Three accused in the Samjhauta Express blast case, lodged in the Ambala Central Jail, on Wednesday went on a hunger strike to protest Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's recent "saffron terror" remarks. ...
10:56 PM, Feb 13, 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
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday alleged that the training camps run by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were promoting Hindu terrorism. He also alleged that the RSS and the BJP were behind the Samjhauta Express, Meccca Masjid and Malegaon blasts. ...
02:03 PM, Jan 20, 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) on Friday took into custody a person from the district in connection with the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case. ...
06:23 AM, Dec 29, 2012
A habeas corpus petition was on Thursday filed in the Madhya Pradesh High Court in Indore by the mother of an accused in 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, questioning the "illegal" detention of her son by NIA. ...
08:18 AM, Dec 21, 2012
The accused in the 2007 Samjhauta blast will be produced in the Panchkula court on Monday. The key suspect Ranjender Chaudhary was arrested on Saturday in Madhya Pradesh by the National Investigation Agency. ...
07:13 AM, Dec 17, 2012
2007 Samjhauta blast accused Rajendra Chaudhary will be produced in a court in Panchkula on Monday. In a major breakthrough, Chaudhary was arrested on Saturday from Ujjain by the NIA. ...
10:54 AM, Dec 16, 2012
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made a fresh arrest in connection with the Samjhauta Express blast case. The accused, who had allegedly planted the bomb in the Samjhauta Express, was arrested from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh. ...
08:54 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai-based software engineer who claimed to have inadvertently crossed over to Pakistan in 2007 by Samjhauta Express, and was jailed for five years there, returned home on Friday. "It feels good to be back. I am happy," Bhavesh Parmar told reporters at the airport after his arrival in Mumbai on Friday afternoon. His mother Hansa Kanti thanked Vile Parle MLA Krishna Hegde and MP Priya Dutt for their help....
05:56 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Wagah (Punjab): A huge quantity of drugs and ammunition were recovered from the Samjhauta Express train at the Wagah border in Punjab during a checking the Indian security forces. Officials say that 101 kg of heroin worth Rs 505 crore and 500 rounds of ammunition were recovered from the train. Officials have not disclosed the type of ammunition. The train was going to Delhi Junction from Pakistan. The contraband was...
05:52 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Lahore: The India-bound Samjhauta Express train was delayed for a few hours on Monday after its engine caught fire in Pakistan's Punjab province, officials said. The locomotive burst into flames near Mughalpura station this morning, railway police official Javed Anwar said. All 312 passengers on board the train were safe, he said. Fire brigade staff rushed to the site and detached the engine from the cross-border train. A replacement engine...
12:06 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Panchkula: Kamal Chauhan, a disgruntled RSS worker arrested by the NIA, in connection with the Samjhauta Express blast, on Friday claimed that he does not know another accused Aseemanand facing trial in the same case. Chauhan, who was remanded to NIA custody after being produced in the court here, told reporters outside the court premises that "he knows nothing about Aseemanand." "I don't know Aseemanand," he told reporters while being...
07:29 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: In a possible breakthrough in the Samjhauta Express blast investigation, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday claimed to have arrested the man who allegedly placed the bomb on the India-Pakistan train in February 2007. The suspect has been identified as Kamal Chouhan, who is a resident of Indore. NIA sources say he is now being interrogated. He is likely to be produced at the Patiala House Court...
07:12 AM, Feb 13, 2012
New Delhi: In a big breakthrough in the Samjhauta Express blasts investigation, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday arrested the man who allegedly placed the bomb on the train that linked India and Pakistan. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the suspect, identified as Kamal Chouhan, is a resident of Indore. He is likely to be produced in the Patiala House court in Delhi on Monday. Over 60 people had...
11:09 PM, Feb 12, 2012
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
Washington: The recent developments have shown that militant Hindu nationalist groups are intent on launching domestic terrorist attacks, a US Congressional report has said. "Even more recent are overt signs that India is home to militant Hindu nationalist groups intent on launching domestic terrorist attacks. In September 2008, seven people were killed by two bomb blasts in Maharashtra's Malegaon, a hotbed of Hindu-Muslim communal strife," said Congressional Research Service (CRS)...
02:09 PM, Sep 14, 2011
Panchkula: A special court on Wednesday allowed the National Investigation Agency to re-examine the Samjhauta Express blast samples after the NIA pleaded it wants to compare them with the explosions at other places such as in Malegaon, Hyderabad and Ajmer. The Panchkula court has given its order while hearing the charges against Swami Assemanand and four others in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case. As the proceedings in the case...
06:17 PM, Aug 17, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) on Tuesday sought the custody of the Malegaon blasts accused Col Shrikant Purohit and Major Ramesh Upadhyay. The NIA wants to question Purohit among others things on his possible role in the Samjhauta Express blasts. Sources said that the NIA wants to find out whether Col Purohit funded Pragya Thakur and some other RSS activists. Sources also said that the NIA wants to...
11:20 PM, Aug 09, 2011
Islamabad: India's concerns over terror and slow pace of Mumbai trial were discussed in the first round of Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary-level talks during which the Samjhauta bombing case also came up with both sides holding 'substantive' deliberations in a "forward looking" approach. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, who arrived in Islamabad on Thursday morning, and her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir began the first round of talks, which have been divided in...
09:39 PM, Jun 23, 2011
