New Delhi: India will now have to wait for Fasih Mohammed, accused of being involved in conspiracy of bomb blasts in Bangalore and Delhi, as Saudi Arabia has red-flagged his deportation from there saying they want to investigate his role in that country carefully before taking a call on New Delhi's request for handing him over. This was conveyed through diplomatic as well as security agency-to-agency meetings within days after...
03:29 PM, Sep 16, 2012
Thane: The son and nephew of Saquib Nachan, former SIMI leader and an accused in the Mulund bomb blast case, were arrested by Thane police crime branch officials on Thursday. His son Shamil Nachan and his cousin Akhis were arrested by the Thane Police for their alleged links with the Pakistani spy agency ISI and the terror outfit Indian Mujahideen. Further details of the arrests were not immediately available. ...
02:54 AM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: Security agencies probing the recent Pune serial blasts have claimed that Mohammed Sajjid, a founding member of banned Indian Mujahideen (IM), was the key suspect in the attack. Official sources on Monday said that a bicycle shop owner, who was shown pictures of some suspects, identified Sajjid alias 'Bada Sajjid' as the man who had purchased from him one of the cycles used in the explosions. Low intensity...
08:43 PM, Aug 20, 2012
New Delhi: The explosive material used by terrorists to trigger coordinated serial bomb blasts in Pune was ammonium nitrate, according to a preliminary forensic examination. Official sources privy to the investigations said on Thursday night that ammonium nitrate, which has been often used by banned terrorist outfits like Indian Mujahideen, was packed inside a steel box. Sources said a timer was also attached to the steel box and a combination...
10:25 PM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: The custody of two alleged Indian Mujahideen members, brought here from a Bangalore jail, was on Monday given to Delhi police for ten days by a court in Jama Masjid attack case in which Mumbai's 26/11 terrorists' handler Abu Jundal is also an accused. The suspected IM men Kamal Hasan alias Bilal and Kafil Akhtar were arrested and produced before the court of Chief Metroolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav...
07:20 PM, Jul 09, 2012
London: Britain on Thursday banned the Indian Mujahideen (IM), making it a criminal offence to join and support the LeT-linked terror group which carried out "indiscriminate mass casualty attacks" in India and "posed a threat" to British nationals there. MPs at the UK's House of Commons unanimously approved a motion on Wednesday night on proscribing IM and placing it on the list of 47 organisations that have been banned from...
10:41 AM, Jul 06, 2012
London: The UK has banned Indian Mujahideen (IM), citing the "indiscriminate mass casualty attacks" carried out by the LeT-linked terror group in India and the threat it posed to British nationals there. British MPs voted unanimously on Wednesday night to ban IM, placing it on the list of 47 organisations that have been banned from functioning in the UK. Setting out the reasons for proscribing IM under the Terrorism Act...
04:53 PM, Jul 05, 2012
New Delhi: Government will take all possible steps to bring back Fasih Mohammed, an accused in Bangalore and Delhi blasts and detained in Saudi Arabia, to India. "He is in Saudi Arabia. He was detained there. Steps will be taken to extradite him to India," Home Minister P Chidambaram told reporters in New Delhi. An engineer by profession, 28-year old Fasih is alleged to have been involved in the Chinnaswamy...
08:58 PM, Jul 04, 2012
New Delhi: After Abu Jundal, another terror suspect Fasih Mehmood could be extradited to India from Saudi Arabia within a week, sources say. Fasih is accused of Bangalore Chinnaswamy Stadium blast and Delhi Jama Masjid shooting of 2010. On the request of Karnataka and Delhi Police, CBI had asked the Interpol to issue a Red Corner Notice against Fasih after which Saudi Authorities have informed that he has been apprehended...
06:07 PM, Jul 01, 2012
New Delhi: Suspected terrorist Fasih Mohammad allegedly involved in Chinnaswamy Stadium blast has been detained in Saudi Arabia, and is likely to be deported to India soon. Fasih is wanted in connection with incidents in Delhi and Bangalore. He is an Indian Mujahideen operative wanted by Indian agencies. An Indian national who fled to gulf countries as IB was trying to detain him along with Jundal but his deportation did...
08:14 PM, Jun 30, 2012
Bhopal: The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has issued notices to five telecom companies in the state for not following due procedure while issuing SIM cards. The notice comes after some SIM cards were allegedly procured by five members of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Indian Mujahideen (IM) on fake identities. The members of the terror outfits were arrested in June 2011 from Bhopal and Jabalpur. ...
12:09 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of External Affairs regarding the mysterious disappearance of an Indian techie working in Saudi Arabia. Fasih Mehmood was allegedly picked up by the members of the National Investigative Agency on May 13 and has been missing since then. A bench of justices KS Radhakrishnan and JS Khehar issued notice to the Home...
11:23 AM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: A woman has made an appeal to the Indian government to help find her husband who has gone missing after he was picked up in Saudi Arabia for allegedly having links with the Indian Mujahideen. Indian techie Fasih Mehmood was picked up in the town of Al Jubail allegedly by Saudi Officials on May 13. Reports say he was deported to India on alleged terror charges. But Fasih...
08:52 AM, May 26, 2012
Mumbai: Almost a year after three bomb blasts shook the city killing 27 people and injuring many others, ATS on Friday filed a 4000-page chargesheet in a special MCOCA court against four accused in the case. The four accused, Naquee Ahmed, Nadeem Shaikh, Kanwar Pathrija and Haroon Naik, are facing trial under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), IPC and other laws. A copy of the confession...
06:29 PM, May 25, 2012
Bangalore: In a major breakthrough, Crime Branch officials on Tuesday arrested two terrorists belonging to terror outfits Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and the Indian Mujahideen (IM) in Bangalore. The two suspected terrorists have been identified as Mohd Kafil Akhtar and Syyed Abdul Rehman. The former belongs to the IM and is wanted in the M Chinnaswamy cricket stadium blasts case of April 2010 in Bangalore, while the latter is said to be...
12:47 PM, May 08, 2012
Bangalore: The Bangalore Central Crime Branch police on Wednesday arrested a suspected Indian Mujahideen operative, Kamal Hassan, from Kolkata. The suspected operative was arrested for his alleged role in the Chinnaswamy blast case. However, the involvement of Hassan is also suspected in terror attacks in Delhi and Hyderabad. According to the police, Hassan was a close associate of Yasin Bhatkal, one of the main perpetrators of the Chinnaswamy blast. Hassan,...
08:45 PM, Apr 12, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday remanded a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist, arrested on Tuesday with one kg of explosives and a detonator, in police custody for seven days. Assadullah Rehman alias Dilkash (20), arrested from North-East Delhi, was produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav, who sent him to police custody till April 4. The court directed the police to maintain a record of officials, who interrogate Dilkash...
05:13 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: An alleged Indian Mujahideen operative, Asadullah Rehman has been arrested in Delhi. Rehman alias Dilkash (20) is an alleged member of the Indian Mujahideen module led by Yasin Bhatkal and has been arrested from Chandu Nagar in Karawal Nagar in Delhi. Explosives, detonators and a timer has been recovered from him. Rehman is a part of the same module that was busted in November, 2011, by the Delhi...
01:07 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Mumbai/Aurangabad: Two more terror suspects were arrested from their hideout in Buldhana district of Maharashtra on Tuesday, a day after state ATS apprehended a man wanted in 2008 Ahmedabad blasts following the gunning down of his accomplice in an encounter in Aurangabad. Akheel Khilji (45) and Mohammed Jafar Hussain Qureshi (32), former members of banned outfit SIMI, were apprehended by ATS from their rented house at Pimpalgaon village in Buldhana...
10:37 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: Two alleged operatives of Indian Mujahideen, who were behind bars in Opera House blast case that took place on July 13 last year in Mumbai, were on Friday remanded in ATS custody by a local court in connection with the Dadar explosion that took place on the same day. As the custody of prime accused Haroon Naik and hawala operator Kanwar Nain Wazeer Chand Patrija (42) ended on Friday...
07:46 AM, Mar 10, 2012
