The arrest of Mohammed Sabauddin in connection with the recent blast at Central Recruitment Police Force camp at Rampur in Uttar Pradesh has shocked people of Mithila belt on the porous Indo-Nepal border where terrorist activity is unheard of.
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Rediff.com takes a look at some instances of underworld dons and terrorists detained or arrested in a foreign country and deported or extradited back to India.
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On Thursday, four members of the Hindu Sena, a fringe right-wing group, ransacked the fifth floor office of Pakistan International Airlines in New Delhi.
Senior police officials said they began recording the statement of Haseena on Friday and will begin questioning her soon.
She can also apply for anticipatory bail on Thursday.
Although there are various versions, it has now become clear that a major fake currency racket operates in the country and this money is being used to fund terror operations in the State.
The IB said they have informed all those involved in investigating cases pertaining to terror not to take such news seriously and go about their investigation in a routine manner.
The special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court on Thursday held two customs officials and an aide of prime conspirator Tiger Memon, guilty of aiding and abetting the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
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The four arrested gangsters are associates of Fahim Machacha, a close aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
The Bombay high court has asked Mumbai Police Commissioner to file a report on the alleged underworld links of Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal.
Shah told the court that the unidentified persons threatened him with dire consequences over phone on two occasions on June 12 and 14.
There are eight fan clubs devoted to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and one each dedicated to Chhota Rajan, Chhota Shakeel and Abu Salem on Orkut.com alone.
Mishra's bail plea was rejected in a 7-year-old case of kidnapping, extortion and robbery.
Back in 2007, Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt had profiled Yakub after he was sentenced to death by the Terrorist and Disruptive Actives (Prevention) Act court for criminal conspiracy and financing air tickets to send co-conspirators for arms and RDX training to Pakistan.
Back in 2007, Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt had profiled Yakub after he was sentenced to death by the Terrorist and Disruptive Actives (Prevention) Act court for criminal conspiracy and financing air tickets to send co-conspirators for arms and RDX training to Pakistan.
With the conviction of Bhoinkar, Abbas and Shahjahan, the total number of accused found guilty has risen to 35.
'Bush can climb over a tower and scream that Syed Salahuddin is a terrorist. But nobody would listen to him,' says the Hizbul Mujahideen leader.
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.
Kamlakar said Qayyum is also wanted for the 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai that killed 257 people and it is up to the CBI, the agency investing the case, to get his custody and interrogate him.
Describing Ottavio Quattrochhi as "no different a fugitive" than underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Leader of the Opposition Lal Kishenchand Advani asked Singh, who was present in the House, why the government was having a "soft corner" for the Italian.
Civic authorities on Sunday continued the demolition of seven unauthorised structures near the controversial Sara-Sahara complex in south Mumbai.
The Supreme Court will hear on October 26 a petition alleging that Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal has links with the underworld. An appeal filed by M Furquan, a Delhi-based journalist, has alleged that funds for Jet Airways was given by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. He has also sought a CBI inquiry into the matter.
Shaikh, one of the main complainants in Sara-Sahara case, had allegedly been asked to vacate her house near Crawford market in south Mumbai for the construction of the Sara-Sahara shopping complex.
Without the trial of 'Tiger' Memon and Dawood Ibrahim, the most important anti-terror case in independent India will always remain an unfinished chapter.
It was decided at a meeting between the CBI and FIA.
The receipt was allegedly issued on August 10 last year on the letterhead of Buildtech by Shukla and has his signature, the officer said.
The CBI assured the SC it would not execute the non-bailable warrant issued against him.
Intelligence Bureau officers say the problem lies with the government treating narcotics and terrorism as two separate problems, with different law-enforcing agencies for each, and this ends up in defeating the purpose. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
A highly-placed source in the BJP told Rediff.com, "Just as the Sangh dislikes the pseudo-secularism of the Congress, the Sangh also has a distaste for the pseudo Hindutva that the BJP is trying to practise in maddening race for power."
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Days after he attacked Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, former Home Secretary R K Singh has been stripped of his personal staff by the government.
That most newsrooms, high on the 'exclusive' interview with a fugitive living overseas, are not able to perceive this distrust is a reflection of the disconnect today's media has with reality
A special court Friday issued a non-bailable warrant against Anees Ibrahim, younger brother of fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim, for his alleged complicity in the builder Pradeep Jain murder case.
The two countries will also revive after 16 years the Joint Commission under which cooperation in the fields of trade, energy, telecom, security, visa and consular access to detained nationals of the respective countries will be covered.
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav celebrated his 75th birthday by cutting a 75-foot-long cake at midnight at a grand event in Rampur.
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