Refusing to produce the accused Ameerul Islam before media, Sandhya said police wanted to build a strong case against him.
106 people died on a single day on Thursday.
The Central intelligence has sent a warning note to the Kerala police on the possible regrouping of the banned Islamic organisation, Students Islamic Movement of India.
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In a new twist to the burning of a Tamil Nadu state-owned bus near Kochi in September 2005, Soofiya Madani, wife of Peoples Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasser Madani, was on Friday listed as an accused in the case, even as the Kerala high court declined to grant anticipatory bail to her. Assistant Commissioner of Police P M Varghese, who is heading the investigation in the case, filed a report in the Aluva Judicial First Class magistrate court today.
The Kerala government Monday suspended two police officers for their 'failure' to professionally handle attempts by self-styled godman Himaval Mahaeswara Bhadrananda to shoot himself at a police station at Aluva near Kochi on May 17.
The Aluva magistrate court in Kerala has directed the police to conduct a detailed investigation on the role played by the wife of the PDP leader Abdul Nasser Madani in in the Kalamassery bus burning incident a couple of years ago.
Efforts are underway to nab the alleged mastermind Pulsar Suni and another accused V P Vigeesh.
Investigations revealed that Nadir had created obscene profiles of lady teachers and posted them on Orkut, Google's social networking website, with fake photographs, along with their phone numbers.
In an early morning drama at the Aluva town police station in Kerala, a self-styled godman, threatening to commit suicide, fired two shots from his pistol and injured himself and a police officer. In the melee, several mediapersons were injured. Himaval, a self-styled astrologer and influential power-broker who claims to be close to top State politicians, had been arrested and let off on bail by Kochi police only on Friday on charges of trespassing into a newspaper office.
The situation in the state was 'extremely grave', said Vijayan, who spoke to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and Home minister, Rajnath Singh, this morning seeking more central assistance for relief operations.
The decision to suspend the operations was taken after shutters of the Idamalayar and Cheruthoni dams, part of Idukki reservoir, were opened on Tuesday evening to release excess water.
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Panic-struck relatives are also sharing the location of their near and dear ones trapped in various places using Google maps.
Incessant downpour battered several states, including Kerala, Maharashtra and Karnataka, on Friday, with landslips and floods throwing normal life out of gear.
Villages are flooded, roads have washed away and railway tracks have submerged under the rising waters.
'We are going to be overwhelmed by the need for hospital beds. There are simply not enough beds in government hospitals.' 'We will need a large number of medical professionals and without the private sector's involvement, the government won't be able to expand capacity.'
Mumbai-based couple Jyoti and Shrinath Iyer travelled 4,600 km by bike from Maharashtra to Kerala and back.
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said the gang members involved in the crime have been identified and they will be arrested very soon.
A noted South Indian film actress was harassed for two hours allegedly by a gang of five men, who forced their way into her car before fleeing at a busy area in Kochi.
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The incident is said to have occurred in the wee hours when a huge mound of earth fell on the 'row houses' and two children and five women were among the deceased, most of whom were plantation workers from neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
More than 53,500 people were now staying in various relief camps across the state.
One man was killed and two others injured in Thrissur district on Tuesday after an uprooted tree fell on them in heavy rains and strong winds.
Nine people died and several others were reported missing as a string of landslips triggered by heavy downpour battered Idukki and adjoining districts of Kerala on Monday.
He was arrested based on evidence police gathered during the process of investigation into the case.
Gandhi also met fishermen and party volunteers involved in relief work.
The court premises witnessed high drama as the police forcefully took the duo into custody from the court complex.
Following his appeal, people from various walks of life including women and children had donated even their gold jewels and meagre savings to help the flood-affected people.
'The highlight of the interview process is it is robotic.'
"On August 16 night, just as we reached an abandoned government hospital for rest after four days of non-stop work, the local police officer, villagers and NDRF (National Disaster Response Force) officials came to us, asking to save the life of a woman who had just given birth," he said.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who undertook an aerial survey of rain ravaged areas of Idukki and Wayanad, said Kerala was in the midst of an unprecedented flood havoc and the calamity has caused "immeasurable misery and devastation."
There was no casualty and all passengers were taken to Thrissur for their onward journey. Railway ordered a probe.
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An ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh will be given per person to the next of kin of those killed in the floods.
The court had on November 25 convicted five SIMI activists and acquitted 11 others in the case relating to a 'secret' meeting of the banned outfit at Pannayikulam near Aluva in 2006.
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