London: Tiger Hanif, who is wanted in India in connection with two bomb attacks in Gujarat in 1993, has lost his appeal in a UK High Court against extradition to India.
Hanif, whose full name is Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel, 51, was traced to a grocery store in Bolton, Greater Manchester in March 2010. He is said to be an associate of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
Hanif was arrested by the Metropolitan Police in February 2010 on an extradition warrant that alleged conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions.
He is wanted in India for his alleged role in a grenade attack on a packed market place which killed an eight-year-old schoolgirl in Surat in 1993. He is also accused of plotting to carry out a second grenade attack at a crowded railway station which seriously wounded 12 commuters....
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06:10 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Surat: Ten passengers of a luxury bus returning from Mumbai to Amreli in Saurashtra were killed when the bus dashed into a container on Saturday night on National Highway 8. Eyewitnesses said that there were 45 people onboard the bus when the incident happened. While ten people died immediately on the spot, the remaining injured were rushed to the hospital. ...
08:35 AM, Apr 14, 2013
An inquiry has been ordered into an altercation between members of a family and police personnel during which some women were allegedly thrashed by police near Surat on Tuesday, a senior official said. ...
02:07 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Nita Ambani, Chairperson, Reliance Foundation, takes a ride in a bullock cart with village farmers at Reliance Foundation BIJ programme at Selarpur in Surat District, Gujarat. ...
12:48 PM, Mar 14, 2013
With her last few films tanking at the box office, Sonam Kapoor says she has learnt her lesson and would select only those projects that satisfy her as a performer. ...
04:17 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Everything shown in the 'The Serial', which focuses on the lives of some television actors, isn't completely real, says actress Soumya Seth adding that her romance angle with Karan Kundra is untrue. ...
04:11 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Three people were killed and one reported missing in the major fire in storage tank number four of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) terminal in Hazira which was contained after a 21-hour operation by the fire brigade team on Sunday. Earlier, the bodies of two people had been recovered from near the tank number 4. ...
12:58 PM, Jan 06, 2013
The fire that broke out at Indian Oil Corporation's Hazira Depot on Saturday is still raging on and four people have been reportedly missing. ...
08:06 AM, Jan 06, 2013
A major fire broken out on January 5 at storage tanks of Indian Oil Corporation's terminal at Hajira port here, fire brigade officials said. Fire brigade personnel from Surat and nearby cities were trying to bring the fire under control. ...
04:35 PM, Jan 05, 2013
Why did Rahul Gandhi keep off campaigning in Gujarat till the last moment? Is it because the Congress has accepted defeat even before the actual polls? CNN-IBN's Ahmedabad bureau chief Meghdoot Sharon joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
12:38 PM, Dec 12, 2012
The campaigning for the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections 2012 ended on Tuesday with Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi hitting out at each other. While the past few days saw Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi raising the war cry for the Congress in the state, the last day of the campaigning saw the Congress General Secretary setting foot on...
06:03 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Surat - Gujarat's second-largest city, that recorded the ninth-highest GDP in India in 2012, is growing rapidly and new flyovers are being constructed every month. The diamond city is commended for best utilising the Centre's JNURM funds. ...
07:53 PM, Dec 10, 2012
Surat: The one-day old baby who was thrown off the third floor of a building in Surat succumbed to serious injuries sustained on Friday morning. The police are questioning the infant's mother and her husband. The baby's mother claimed that she was unaware of her pregnancy and became confused and thus, threw the baby out when she gave birth in the washroom. "I gave birth in washroom and got scared....
10:14 AM, Oct 26, 2012
Surat: In a shocking incident, a one-day old baby boy was thrown off the third floor of a building on Thursday in Surat. The baby miraculously survived the impact but is in a critical condition. Meanwhile, the infant's mother too was found in an unconscious state and was rushed to a hospital. Doctors said that she too is serious. The police claimed that a few locals have alleged that it...
08:11 AM, Oct 26, 2012
Thrown out of the Darul Uloom Deoband for praising Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, the former vice chancellor of the seminary Ghulam Vastanvi is now campaigning for the Congress. On Sunday, he shared the dais and asked for votes to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party. "I never gave a clean chit to Modi and there is no question of doing that in future either," he said. ...
05:20 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Surat: A video clipping showing an IPS officer thrashing a thief in the Varaccha area of Surat surfaced on Saturday. The incident happened on Friday evening and was recorded by a bystander on his mobile phone. The video, aired by few TV channels, showed Deputy Commissioner of Police ND Solanki beating up a man with a stick as four other policemen held him. The man was caught by the police...
10:00 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Ahmedabad: Villagers of the Bharuch district were on Thursday evacuated after the water level in the nearby Narmada Dam touched a seven-year high to reach 128.9 meters. The authorities say they will be releasing the water from the dam soon. Experts say that the reason for the rise in water levels in the dam was due to excessive water from Indira Sagar Dam in Madhya Pradesh and heavy rainfall in...
08:39 AM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: A day after Team Anna announced its political debut, some dejected Anna Hazare supporters at Navsari in Surat burnt posters of Anna and India Against Corruption. The supporters are against the team's decision to form a political party. The supporters had been sitting with Anna in protest for the past 10 days. The decision has got mixed reactions from Anna's supporters. Some unhappy India Against Corruption were absent...
08:09 AM, Aug 04, 2012
Surat: In an apparent case of 'honour killing' a man allegedly burnt alive his 20-year-old daughter for eloping and insisting on marrying her boyfriend, police said. Rubina Shaikh died on the spot on Monday and her mother Madina also suffered burn injuries while trying to save her, police said. Immediately after the incident, the deceased's father, Mohammad Burhan Shaikh, surrendered to the Khatodara police in Surat district. "Rubina fell in...
04:43 PM, Jun 19, 2012
London: American treasure hunter Bill Warren has claimed to have located Osama bin Laden's body bag deep under the Arabian Sea, 320 km west of Surat in Gujarat, and hopes to start his mission on June 1. "I've located where they threw him away," Daily Mail quoted him as telling Spanish newspaper El Mundo. "I'm the only one with this information," he said. With the help of the recent photos...
08:01 AM, May 05, 2012
