The death toll in Hyderabad twin blasts climbed to 15 on Friday and 118 people have been left injured, some of them critical. Most of the victims are now being discharged from various hospitals depending on the severity of their wounds. ...
12:07 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Ten people, allegedly associated with the RSS, have been accused of terrorising Samjhauta Express, Ajmer Sharif and Mecca Masjid. Did the sangh turn a blind eye? An NIA investigation in Samjhauta case shows all accussed have a sangh link. ...
08:02 AM, Jan 31, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday hit out at the UPA government for Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's remark that the BJP and its ally, the RSS, were promoting Hindu terrorism through their training camps. The BJP demanded that UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demand an unconditional apology and also the resignation of Shinde. ...
04:04 PM, Jan 21, 2013
The BJP, the RSS and the Congress are yet again involved in a war of words, this time over Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's remarks that the training camps run by them were promoting Hindu terrorism. At the last day of the Congress's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur, Shinde took to stage and while talking about the security situation in the country, flayed the BJP and the RSS for what "promoting...
02:42 PM, Jan 21, 2013
A local court on Saturday granted 18-day police custody of Tej Ram, who was arrested in connection with the 2007 Mecca Masjid bomb blast case, to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). ...
09:46 PM, Dec 29, 2012
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a man belonging to a right wing group near indore in connection with the May 2007 Mecca Masjid blast that left 13 people dead in Hyderabad. ...
11:10 PM, Dec 25, 2012
Srinagar/Mumbai: After the acquittal of the Lajpat Nagar blast accused after 16 years in jail, a debate is raging on over the credibility of the police investigation. The question is whether it is a case of innocents being incarcerated for decades or are criminals being set free due to a weak prosecution. 72-year-old Sher Ali Bhat will meet his son Mohammad Ali after 16 years that he spent in Tihar...
09:55 AM, Nov 28, 2012
The nation celebrates Eid-ul-Fitr on Monday. It marks the end of month-long fasting for Muslims. ...
09:53 AM, Aug 20, 2012
HYDERABAD: In view of the fifth anniversary of the Mecca Masjid bomb blast on Friday, police have beefed up security in various parts of the old city Police said they were stepping up the security at the mosque, Charminar, other monuments, places of worship and other public places.Vehicle-checking and patrolling will be intensified. Stern action will be taken against history-sheeters and extremists. Some Muslim organisations are planning to organise protest...
08:57 AM, May 18, 2012
Hyderabad: A city court on Wednesday sent Bharath Mohanlal Rateswar alias Bharath Bhai, an accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case, to judicial custody till Feb 3. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) presented Rateswar before a magistrate at a Nampally criminal court. He was later shifted to Chanchalguda Central Jail. The NIA has brought Rateswar on transit warrant from Rajasthan, where he was lodged in jail in the Ajmer...
11:58 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Hyderabad: They are the worst victims of physical and mental torture by police in the Mecca Masjid blast case. But like justice, compensation too seems to elude them till date. A few hours before Mohammed Raeesuddin was to receive a cheque of Rs 300,000 along with 15 others, his name was deleted from the list. Syed Imran Khan and his uncle Shoaib Jagirdar, who were among the first to be...
06:40 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Andhra Pradesh government has ordered the release of Rs 70 lakh for those wrongly accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case. Fifty youngsters who were detained, questioned and later let off will get Rs 20,000 each as compensation. While 20 people who were chargesheeted and later acquitted, will get Rs 3 lakh each. The government released the compensation amount on the recommendations of the National Minorities...
01:18 PM, Dec 08, 2011
Hyderabad: In perhaps the first instance of victims of police torture in a terror case being paid compensation in India, Andhra Pradesh has released Rs 7 million for innocent Muslim youths arrested and tortured in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case. A day after Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy announced in the state assembly that the compensation would be paid, the minorities welfare department on Tuesday issued an order...
01:26 PM, Dec 07, 2011
HYDERABAD: An accused in the Mecca Masjid blast case, Bharat Bhai whose custody was granted to the National Investigation Agency was opposed by his counsel on Wednesday. Bharat Bhai, presently lodged in a prison in Ajmer, was arrested by the NIA on the May 18, 2007 in the Mecca Masjid blast case. On a petition filed by the NIA, a city court gave 15-day custody of the accused to NIA....
08:33 AM, Nov 24, 2011
Mumbai: The nine people, who were accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case, got bail on Saturday and will finally be walking free after spending five years in prison. Their families, although relieved, want the state to compensate them for the trauma, the stigma of terror and their loss. Father and brother of Noorulhuda, one of the accused in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case say they have suffered as much...
07:33 AM, Nov 07, 2011
Hyderabad: A chargesheet was on Monday filed against right-wing activist Swami Aseemanand by the NIA for his alleged role in the conspiracy behind the 2007 Mecca Masjid blasts that left nine people dead. 59-year-old Nabakumar Sarkar aka Swami Aseemanand, who is also an accused in the Samhjauta Express bomb blast case, was arrested from Haridwar on November 19, 2010 where he was found hiding with fictitious name Swami Omkaranand. The...
06:45 PM, May 16, 2011
Hindu allegedly behind Samjhauta, Mecca Masjid, Ajmer and Malegaon blasts. ...
06:57 PM, Mar 21, 2011
Jaipur: Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad on Saturday took right-wing Hindu group Abhinav Bharat member and Samjhauta Express train blast accused Swami Aseemanand in its custody in connection with the 2007 Ajmer Dargah attack case. The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Ajmer had issued a production warrant against Aseemanand on January 18 and the ATS has now brought him from the custody of National Investigation Agency in Panchkula, Haryana. He was produced before...
04:16 PM, Jan 22, 2011
Panchkula: Samjhauta Express train blast accused Swami Aseemanand has been sent to judicial custody till January 27 by a special Panchkula court. The court sent Assemanand to judicial custody after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) sought an extension of his custody. His statement under Section 164 of CrPC is being recorded in the Samjhauta blast case at the court. NIA special judge Ritu Garg had earlier extended his police remand...
11:13 AM, Jan 13, 2011
Panchkula: A special court in Panchkula on Monday extended, by 10 days, the police custody of Hindu group leader Swami Aseemanand in connection with the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blasts in Haryana that killed 68 people. Aseemanand was brought before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) court amidst tight security cover on Monday afternoon. The proceedings were in-camera and no media person was allowed to enter the court while he was...
05:36 PM, Jan 03, 2011
