The Allahabad High Court overturned a trial court's decision, acquitting five individuals previously convicted in connection with the 2007 terrorist attack on a CRPF camp in Rampur, citing defects in the investigation.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas celebrations at the Statue of Unity, commemorating Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's birth anniversary with a unity pledge and parade.
In a shocking move, the Anti-Terrorist team has sent just two police officers to bring two hardcore Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists -- Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin-- from Uttar Pradesh to Mumbai as part of the investigations into the Mumbai attacks case.
Yasmeen thanked slain defence lawyer Shahid Azmi and lauded efforts of current defence lawyer R B Mokashi. Mokashi told rediff.com that judge's order clearly indicated that Faheem was framed in this case and that the evidence produced in court was fabricated.
Arrested in the Rampur Central Reserve Police Force camp attack case, Ansari now in the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad's custody --says he was trained in Pakistan and the deadly Mumbai attack was planned by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Razaullah Nizamani Khalid alias Abu Saifullah Khalid, who was the brain behind the 2006 attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh headquarters, was killed by three unidentified gunmen in Sindh province of Pakistan on Sunday, officials in New Delhi said.
Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin, who were acquitted in the Mumbai terror attacks case recently, will soon be shifted from the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai to the central prison in Bareilly in connection with the 2007 attack on a Central Reserve Police Force group centre at Rampur in Uttar Pradesh.
Armed with AK-47 rifles and grenades, a group of four terrorists attacked the CRPF troops centre at around 2.20 am on Tuesday, a CRPF spokesperson said.
An investigating officer told rediff.com that Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorists Sabahuddin and Fahim Ansari -- whose names are likely to figure in the 26/11 attack chargesheet -- confessed before interrogators in Mumbai that the Rampur attack was aimed at distracting security agencies to enable the smuggling of arms into Mumbai for the big attack.
A day after three Lashkar-e-Tayiba militants were arrested in Rampur for their alleged involvement in the January 1 attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp, the special task force of Uttar Pradesh police on Monday arrested two more persons in this connection.
Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed, acquitted in the 26/11 attacks case and currently lodged in Arthur Road jail, are yet to be shifted to Uttar Pradesh prisons as the Mumbai police have still not decided on their escorting team, sources said. Fahim and Sabauddin, allegedly involved in the terror attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp at Rampur in UP on December 31, 2007, were brought to Mumbai in December 2008.
The Maharashtra police's Anti-Terrorism Squad on Tuesday obtained transit remand of a Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant, who had been arrested in connection with the attack on a Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur in Uttar Pradesh, to investigate his links with the terror attack on Mumbai last week.Special Judge (Gangster Act) Mohammad Hussain granted the transit remand of Sabahuddin on an application moved by a Maharashtra ATS team.
According to highly placed sources, the CRPF jawan, who was once a militant but surrendered in Kashmir and joined the Central Force, was on duty at the Control Room-2, which the terrorists attacked first and shot dead a security man.
A Mumbai court on Monday remanded Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed to police custody till January 23 in the November 26 Taj hotel firing case. Ansari and Ahmed, accused in the recent attacks in Mumbai, were produced before the court on Monday and remanded to police custody in the case registered at the Colaba police station in south Mumbai. They were arrested in February last year in connection with the attack on a Central Reserve Police Force camp in Uttar Pradesh.
A course in accent training is something usually associated with Business Processing Outsourcing. However, investigations have now revealed that the Lashkar-e-Tayiba has been imparting accent training too to potential terrorists.
The Lashkar wanted to bomb the BSE because it would cripple India's financial capital, Fahim Ansari told the Mumbai police.
Kayani along with other ISI officials supervised my training programme in Pakistan. Kayani even gave me Rs 25,000 before I left Pakistan. He had sent his man along with me to the airport and ensured that I got out safe from Pakistan," Sabahuddin further revealed.
Before the weapons could be retrieved, investigators say Shehzad was arrested. As a result, the attack on the Bombay Stock Exchange was averted, but the Mumbai attacks were moved from September to November.
The option these two men have as of now is to seek the release order from the Mumbai court and then seek bail before the Uttar Pradesh court
The Home Ministry is understood to have given its nod to the file seeking disciplinary action against the two officials of the paramilitary force, sources said.
Code language is crucial for a terrorist operation's success. Investigations have revealed that the 26/11 killers communicated with each other using coded language.
Suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist Fahim Ansari is the key to cracking the Mumbai terrorist attack case, investigators believe. Ansari who was arrested in connection with the Fidayeen attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp at Rampur on January 1, has given out a lot of details regarding the Mumbai terror plot.
There is a long legal battle ahead of these two men. In both the Rampur and the IISc cases, charges are yet to be framed and the trial would commence once this is done. In addition, the two will also have to defend themselves against the special leave petition that will be filed by the Maharashtra government, before the Supreme Court.
From the indications available so far, the November strikes in UP appear to have been carried out by Indian cells of the HuJI. If this is proved by further investigation, the HuJI possibly now has an Indian branch with operatives, capable of carrying out terrorist strikes autonomously without too much dependence on their counterparts in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Lashkar operatives have disclosed to interrogators that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence arranged their fake passports. IB officials have listed the guidelines that terrorists follow while dealing with passports, record books and identification cards.
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad team, which is probing the Mumbai terror attacks, on Tuesday took transit remand of an accused arrested in connection with the attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur."An ATS team, which arrived in the state capital on Monday, took Imran Shahzad alias Abu Samad, currently lodged in Lucknow jail, on transit remand to Mumbai," said Additional Director General (Law and Order) Brijlal.
According to Sabahuddin -- the prime accused in the attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur and the attack on the Indian Institute of Science -- the Pakistani army ensured that the new recruits had a safe passage into Lashkar camps. Sabahuddin, explaining his journey into jihad, told interrogators that he decided to tread this horrific path in the year 2002.
Funds are instrumental in the success of a terrorist operation and India's war against terror will not be complete unless it acts upon this crucial aspect.
'It was only after what happened that we started looking back into his files. And today, we have reason to believe that those maps had deeper meaning that anyone could have then imagined,' says UP ATS Deputy Inspector General Rajiv Krishna.
Fahim Ansari and Mohammad Sabahuddin Ahmed might have been let off by the Mumbai special court in the 26/11 terrorist attacks case on India's commercial capital, but they were clearly not off the hook in Uttar Pradesh, where cops were all set to nail them in an earlier attack on a Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur city, about 300 km from Lucknow.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation team, which has sought access to all the 26/11 accused arrested by Pakistan, will try to cull more information about a key Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative called Yusuf Muzzamil.Muzzamil's role in the terror attack in Mumbai last November was revealed by Fahim Ansari, Sabahuddin, and Ajmal Kasab.They described Muzzamil as a being extremely tech-savvy, adding that he had pointed out possible terror targets using Google Earth.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has decided to question Sabahuddin and Fahim Ansari -- the prime accused in the attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur in January last year-- who are currently being probed for their links with the terror attack on Mumbai in November last year.The FBI will try to glean out crucial information about the working of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba in South Asia by interrogating the duo.
Sabahuddin, the prime accused in the attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur and the attack on the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has confessed to playing a pivotal role in the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai. Ansari, a Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative, had conducted the recee before the actual attack, Sabahuddin told the interrorgators. He also confessed that the attack was carried out by the LeT and launched from Pakistan.
Following is a chronology of some recent major bomb blasts in the country:
The sources said the spot from where the attack could be carried out was also selected, the sources said, adding that the plan was not executed because there was no particular timing for the movement of the convoy. The Army has a formation in the adjacent Bareilly area, 60 kms from Rampur. The militants were apprehensive about coming out in the open with their weapons as they feared that they might be caught if there was no movement of the Army convoy, the sources said.
Fahim Ansari, the prime accused in the attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur, has told officials of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad that he had been trained in Pakistan and the deadly 26/11 attacks had been planned by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba.Ansari revealed that apart from the Taj and Trident hotels, the terrorists had also planned to attack the airport. He said that the fidayeens had planned to seize partial control of the airport.
A team from the Mumbai Anti Terrorist Squad is in Uttar Pradesh to seek the transit remand of Fahid Ansari and Sabahuddin, the two Lashkar-e-Tayiba operatives arrested in connection with the attack on the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur, which claimed 20 lives.Both Ansari and Sabahuddin were arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorist Squad. During interrogations, Ansari had reportedly confessed to providing sketches and videos of key targets in Mumbai to the LeT
A bench of justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna asked senior advocate Vivek Tankha and advocate Sumeer Sodhi to serve the copy of the petition to the standing counsel of Uttar Pradesh government and posted the matter for further hearing on April 5.
The Rampur MP, however, later issued a clarification saying that he did not intend to insult the jawans.
Makki and other LeT/JUD operatives "have been involved in raising funds, recruiting and radicalising youth to violence and planning attacks in India, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)," the sanctions committee said, providing a statement for the reasons of Makki's listing.
