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
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
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
