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
New Delhi: RSS leader Indresh Kumar was on Thursday quizzed by CBI in Delhi in connection with the Ajmer blast and 2007 Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad. Indresh, who has been a member of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Central Working Committee for past four years, termed CBI's move to question him as a "conspiracy" by the Congress and denied any involvement in the case. "It's a political conspiracy by the Congress...
12:04 PM, Dec 23, 2010
Hyderabad: Three years after a blast at Mecca Masjid claimed nine lives in Hyderabad, the CBI on Monday filed a chargesheet against Devendra Gupta and Lokesh Sharma, who are also accused in the Ajmer blast case. The investigating agency filed the chargesheet running into 80 pages against Gupta, allegedly linked to right-wing group Abhinav Bharat, and Sharma in the XIV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Court in Hyderabad. The bomb...
05:48 PM, Dec 13, 2010
Hyderabad: A local court on Thursday remanded Swami Asimanand, an accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case, in eight-day CBI custody till December 18. The XIV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Hyderabad allowed Swaminand's custody from Friday, though the investigation agency had requested permission to allow it to further interrogate him for an additional 15-day period. Asimanand alias Naba Kumar Sarkar, who is presently under judicial custody till...
04:40 PM, Dec 09, 2010
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