A special court in Mumbai granted bail to two accused in the 2011 Mumbai triple bomb blasts case, citing their prolonged incarceration of nearly 15 years and violation of their right to a speedy trial.
Properties owned by Tiger Memon and his family, accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, are set to be auctioned. The properties include flats in Al Husseini building where conspiracy meetings were held.
In his applications filed before the National Human Rights Commission as well as Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission on Friday, Abdul Wahid Shaikh also requested support for rehabilitation.
The Bombay High Court acquitted all 12 accused in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, citing a failure by the prosecution to prove their guilt and raising serious concerns about the investigation and evidence presented.
Actress-turned-seer Mamta Kulkarni has found herself at the centre of controversy following her recent remarks that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim 'is not a terrorist'.
Records stretching back to 1947 suggest a consistent strategy by Pakistan's military and intelligence apparatus, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), of using terrorism as a state policy against India.
The 1993 Mumbai bombings were a series of 12 coordinated explosions across the city on March 12, 1993, killing 257 people and injuring hundreds.
Noted lawyer Ujjwal Nikam, who is among four persons nominated to Rajya Sabha by President Droupadi Murmu, on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi called him to inform and spoke in Marathi.
'He decides who will be Pakistan's prime minister, president, even provincial chief ministers.'
Nineteen years later, remembering how terror struck Mumbai's lifeline on July 11, 2006.
'6 shooters went to kill Dawood in Pakistan.'
'The Pakistan establishment keeps him well protected.'
The court directed the police to provide sufficient security to the applicant and his family members as contemplated under the Witness Protection and Security Act as early as possible.
Modi lived up to his declaration that his visit was purely meant to strengthen India's relationship with the US, but there may be situations in which our silence on some issues will haunt us in the future, cautions Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
The Bombay high court on Wednesday berated the Maharashtra government for not appointing a new special public prosecutor (SPP) to represent it in the appeals arising from the 2006 Mumbai serial train blasts case.
Merchant had arranged the finance for the blasts, and was also linked to conspirators Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim.
Salem had said his sentence could not exceed 25 years as per a solemn assurance given by India to Portugal for his extradition in 2002.
Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad is coordinating with their Maharashtra counterpart in the investigation into the recent Mumbai blasts and a UP police team is currently visiting the metropolis in this regard.
Mulford said the US and India were together in fight against terrorism and that Washington had offered its services in investigations into the Mumbai bombings, particularly in forensic examinations.
Sayed Mohammed Hanif (40), his wife Fahimida (37) and associate Arshat Shafi Ahmed Ansari (26) were already in judicial custody for the Ghatkopar.
'Some icons are living textbooks, teaching us about leadership, success, and legacy. Extraordinary yet human and approachable, they inspire and guide us.' 'India has lost a true son and champion.'
Sayed Mohammed Hanif, his wife Fahimida and associate Arshat Shafi Ahmed Ansari were arrested on Monday under POTA.
As television channels flashed news about the Mumbai blasts and phone networks choked, netizens from across the country joined hands on social networking sites offering help to the victims in every possible manner.
The opposition bharatiya Janata Party had threatened to stall proceedings in the Lok Sabha if the government did not agree to a discussion
While the police is investigating if the Indian Mujahideen or the Students Islamic Movement of India had a role in the Mumbai blasts, they are also probing if a second rung of the underworld executed the attack. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
The current leads in the investigation point to the same module of Indian Mujahideen that was responsible for the German Bakery blast in Pune, sources in the Anti-Terrorism Squad have told rediff.com.
Zaibunnisa Anwar Kazi (70), Issaq Mohd Hajwane (76) and Shariff Abdul Gafoor Parker (88) alias Dadabhai had moved the Apex court seeking more time to surrender in order to undergo sentences awarded to them.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions by five convicts of the 1993 Mumbai blasts case seeking review of its verdict, saying there was no merit in them.
Dr Abdul Matin is one of the prime accused in the blast outside Ghatkopar railway station in December 2002.
Nikam has replaced two-time MP Poonam Mahajan, who is the daughter of the late BJP stalwart Pramod Mahajan.
A public interest litigation was filed on Monday in the Bombay high court demanding that probe into the July 13 serial Mumbai blasts should be transferred to Central Bureau of Investigation.
IB intercepts reveal that Pakistan's ISI continues to be actively involved in training the Lashkar-e-Tayiba cadres. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Pakistan has expressed willingness to cooperate based on specific inputs, the minister said.
Without the trial of 'Tiger' Memon and Dawood Ibrahim, the most important anti-terror case in independent India will always remain an unfinished chapter.
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