Panchkula: Kamal Chauhan, a disgruntled RSS worker arrested by the NIA, in connection with the Samjhauta Express blast, on Friday claimed that he does not know another accused Aseemanand facing trial in the same case. Chauhan, who was remanded to NIA custody after being produced in the court here, told reporters outside the court premises that "he knows nothing about Aseemanand." "I don't know Aseemanand," he told reporters while being...
07:29 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Mumbai: The nine people, who were accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case, got bail on Saturday and will finally be walking free after spending five years in prison. Their families, although relieved, want the state to compensate them for the trauma, the stigma of terror and their loss. Father and brother of Noorulhuda, one of the accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case say they have suffered as much...
07:33 AM, Nov 07, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) on Tuesday sought the custody of the Malegaon blasts accused Col Shrikant Purohit and Major Ramesh Upadhyay. The NIA wants to question Purohit among others things on his possible role in the Samjhauta Express blasts. Sources said that the NIA wants to find out whether Col Purohit funded Pragya Thakur and some other RSS activists. Sources also said that the NIA wants to...
11:20 PM, Aug 09, 2011
Islamabad: India's concerns over terror and slow pace of Mumbai trial were discussed in the first round of Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary-level talks during which the Samjhauta bombing case also came up with both sides holding 'substantive' deliberations in a "forward looking" approach. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, who arrived in Islamabad on Thursday morning, and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir began the first round of talks, which have been divided in...
09:39 PM, Jun 23, 2011
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11:42 PM, Jun 20, 2011
New Delhi: India is expected to cite the filing of the charge sheet in Samjhauta Express blast case and ask Pakistan to reciprocate by taking action against the 26/11 accused during the upcoming Foreign Secretary level talks. Official sources said the naming of suspected right-wing extremist Swami Aseemanand and four others in the charge sheet of the 2007 Samjhauta Express case is expected to be shared with Pakistan during this...
07:45 PM, Jun 20, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a chargesheet on Monday before the special court at Panchkula, Haryana against Swami Aseemanand, Sunil Joshi (now dead), Lokesh Sharma, Sandeep Dange and Ramchandra Kalasangra in the Samjhauta blast case. Assemanand's judicial custody ended on Monday. Aseemanand had told the Panchkula court in May 2011 that he had no role in the 2007 Samjhauta Express train bombing that killed 68 people, mainly...
02:03 PM, Jun 20, 2011
New Delhi: Home Secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in New Delhi on Monday in the shadow of a possible summit meeting between the two sides on the margins of the cricket encounter in Mohali. As Yuvraj Singh and Shahid Afridi polish their sixes and their leg breaks and as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gets ready to enjoy their heroics with Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, two other...
09:42 PM, Mar 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has issued an order for the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take over all Hindu terror cases. The cases include the murder case of RSS leader Sunil Joshi, who allegedly had a hand in the Samjhauta Express blast. The Law Ministry will issue a notification in this regard shortly. The Madhya Pradesh government, however, is unhappy with the development. It had already filed a...
07:02 PM, Mar 21, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday announced cash rewards for information on three suspects in the Samjhauta blast probe, following Swami Assemanand's confession in the case. The NIA has now announced cash rewards for information on Ramchandra Kalsangre and Sandeep Dange, the two individuals named by Aseemanand in his confessions of being close to Sunil Joshi. Both have already been named as accused by the Rajasthan ATS...
08:37 PM, Jan 11, 2011
New Delhi: Following Swami Aseemanand's confession to the CBI about having planned the Samjhauta Express blast, Pakistan foreign office has summoned the Indian envoy in Islamabad. RSS leader Aseemanand confessed before the CBI that Hindu terrorists were behind the Samjhauta Express blasts of 2007. Seeking details on the Samjhauta blast, in which 68 people including 42 Pakistanis were killed, India's acting Deputy High Commissioner G V Srinivas was called by...
10:43 AM, Jan 11, 2011
New Delhi: It’s not just the Indo-Pak diplomacy that has been affected by Aseemanad’s confession statements. RSS too is feeling the embarrassment. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat spoke out on Monday in an effort to distance the Sangh from reported acts of terror. He said that radical elements in the Sangh were acted against and told that the bomb for bomb kind of aggression was unacceptable to the organisation. Confessions by...
09:23 PM, Jan 10, 2011
Ramnathi: The VHP on Sunday accused the Congress-led government of trying to "malign the image of Hindu leaders by terming them as terrorists" and claimed it was the "greatest lie" that Swami Aseemanand has confessed to the Samjhauta Express blast. "We are trying to enlighten the people. If Congress tries to entangle Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders, then a movement will be started against them (Congress)," VHP...
08:52 PM, Jan 09, 2011
Bhopal: In what can come out to be a big embarrassment for RSS, Swami Aseemanand, through his confessions has turned the spotlight squarely on three people: murdered expelled RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi, jailed Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, and RSS executive member Indresh Kumar. While Sadhvi Pragya Thakur has been jailed Thakur for her alleged involvement in the Malegaon blasts, Indresh Kumar’s name has figured in the charge sheet filed by Rajasthan...
08:51 PM, Jan 07, 2011
Panchkula: A special court in Panchkula on Monday extended, by 10 days, the police custody of Hindu group leader Swami Aseemanand in connection with the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blasts in Haryana that killed 68 people. Aseemanand was brought before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) court amidst tight security cover on Monday afternoon. The proceedings were in-camera and no media person was allowed to enter the court while he was...
05:36 PM, Jan 03, 2011
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