Lucknow: Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid Maulana Ahmed Bukhari on Sunday met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav over the death of terror suspect Khalid Mujahid in police custody.
Bukhari told reporters after his meeting, in which Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav was also present, that they had assured "adequate compensation" to the Mujahid's kin.
However, there was no official word from the state government. "I told them (Akhilesh and Mulayam) that Mujahid's death was unfortunate and there would be grief and anger among Muslims," the cleric said.
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08:45 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: A 23-year-old youth has been arrested for making a hoax bomb call to the Police Control Room (PCR) in New Delhi, police said on Wednesday. Subodh Singh was arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad town, adjoining Delhi, on Tuesday for making a hoax bomb call to police around 10.40 pm on Sunday. He claimed that a bomb would explode in the Jama Masjid area in the capital. "After a...
12:47 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Delhi's Jama Masjid Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari was prevented this afternoon from heading towards the native village of DSP Zia-ul-Haq who was killed by a mob last Saturday. The cleric was stopped in Gauri Bazar area as a precautionary measure while he was on way to police officer's house in Zafuaar Tola in Noonkhar village, officials said. ...
06:29 PM, Mar 04, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday came to the rescue of the homeless and asked the city government not to remove till April the temporary night shelters, built near railways tracks in the national capital. ...
10:01 PM, Jan 02, 2013
New Delhi: The Government on Monday termed the arrest of suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist Fasih Mohammad as a "very important catch", saying Saudi Arabia fully cooperated in his deportation to India. "It was a very important catch. He was deported by Saudi Arabia," Union Home Secretary RK Singh told reporters here. Giving the first official reaction after Fasih's arrest by Delhi Police at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here, the...
04:50 PM, Oct 22, 2012
As the nation celebrates Eid on Monday, the Muslim community in Delhi said it prayed for peace across the country. ...
03:12 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Amidst tensions in the Northeast, the Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid has appealed for peace and calm on the occasion of Eid. ...
02:22 PM, Aug 20, 2012
The nation celebrates Eid-ul-Fitr on Monday. It marks the end of month-long fasting for Muslims. ...
09:53 AM, Aug 20, 2012
CNN-IBN brings you all the goodies and festivities of Eid from the narrow bylanes of Jama Masjid. ...
09:23 AM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: The custody of two alleged Indian Mujahideen members, brought here from a Bangalore jail, was on Monday given to Delhi police for ten days by a court in Jama Masjid attack case in which Mumbai's 26/11 terrorists' handler Abu Jundal is also an accused. The suspected IM men Kamal Hasan alias Bilal and Kafil Akhtar were arrested and produced before the court of Chief Metroolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav...
07:20 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Fasih Mehmood, the terror suspect held in Saudi Arabia, is likely to be deported to India as early as next week. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the procedures to deport him are already underway. Fasih, who hails from Bihar, is wanted by both the Delhi and Bangalore police. He is a suspect in the 2010 Bangalore Chinnaswamy Stadium blast and the Jama Masjid shooting in Delhi. Security agencies...
10:08 AM, Jul 02, 2012
An engineer by profession, 28-year-old Fasih is alleged to have been involved in the Chinnaswamy Stadium blast in Bangalore and the shooting incident near Jama Masjid (Delhi) in 2010 and is wanted by both, the Delhi and the Karnataka Police. ...
02:45 PM, Jul 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Shahi Imam of the Jama Masjid, who had earlier extended support to Samajwadi Party, on Friday accused the party of ignoring the Muslim community while choosing nominees for Rajya Sabha and State Legislative Council. Bukhari, in a letter written on Friday to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, has said that he had learnt from newsreports that his own son-in-law was among seven who had been nominated to...
09:26 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Lucknow: Throwing his weight behind Samajwadi party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid Maulana Ahmad Bukhari on Saturday appealed to Muslims to vote for SP candidates in upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. But the Imam's appeal has significantly not gone down well within the SP itself when the party's Muslim face Azam Khan seemed to question the cleric's political loyalties. "Imam has plunged into political discussion...
07:47 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: A court on Thursday extended till Jan 19 the judicial custody of six accused in the 2010 Jama Masjid firing and blast in which two foreigners were injured. Police told the court that they were awaiting the forensic report of bullet shells found at the site of September 2010 incident. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav asked police about the forensic report of the articles recovered from the place...
01:09 AM, Jan 06, 2012
If truth be told, Delhi is in fact, a crazy mix of the ever-changing and the never-changing, and there lies the city's charm. ...
10:14 AM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi Police have picked up Idian Mujahideen (IM) operative Aftab alias Farooq alias Roshan from Purnia in Bihar. With this, a total of seven IM operatives, along with Farooq, have been arrested so far. Acting on a tip off by Intelligence Bureau (IB), a special branch team of Delhi Police, along with Purnia police, raided Khatahaat village under Jalalgarh police station on Monday and nabbed the Pakistani...
05:43 PM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday remanded six suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives allegedly involved in various blasts across India in police custody for 10 days. Officials of the special cell of the Delhi Police on November 30 arrested the six alleged terrorists from Delhi, Bihar and Chennai and recovered two AK-47 rifles, a 9 mm pistol, 5 kgs of explosives and 64 cartridges from the accused. Going by the...
05:04 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: The six Indian Mujahideen operatives who were arrested by Delhi Police will be presented in a lower court on Monday. These IM operatives were arrested for their alleged involvement in Pune's German Bakery and Delhi's Jama Masjid blasts. Their police custody ends on Monday. The Police recovered 2 AK-47 rifles, a 9 mm pistol, 5 kgs of explosives and 64 cartridges from the accused. While the police chose...
08:50 AM, Dec 05, 2011
