The early morning crackdown against the terror group in Ballari and Bengaluru in Karnataka, Amaravati, Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra, Jamshedpur and Bokaro in Jharkhand and Delhi, led to the foiling of a plan by the accused to carry out terror acts, especially improvised explosive device blasts.
The Special TADA Court on Friday remanded Karimullah Osan Habib Khan, a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, to Central Bureau of Investigation's custody till August 29.Khan, who has been on the run for the last 15 years, was arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch on Thursday. An accomplice of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, he was arrested from the extended suburbs of Nallasopara.Khan was allegedly involved in the landing of RDX on the Raigad coast and its transport to Mumbai
"A team comprising of officers from the Anti Terrorist Squad and the Ahmedabad Crime Branch would be going to Mumbai soon," Singh told PTI.
Disposing of the plea on August 1, special judge AK Lahoti, however, noted the contentions raised by the accused are kept open and he is at liberty to point them out at the time of final hearing.
The blast was so strong that it was heard in nearby villages. The fire and smoke could be seen from a distance.
One accused was acquitted by the court.
As rising flames and a blanket of thick smoke enveloped the Jay Sandesh building in Mumbai's Goregaon in the early hours of Friday, a family struggled to breathe and even contemplated jumping out of a window.
A slip up by the Maharashtra Anti Terrorist Squad a year ago has proved to be a costly error for India's security establishment. The primary suspects behind Thursday's Hyderabad blasts -- Indian Mujahideen founder Yasin Bhatkal and operatives Tabrez and Waqas -- were staying under one roof in Mumbai. However, just minutes before the police could nab them they managed to slip out.
Sudhakar Badgujar, the leader in question, denied the allegations while speaking at a news conference in Nashik.
It was not clear what caused the blast, which took place near the Lokmanya Tilak Bus Terminus.
The Congress leader said he sought to know whether the cooker blast was as big as the terrorist attack in Mumbai, Delhi or Kashmir.
MI skipper Rohit Sharma sounded hopeful that Tim David could fit into the power-hitter's role, but maintained that Kieron Pollard's shoes weren't easy to fill.
The suspected LeT operative allegedly masterminded the August 25 bomb blasts at Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar and the July 28 Ghatkopar explosion.
A special court remanded Sayed Mohammed Hanif, his wife Fahimida and associate Arshat Shafi Ahmed Ansari to police custody till November 11.
Malik used to criticise the BJP-led Central government and the then opposition leader in Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, when he was a cabinet minister in the erstwhile MVA government led by Uddhav Thackeray.
'Played cricket and had a chat with @shubmangill and @tanmaybhat when I was over in India, had a blast.'
'The whole set was in awe. Those five days of shooting were an unforgettable experience.'
The injured were mostly waiting passengers. Two of them were workers at the railway stalls. Two of the stalls were blown up in the explosion
Investigators are on the verge of cracking the July 13 Mumbai blasts case, Maharashtra Director General of Police Ajit Parasnis on Sunday said and hoped "very soon things will come out". His remark came a day after he stated the terror group responsible for the blasts had been identified.
Strongly condemning the Mumbai serial blasts, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has expressed his outrage at the killing of innocent civilians in the terror strike. "These attacks against innocent civilians are outrageous and on behalf of the Alliance, I want to express my sincere condolences to the Indian authorities and especially to the families of the victims," Rasmussen said.
His brothers Essa and Yusuf Memon and their sister-in-law Rubina Memion were sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the March 12, 1993 serial blasts, which claimed over 250 lives and injured hundreds of others.
Three blasts rocked Mumbai's crowded Zaveri Bazar, Opera House and Dadar Kabootarkhana areas on Wednesday evening, killing 10 and injuring at least 100 people.
Chandrakant Wankar (42), who was undergoing treatment at the Harkisandas hospital in Mumbai died at 6.20 am on Saturday, police said.
A day after National Security Advisor M K Narayanan said India has pretty good evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the Mumbai blasts, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said, "It is a propagandist statement as they have no evidence."
'After meeting him, I learned what brother from another mother actually meant,' Suriya said, looking fondly at Bobby.
The Mumbai police have picked up one person in connection with the Varanasi blasts of December 7, which killed two and injured several others. Nadim Suhaib Siddiqui was detained by the immigration authorities and handed over to the Mumbai police on Saturday evening.
The India-Pakistan Peace Cup snooker and a kabaddi series between the countries was cancelled owing to the 'tense' situation in the wake of the recent serial blasts in Mumbai.
Mumbai Congress chief Gurudas Kamat urged the prime minister to ensure that survivors also got suitable jobs.
ATS Chief K P Raghuvanshi told PTI that Danish may not be directly involved in the July 11 blasts but is suspected of assisting subversive elements.
A man injured in the July 13 serial blasts in Mumbai died on Tuesday while undergoing treatment in a government hospital, taking the death toll in the blasts to 20. "Ashok Bhata, 45, who sustained burn injuries at the Zaveri Bazaar blast site, today died at approximately 11.15 am," said T P Lahane, Dean of J J Hospital. Another doctor at the hospital said, "Since Monday, his condition deteriorated and he breathed his last on Tuesday morning".
The respective Dussehra rallies of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and and Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray were once again about whose version of Hindutva is genuine and who is the true inheritor of party patriarch Bala Thackeray's legacy.
The court asked them to surrender once they get a copy of the judgment of the special court, which convicted them.
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