terror outfits were "mostly operating...
06:10 PM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: Village heads in Jammu and Kashmir have put the state government on a 24-hour-deadline to provide them with special security after Hizbul Mujahideen leader Syed Salah-ud-Din issued a fresh threat against them on Friday. The dreaded militant allegedly said that village heads will be attacked if they didn't quit from their posts. The sarpanchs say they don't want to resign but cannot afford to take Salah-ud-Din's threat lightly...
03:54 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Srinagar: Three Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists have been arrested from Kulgam in Kashmir for allegedly threatening village sarpanchs. They were being questioned for further role in spreading panic among sarpanchs in south Kashmir. Kashmir saw a flurry of protests by sarpanchs in September 2012. The sarpanchs demanded gun licenses to protect themselves in the wake of murders of two local body leaders in two weeks. Nearly 140 sarpanchs had resigned and...
10:12 AM, Oct 23, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court is expected to frame charges against the prime accused in the September 2011 Delhi High Court blast case on Tuesday. Wasim Malik was arrested a few days after the deadly blast ripped through gate number 5 of the complex on September 7, killing 15 and injuring 79 others. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) carried out the probe and arrested Malik and a friend of his,...
09:47 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Srinagar: In a major embarrassment for the Jammu and Kashmir police, four of its undercover cops have been arrested for allegedly working with militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen. They even allegedly carried out attacks on security forces - the latest such incident was in Khanyaar where seven CRPF personnel were injured. One of the spy cops, Mukhtar Sheikh, had been arrested earlier for allegedly providing SIM cards to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) used...
09:43 AM, Jun 20, 2012
