The two Lashker-e-Tayiba militants, who were handed over to Indian authorities by Bangladesh, have confessed to their involvement in the serial blasts that rocked Bengaluru last year, a top police official said on Thursday.Nazir Tarian Dabede, 25, alias T Nazir told interrogators of the Meghalaya police and the Border Security Force that he had planted bombs along with a person called Rahim.Nazir, a bomb expert, and LeT operative Siraj Shamshudeen Shamas, 33, hail from Kerala
"Five grenades and two automatic pistols have been recovered from his possession. He is being brought to the national capital and his police custody remand will be sought," police said.
All the three improvised explosive devices of low sophistication planted outside the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru where an IPL match was played on Saturday afternoon would appear to have been planted in the open space outside the stadium after the anti-explosive sanitisation had been done thrice by the police. B Raman's discerning take on the incident:
In a revised chargesheet, the Bengaluru police has stated that minutes before Indian Mujahideen operative Mohammad Qateeel Siddiqui could plant a bomb at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, he came in contact with a sex worker, who distracted him and he ended up connecting the wires of the bomb in a wrong manner.
"The DMK is not worried a wee bit," he said on the ED searches. Such an action by the ED was 'usual, ordinary and a drama' enacted to divert attention.
Even as the Bengaluru police remain tightlipped about the final report conducted on the 3-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by her father, a French diplomat, sources tell rediff.com that all medical tests indicate that the baby was raped. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Congress Member of Parliament DK Suresh on Sunday said that the Gujarat Congress is united and all the 44 MLAs are ready to vote for Ahmed Patel in the election scheduled for August 8.
The police are tight-lipped about the operation and say that the matter is at a very preliminary stage.
SP leader Abu Azmi says 'women should not wear short skirts and go out only with family'.
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A Delhi court on Tuesday granted bail to Shankar Mishra, accused of urinating on a woman co-passenger on an Air India flight from New York to Delhi.
Gowda will also meet representatives of the media, judiciary and the police to chalk out a plan to streamline media coverage in the courts and frame guidelines to avoid such chaos in the future.
The first additional metropolitan magistrate in Bengaluru has acquitted three persons in connection with the blast case at the Bharatiya Janata Party office in Malleswaram. The court, while ordering the acquittal observed that the police had failed to file a charge sheet against them in the stipulated 180-day period.
The boy had been knocked down by a vehicle near Karpur Gate in Anekal on Sunday evening and when his father, a migrant labourer from Assam, took him to the Anekal government hospital, he was declared "brought dead", police said.
In its chargesheet the NIA, which had taken over the investigation of the case from the Bengaluru police, states that the 12 Lashkar-e-Tayiba cadres had conspired to commit terrorist activities in India through a network of terrorists based abroad and associates in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
A Mumbai court on Monday extended till January 14 the police custody of Shweta Singh and Mayank Rawal, arrested from Uttarakhand in connection with the case pertaining to the 'Bulli Bai' app, which targeted Muslim women by putting up their images online for 'auction.'
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