New Delhi: India is likely to press for access to Tahawwur Hussain Rana, and wife and two girlfriends of Mumbai attack terrorist David Headley during Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's visit to the United States next week. Government sources said though India got access to Headley, who carried out a recce of the 26/11 targets for the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, the US has not given any opportunity to question Pakistani-Canadian Rana, Headley's US-based wife Shazia, his girlfriend Portia Peter and one more female friend.
Indian investigators believe that if they could quiz the three, many hidden information could come into light as Rana was a close associate of his Pakistani-American friend Headley, and Shazia and the two girlfriends were in regular touch with Headley before and after the Mumbai terror attack. The investigators believe that Rana, Shazia and others have a lot of information and their interrogations could throw more light on the conspiracy hatched to carry out the worst terror strike in India and role of those behind it.
"The Home Minister and his delegation is expected to raise the issue of access to Rana and others," a source said. 51-year-old Headley had pleaded guilty to 12 terrorism charges, including his involvement in the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai that claimed 166 lives. He had, however, entered into plea bargain with US authorities.
A court in the US had sentenced 52-year-old Rana to 14 years in jail followed by five years of supervised release.
08:00 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: The family of Sarabjit Singh, who is lying in coma in a Lahore hospital after an attack in a Pakistan jail, will meet Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in New Delhi on Thursday to seek his better treatment and bringing him back home. Official sources said Shinde has given time to the family, including Sarbjit's sister Dalbir, to hear their grievances. The family, which crossed over to India...
08:41 PM, May 01, 2013
Protests over the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi intensified even as Aam Aadmi Party demanded resignations of Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar. Former Joint Police Commissioner in Delhi Maxwell Pereira joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the matter. Q. I totally condemn the way people come down to the streets like this in the aftermath of such incidents. We, as...
04:45 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: Police need to be provided a better working environment that is "insulated from pulls and pressures", Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said Monday as he pitched for police reforms. Addressing a chief minister's conference to discuss a report on public order of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission here, Shinde said: "Public order and police today in India are facing challenges; with the ever changing social landscape and the...
12:35 PM, Apr 15, 2013
While a controversy rages around whether Liaqat Shah is a militant who wanted to surrender or a terrorist who wanted to target Delhi during Holi, the government is all set to form new sops to legalise surrender via Nepal route, according to sources. ...
06:05 PM, Mar 26, 2013
Welcoming Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's decision to hand over alleged Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah's case to National Investigation Agency (NIA), Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that time-bound inquiry will help in clearing all the doubts. ...
07:03 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday handed over Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah's case to National Investigation Agency (NIA), relenting to Jammu and Kashmir government's pressure, which had demanded the case be transferred to NIA for a "time bound speedy probe". NIA will now probe the circumstances under which, Liaqat was arrested. ...
02:00 PM, Mar 25, 2013
The Datia Police have arrested six people in connection with the alleged gangrape of a Swiss national even as the Madhya Pradesh Home Minister said the couple should have informed the police about their travel plans for additional security. The suspects - six members of a nomadic tribe in the area - have been arrested and a stolen laptop and a mobile phone have been seized from them. ...
09:18 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Is Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, who has been suffering from a foot-in-the-mouth disease since he took over the job, fit to be the in-charge of the internal security in the country? In the summer of 2012, Parliament went powerless, and that was how the country got introduced to Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. And soon, India got its Union Home Minister in him. He has also been known...
09:34 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday reiterated that the sudden hanging of Afzal Guru, who was convicted in the 2001 Parliament attack case, on February 9 was not a political decision, adding that the family was informed through speed post on February 7 itself. ...
04:51 PM, Feb 11, 2013
India has long been a victim of jehadi terror but most of it has been sponsored from across the border. But the Samjhauta Express blast, the Hyderabad blasts, hate speeches by the likes of Togadia and disruption of art shows in the name of hurting religious sensibilities bring us to confront a bigger question? Has right wing terror come to stay in India? Analyst Praveen Swami shared his perspective in...
06:30 PM, Feb 08, 2013
The Allahabad High Court will hear a public interest litigation against Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde over his controversial remarks on "Hindu terror". On January 20, at the Congress' Chintan Shivir in Jaipur, Shinde had accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of running terror camps. ...
08:15 AM, Feb 05, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday he saw no reason why companies that fulfill all RBI criteria should be denied banking licences as part of plans to shake up the country's bank sector. ...
11:42 AM, Jan 30, 2013
Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is now facing criminal action after a complaint was filed against him in Saket court in Delhi on Wednesday for his "Hindu terror" remarks. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had said earlier that they are considering pressing charges against the Union Minister. ...
09:50 PM, Jan 23, 2013
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday described as "irresponsible" Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's remarks linking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to Hindu terrorism and asked him to initiate action if he has any information or documents suggesting such charges. "His statement (linking the BJP and the RSS to Hindu terrorism) is irresponsible and reflects his immaturity," Kumar said. ...
05:00 PM, Jan 23, 2013
A day after Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde alleged that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were running terror camps in the country, Home Secretary RK Singh on Tuesday claimed that he had 10 names on terror list with past links with the RSS. ...
07:19 PM, Jan 22, 2013
How does the RSS react to Union Home Minister Sushil kumar Shinde's 'Hindu terror' comment? RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
04:25 PM, Jan 22, 2013
It is an all out war of words between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress over Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's claims that the former and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are fanning Hindu terror in the country. While the BJP demanded the sacking of Shinde over his statement and called for a nationwide protest on January 24, the Congress backed the Home Minister. ...
06:55 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday met Director Generals of Police and Home Secretaries from all the states over providing more security to women. Several aspects of crimes against women were discussed at the meeting in the national capital. ...
06:10 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Friday reiterated his stand on increasing the number of women police officials. Addressing a press conference in the national capital, the Home Minister said that women representation in police force must be increased. ...
04:59 PM, Jan 04, 2013
