On March 8 this year, Aseemanand and six others were acquitted in the 2007 Ajmer blast case by a court in Jaipur.
The CBI arrested Aseemanand on November 19 for his alleged involvement in the Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad in which nine persons were killed. He was earlier living under a fake identity in Haridwar and had also procured fake identity cards.
Latching on to reports about Swami Aseemanand's claim about RSS leadership "sanctioning" some terror acts, Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Friday flayed the National Investigation Agency for not yet taking in Sangh leader Indresh Kumar for interrogation.
India on Sunday said attempt to bring the guilty in Mumbai attacks to justice "has not moved an inch" in Pakistan and hoped that country will learn from New Delhi's "fair" handling of the Samjhauta Express blast case and punish the perpetrators of the 26/11 carnage.
While there is a debate still on whether Swami Aseemanand actually confessed on his own after being touched by the conduct of a former accused in the Mecca Masjid case or that he did so under duress, the fact remains that there is a ray of hope among many youths who continue to languish in jails after being implicated in the above mentioned cases.
As Indo-Pak foreign secretaries met in Delhi for talks aimed at ending the chill in bilateral ties, Pakistan on Thursday claimed that 'Indian networks' were behind the terror attacks in Mumbai and on the Samjhauta Express and Indian Parliament. Without giving any evidence to substantiate the claims, Interior Minister Rehman Malik claimed that a terrorist assault of the magnitude of the Mumbai terror attacks could not have been carried out otherwise.
The opposition battled it out with the Centre over farmer issues, the suspension of 6 MPs and the privileges of MPs.
The US slapped sanctions on four Pakistani militants linked to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Al-Qaeda, with one of them having links to Dawood Ibrahim, for their involvement in a series of terrorist activities including bombings in the Mumbai train and Samjhauta Express.
Qureshi urged for unity among political parties in Pakistan on Kashmir and warned that doing politics on the issue would harm the cause.
A woman from Pakistan has been arrested in Amritsar allegedly with fake Indian currency having face value of Rs 4.5 lakh, officials said on Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday tore into the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, blaming its "appeasement politics" for the failure of law enforcement agencies to rein in terror activities when it was in power and claiming it raised the "bogey of Hindu terror" to "misdirect" investigation.
The MNS chief unveiled his party's new flag which is completely saffron and bears King Shivaji's royal seal. He also questioned how many of the Muslims taking part in the protests were Indian.
Amid reports that Pakistan may seek extradition of Malegaon blast accused Lieuteant Colonel Shrikant Purohit in the Samjhauta Express blast case, India on Tuesday virtually rejected the demand, saying Islamabad had no locus standi in the investigations involving the Army officer."The case (Malegaon blast) is under examination by the Anti-Terror Squad (of Maharashtra Police). It is our internal matter. We are investigating it. How can Pakistan be concerned with that,"he said.
The final arguments in the trial of 26/11 terror attacks case accused Ajmal Kasab will begin on March 9 in a special court in Mumbai with the prosecution expected to focus on countering the stand taken by him that he is not a terrorist and was being framed by police.
Both services have been suspended following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the deteriorating law and order situation in Pakistan.
With investigators suggesting involvement of some Hindu outfits in cross-border Samjhauta Express train blast, the issue is all set to figure in the Indo-Pak Foreign Ministerial and Home Secretary-level talks next week.
Charging the Centre with appeasing minorities for electoral gains, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Saturday called for a nationwide agitation to highlight the 'oppression of Hindus'."On one hand, the government is not executing death sentence to Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and on the other it is torturing an innocent person like Sadhvi Pragya Singh, who has been falsely implicated in the Malegaon blast case," VHP leader Venkatesh Abdev said.
Amid reports that Pakistan may seek custody of Indian nationals in connection with the Samjhauta Express case, India on Tuesday said it would be better if there is no diversion at this stage as the whole world was watching actions by Islamabad to dismantle terror infrastructure.
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
The MEA asserted Pakistan's efforts to link peace deal with Kashmir issue have not worked.
India on Monday sought Pakistan's cooperation in tracking down the suspects in the recent bomb blasts in Hyderabad, Ajmer and Ludhiana as it provided evidence of the cross-border linkages to these incidents at the Joint Anti-Terror Meeting in New Delhi. New Delhi also sought to know what action Islamabad had taken on information provided about persons believed to be behind the cross-border Samjhauta Express blasts and other terror attacks in India over the last two years.
Railways have taken several steps to strengthen and modernise the security arrangements
On the lines of entertainment provided by airlines, Prasad may announce launching of this scheme beginning with Shatabdi trains, Rail Bhawan sources said.
In 2007, Musharraf faces a situation more critical than the one he faced after the 2002 confrontation with India. At that time the US Administration was not as unfriendly to him as it is today. The jihadis were not as defiant as they are today.
Police said passengers travelling in coach number 95411 noticed two abandoned suitcases near the toilet and immediately informed the Government Railway Police and railway officials.
Highly-placed sources in Union Home Ministry said they had "vital clues," which included a telephonic conversation between a caller from Delhi to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Kasuri, who drove straight from the airport to Safdarjung Hospital to see Pakistanis injured in the train blast, said he had come here on a "mission to improve relations" between the two countries and "carry forward" the peace process.
She had addressed a series of public meetings in both Kumaon and Garhwal regions yesterday. Gandi condemned the blasts stating that such incidents will not be tolerated in the country.
The 1975 batch IAS officer joined the BJP after his retirement in 2013.
"I am very happy to hoist the tricolour in the land of Mahatma Gandhi. I was waiting for this moment since the time I was in Pakistan. Every Indian should honour the national flag," she said in sign language.
Claiming that India is yet to share with Pakistan any "tangible" information from the probe into the Samjhauta Express blasts, Islamabad on Saturday vowed to bring to book the perpetrators of terror attack.
They said their visit was delayed due to visa problems.
A traumatised Pakistani national Shaukat Ali Rana, whose five children perished in the Samjhauta Express blasts, on Friday night started his journey back home from Panipat with their bodies.
It seems that while the majority of the 68 passengers killed in the explosions-cum-fire in two coaches of the Samjhauta Express at Deewana, near Panipat, on February 18 were Pakistani nationals, more Hindus than Muslims were killed.
Mukherjee said that holding of Joint Commission meeting reaffirmed the commitment of the two countries to carry forward the dialogue process.
"Two clerks have been suspended late Monday evening on charges of improper maintenance of records of the tickets issued for the Delhi-Attari train," Chief PRO Northern Railway Rajiv Saxena said.
The police have also released the sketches of two suspects in the blasts.
'Terrorism creates suspicion among neighbours, suspicion among communities, which could be a major blow to India's otherwise widely hailed and widely recognized society'
The Deewana incident resembles the Mumbai blasts of July 2006 in three respects -- the terrorists attacked a soft target; it was an act of mass casualty terrorism; and they chose a train as their target
In a communication from External Affairs Ministry to the Pakistan High Commission, India has said that investigators have not been able to "talk" to the injured people as they were hospitalised.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances