In a sensational claim, a suspended Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad officer has told a Solapur court that two of the absconding accused in 2008 Malegaon blasts case are in fact dead but falsely shown as "alive" by high ranking police officers.
Elections to the nine council seats which fell vacant on April 24 were postponed in view of the coronavirus outbreak, but last week the Election Commission set May 21 as the poll date.
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It's like Agatha Christie walked into Roman Polanski's Chinatown conversing in Vishal Bhardwaj with a smattering of Brian De Palma for razzle-dazzle -- the upshot is mesmeric, raves Sukanya Verma.
The Naukri Job Speak Index -- which tracks monthly hiring activities online -- stood at 1,300 showing a 1 per cent growth in hiring, when compared to October 2013.
While the focus was on fancied names Ashok Kumar, Manav Jaini and Mukesh Kumar, Delhi's Karanjit Singh Sandhu stole the show, shooting a whirlwind seven under 63 on day one of the Crompton Greaves Open in Mumbai to establish a three-stroke lead on top of the leader board.
Just about 54 per cent of employers predict fresh job creation in the second half of this year whereas the same sentiment was shared by 68 per cent entities at the start of 2013, while salary hikes too are expected to be on the lower side, said the survey.
The Mumbai anti-terrorist squad has nabbed two persons, who were plotting a terror strike on Oil and Natural Gas Corporation installations in the city.
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Claiming to have some 'vital' clues in the Pune blast case, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad has sought the help of auto rickshaw drivers, asking them to share information about suspicious passengers who might be linked to the terror attack."I have appealed through radio to auto rickshaw drivers, who might have ferried passengers with suspicious behaviour to the eatery or anywhere else on the day of the blast, to share the information with me," said ATS chief.
The nine-year-old Russian girl and her mother on Monday identified Aman Bharadwaj as the accused who raped the girl at north Goa's Arambol beach on January 26. The identification parade was conducted today by the state police, two days after the accused was arrested from a slum in Chembur in Mumbai. A senior police officer said the mother-daughter duo identified the accused as the one who raped the girl.
The Anti-Terrorist Squad has arrested a Dawood gang member in connection with three cases of fake currency.
Mohammed Omar Madni, a suspected aide of Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder Hafiz Saeed, is likely to be questioned by the Mumbai police in connection with the July 11, 2006 serial train blasts case. "We are in touch with Delhi police authorities and after getting more information from them, we will send a team to interrogate him," Additional Director General (Anti-Terrorism Squad) K P Raghuvanshi said.
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'The Force One team has given the ATS a big boost. There are several commandos who are trained to fight terrorist groups and equipped with state-of-the-art arms and ammunition. We do not want this force to be lacking in anything. They are being constantly trained,' says ATS Chief K P S Raghuvanshi.
Fake Indian currency notes of Rs 1,000 seized in Mumbai recently were unlikely to have been made in a small private press, a senior police official said on Friday.
All I have to say is that the narco-analysis reports came in very late and by the time we started to look into it, the case was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation. We however got to know that those involved in the Nanded blast were also part of the Parbhani blasts case, says K P S Raghuvanshi, former chief of the Mumbai Anti Terrorism Squad
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Four persons, including a woman, who were held in Surat on Friday on suspicion of being terror suspects wanted by the Mumbai police, were released on Tuesday after it was verified that they were not the same whose sketches were released last week.
Raghuvanshi said that some of the detained are said to be from Lucknow, but refused to give further information on them saying the process of ascertaining their identity is underway.
Additional Solicitor General Rajendra Raghuvanshi told a division bench of Justices S B Mhase and V K Tahilramani on Thursday that the Centre was not ready for a CBI probe. "The Centre thinks the case is 15 years old and already a trial of the case against one of the survivors Farooq Mhapkar -- for rioting -- is underway. Also, the STF, formed by state government following the Srikrishna report, held that (police official) Kapse was not guilty," Raghuvanshi said.
An autopsy report confirmed that two of Sabharwal's ribs were broken and that his lungs had bled, causing his death. \n\n
The Anti-Terrorism Squad of Mumbai police on Thursday claimed that four of the six accused in the July 11 Mumbai train blasts confessed to the exact roles played by them in the incidents.
Interpol's website has a picture of the 33-year old Dawrey and lists counterfeiting and terrorism as the list of offences registered against him.
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The duo has been identified as Mushiruddin Salauddin Siddiqui (27), a native of Kanpur, but residing in Virar town of neighbouring Thane district, and Manzoor Mahmood Ansari (37), a resident of Birganj town of Nepal.
'Switch it on at 2 pm, they will scream the same.' 'Are there no other problems that the country is facing today about which people need to know or these channels must need to broadcast?' 'There has to be some limit to this naked TRP greed.'
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.
An e-mail received by a TV channel has claimed that all the executors of the blasts escaped safely, except one who was killed in the blasts. Raghuvanshi said this claim in the e-mail can be ascertained only when the body is identified.
ATS said it will invoke stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act in the Aurangabad LeT arms seizure case in view of the unearthing of a bigger plan involving many people.
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