New Delhi: The judicial custody of Fasih Memhmood, a suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist and an accused in Delhi and Bangalore blasts, will end on Friday. A court had on November 1 sent Fasih to judicial custody after Special Cell of Delhi Police, which had arrested him at IGI Airport after his deportation from Saudi Arabia recently, said it no longer needed his custody for interrogation. The court had also ordered...
06:37 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Islamabad: Lawyers defending seven Pakistanis accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks, including LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, have questioned whether prosecutors have hard evidence that the attackers trained in camps in Sindh and other locations. The defence lawyers made the contention during a hearing of the Mumbai attacks case at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi while cross-examining five prosecution witnesses who had testified that the attackers trained at camps in...
04:43 AM, Nov 12, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani officials have informed an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi the details of training received at Lashkar-e-Taiba camps by the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks. Judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman on Saturday recorded the statements of five inspectors of crime investigation department who are prosecution witnesses, the daily Dawn reported on Sunday. They informed him about the training received by the accused, including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, alleged mastermind, at LeT...
06:36 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday said that he hopes that when Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik visits India later this month, he carries the voice samples of 2008 Mumbai terror attack suspects with him. India has been demanding voice samples of the accused who were giving instructions to the 10 terrorists during the November, 2008 attack. Former home minister P Chidambaram, had made a similar...
06:08 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Mumbai: LeT operative and a key 26/11 Mumbai attack handler Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal sent money to India at least twice after the Mumbai attack, the chargehseet filed against him in another case here says. Jundal is an accused in Aurangabad arms haul case here. According to police, Jundal had gone to Dhaka in May, 2006 and from there he reached Pakistan on a Pakistan International Airlines flight...
06:40 AM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: Alleged 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed has said that he condemns the attacks and is willing to answer questions by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that will soon be visiting Pakistan in connection with the ongoing trial in the case. This is the first time that the Jamaat-ud-Dawat (JuD) chief has condemned the terrorist attacks in which nearly 164 people died and several others were injured....
07:06 AM, Nov 03, 2012
Gurgaon: India on Friday made it very clear that its decision to resume cricketing ties with Pakistan was not a "dilution" of its demand for action against perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack and said Islamabad must deliver on its "frequently indicated promise" in this regard. Articulating India's expectation from Pakistan in the 26/11 case, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said, We do hope this (resumption of cricketing ties) will...
07:10 PM, Nov 02, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday welcomed the Home Ministry's decision to reject 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab's mercy petition and demanded that he be hanged at the earliest to send across a stern message to terrorists and terror sponsors. "We welcome this decision of the government against Kasab. It should be implemented immediately now that the Home Ministry has rejected his mercy plea. Doing so will send a strong message...
06:56 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai police on Tuesday filed a supplementary chargesheet in the 26/11 attacks case naming Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist and Mumbai attacks handler Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal as the main conspirator. The chargesheet filed by the police is voluminous and runs into 56 volumes. The documentation includes the alleged confession of Jundal and details of how he hatched the deadly terror conspiracy. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has Jundal's...
04:43 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday granted more time to 26/11 suspect Abu Jundal to scrutinise the chargesheet filed against him by Delhi Police. Jundal had requested Metropolitan Magistrate Ajay Malik for more time to scrutinise the chargesheet, supplied to him October 8. The court fixed October 25 as the next date of hearing. Jundal is in the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) till October 20. The...
04:54 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Mumbai: The deadline for Mumbai's Anti-Terrorism squad to hand over the 26/11 key handler and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal to the Delhi Police ends on Friday. A fresh production order was issued last month after the ATS had failed to present Jundal in Delhi. Earlier the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was given Jundal's custody till the October 20. The anti-terror agency had sought Jundal's custody for 15 days saying...
08:36 AM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: The 26/11 key handler and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal was remanded on Monday in the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) custody till October 20 by a Delhi court. Jundal, who was produced before District Judge HS Sharma in an in-chamber proceeding, was handed over to NIA for 12 days. The anti-terror agency had sought Jundal's custody for 15 days saying he is required to be thoroughly interrogated. The...
04:55 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Islamabad: The US embassy in Islamabad has issued a threat alert for Americans in Pakistan, especially in the capital, and asked them to keep a low profile. Xinhua said the embassy drew attention of Americans that the Pakistani interior ministry on Sunday issued a general threat alert on possible terrorist attacks in Islamabad. It said the attacks will be against key government installations in Islamabad's "Red Zone" and on five-star...
04:42 AM, Oct 08, 2012
The attack, which wounded seven Sri Lankan players on their way to play a Test in Lahore's Gaddafi stadium, shocked the cricketing world. ...
07:37 PM, Oct 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Friday conducted security drills at station and a prominent private hospital to check the preparedness of authorities in case of a terror strike. The mock drills reportedly went well, sources said. The first drill was conducted at the Pratap Nagar Metro Station and the second drill at Apollo Hospital, officials said. A mock terror attack was conducted at the metro station...
12:44 PM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: The 26/11 key handler and LeT terrorist Abu Jundal was on Thursday remanded in judicial custody by a Delhi court after the Mumbai ATS produced him before it saying he was no longer wanted for his interrogation in cases registered against him in Maharashtra. Jundal was produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Parkash by the Mumbai ATS and was sent to Tihar Jail. Mumbai ATS had secured his...
02:42 PM, Oct 04, 2012
New Delhi: The "high professional ethics" of counsel Raju Ramachandran and Gaurav Agrawal, who sought to donate to the legal service authority their fees worth around Rs 15 lakh, earned for helping the court as amicus curae in deciding the appeal of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist Ajmal Kasab, on Wednesday won the wholesome praise of the Supreme Court. Appreciating their gesture, a bench of justices Aftab Alam and CK Prasad...
08:10 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi: India is planning to send a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials to Pakistan to examine the evidence related to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Sources say the Home Secretary has written to the Foreign Secretary asking him to inform Pakistan about India's proposal to send its investigators. The NIA team would physically examine all material evidence collected by Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the 26/11...
03:33 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi Irked over Pakistan's failure to punish those involved in 2008 Mumbai terror attack, India has asked Islamabad to allow a NIA team to visit and examine the evidence collected against the attack masterminds before it allows the second visit of a Pakistani judicial Commission. India also wants the NIA team to meet the witnesses of the 26/11 case in which LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others...
10:13 PM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court will hear the case against key 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks handler Abu Jundal on Friday. The court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Prakash had on Wednesday issued a warrant for Jundal to be brought before it on September 28. On Thursday, the Delhi Police filed a chargesheet against Jundal, accusing him of involvement in terror activities across the country. In the chargesheet, the Delhi Police...
10:35 AM, Sep 28, 2012
