The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday demanded a ban on Bajrang Dal in the wake of attacks on churches and missionaries in Orissa and Karnataka, saying when there is a ban on SIMI the same action can be taken against the saffron outfit.
While this trend will continue thanks to the number of IT professionals working for the SIMI under the guise of the Indian Mujahideen, it is now upon each one of us to ensure that we take utmost care while using the internet.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh chaired a Cabinet meeting.
Intelligence agencies welcomed the Delhi high court's decision to extend the ban on the Students Islamic Movement of India.
The probe into the Ayodhya attack is veering around to the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India with investigators believing that some of its members 'provided logistical support' to the five slain militants.
The family of the Bengaluru blast victim Bhavani is shattered by her death and has asked the state government and Centre to take steps to stop recurrence of such terror attacks.
Faisal Sheikh, a prime accused in the July 11 train bombings in Mumbai, has confessed to police that he had gone to Pakistan in 2002 and attended a training camp near Muzaffarabad.
One of the prime conspirators of the blasts, Shabbir Batterwalla, had received training at a camp near Karachi in Pakistan in 2003.
Safdar Nagori, the general secretary of the proscribed outfit Student's Islamic Movement of India, was in Mumbai on July 11, 2006, when a series of explosions in suburban trains claimed 187 lives and injured thousands. Nagori is said to be acquainted with serial train blasts case accused and SIMI's Maharashtra unit general secretary Ehtesham Siddiqui. However, investigators have not been able to establish any link between Nagori and the serial blasts.
The conspiracy was hatched in Mumbai and adjoining areas after taking training in Bahawalpur in Pakistan.
The MP Congress has said the RSS also divides the community on communal grounds.
Baig is suspected to be associated with some Pakistan-based terrorist organisation and has also undergone training in Pakistan.
A suspected activist of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India has been picked up by a joint team of Mumbai and Bihar police forces in connection with the July 11 serial train blasts and taken to Mumbai
The BJP has said the UP government must give a white paper on its activities.
Though no formal arrests have been made in connection with the blasts, SIMI activist Imran Ansari of Indore, a close confidant of top functionaries of the banned outfit, was arrested in Bhopal for an offence in Surat.
Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav also appeared to take a soft stand on the outfit, saying it had not been found to be involved in the Varanasi blasts and the terrorist attack in Ayodhya.
The nine are accused of carrying out four serial blasts in Malegaon on September 8, 2006, in which 31 people were killed and 312 injured.
Serious lack of funds to carry out its operation has forced the Students Islamic Movement of India and the Indian Mujahideen to adopt a method that was earlier forbidden. Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com reports
The Centre had banned SIMI saying its activities were 'detrimental to peace, communal harmony, internal security and maintenance of secular fabric of the country'
Earlier reports had indicated that Hooda is a Bangladeshi national but the DGP said he was a resident of Malegaon.
The accused Asif Khan Bashir Khan alias Junaid was arrested from Belgaum.
He was earlier arrested on July 29 by the Anti-Terrorist Squad under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act from suburban Mira Road.
Patil said the activities of SIMI were under constant watch of law enforcement agencies.
The youth claimed that he sent the e-mail just as a prank.
Of the eleven, one is an electronic engineer who studied in Texas, another a textile engineer and yet another is a mechanical engineer.
With SIMI leader Vakar-ul-hasan Muzaffar Hussain in Nagpur Central Jail after his arrest at New Delhi on August 9, 2001, most of the members in the district have been inactive, sources said.
Police busted LeT modules in various cities over the past few months.
He is said to be a member of the banned Student Islamic Movement of India.
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
Minister of State for Home Rajendra Darda said nearly 30 compact discs were seized and contained speeches allegedly by Jaish-e-Mohammed and clippings of communal conflagrations in Gujarat.
Official sources said preliminary investigations have indicated the blasts were carried out by some Students Islamic Movement of India cadres, who had received training in handling of explosives in the Gulf.
Police seized dangerous chemicals and arms from the training centres following the arrest of six SIMI activists in the Mulund bomb blast case.
Over the last decade, individual Muslims have started breaking from the tradition of sacrificing animals on Bakra Eid, motivated by the thought that the considerable amount spent on buying and sacrificing animals would be put to better use for the community's welfare, specially education.
Internal strife and tribalism is endemic to Afghanistan, notes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
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