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
New Delhi: In a possible breakthrough in the Samjhauta Express blast investigation, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday claimed to have arrested the man who allegedly placed the bomb on the India-Pakistan train in February 2007. The suspect has been identified as Kamal Chouhan, who is a resident of Indore. NIA sources say he is now being interrogated. He is likely to be produced at the Patiala House Court...
07:12 AM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: In a big breakthrough in the Samjhauta Express blasts investigation, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday arrested the man who allegedly placed the bomb on the train that linked India and Pakistan. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the suspect, identified as Kamal Chouhan, is a resident of Indore. He is likely to be produced in the Patiala House court in Delhi on Monday. Over 60 people had...
11:09 PM, Feb 12, 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
Washington: The recent developments have shown that militant Hindu nationalist groups are intent on launching domestic terrorist attacks, a US Congressional report has said. "Even more recent are overt signs that India is home to militant Hindu nationalist groups intent on launching domestic terrorist attacks. In September 2008, seven people were killed by two bomb blasts in Maharashtra's Malegaon, a hotbed of Hindu-Muslim communal strife," said Congressional Research Service (CRS)...
02:09 PM, Sep 14, 2011
Panchkula: A special court on Wednesday allowed the National Investigation Agency to re-examine the Samjhauta Express blast samples after the NIA pleaded it wants to compare them with the explosions at other places such as in Malegaon, Hyderabad and Ajmer. The Panchkula court has given its order while hearing the charges against Swami Assemanand and four others in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case. As the proceedings in the case...
06:17 PM, Aug 17, 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
On Talking Point, Rajdeep Sardesai asks, 'Have Right-Wing terror groups been exposed'. ...
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: The Centre on Wednesday said the probe into the Samjhauta Express train bomb blasts, in which 43 Pakistani nationals were killed, was still on to find out the identities of all perpetrators of the crime. A day after the Indo-Pak Home Secretary level talks, where Islamabad wanted to know the progress of the case, the Home Ministry said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted painstaking investigation in the...
02:44 PM, Mar 30, 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
Hindu allegedly behind Samjhauta, Mecca Masjid, Ajmer and Malegaon blasts. ...
06:57 PM, Mar 21, 2011
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