Mumbai: Nearly a year after four low intensity blasts ripped the Junglee Maharaj (JM) Road in Pune, the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) has filed its chargesheet before a special MCOCA court in Mumbai. The 3,857-page chargesheet was filed on Tuesday before special MCOCA Judge Y D Shinde against eight arrested accused and five absconding accused.
According to the chargesheet, the blasts were allegedly hatched by members of terror group Indian Mujahideen (IM) with the help of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). On August 1 last year, four blasts occurred at different spots on the JM road injuring one person.
The blasts took place outside the Balgandharva auditorium, opposite KFC restaurant near Garware bridge, outside Dena bank branch and outside McDonalds restaurant. A fifth bomb was found later and defused.
The arrested accused are - Asad Khan Jamshed Ali Khan, Imran Khan Wajid Khan Pathan, Firoz alias Hamza Sayeed, Irfan Mustafa Langade, Muneeb Iqbal Memon, Farukh Shaukhat Bhagwan, Sayeed Asif and Bunth Jahagirdar. The absconding accused are - IM co-founder Riyaz Bhatkal, his brother Iqbal, LeT operatives Faiyaz Kagzi, Wakas Ibrahim and Danish Tabrez....
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03:51 PM, May 01, 2013
Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad on Monday arrested one more person on charges of aiding and abetting the 2012 Pune serial blasts. He will be produced in an Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court later on Monday. ...
03:40 PM, Jan 14, 2013
Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, which on Thursday arrested three more members of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen in connection with the August 1 Pune blasts case, said the conspiracy began after the murder of Qatil Siddiqui, an accused in German Bakery blast case, at Pune's Yerawada jail. "The plan to carry out blasts started immediately after Siddiqui was killed," said ATS chief Rakesh Maria. ...
11:51 PM, Dec 27, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Police have arrested a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist in connection to the August 2012 Pune serial blasts. Langde Irfan was arrested in Jaipur following the interrogation of three suspects already in custody. Various weapons have been recovered from his Pune residence. Irfan, who is an expert in computer and brother-in-law of one of the Pune blast accused, was apprehended from Jaipur's Sindhi bus stand on October 10...
10:15 AM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Thursday claimed to have cracked the August 1 Pune blast case with the arrest of three Indian Mujahideen operatives from Pul Prahladpur in Delhi. All the three suspected terrorists are from Maharashtra and were planning to carry out terror strikes in Delhi and at Bodh Gaya in Bihar during the festive season. Referring to the August 1 Pune blast Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar...
02:40 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has busted a terror module in the city and has arrested three people. Those arrested are suspected to be operatives of the Indian Mujahideen. The police say some explosives have been recovered from them. The police also suspect that the arrested persons had been planning attacks in and around Delhi during the festive season. Sources say that the module may have possible links with the...
10:15 AM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: Security agencies probing the recent Pune serial blasts have claimed that Mohammed Sajjid, a founding member of banned Indian Mujahideen (IM), was the key suspect in the attack. Official sources on Monday said that a bicycle shop owner, who was shown pictures of some suspects, identified Sajjid alias 'Bada Sajjid' as the man who had purchased from him one of the cycles used in the explosions. Low intensity...
08:43 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Pune: The course of investigation into the serial blasts case was affected due to poor quality of CCTV cameras installed in the various shops on J M Road. Four low-intensity blasts had disrupted life on J M Road on August 1. Much of the CCTV footage, which has been collected from various shops and hotels after the four low-intensity blasts took place on J M Road, is of no use...
04:06 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Pune: A few days before the serial blasts in the city on August 1, the Disaster Management Cell of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had warned in a report that there was a big terrorism threat in the Ghole Road civic ward, which includes Deccan and JM Road areas. The report had also suggested some guidelines to avoid a terror attack. As a response to the German Bakery blast of...
05:14 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Pune: The Forensic Sciences Laboratory is likely to come out with its report on the Pune blasts on Wednesday. Earlier reports said that ammonium nitrate was used in the explosives. Four low intensity explosives had rocked Jangli Maharaj road in Pune on August 1 while one was partially detonated and another one was found live and later defused. Official sources privy to the investigations said that ammonium nitrate, which has...
09:20 AM, Aug 08, 2012
Pune: Maharashtra government on Sunday sanctioned Rs 30 crore to Pune for purchasing crime preventive equipments, including closed circuit televisions (CCTVs), days after serial blasts rocked the heart of the city. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Pune's guardian minister Ajit Pawar sanctioned the amount and asked city's Police Commissioner Gulabrao Pol to complete the purchasing process of the equipments. Reviewing the investigations into the low-intensity serial blasts that rocked Pune's...
04:26 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Mumbai: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Saturday called upon the Maharashtra government to improve its intelligence set-up to prevent a repeat of the serial blasts in Pune earlier in the week. "This is the second time in two years that blasts have taken place in Pune, this time it is fortunate that there were no casualties. Repeated blasts like this are not good for the state," Pawar told reporters here....
02:37 AM, Aug 05, 2012
Mumbai: Noting that blasts reflect poorly on the state administration, Union Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday asked party leader and Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil to focus on improving the performance of the police and intelligence departments. Addressing a press conference, Pawar said when incidents such as blasts happen, not only innocent people lose lives, but the attitude of the society to a particular community changes....
07:16 PM, Aug 04, 2012
Pune: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday met the investigators probing into the Pune blasts. He said all the material collected from the blast sites has been sent for forensic testing and all CCTV footages are being examined. Chavan said he has also discussed about the maintenance of the CCTV cameras with Mayor. The CCTV cameras at two of the blast sites were found to be non-functional. This has...
04:04 PM, Aug 04, 2012
Mumbai: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde would visit the blast sites in Pune on Saturday. "Shinde will visit the sites where the four blasts took place," Maharashtra Minister of State (Home), Satej Patil, said. Shinde would also review the security situation by holding a meeting with the top officers. Four low-intensity explosions took place in the busy JM Road area in Pune on August 1. Shinde, who took charge...
07:30 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Pune: The Maharashtra Police have prepared sketches of two persons who may have planted explosives in Pune as investigators suspect the involvement of at least three persons in executing the August 1 serial bomb blasts in Pune. "The sketches of two persons who could be bomb planters are ready. It will not be made public but would be given to the policemen involved in the investigations," a police officer said...
05:11 PM, Aug 03, 2012
Pune: Forensic science lab report on nature of explosives used in Pune serial blasts is likely to come out on Friday. Unconfirmed reports on Thursday said ammonium nitrate might have been used in the blasts. The Maharashtra ATS is also likely to release sketches of suspects on Friday. Two of the suspects will be those who bought bicycles, used in the blasts, on the day of the incident. Apart from...
01:47 PM, Aug 03, 2012
New Delhi: The explosive material used by terrorists to trigger coordinated serial bomb blasts in Pune was ammonium nitrate, according to a preliminary forensic examination. Official sources privy to the investigations said on Thursday night that ammonium nitrate, which has been often used by banned terrorist outfits like Indian Mujahideen, was packed inside a steel box. Sources said a timer was also attached to the steel box and a combination...
10:25 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Mumbai: The investigations into the series of low intensity blasts in Pune city make it clear that the act was a carefully planned exercise. But the worrying aspect was that despite Pune having been a terror target in the past, surveillance devices like CCTV camera weren't working this time as well. Investigators began a massive operation to unravel what was first described as an act of mischief. There is now...
09:10 PM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: Investigations into the Pune blasts hit their first hurdle on Thursday as the police found that the CCTV cameras at two of the blast sites were not working. The CCTV cameras at the Dena Bank and the Mc Donald's restaurant were found to be non-functional. Before the German Bakery blasts in February 2010, the Pune Municipal Corporation had identified 70 key locations for the installation of CCTVs. That...
03:05 PM, Aug 02, 2012
