Lucknow: Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid Maulana Ahmed Bukhari on Sunday met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav over the death of terror suspect Khalid Mujahid in police custody.
Bukhari told reporters after his meeting, in which Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav was also present, that they had assured "adequate compensation" to the Mujahid's kin.
However, there was no official word from the state government. "I told them (Akhilesh and Mulayam) that Mujahid's death was unfortunate and there would be grief and anger among Muslims," the cleric said.
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08:45 AM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: A 23-year-old youth has been arrested for making a hoax bomb call to the Police Control Room (PCR) in New Delhi, police said on Wednesday. Subodh Singh was arrested from Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad town, adjoining Delhi, on Tuesday for making a hoax bomb call to police around 10.40 pm on Sunday. He claimed that a bomb would explode in the Jama Masjid area in the capital. "After a...
12:47 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Delhi's Jama Masjid Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari was prevented this afternoon from heading towards the native village of DSP Zia-ul-Haq who was killed by a mob last Saturday. The cleric was stopped in Gauri Bazar area as a precautionary measure while he was on way to police officer's house in Zafuaar Tola in Noonkhar village, officials said. ...
06:29 PM, Mar 04, 2013
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday came to the rescue of the homeless and asked the city government not to remove till April the temporary night shelters, built near railways tracks in the national capital. ...
10:01 PM, Jan 02, 2013
New Delhi: The Government on Monday termed the arrest of suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist Fasih Mohammad as a "very important catch", saying Saudi Arabia fully cooperated in his deportation to India. "It was a very important catch. He was deported by Saudi Arabia," Union Home Secretary RK Singh told reporters here. Giving the first official reaction after Fasih's arrest by Delhi Police at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here, the...
04:50 PM, Oct 22, 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
New Delhi: Fasih Mehmood, the terror suspect held in Saudi Arabia, is likely to be deported to India as early as next week. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the procedures to deport him are already underway. Fasih, who hails from Bihar, is wanted by both the Delhi and Bangalore police. He is a suspect in the 2010 Bangalore Chinnaswamy Stadium blast and the Jama Masjid shooting in Delhi. Security agencies...
10:08 AM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Shahi Imam of the Jama Masjid, who had earlier extended support to Samajwadi Party, on Friday accused the party of ignoring the Muslim community while choosing nominees for Rajya Sabha and State Legislative Council. Bukhari, in a letter written on Friday to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, has said that he had learnt from newsreports that his own son-in-law was among seven who had been nominated to...
09:26 PM, Apr 06, 2012
Lucknow: Throwing his weight behind Samajwadi party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid Maulana Ahmad Bukhari on Saturday appealed to Muslims to vote for SP candidates in upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. But the Imam's appeal has significantly not gone down well within the SP itself when the party's Muslim face Azam Khan seemed to question the cleric's political loyalties. "Imam has plunged into political discussion...
07:47 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: A court on Thursday extended till Jan 19 the judicial custody of six accused in the 2010 Jama Masjid firing and blast in which two foreigners were injured. Police told the court that they were awaiting the forensic report of bullet shells found at the site of September 2010 incident. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav asked police about the forensic report of the articles recovered from the place...
01:09 AM, Jan 06, 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: 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: 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
New Delhi: The MCD has ordered an enquiry and a detailed report into the building collapse which took place near Jama Masjid on Tuesday night. Investigative officials are to submit their findings in three days and action will be taken against the guilty on the basis of this report. The incident left eight dead and close to 20 injured. An eyewitness said, "I heard a loud noise. I rushed outside...
07:59 AM, Sep 28, 2011
New Delhi: At least five persons died and 19 others were injured when an old three-storied building collapsed on Tuesday night in central Delhi's Jama Masjid area. The incident took place at Chandni Mahal area at around 8 pm and many others still feared trapped under the debris, police said. Eight persons were pulled out of the debris and taken to Lok Nayak Jaiprakash Narain Hospital where doctors declared three...
09:51 PM, Sep 27, 2011
New Delhi: At least four persons were injured and many others feared trapped when an old three-storied building collapsed tonight in central Delhi's Jama Masjid area on Tuesday. The incident took place at Chandni Mahal area at around 8 pm, police said. The four injured have been taken out of the debris and taken to a hospital. ...
09:38 PM, Sep 27, 2011
New Delhi: Anna Hazare's associates Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi met Jama Masjid imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari in New Delhi after he expressed unhappiness over their failure to involve Muslims into their campaign, but failed to break ice with the cleric. Bukhari had expressed strong resentment and sought to know why Hazare and his campaign managers had not done more to involve Muslims in their anti-graft movement. Following his remarks,...
08:13 PM, Aug 23, 2011
New Delhi: A low intensity blast was reported from the parking lot outside gate number 7 of the Delhi High Court on Wednesday - one of the most well secured areas in the capital. The explosion was caused by a crude explosive packed in a polythene placed right next to a Ford car which belongs to a lawyer. Delhi Police said that it was low intensity blast and crude explosive...
02:04 PM, May 25, 2011
