
Mumbai: Two of the five alleged Indian Mujahideen operatives behind bars in connection with 13/7 bomb blasts case were on Monday arrested in a motorcycle theft case, a senior ATS official said. Terror suspects Naquee Ahmed and Nadeem Shaikh were on Monday arrested for stealing two motorcycles from VP Road and Dongri areas days before the 13/7 bomb blasts, the official said. Both of them were in judicial custody in...

10:50 PM, May 28, 2012

Mumbai: Do you think you can elude the cops by getting rid of your glasses? Twenty six-year-old Wakas Ibrahim Shaikh, an accused in the 13/7 terror blasts case, definitely thinks so. He allegedly underwent a laser operation to get rid of his glasses, in a bid to disguise his look three months after the terror attack which occurred at the Opera House, Zaveri Bazaar, and Dadar (west). The 4,000-page chargesheet,...

07:22 PM, May 28, 2012

Mumbai: Almost a year after three bomb blasts shook the city killing 27 people and injuring many others, ATS on Friday filed a 4000-page chargesheet in a special MCOCA court against four accused in the case. The four accused, Naquee Ahmed, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija and Haroon Naik, are facing trial under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), IPC and other laws. A copy of the confession...

06:29 PM, May 25, 2012

Mumbai: In an unprecedented ruling, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday awarded Rs20 lakh compensation to the mother of Khwaja Yunus, an accused in a bomb blast in 2002 in Maharashtra who died in police custody, a lawyer said. On Jan 3, 2003, Yunus, an engineer working in Dubai, had been picked up in connection with the Dec 6, 2002 bomb blast in an empty bus parked outside a railway...

06:28 PM, Apr 10, 2012

Mumbai: The Anti-Terrorism Squad has concluded the examination of witnesses in the 2006 serial train blasts case, following the last deposition on Tuesday. "The prosecution closed its case and now the court will record the statements of the accused after which we will examine some of the defence witnesses," said defence lawyer Abdul Wahab Khan. The court is likely to record statements of the accused under section 313 of Criminal...

07:58 PM, Apr 05, 2012

New Delhi: India has got a breather with the Constitutional Court of Portugal staying the order of its Supreme Court on violation of extradition agreement of underworld don Abu Salem by New Delhi by slapping new charges invoking death penalty. CBI sources said that the Constitutional Court, while admitting India's plea, stayed the order of the Supreme Court of Portugal. India in its plea had also mentioned the recent order...

12:28 PM, Mar 19, 2012

Mumbai: Several members of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) were held on Saturday for protesting against the visiting Pakistan judicial panel that is in Mumbai to record statements of witnesses in the 26/11 blasts case. The MNS workers wanted to hand over a letter of protest to the Pakistani panel but were prevented by the police. Meanwhile, the judicial commission recorded the statements of three witnesses on Saturday. A Mumbai...

07:01 PM, Mar 17, 2012

Mumbai: The much-awaited eight-member Pakistan judicial commission will arrive in Mumbai on Thursday to record the statement of four people including the magistrate who had recorded the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving member of Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT), which was behind the 26/11 attacks. After a delay of nearly six months, the commission, finally arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday. According to official sources, the team will record the...

08:00 AM, Mar 15, 2012

Mumbai: She may be destiny's child, or just plain invincible: this 43-year-old woman survived two road accidents in 1980 and 1984, escaping death by the breadth of a hair each time. And just when she thought she had suffered her share of perilous experiences, she was caught in the raging inferno of the 1993 Mumbai bomb blast. This time too, she miraculously escaped. 19 years have passed since her last...

05:11 PM, Mar 13, 2012

New Delhi: In a setback for India, the government has decided to withdraw the additional charges slapped by the TADA court against underworld don Abu Salem. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the CBI after holding consultations with top-level Home Ministry and MEA officials decided to withdraw the charges. The charges go against the terms and conditions under which the underworld don was extradited from Portugal. Sources said that the CBI...

03:38 PM, Feb 22, 2012

New Delhi: The Supreme Court stayed the TADA proceedings in two cases against alleged gangster Abu Salem in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case in view of Portugal court's order terminating his extradition to India. The court has issued notices to the Central government and the Ministry of External Affairs and wants a response in three weeks. Abu Salem in his application has said that trial, which can lead to death...

12:53 PM, Feb 17, 2012

Mumbai: Eight years after the twin blasts that left 57 people dead at the Mumbai's Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazar, the Bombay High Court upheld the death sentence of three LeT terrorists in 2003 twin Mumbai blasts case. All the appeals filed by the accused have been dismissed by the court. The defence lawyer has said that they will appeal against the order in the Supreme Court. The three...

05:31 PM, Feb 10, 2012

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce on Friday its verdict on confirmation of death sentence to three people, including a woman, convicted in the 2003 Mumbai twin bomb blasts case. A division bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and P D Kode had on November 12, 2011 reserved its judgement in the case. Ashrat Ansari (32), Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and his wife Fehmida Sayed (43) were...

02:52 PM, Feb 10, 2012

New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday sought a report from the Maharashtra Police on the claim that an arrested accused of the 13/7 Mumbai blasts case had met former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2001. "We have taken serious note of the claim. We have sought a report from Maharashtra as we want to know details of the case," a Home Ministry official said....

07:19 PM, Feb 09, 2012

Former IPL chief Lalit Modi has lashed out at the BCCI for its running of the lucrative Twenty20 league. ...

10:10 PM, Feb 07, 2012