Mumbai: A local court on Friday extended till March 9 the police custody of two alleged Indian Mujahideen operatives arrested in connection with one of the three bomb blasts that rocked the metropolis on July 13 last year. A metropolitan court extended the custody of Haroon Naik and alleged hawala operator Kanwar Nain Wazeer Chand Partija as the ATS told the court that it has got some leads from Delhi...
07:19 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Anti Terror Squad (ATS) sources on Tuesday said that July 13, 2011 Mumbai serial blast accused and Indian Mujahideen member Haroon Naik met slain terrorist Osama bin Laden in August 2001 in Bahawalpur, Pakistan. "Naik was part a group of operatives who were addressed by Osama in Bhawalpur," said the sources about the Indian Mujahideen member who was arrested for possessing fake currency notes. The sources said that...
07:10 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Friday arrested one of the founder members of the Indian Mujahideen from Bihar. He was identified as Tariq. According to sources, Tariq is an ideologue responsible for indoctrinating Indian Mujahideen cadres. He was a part of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) till 1998, following which, he along with Riyaz, Iqbal and Yasin Bhatkal formed the Indian Mujahideen. He had earlier escaped...
10:35 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Mumbai: Terming the arrested 13/7 accused Haroon Naik as "a very, very important member of Indian Mujahideen", Maharashtra ATS on Friday said he had undergone rigorous terror training in Pakistan and fought alongside al Qaeda in Afghanistan against "enemies" in the name of jihad. The Anti-Terrorism Squad was on Wednesday granted custody of jailed IM operative Naik in the blasts case as he was suspected of having participated in the...
07:26 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Mumbai: A local court on Thursday extended the police custody of two suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives, arrested in connection with July 13 triple blasts, till February 10 after Maharashtra ATS sought to probe into the source of explosive materials and possible future terror targets. As their custody ended on Thursday, the two arrested accused Naqi Ahmed Wasi Ahmed Sheikh (22) and Nadeem Akhtar Ashfaq Sheikh (23), originally from Bihar's...
05:47 PM, Feb 02, 2012
Mumbai: One of the bomb planters wanted in connection with the 13/7 blasts case, who had enrolled himself at two gymnasiums including the one owned by the family of underworld don-turned-politician Arun Gawli, had mentioned his name as "Waqas" while joining the gyms, Maharashtra ATS said. "It was Waqas who got admission in both Kumbharwada as well as Byculla gyms. After the blasts, Waqas moved around normally to avoid any...
04:35 PM, Jan 29, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Secretary RK Singh on Tuesday admitted that there were coordination problems between Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Delhi Police, saying that one of the two arrested in the 13/7 Mumbai blasts case is a police informer. Congratulating Maharashtra ATS for cracking the case, Singh said that Naqee Ahmed Sheikh, who is one of the arrested in the blast case, was being used by the IB and...
03:25 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Mumbai: A family member of Naqi Ahmed, who had allegedly helped three terror suspects rent an apartment in Mumbai and was later arrested in a forgery case, said he was being tortured in police custody. The charge, however, was rubbished by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) which effected the arrest. "My nephew (Naqi Ahmed) is innocent. He did not know anyone called Bhatkal (Indian Mujahideen suspected member Yasin Bhatkal). We...
08:26 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Mumbai: Nearly six months after the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai on July 13, investigators may have made a breakthrough in the case. Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) sources told CNN-IBN that Yasin Bhatkal, the most wanted Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative is allegedly the mastermind behind the 13/7 blasts. Sources said that Bhatkal alias Shahrukh was present in Mumbai during the blasts and had a role to play in the serial blasts...
09:25 AM, Jan 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police have picked up Idian Mujahideen (IM) operative Aftab alias Farooq alias Roshan from Purnia in Bihar. With this, a total of seven IM operatives, along with Farooq, have been arrested so far. Acting on a tip off by Intelligence Bureau (IB), a special branch team of Delhi Police, along with Purnia police, raided Khatahaat village under Jalalgarh police station on Monday and nabbed the Pakistani...
05:43 PM, Dec 06, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday remanded six suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives allegedly involved in various blasts across India in police custody for 10 days. Officials of the special cell of the Delhi Police on November 30 arrested the six alleged terrorists from Delhi, Bihar and Chennai and recovered two AK-47 rifles, a 9 mm pistol, 5 kgs of explosives and 64 cartridges from the accused. Going by the...
05:04 PM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: The six Indian Mujahideen operatives who were arrested by Delhi Police will be presented in a lower court on Monday. These IM operatives were arrested for their alleged involvement in Pune's German Bakery and Delhi's Jama Masjid blasts. Their police custody ends on Monday. The Police recovered 2 AK-47 rifles, a 9 mm pistol, 5 kgs of explosives and 64 cartridges from the accused. While the police chose...
08:50 AM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Thursday announced a Rs 15 lakh reward for anyone providing information on elusive Indian Mujahideen operative Yasin Bhatkal alias Imran, allegedly involved in a series of terror cases. The reward, which was increased from Rs 3 lakh announced earlier in April this year, came following the recent arrest and interrogation of six persons belonging to a terror module led by Bhatkal. "Delhi Police Commissioner BK...
04:27 PM, Dec 01, 2011
Maoist sympathiser Varavara Rao says the maoists are seeing unforeseen violence from the state's side. ...
11:35 AM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Wednesday claimed to have busted the Indian Mujahideen module believed to be behind the three biggest terror attacks in the last two years. Officials of the special cell of the Delhi police have arrested 6 alleged terrorists of the group from Delhi, Bihar and Chennai. Going by the recoveries made, it seems the group was planning to target other places in the country. The...
08:50 PM, Nov 30, 2011
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday backed West Bengal government's claim the Maoist leader Kishenji was killed in a gunfight and not in a fake encounter. Chidambaram, while addressing a press conference in New Delhi, said that the November 24 police encounter in which Kishenji was killed was not fake. The Home Minsiter said that the Center has never encouraged fake encounters or killing of persons after they...
05:04 PM, Nov 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has arrested six suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives in connection with crucial terror cases in the country, according to sources. The Delhi Police sources claim to have solved the Jama Masjid blast case, the Pune German Bakery blast case and Chinnaswamy stadium terror attack case. Sources say a Pakistani national is also among the six arrested Indian Mujahideen operatives. Two AK-47s with 50 cartridges, one pistol...
10:29 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Washington: The United States named the Indian Mujahideen (IM) to its official blacklist of foreign terrorist organizations on Thursday, saying it has killed hundreds of innocent civilians in attacks dating back to 2005. "IM's primary method of attack is multiple coordinated bombings in crowded areas against economic and civilian targets to maximize terror and casualties," the State Department said in announcing the designation, which bars US citizens from providing any...
07:45 PM, Sep 15, 2011
Kolkata: The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police on Wednesday arrested a 14-year-old student for allegedly sending a 'mischievous' e-mail to media houses claiming responsibility for the Delhi High Court blasts. The student, Sunny Shukla of Pakur in Jharkhand, sent two e-mails to media houses claiming responsibility for the Delhi High Court blasts posing as a member of the Indian Mujahideen, Additional Commissioner of Police (STF), Rajiv Kumar told reporters....
06:24 PM, Sep 14, 2011
New Delhi: The powerful September 2007 blast at the Delhi High Court appears headed the same way as every terrorist attack since 2008 - without a hint of who the bombers were. The NIA's hopes of leads through the four e-mails claiming responsibility of the attack have faded quickly with at least three of them turning out to be pranks. And no other substantial lead yet in the probe, the...
07:08 AM, Sep 14, 2011
