Mumbai: The Mumbai Anti-terrorism squad has submitted a chargesheet in the MCOCA court in the 13/7 blasts case. The 4788 page chargesheet includes testimonies of 641 witnesses. 19 of these witnesses identified the accused in an identification parade. The ATS has also submitted an unprecedented 308 hours of CCTV footage as evidence against the bomb planters.
The CCTV footage was gathered from 170 cameras after a door to door survey by the ATS in a 3-4 kilometer radius of all 3 blast sites. 32 policemen analysed this footage for 29 days after which the planters were identified. All of the footage has now been submitted along with the chargesheet as evidence.
4 people " Naqi Ahmed, Nadeem Akhtar, Haroon Sheikh and hawala operative Kanwal Pathrija - have already been arrested in the blasts that killed 27 and injured 127 on 13th July 2011. 6 others including the Bhatkal brothers have been shown as wanted in the case. ATS chief Rakesh Maria claims the motive of the blasts conducted by the Indian Mujahideen was to weaken the economic structure of the city. All the 3 locations, Zaveri Bazar, Opera House and Kabutarkhana in Dadar are prominent commercial areas.
The ATS has also arrested a 5th accused, Mohammed Qafil Ansari from Darbhanga for providing logistical support to the planters. Ansari will be chargesheeted in a supplementary chargesheet later on. The ATS has also traced the money trail to a Dubai based firm called Muzaffar Kolah Enterprises. The proprietor
07:35 PM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: One of the four alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives, arrested in connection with the 13/7 triple blasts in Mumbai, is likely to turn approver in the case, ATS sources said on Thursday. "Nadeem Shaikh is likely to turn an approver in the blasts case," said an ATS official, on condition of anonymity. The four arrested accused - Naquee Ahmed, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija and Haroon Naik - will be...
05:14 PM, Mar 22, 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: The toll in the July 13 Mumbai triple blasts climbed to 27 with one more injured succumbing on Thursday evening, an official said. The victim has been identified as Prashant H Joshi, 34, and he breathed his last around 2.50 pm, at Sir JJ Hospital where he was undergoing treatment for the past two months, the hospital dean TP Lahane said. The triple blasts, at close intervals, shook the...
08:38 AM, Sep 16, 2011
Mumbai: Moments after the blast outside the Delhi High Court on Wednesday, Mumbai which has several times been the target of terror - the most recent being the serial blasts on July 13 this year - went on a high alert. Mumbai Commissioner of Police Arup Patnaik said, "We've tightened up security levels. I went to high court and various courts and reviewed positions. We have increased security, more frisking...
09:14 AM, Sep 08, 2011
Mumbai: One month after Mumbai's triple blasts, there has still been no breakthrough into who was behind it, despite various investigating agencies being involved in the countrywide probe. The question is whether the investigations have reached a dead end. In the blasts, 26 people died and 126 were injured. A month after Mumbai's triple blasts, Opera House, the worst affected target, appeared to be back to 'almost' normal. Unauthorized food...
07:55 AM, Aug 13, 2011
New Delhi: The government on Thursday said all indications pointed to involvement of an Indian terror module in last month's Mumbai serial blasts and that right wing fascist forces were also on the rise in the country. The assessment by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram came even as the opposition and UPA ally NCP accused the Centre of being soft in its approach to terrorism. "While no conclusion has been...
01:10 AM, Aug 05, 2011
Mumbai: Investigations are still on into the July 13 serial blasts which rocked India's business hub Mumbai - but more important than that is the post-traumatic care for the victims at this point. However, a report by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) reveals that the government agencies have not maintained a follow-up with victims post the major terror attack. One such person is 66-year-old Anantrai Gandhi whose life...
09:38 AM, Jul 28, 2011
New Delhi: The Nepal Police have detained a 40-year-old man, Mohammad Zahir, under the suspicion that he was in touch with the Mumbai blasts suspects. He was heard having conversations about the Mumbai blasts and has sent text messages, sources said. The Union Home Ministry has received the input regarding Zahir's detention from the Government of Nepal on Tuesday. Sources said, Zahir is a resident of Sarlahi district near the...
05:24 PM, Jul 26, 2011
Mumbai: Another victim of the July 13 serial blasts, who was admitted to KEM Hospital in Mumbai, succumbed to his injuries on Monday taking the death toll in the terror attack to 24. Mankeshwar Vishwakarma (48) who was undergoing treatment at KEM Hospital, died early on Monday morning, hospital sources said. According to sources, Vishwakarma, who was a carpenter by profession, had sustained severe head injuries during the blast at...
12:37 PM, Jul 25, 2011
New Delhi: A week since the serial blasts ripped through India's financial capital Mumbai on July 13, killing 20 people and injuring over a 100 and still no arrests have been made yet The blasts took place at three prime locations in the city - Opera House, Zaveri Bazar and Dadar. But the probe has taken a nationwide character with teams panning out to Ajmer, Kolkata, Kishengarh and Hyderabad. The...
10:04 AM, Jul 21, 2011
Mumbai: Claiming it has got "very good" leads from the sketch of the suspect of July 13 serial blasts, Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Wednesday indicated that the suspect hails either from central or northern parts of the country even as the agency has scanned a whopping one lakh phone calls for any clue. "We have got very good leads from the sketch of the suspect. We have information that...
02:55 AM, Jul 21, 2011
Mumbai: A week after the major blast that tore through Opera House in Mumbai, business and sentiments in this diamond district is badly affected. Traders say they have lost roughly Rs 750 crore in the terror attack. Many shops are still closed, or under repair, and a blanket of fear still grips the market. Private security guard Sunil Dubey called the police after spotting an unattended tiffin box on the...
09:15 AM, Jul 20, 2011
Mumbai: At least six newly recruited terrorists could have been involved in planting explosives at the three sites in Mumbai and two to five kg blast material was used at each of the locations, police said on Tuesday. The bomb planters might have links with Gujarat and West Bengal, officials of Maharashtra ATS and Mumbai Crime Branch, which are probing the serial blasts, said. "During our meetings with the various...
09:06 PM, Jul 19, 2011
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10:01 PM, Jul 18, 2011
Mumbai: The survivors of Wednesday's blasts in Mumbai are still trying to come to terms with the tragedy. The family of a man who lost both his legs in the Opera House blast said that monetary compensation won't make up for their loss. Nikita Gholap has been inconsolable after her husband Namdev, an office boy at Opera House and the family's sole breadwinner, lost both his legs in Wednesday's blasts....
07:49 AM, Jul 18, 2011
New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh's hint on possible involvement of the RSS in the recent Mumbai terror attacks resulted in clashes between the BJP and the Congress workers on Sunday. The incident took place in Shajapur in Madhya Pradesh where the BJP workers gheraoed the Congress General Secretary's convoy with black flags. Police had to resort to lathicharge to bring the situation under control. Digvijaya Singh had said...
07:35 AM, Jul 18, 2011
Mumbai: Faiz Usmani, the brother of Ahmedabad blast suspect Afzal Usmani, died after being questioned by the Mumbai Crime Branch late Saturday night. The provisional post mortem report says that he died of a heart attack. A CID probe has been ordered into the death, after Usmani's family members alleged he died of police torture. "I want justice. Strict action should be taken and the guilty should be punished," said...
09:06 PM, Jul 17, 2011
