Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visited Bijnor district where she met families of two persons killed in the violence. Internet services have been suspended in several areas till Monday, while prohibitory orders remained in force across the state.
Another terror attack and another new outfit. An unheard of outfit called as the Deccan Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks in Mumbai. The IB however does not rule out groups like the SIMI or its version 2 the Indian Mujahideen to be operating in another name. The modus operandi is very similar to what the SIMI had done earlier. When the heat was stepped up on the outfit, it had revamped into the Indian Mujahideen.
After 11 days of performances and a series of eliminations, judges Karan Johar and Simi Garewal declared Sumeet the winner of the musical show.
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The 29 accused produced before court included blast mastermind Mufti Abu Basher, SIMI leader Safdar Nagori and two others accused of planting bombs at various places in Surat after the terror attacks in Ahmedabad.
The SIMI link into the serial blasts at Jaipur got deeper with the arrest of a Bangalore-based software engineer. Based on the information by the Bangalore police, the Rajasthan police picked up Rasheed, a 30-year-old software engineer, two days ago.
After Saturday's bomb explosion damaging the court hall in Hubli, the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, hearing the cases of terror suspects of banned SIMI, on Monday held its sitting in a different hall as two teams of investigators began the probe into the blast.
The detention comes in the wake of the arrest of four suspected terrorists in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts last week in a joint effort by Mumbai and local police following the blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad.
A Karnataka Police officer told rediff.com that Sami handled the finances of the Indian Mujahideen once the heat was stepped up on Subhan. The IM was sure that police would crack down on Subhan following the spate of blasts and hence it was pre-planned that Sami would handle the finances.
Riazuddin Nasir, the man arrested in Karnataka earlier this year is back in the limelight once again with the Gujarat police obtaining a body warrant against him in order to interrogate him. They hope to find the answers from Nasir, who is the only person so far in the SIMI network to have told the police about the entire operation.
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Two of them are Hizbul Mujahideen militants.
National Security Advisor M K Narayanan has suggested a ban on Bajrang Dal may not be sustainable and refused to term the Sangh Parivar outfit and SIMI as two sides of the same coin, leaving Railway Minister Lalu Prasad peeved and prompting the BJP to speak of another disconnect between the NSA and the government.
With their arrest, the police had claimed to have solved six blasts cases including 2001 Sena Bhavan blast case.
After SIMI was banned by the Union government in 2001, it was Nagori who revamped the outfit and urged his cadres to take up arms in order to wage a war against the country, which he felt would become anti-Islamic in the days to come.
The Congress on Wednesday supported the demand of the Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Janata Dal to ban the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
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A software engineer by profession and the president of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (Karnataka unit), this man had been carrying out operations both in Karnataka and Kerala and his main objective was to strengthen SIMI in both these states apart from carrying out strikes.
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The youth claimed that he sent the e-mail just as a prank.
Meanwhile, interrogation of Rehan, the driver of the jeep used in the attack and Rajkumar, driver of the taxi, hired by the terrorists, was underway.\n
A day after the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee decided to do away with 'group activities' in the Congress, some leaders of the 'I' group, who had parted ways with K Karunakaran, met in Kochi to discuss their future course of action.
Digvijaya Singh said if Zakir Naik is guilty of delivering inflammatory sermons then why no action was taken against individuals like Sakshi Maharaj, Yogi Adityanath, Sadhvi Prachi.
The embarrassing incident in which alleged activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India got away from a MP jail is being probed by the government.
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