New Delhi: Union Home Secretary RK Singh on Tuesday admitted that there were coordination problems between Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Delhi Police, saying that one of the two arrested in the 13/7 Mumbai blasts case is a police informer. Congratulating Maharashtra ATS for cracking the case, Singh said that Naqee Ahmed Sheikh, who is one of the arrested in the blast case, was being used by the IB and...
03:25 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad on Monday claimed to have cracked the July 13 triple blasts in Mumbai that rocked the areas of Zaveri Bazar, Opera House and Dadar last year. Two people were arrested for the blasts that claimed 27 lives. However, the hunt for the elusive mastermind - Yasin Bhatkal, a top IM operative - still continues. ATS chief Rakesh Maria said after the arrest, "We have...
11:09 PM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs seems to be upset with the claim made by the Maharashtra ATS that the 13/7 case had been solved. Sources say the MHA was not informed by the Maharashtra ATS about the 13/7 arrests. The Home Secretary was informed only after he called up the ATS, sources said. The arrest of Naqee Ahmed came as a surprise for the Home Ministry. According to...
08:53 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) on Monday claimed to have cracked the July 13, 2011 Mumbai blasts case, in which 27 people were killed and over 130 others injured. Two people, Naqee Ahmed and Nadeem Mukhtar, have been arrested and Yasin Bhatkal, who commissioned the blast and two others involved are yet to be arrested. The police claimed that the financial trail of the blasts has been fully uncovered....
05:13 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Mumbai: Almost six months after three blasts ripped through Mumbai on July 13, 2011, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Monday claimed to have cracked the case, arresting three people for their alleged involvement in the terror strikes. ATS chief Rakesh Maria said on Monday in Mumbai that two people, Naqee Ahmed and Nadeem Mukhtar, have been arrested for their involvement. ATS chief Rakesh Maria said that the investigating teams...
03:07 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Mumbai: A family member of Naqi Ahmed, who had allegedly helped three terror suspects rent an apartment in Mumbai and was later arrested in a forgery case, said he was being tortured in police custody. The charge, however, was rubbished by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) which effected the arrest. "My nephew (Naqi Ahmed) is innocent. He did not know anyone called Bhatkal (Indian Mujahideen suspected member Yasin Bhatkal). We...
08:26 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Mumbai: There seems to be some headway in the 13/7 Mumbai blasts probe. Sources have said that the hideout of three of the perpetrators has been found. The key blast planners operated from a third-floor flat in Byculla. Sources say the trio, including key conspirator Shahrukh Shahbandari alias Yasin Bhatkal, had rented the apartment for six months. The Maharashtra ATS wing questioned the landlord, even as the trio is believed...
10:14 AM, Jan 16, 2012
Mumbai: Three persons, who were arrested in a forgery case and extensively questioned in connection with the serial blasts in Mumbai in July 2011, were on Wednesday granted bail by a local court. The trio " Qamar-E-Alam (19), Abdul Wahab (20), and Shahejahan (20) " had filed their bail applications after they were remanded in judicial custody. Alam and Wahab, who hail from Darbhanga district of Bihar, were picked up...
05:26 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Mumbai: Nearly six months after the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai on July 13, investigators may have made a breakthrough in the case. Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) sources told CNN-IBN that Yasin Bhatkal, the most wanted Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative is allegedly the mastermind behind the 13/7 blasts. Sources said that Bhatkal alias Shahrukh was present in Mumbai during the blasts and had a role to play in the serial blasts...
09:25 AM, Jan 02, 2012
Mumbai: Released in 2007, Ehtesham Shaikh escaped from a Thane session court after an arrest order in an attempt to murder case was passed. Ten years of imprisonment has not been able to reverse the criminal tendencies of 1993 bomb blasts convict Mohmmad Ehtesham Shaikh. After being released in 2007 after finishing his sentence as an undertrial, Shaikh has been booked in at least four cases in Mumbai and Thane,...
01:35 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday deferred its verdict on confirmation of death sentence to three people, including a woman, convicted in the 2003 Mumbai twin bomb blasts case that claimed 52 lives. The judgement is likely to be pronounced either next week or in the first week of January when court resumes after vacation, Justice A M Khanwilkar said. Khanwilkar said in his chamber that since fellow judge...
03:21 PM, Dec 12, 2011
London: British prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's close aide Iqbal Mirchi in connection with a case in which he was accused of threatening to kill a man, citing lack of evidence. Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday that it has decided to discontinue the charges against Muhammed Iqbal Memon, also known as Iqbal Mirchi, who is wanted in India in connection with the 1993...
10:36 PM, Nov 15, 2011
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court will on December 12 pronounce its judgement on confirmation of death sentence awarded to three LeT activists in the 2003 Mumbai twin blasts that claimed 52 lives. The arguments concluded at a special hearing by a division bench of Justices AM Khanvilkar and PD Kode on Saturday after which the court reserved its verdict. Ashrat Ansari (32), Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and his wife Fehmida...
08:54 PM, Nov 12, 2011
Mumbai: As the Maharashtra ATS fails to make any headway four months after the 13/7 triple bombings, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has said there is no turf war with the Centres National Investigation agency. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram had, in an apparent expression of frustration only last week, expressed his unhappiness over the pace of the probe. The NIA formed soon after the 26/11 Mumbai terror strike was meant...
06:59 PM, Nov 10, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has admitted that there has been no breakthrough in the probe into the July terror strike in Mumbai. However, he has even claimed that leads are being made into the probe. In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Chavan answered several questions such as if Union Home minister P Chidambaram pressurised the Maharashtra government to hand over the probe to the National Investigative agency. Smitha...
06:27 PM, Nov 10, 2011
New Delhi: The trial of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's aide Iqbal Mirchi is set to begin in a British court on Thursday. Mirchi has been charged with threatening to kill 41-year-old Nadeem Kader. Last month, a lower court, granted him conditional bail. India's efforts to extradite him have been in vain. The government attempted Mirchi's extradition in 1995 but was unsuccessful. CBI sources told CNN-IBN, "We have to see if...
08:26 AM, Nov 10, 2011
Mumbai: A TADA court has rejected underworld don Abu Salem's application to stop the trial against him in view of the termination of extradition order passed by Portugal's Lisbon High Court in September. While rejecting Salem's application the court said that there was no degree of finality in the termination of extradition order of the Lisbon High Court as the Government of India had challenged that order in the Supreme...
04:24 PM, Nov 08, 2011
New Delhi: A special Mumbai court is likely to give its order on underworld don Abu Salem's application to halt the trials against him in India on Tuesday. This comes after the Lisbon High Court had cancelled Salem's extradition plea in September for having breached extradition terms. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its reply to the TADA court stated that prosecution against Salem can be stopped only if...
06:56 AM, Nov 08, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday began final hearing on a bunch of appeals filed by convicts as well as CBI in 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case in which 12 persons were awarded death penalty and 78 others sentenced to varying terms ranging from three years to life imprisonment. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan started hearing on 110 petitions which includes petition filed by film...
06:54 PM, Nov 01, 2011
London: Iqbal Mirchi, the right hand man of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was on Thursday remanded to judicial custody by a British court after he was charged with threatening to kill a man, police sources said. 61-year-old Mirchi, who was arrested from Romford in Essex on Tuesday, was produced at Red Bridge Magistrate Court here today and remanded to judicial custody,...
10:48 PM, Oct 13, 2011
