Darbhanga: Family of Fasih Mohammed, a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist who has been deported to India after five months of detention in Saudi Arabia, has decided to move the Supreme Court for speedy trial. "We will request the Supreme Court for speedy trial so that Fasih is proved innocent at the earliest," his father Firoz Ahmed said. "My father (Mehmood Babu) was chief of Keoti panchayat for 22 years and...
02:45 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) probing the 2006 suburban train blasts, filed an affidavit in the Bombay High Court on Monday saying that it had destroyed call data records (CDRs) of all the 13 accused. The affidavit, filed by Sunil Wadke, who was then a police inspector attached to the technical unit cell of ATS, said that a year after obtaining the information in the form of soft copies, it...
09:39 PM, Oct 22, 2012
Bangalore: Bangalore Police on Monday said they would seek custody of Fasih Mohammed, a suspected Indian Mujahideen operative and key accused in the Delhi and Bangalore blasts, who was arrested after deportation from Saudi Arabia. "If Delhi Police has taken Fasih into custody, we will also be seeking his custody as he is involved in the Chinnaswamy Stadium blasts", Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) B Dayanand said. "We have not...
04:16 PM, Oct 22, 2012
Delhi: Suspected terrorist Fasih Mohammed allegedly involved in the Chinnaswamy Stadium blast has been arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell. This came after Saudi Arabia deported the suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist to India. Fasih is accused of involvement in Bangalore and Delhi blast conspiracies. Fasih was detained in Saudi Arabia in June 2012. The 28-year-old's deportation from Saudi Arabia had earlier been delayed since India doesn't have an extradition...
11:52 AM, Oct 22, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Police have arrested a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist in connection to the August 2012 Pune serial blasts. Langde Irfan was arrested in Jaipur following the interrogation of three suspects already in custody. Various weapons have been recovered from his Pune residence. Irfan, who is an expert in computer and brother-in-law of one of the Pune blast accused, was apprehended from Jaipur's Sindhi bus stand on October 10...
10:15 AM, Oct 18, 2012
The Delhi Police on Thursday claimed to have cracked the August 1 Pune blast case with the arrest of three Indian Mujahideen operatives from Pul Prahladpur in Delhi. All the three suspected terrorists are from Maharashtra and were planning to carry out terror strikes in Delhi and at Bodh Gaya in Bihar during the festive season. ...
08:19 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Thursday claimed to have cracked the August 1 Pune blast case with the arrest of three Indian Mujahideen operatives from Pul Prahladpur in Delhi. All the three suspected terrorists are from Maharashtra and were planning to carry out terror strikes in Delhi and at Bodh Gaya in Bihar during the festive season. Referring to the August 1 Pune blast Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar...
02:40 PM, Oct 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has busted a terror module in the city and has arrested three people. Those arrested are suspected to be operatives of the Indian Mujahideen. The police say some explosives have been recovered from them. The police also suspect that the arrested persons had been planning attacks in and around Delhi during the festive season. Sources say that the module may have possible links with the...
10:15 AM, Oct 11, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has granted bail to Mohammed Ateeq, one of the 23 accused arrested by Mumbai Crime Branch on charges of sending threat e-mails to a TV news channel claiming responsibility for the 2008 Ahmedabad blasts. The bail was granted on Monday by Justice AM Thipsay on the ground that the accused was in custody since last four years and the trial had not yet commenced. Ateeq...
03:09 PM, Sep 25, 2012
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
An engineer by profession, 28-year-old Fasih is alleged to have been involved in the Chinnaswamy Stadium blast in Bangalore and the shooting incident near Jama Masjid (Delhi) in 2010 and is wanted by both, the Delhi and the Karnataka Police. ...
02:45 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
