Sleuths of the central agencies are tight lipped over the reported arrest of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba's south India commander and one of the most wanted terror operatives from Kerala, Thadiyantavida Naseer.
Investigators told rediff.com that more than two people within the Indian Mujahideen provided logistical support to David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Rana to survey the targets that were attacked during 26/11.
He was arrested as part of an ongoing crackdown on the "Quetta Shura" or council of the militants led by Mullah Muhammad Omar, the elusive chief of the Afghan Taliban.
Three persons, including a lawyer, have been arrested in connection with the murder of RTI activist and whistle-blower Satish Shetty at Talegaon near Pune. A court on Saturday remanded the trio, which was arrested late on Friday night, to ten days police custody till January 25. Vijay Dabhade, the lawyer, and his accomplices Pramod Waghmare and Parshuram Telegu, who were arrested for giving a contract to kill Shetty, were produced before a court at Wadgaon Maval.
How did a small-time businessman from Hyderabad come to mastermind the kidney racket?
The lie detector test on Naved, who is in NIA custody till August 24, be carried out at 11 am on Tuesday at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in CGO complex, after his interrogators claimed he was lying on many accounts.
Prime accused in the multi-crore fake stamp paper case Abdul Karim Telgi and two of his accomplices were sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment by the special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Bhopal. The judge found Telgi, Shabbir Ahmed Sheikh and Sohail Khan guilty under section of 120-B of Indian Penal Code pertaining to criminal conspiracy and IPC section 255 dealing with counterfeiting of government stamp papers and imposed fine of Rs five lakh on each.
The alleged mastermind of the scheme Chelsea-based Indian entrepreneur Nandan Pruthi and his business partners Kenneth Peacock and John Anderson were arrested after a series of raids conducted by the London police in the city, the Observer newspaper reported.
Never invest in a company or an industry that you have never heard of even if you get a tip-off.
So until the equation becomes equal, 'roses are red, violets are blue, let's smash the patriarchy, me and you.'
A jury in Houston County, Alabama, recommended the death penalty for a second man in the murder of Prakash Shah at the Southeast Mini-Mart in Dothan, April 20, 2004.
Pakistan's banned terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi on Wednesday took responsibility for a bomb attack on a senior judge of the Sindh high court earlier this month in which nine people were killed.
An Indian man, who was working as a clerk at a convenience store in the US state of Florida, has been shot dead by a teenager in an apparent robbery attempt, the second such incident in just over a month.
Mehsud, on whom the US has announced a bounty of $5 million, made the claim to the media from an undisclosed location, even as the prime suspect in Monday's assault has said that all his accomplices were from the tribal areas.
The court sentenced Saeed to five-and-a-half years and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 in each case. The sentences of both cases will run concurrently.
Pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad, who brokered a now-defunct peace deal between the authorities and insurgents, was arrested on Sunday in northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar for his links to militants and his role in fomenting unrest in the lawless Swat valley. Sufi, who heads the banned Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariah Muhammadi, was arrested with his sons Ziaullah and Rizwanullah and an accomplice by a large police contingent during a raid in the City Town area of Peshawar.
Students Islamic Movement of India chief Safdar Nagori and four others, brought from Madhya Pradesh for questioning in connection with the Ahmedabad serial blasts, were sent to judicial custody on Monday by a metropolitan court in Ahmedabad.Nagori, along with his four accomplices Abdul Sibley, Hafeez Hussain, Kamruddin Nagori and Amil Pervez, all accused in the serial bomb blast case, were brought before Metropolitan Magistrate G M Patel after their remand period ended today.
Intelligence Bureau agents say Abu Hamza followed the Lashkar brief, promising the would-be terrorists escape and safety in Pakistan once their mission was completed.
Riot police fired water cannon at far-right football hooligans who invaded a square in the Belgian capital that has become a memorial to the victims of the Brussels.
The NIA sleuths also recovered weapons, ammunition, urea, acid, some chemicals, electronic gadgets and other incriminating material besides Rs 15 lakh in cash from their possession, officials of the NIA and Hyderabad Police said, adding the youths were working at the behest of IS handlers.
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.
Ismail Khan, an accomplice of arrested terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman alias Kasab, is the one who gunned down three top police officials in a gun battle at Cama Hospital, according to Kasab's statement recorded by the police. Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte and encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar were shot dead by Ismail Khan.
Two militants, including a close confidant of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, were arrested in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, official sources said.
The prime suspect in the terror attack on a police academy near Lahore has revealed that all his accomplices were Afghans and information provided by him, a Pakistani Taliban operative, has led to the arrest of some "local facilitators", the investigators said on Tuesday.
A heavily pregnant woman and her husband have become latest victims of suspected honour killing in Pakistan, just a day after another pregnant woman was killed by her own mother in the same Punjab province for contracting marriage against parents' will.
Neetu Dabodia carried a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh and was wanted in over 50 cases of murder, extortion and kidnapping.
A departmental inquiry has also been ordered against the judge.
Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested for the 26/11 attacks, on Monday named four Lashkar-e- Tayiba members, including its operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, who came to see the 10 accomplices off when they started from Karachi in a boat to reach the shores in Mumbai.
Abaaoud was identified among the dead the Saint-Denis siege on the basis of his fingerprints and skin samples.
Adnan, an engineering graduate from Bijapur in northern Karnataka, made the costly mistake which helped the police track down the ten SIMI activists. Adnan was on the run ever since some of his accomplices were arrested in Karnataka last November.
Police said the jailbreak in all likelihood was plotted at their hideout in Dehradun.
Two suspects have been detained from the encounter site, a police spokesman said.
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Benjamin Janis Schult was allegedly attacked by two men with surgical blades and robbed of his wallet and cell phone in north Delhi's Kotwali area.
When the weapons were being identified in the special court, Kasab kept laughing at the witness and shook his head indicating that the weapons did not belong to him. This invited the wrath of Judge M L Tahaliyani, who warned Kasab to behave properly in the court. The judge told him that all the time he was seen laughing.
Even as the hunt for Riyaz Bhatkal, who is said to have co-founded the Indian Mujahideen continues, two of his accomplices have revealed that the dreaded terrorist wanted 1,000 people dead in every bomb blast that occurred in the country.
The Special TADA Court on Friday remanded Karimullah Osan Habib Khan, a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, to Central Bureau of Investigation's custody till August 29.Khan, who has been on the run for the last 15 years, was arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch on Thursday. An accomplice of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, he was arrested from the extended suburbs of Nallasopara.Khan was allegedly involved in the landing of RDX on the Raigad coast and its transport to Mumbai
Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, 21, is a resident of Faridkot, Tehsil, Dipalpur Dist -Ukada, State -Suba Punjab, Pakistan, is a labour by occupation, according to his confession statement.
Qasim, a Lashkar leader and terrorist, had planned the attack on a Border Security Force convoy in Udhampur on August 5.
The suspected female accomplice of Amedy Coulibaly, the man behind the shooting at a Jewish supermarket in Paris, is believed to have left France last week to travel to Syria via Turkey, said sources.
