London: Home Minister P Chidambaram has indicated that the blast in the Delhi High Court could have been carried out by home grown militants groups. "We can no longer point to cross-border terrorism as a source of terror attacks in India," Chidambaram told the BBC in an interview. He said the authorities were still trying to verify emails allegedly sent by two groups claiming responsibility for Wednesday's attack. The two...
10:55 PM, Sep 13, 2011
New Delhi: More than three days have passed since the Delhi High Court was rocked by a deadly bomb blast but the investigators have not yet got any concrete evidence in the case. Even though several people have been detained and questioned in connection with the terror strike, there is no clear evidence about the organisation or people involved in carrying out the bombing. Sources in Delhi Police have told...
05:28 PM, Sep 10, 2011
New Delhi: There are now four e-mails that security agencies are investigating in the Delhi High Court blast and the question remains as to whether the e-mails are merely a prank or a modus operandi used by terror groups to confuse investigators. Three days after the High Court blast, investigating agencies are still groping in the dark for conclusive leads. Gujarat was added on the list of states on high...
07:23 AM, Sep 10, 2011
New Delhi: Two days after terror struck at the heart of Delhi, investigating agencies are still groping in the dark for conclusive leads even as a spate of mails now hamper the probe. Gujarat has been put on a high alert after a third e-mail warned that Ahmedabad will be the next terror target. On Friday evening a fourth e-mail surfaced from a person named Chhotu Minani, claiming to be...
09:43 PM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) sources on Friday told CNN-IBN that the e-mail supposedly sent by the Indian Mujahideen claiming responsibility for the Delhi blast has been traced to West Bengal even as a third e-mail surfaced warning of an attack in Ahmedabad. However, efforts are still underway to trace the IP address of the Indian Mujahideen e-mail. The third e-mail sent to Delhi Police was in codes...
12:09 PM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi: Two days after the Delhi High Court blast case, there has been no breakthrough in the probe. The investigations into the Delhi High Court blast seem to be going nowhere despite 5 detentions and two e-mails claiming responsibility for the terror attack. After the HUJI e-mail originating from kisthwar claiming responsibility, a new mail allegedly from the Indian Mujahideen has emerged. They too are taking responsibility for the...
07:42 AM, Sep 09, 2011
New Delhi: A fresh round of intensive combing of the blast site outside the Delhi High Court began on Thursday early morning. From tree-tops to roadside crevices the search began earnestly. By afternoon the National Investigation Agency (NIA) ran into conflicting dead-end with a santro which was found not connected with the blast probe. Elsewhere, investigation teams were investigating other elements of the case, from tracing the email sent, tracking...
10:51 PM, Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: Even as the investigators are still looking for clues in the Delhi High Court blast case, another e-mail claiming that Wednesday's terror strike was carried out by the Indian Mujahideen has surfaced. The e-mail has been reportedly sent by an Indian Mujahideen operative even as five people, including four in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar and one in Uttar Pradesh, have been detained. It has also warned that the...
03:39 PM, Sep 08, 2011
Mumbai: One month after Mumbai's triple blasts, there has still been no breakthrough into who was behind it, despite various investigating agencies being involved in the countrywide probe. The question is whether the investigations have reached a dead end. In the blasts, 26 people died and 126 were injured. A month after Mumbai's triple blasts, Opera House, the worst affected target, appeared to be back to 'almost' normal. Unauthorized food...
07:55 AM, Aug 13, 2011
New Delhi: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said security forces should deal with right-wing terror groups "sternly and fearlessly" as they were enemies of the country as much as Indian Mujahideen and SIMI. "...the right wing extremist terrorist groups. That also deserves to be researched and studied. They are radicalizing right wing youths in the same manner that SIMI and IM have been radicalised," Chidambaram said while releasing...
10:31 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Voicing concern over threats posed by indigenous terror groups, Home Minister P Chidambaram has said they are no longer fledgling outfits but are experts in assembling and transporting bombs. The threat from them is pretty high, he said against the backdrop of the July 13 Mumbai blasts in which 22 people were killed. "Pretty high. They are no longer fledgling outfits. They have established several modules and they...
12:34 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: A week since the serial blasts ripped through India's financial capital Mumbai on July 13, killing 20 people and injuring over a 100 and still no arrests have been made yet The blasts took place at three prime locations in the city - Opera House, Zaveri Bazar and Dadar. But the probe has taken a nationwide character with teams panning out to Ajmer, Kolkata, Kishengarh and Hyderabad. The...
10:04 AM, Jul 21, 2011
Mumbai: Investigations into the July 13 Mumbai blasts have spread to several states in India and are fast becoming an information processing nightmare. It's now a well coordinated but discreet nationwide investigation - with information, leads and questioning coming in from 10 different states - with the National Investigating Agency spearheading the probe. Gujarat seems to be the information funnel and the key seems to be Ahmedabad blasts accused Danish...
06:27 PM, Jul 18, 2011
Mumbai: Investigations into the July 13 Mumbai blasts have spread to several states in India and are fast becoming an information processing nightmare. It's now a well coordinated but discreet nationwide investigation - with information, leads and questioning coming in from 10 different states - with the National Investigating Agency spearheading the probe. Gujarat seems to be the information funnel and the key seems to be Ahmedabad blasts accused Danish...
06:27 PM, Jul 18, 2011
Kolkata: Days after three blasts shook Mumbai, killing at least 18 and injuring many others, the investigations have been widened to Kolkata, Bihar and Ajmer. The Kolkata Police detained Indian Mujahideen operative Haroon after specific intelligence input from the Gujarat Anti-Terror Squad. Haroon was arrested almost a month back from Howrah Station on petty charges. The Kolkata Police will probe if Haroon knows anything about last week's Mumbai blasts or...
10:39 AM, Jul 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Maharashtra ATS said on Sunday it is very close to finalising the sketch of one of the suspects and is scanning CCTV footage with the help of eyewitnesses. Meanwhile, Prabhakar Bagrao, a constable who allegedly ignored a tip-off by a Kurla resident about a terror plot has been suspended for dereliction of duty. Sources say many Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives are being questioned now. A team of...
01:11 PM, Jul 17, 2011
Mumbai: Seventy two hours after the Mumbai serial blasts, the investigators have made a sketch of a suspect based on an eye-witness account from one spot and from another spot the CCTV footage has caught a suspect whose identity is being verified by technologically enhancing the hazy footage. Confirming a CNN-IBN report, the investigators has now ruled out the involvement of a suicide bomber and concluded that a digital timer...
09:11 PM, Jul 16, 2011
New Delhi: It has been three days since three serial blasts in the country's financial capital sent shock waves across India. Investigations are on at several levels. Sources told CNN-IBN that there's strong indication that TNT was used along with ammonium nitrate in the bomb that ripped Central and South Mumbai. If confirmed, this means a highly skilled and known terror module would have been involved in the terror attack....
03:02 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Mumbai: The Maharashtra ATS is likely to question alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) members lodged in Karnataka and Gujarat jails in connection with Wednesday's serial blasts in the city. The ATS has also sought assistance from Kolkata Police asking them to verify if any suspects had travelled to Mumbai from that city and subsequently went underground after the blasts, as part of its probe into the triple bombings, that left 19...
01:01 PM, Jul 16, 2011
Mumbai: The twelve teams of investigators probing the triple blasts which rocked Mumbai on Wednesday evening have reached two clear conclusions and one likely setback. The ownership of the scooter used in Zaveri Bazaar was established and the identification of a dead body with wires jutting out eliminated the suicide bomber theory, but, a shift in the pattern used by homegrown terror modules post blasts is a fresh worry. No...
07:43 AM, Jul 16, 2011
