New Delhi: A Barabanki court has rejected Uttar Pradesh government's plea to release UP serial blast accused Tariq Qasmi and Khalid Mujahid. HuJi activists Tariq and Khalid were arrested with explosives on December 20, 2007.
The state government on Friday moved an application in a local court in Barabanki requesting for permission to withdraw cases against the alleged Huji operatives.
UP Special Task Force had arrested both the alleged Huji activists for their involvement in the serial blasts at Faizabad and Lucknow courts on Nov 23, 2007. The police had also recovered 1.25 kg RDX, detonators, gelatin rods, cellphones and SIM cards from them.
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02:29 PM, May 10, 2013
A HuJI militant wanted in the 2001 abduction case of shoe baron Partha Pratim Roy Burman has been arrested by the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police from the Port area. 45-year-old Mijanaur Rehman, wanted in the abduction of Khadim shoe company owner Burman in 2001, was arrested during a raid from the port area late Wednesday, Joint Commissioner of Police (STF) Rajeev Mishra said. ...
09:35 PM, Dec 20, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court is expected to frame charges against the prime accused in the September 2011 Delhi High Court blast case on Tuesday. Wasim Malik was arrested a few days after the deadly blast ripped through gate number 5 of the complex on September 7, killing 15 and injuring 79 others. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) carried out the probe and arrested Malik and a friend of his,...
09:47 AM, Sep 18, 2012
Kishtwar: Troops from the 11 Rashtriya Rifles busted a militant hideout and recovered rifles and Chinese-made grenades in Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir. It is believed that the hideout was being used by a slain HuJI Commander. The recoveries included one rifle of 12 bore, three country made rifles, one magazine of SLR, two magazines of AK-47, two Chinese Grenades, one Grenade, one UBGL Grenade, 778 rounds of assorted ammunition,...
10:37 AM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: Home Secretary RK Singh on Saturday said that the eleven men arrested in Bangalore on charges of links with terrorist organisations LeT and HuJI had a defence establishment and a nuclear installation on their radar. "Interrogation of those arrested in Bangalore has revealed that this module had a defence establishment and a nuclear installation on its radar. Lashkar and HuJI operatives are handlers of the group," said Singh....
02:34 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Bangalore: A Muslim federation of over dozen organisations on Friday sought a quick and fair investigation into the arrest of 11 youth suspected to have links with banned terror outfits LeT and HuJI and plotting to carry terrors attacks in the city. "We demand a quick and fair investigation of the case, adherence to rule of law and reiteration that innocents will not be harassed," federation convener Masood Abdul Khader...
12:03 PM, Sep 01, 2012
The families of the 11 men who were arrested by Bangalore Police on Thursday say they are innocent. ...
11:47 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Bangalore: The families of 11 terror suspects apprehended in Karnataka on Friday expressed shock and disbelief over their arrests on charges of links with banned terror outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islam (Huji) and plotting terror attacks in the state. "We are at a loss to understand why my third son, Zafar Iqbal, was whisked away from our house at Hubli without intimation or warrant though he is innocent and has...
09:44 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Bangalore: The 11 terror suspects arrested on Wednesday by the Bangalore Police were on Friday sent to 14-days police custody. The profile of the accused who were arrested for alleged terror links with LeT and HuJI has shocked all. Those arrested included a DRDO engineer and a journalist from a popular English daily. Another was an MBA student. Sources say the journalist had been working for over two years in...
03:46 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Bangalore: The father of one of the 11 men arrested by the Bangalore Police on Wednesday on charges of having links with terror groups Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and the HuJI and plotting attacks on MPs, MLAs and journalists, has said that the family wasn't informed his arrest. The man worked as an engineer at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). "We didn't get any message of his arrest. The police...
08:25 AM, Aug 31, 2012
The father of DRDO engineer Ajaz, who is one of the 11 people arrested by Bangalore Police on Thursday for suspected terror links, claims that the police haven't informed them about their son's arrest. ...
09:39 PM, Aug 30, 2012
The 11 people arrested have links with Lashkar-e-Toiba and HuJI, said Karnataka DGP Lalrokhuma Pachau. They had plotted to kill the columnist as he had written an anti-Islam article. ...
06:59 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Lucknow: Haunted by the spectre of cheating in the MBBS entrance exam for those aspiring to be doctors, the Uttar Pradesh Combined Pre-Medical Test (CPMT) organisers have come up with unprecedented security measures in 2012. These include carrying answer sheets on a chartered flight, keeping secret the forward route of the sheets and closing all photocopying shops around the test centres. Other steps include taking fingerprints, having handwriting experts on...
02:32 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: A new study by the Centre for Science and Environment has found that at least 16 major food brands may label themselves as 'healthy' but are in fact not so. Most junk foods contain very high levels of trans fats, salts and sugar, leading to obesity and diabetes. This is something people well know. But what does one do when food companies label their food as healthy which...
10:48 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Srinagar: Two militants of HuJI including its dreaded commander made a dramatic escape from police custody near Patnitop while they were being driven from Kishtwar to Udhampur to attend a court case. Sher Khan and his associate Jameel alias Abdullah were escorted by policemen in a vehicle when they fled away apparently after stopping for tea at a shop near Patnitop. Security forces have cordoned off the various exit and...
08:45 AM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Investigators probing the Feb 13 bombing on an Israeli embassy car are tracking a possible Bangladeshi terror link to the attack blamed by Israel on Iran, sources said Tuesday. Highly placed intelligence and diplomatic sources said two calls were made to a cellphone in New Delhi from a suspected satellite phone in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar. They said the cellphone, which received the satellite calls on the day of...
07:03 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: A suspected Pakistan-trained militant, arrested in 2008 for allegedly planning a strike in the city, has been let off by a Delhi court, which found fault with the police probe and raised doubts over the authenticity of the intelligence information on which he was nabbed. Additional sessions judge Pawan Kumar Jain acquitted suspected Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) militant Abdur Rehman of charges of being found in possession of explosives, saying,...
09:19 AM, Nov 27, 2011
New Delhi: The investigation into the Delhi High Court blast is possibly in the final stages. According to sources, Dr Wasim Akram has been identified as a prime suspect and the NIA will produce him in court on Friday. Wasim is from Kishtwar and had allegedly sent emails to media houses claiming responsibility for the blast on behalf of banned terror outfit Harkat ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI). Other conspirators have also...
10:36 AM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has claimed a a breakthrough in the Delhi High Court blast case blast after arresting a medical student belonging to Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir. The NIA arrested the medical student, identified as Wasim Akram, on the basis of interrogation of the two suspects arrested in Kishtwar. While Wasim Akram Malik will remain in police custody till October 21, Abid Hussain has been...
01:05 PM, Oct 07, 2011
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir native Abid Hussain, arrested for his alleged role in the September 7 bomb blast in the Delhi High Court premises, was on Wednesday sent to Tihar Jail with a city court remanding him in judicial custody till October 7. Special NIA Judge HS Sharma remanded Hussain in judicial custody as National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths, while producing him before the court after expiry of his...
06:39 PM, Oct 05, 2011
