New Delhi: Four people have been named in the 2008 Malegaon blast chargesheet filed in a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai on Wednesday. The four accused named in the chargesheet are Rajender Chaudhary, Dhan Singh, Manohar Narwaria and Ramji Kalsangra, who is still absconding.
But the chargesheet does not name Swami Aseemanand, Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit or any other Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh functionary.
While the investigators say that the four accused had linked with the RSS, the saffron organisation has not been named in the blast case even though sources did not rule out filing a supplementary chargesheet.
The chargesheet is a major embarassment for the Maharashtra anti-terror squad as its investigation into the 2008 Malegaon blasts had implicated eight Muslims, which has now been set aside by the NIA. The fresh chargesheet holds former RSS members responsible for the blasts....
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03:15 PM, May 22, 2013
A Colonel-rank Defence PRO in Manipur and five others arrested for allegedly transporting illicit drugs estimated at over Rs 24 crore for smuggling to Myanmar were on Monday remanded to police custody till March 8. Chief Judicial Magistrate, Thoubal, passed the order for police custody of the six, including Manipur Defence PRO Ajay Chaudhury arrested Sunday in Chandel district, following an application by investigating officer A Ghanashyam Sharma. ...
05:50 PM, Feb 25, 2013
As the new BJP President Rajnath Singh slammed Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for his remarks on terror, Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh hit back at him asking why he met Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya in jail. "Rajnath Singh ji must first answer why he went to meet Lt Colonel Prasad Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya in jail ," Digvijaya Singh said. ...
03:59 PM, Jan 23, 2013
New Delhi: The shortage of land in India is well known but it's also now affecting the army which is running short of firing and manoeuvre ranges to train on. It's not only illegal encroachment, even state governments are reluctant to notify firing ranges given in demands from their own people. India's million man army is running short of firing ranges to train on and perfect doctrine and tactics as...
06:43 PM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: An inquiry was ordered after a Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian Army filed a complaint that explicit photographs and videos of his wife were uploaded on the Internet by a serving Major. The inquiry is being headed by a Brigadier. Both the Lieutenant Colonel and the Major are presently serving in Army Aviation Corps in Bhatinda. If sources in the Army are to be believed, this is a...
10:14 AM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: A senior Army officer has accused a junior of harassing his wife by posting her mobile number on an adult website prompting institution of a Court of Inquiry into the case. Both the Lieutenant Colonel and the Major are posted at an Army Aviation Corps unit deployed at Bathinda under the 10 Corps. The CoI was ordered recently by the senior officials of the 10 Corps after complaints...
08:26 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Mumbai: Busting a major recruitment scam in the prestigious National Defence Academy, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested six people, including a serving Colonel, for allegedly receiving bribe for jobs and claimed to have recovered Rs 1.76 crore from different locations in connection with the case. Acting on a tip-off, CBI officials raided 14 places in Pune, Mumbai, Gurgaon and Sonepat, and recovered huge cash, which was allegedly...
03:50 PM, Jun 24, 2012
New Delhi: Meet a soldier who took four bullets in his arm in a pitched battle with insurgents and saved the life of two critically injured children in Manipur. Eighteen years since the incident, Colonel DPK Pillay still shares a close bond with the people of the Manipuri village. Colonel Pillay recalls that fateful day in Longdaipabram village, which is 22 kms from the district Headquarters Tamelong in Manipur. "The...
09:30 AM, Jun 11, 2012
CHENNAI/THENI/VELLORE: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for the memorial of the British engineer, Colonel John Pennycuick, who built the Mullaiperiyar dam, the lifeline of farmers of the Southern districts.She laid the foundation stone through video-conferencing from Fort St. George for the memorial which would cost of Rs 1.25 crore in the land owned by Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TAN-GEDCO) complex at Lower Camp...
08:26 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Dehra Dun: A woman army officer has filed a case against a Lieutenant Colonel in Dehra Dun, alleging that he sexually harassed her on the pretext of marrying her. The woman officer, a Lieutenant in the Army Hospital, filed a police complaint against the Lieutenant Colonel, posted in Uttarkashi, in the Cantt police station alleging that he cheated and sexually harassed her over a period of time after promising to...
06:15 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Chennai: A retired Army officer has been sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting dead 13-year-old Dilson in Chennai in July, 2011. Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Kandasamy Ramraj, who was pronounced guilty by a Chennai court on Friday, has also been convicted under the Arms Act for possessing a gun whose licence had expired. He has been sentenced to three years of jail under the Arms Act and also one year of...
12:07 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has begun its investigations into the bribe allegations made by Army Chief General VK Singh. Sources have told CNN-IBN that a team of CBI officers is expected to meet General Singh when he returns from an official tour in Srinagar on Friday. The CBI has begun its investigations into the bribe allegations. A tape of the alleged incident, whose veracity is to...
10:15 AM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: A former Army officer claims that a tape recording of the bribe offer made to Army Chief General VK Singh exists. According to Colonel (Retired) RSN Singh the tape has recorded the voice of a man who says that Army chiefs before General VK Singh have accepted money. In the tape a man reportedly tells Army Chief General VK SIngh that Army chiefs after him will also be...
04:12 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Chennai: Amid the simmering Mullaperiar dam row, Tamil Nadu government on Sunday announced setting up of a memorial for British engineer Col Penny Cuick, who had constructed the dam at Lower Camp in Theni district over 116 years ago. "I am happy to announce that a memorial to thankfully remember Cuick will be built at a cost of Rs one crore and over 2500 sq ft at the Tamil Nadu...
02:01 PM, Jan 08, 2012
New Delhi: In what can snowball into a major controversy, the Indian Army has ordered a Court of Inquiry (CoI) against a Lieutenant Colonel who was allegedly caught in a honeytrap by a woman in Bangladesh and was later blackmailed by Pakistan's ISI. The Army Headquarters have held back his name from the media. The officer was allegedly asked by the ISI to spy for Pakistan. The officer reported the...
08:04 AM, Dec 21, 2011
Cricketer MS Dhoni and Olympic gold medalist shooter Abhinav Bindra were pipped in by the Army Chief Gen VK Singh. Dhoni and Bindra have been commissioned as Honorary Lt Colonel in the Territorial Army. Dhoni and Bindra have been bestowed the honour for their outstanding contribution in the field of sports and their commitment to the Army on various occasions. ...
06:29 PM, Nov 01, 2011
Retired Colonel Shivraj turns citizen journalist to make Delhi poster free. ...
08:41 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court has turned down the state government's petition for five per cent reservation to the Gujjar community. The court while turning down the petition also directed the state government to quantify the data in a year. Reacting to the High Court's observation Gujjar leader Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla said that he respected the court's order. "Our fight is with the government. We will continue our agitation,"...
11:45 AM, Dec 22, 2010
Lt Colonel Satyendra Verma jumped off a 235 metre tall TV tower in Delhi on Friday. ...
03:02 PM, Oct 29, 2010
