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 connection with the blast case and were today arrested in theft case. The two were remanded in police custody after they were produced before the Mazgaon Metropolitan Court, he said.
The two vehicles were later recovered from Bihar by the ATS after the arrest of Naquee and Nadeem in the blast case. According to police, the accused had plans to use the vehicles for future terror activities....
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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: 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...
07:35 PM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: Jewellers from Zaveri Bazaar, a major hub for jewellery industry, who opened their shops for the first time on Monday after a 21-day strike saw a muted response from buyers with footfalls nowhere near their expectations. "We expected the demand to be very high as the shops were closed due to the strike. However, the footfalls are much less than our expectations," Kumar Jain of Umedmal Tilokchand Zaveri told....
03:37 AM, Apr 10, 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: 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 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: 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
Surat: Diamond traders gathered in Surat to condole the loss of their counterparts in Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar blast. But the only question that dominated collective consciousness - has the diamond industry become a key target for terrorists? While July 13 serial blasts is the third attack on Zaveri Bazaar, Surat remains vulnerable too, with 20 live bombs being recovered from its diamond industry-dominated areas in 2008. In the wake of...
07:31 AM, Jul 17, 2011
Pune: Three blasts that rocked Mumbai once again made Punekars shudder with memories of February 13 terrorist attack on the German Bakery last year, that killed 17 persons including some foreigners and injuring over 100. Even as the city was put on a very high alert since last night, after the blasts, with thick security blanket covering all sensitive places identified after the German Bakery blast, the numerical connotation of...
11:27 AM, Jul 14, 2011
Mumbai: Several Bollywood personalities have expressed shock at the serial blasts that rocked the metropolis this evening. "Bomb blasts in Mumbai .. !! God ! I hope people are safe," Amitabh Bachchan said on twitter. "Shocked to hear the news of the Blasts- Prayers for all who have suffered. And Be safe and stay home," actor Riteish Deshmukh said. "Cowards strike again! Condolence to all who have lost someone dear....
09:55 PM, Jul 13, 2011
A Mumbai Special Court convicted the three accused under POTA on Monday. ...
02:43 PM, Jul 27, 2009
Court to also pronounce verdict in Ghatkopar railway station blast case. ...
07:29 AM, Jul 27, 2009
Lashkar-e-Toiba was involved in planting the bombs on Aug 25, 2003. ...
12:35 PM, Jul 26, 2009
New Delhi: Former Indian captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi passed away on Thursday evening following a prolonged lung infection. Pataudi, who is survived by wife Sharmila Tagore and three children, breathed his last at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi. Seventy-year-old Pataudi was admitted to the hospital last month. Pataudi had played 46 Test matches for India. He was also known as Tiger Pataudi and Nawab Pataudi. Career highlights - ...
10:18 AM, Mar 02, 2008
Relatives of people who died in the explosion say they will get justice if villains of Black Friday are given death. ...
11:21 PM, Sep 14, 2006
Shoaib Ghansar is guilty of taking RDX-laden scooter to busy market on the order of his boss, Tiger Memon. ...
08:46 PM, Sep 14, 2006
