The chargesheet comprising about 10,000 pages in respect of each of the 13 arrested accused.
The IB suspects that terrorist outfits planned to set up sleeper cells in Mumbai so that they could strike at will. Having set up sleeper cells in Kerala, Karnataka and Hyderabad, terror outfits felt that by setting up similar cells in Mumbai, they would be able to create a terror network.
7/11: Home secy given evidence of Pak hand
The four arrested gangsters are associates of Fahim Machacha, a close aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
The registration number of the car used by Riaz has turned out to be fake one, the ATS chief said adding other information like where did the ammunition cache arrive from will be disclosed later.
However, senior ATS officers admitted that there was still no convincing evidence to suggest that these modules had any knowledge, or had participated in the July 11 blasts.
The Crime Branch had already detained the two -- identified as Jamir Sheikh and Sohail Sheikh.
The suspects are to be in police custody for 10 days.
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.
The Anti Terrorist Squad of the Mumbai police on Tuesday seized explosives and weapons from a place in Aurangabad city of Marathwada region, police sources said.
Sabahudin, a LeT operative arrested for the CRPF camp attack in UP, reveals how the ISI helps the Lashkar train terrorists.
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
An ATS official and an NSG commando who came outside the Taj Mahal hotel for a breather told rediff.com that it is a do or die situation inside the hotel. "We have been firing, searching and retreating for a while as the terrorists go back into hiding," they said. "We have no option but to either kill them or capture them. The manner in which the terrorists are holding fort and retaliating, makes it clear that they are here only for destruction and nothing else."
The media went to town on Monday alleging that the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad had harassed Sadhvi Pragya Singh by showing her some obscene CDs while she was in prison.
Constable B K Rathod, who was a driver of the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad, is the second witness, after Constable Nathu Jadeja, to have turned hostile.
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.
Sharma's mother Parvati and sister-in-law Rekha were interrogated by a team of the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad and released from custody late Monday night, police said.
He alleged that the ATS officials used a leather belt to torture him.
Relations between Sumaira and Salem soured after starlet Monica Bedi stepped into the latter's life.
Investigators believe that the same persons were behind planting the IEDs within a month.
The CID has so far arrested six policemen in the fake encounter case, including the three IPS officers D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian and Dinesh M N. The three IPS officials were arrested on April 24.
Inspector N H Dabhi, and constables Ajay Parmar and Santram Sharma were produced before a magistrate by the state CID (Crime), which is probing the case.
Abrar Ahmed, suspected of planting bombs in the textile town of Malegaon that killed 31 people on September 8, was arrested on Saturday by the Anti-Terrorist Squad.
With this, the number of arrests in the Malegaon case has risen to seven.
It also extended the police custody of another accused after the Anti-terrorist Squad said it wanted to take him to Bangalore for a narco-analysis test.
The probe is being carried out by the local police with the help of Anti-Terrorist Squad and Central intelligence agencies.
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.
Tanvir Ansari, an alleged Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative who practices unani medicine in central Mumbai, was arrested on Sunday night.
Of the 11, one is an electronic engineer who studied in Texas of the United States, another is a textile engineer and another one is a mechanical engineer and the rest are just literate. They had been staying in Tripura from June 26.
The police are focussing on finding out if the persons arrested in connection with the two modules had any knowledge of today's terror attacks
In a U-turn, a sweeper of a government hospital and key witness in the 26/11 trial who had claimed he disposed off the bullet-proof jacket of slain Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare long ago, on Friday said he had no idea about the protective gear.
The charges, which were to be framed on Wednesday, were delayed due to the absence of defence lawyers.
There were some media persons present at the New Delhi Railway Station, but they did not get a chance to talk to Salem.
Salem may have killed Jain at someone else's behest: Police
Earlier, CBI had arrested Salem soon after his extradition on November 11 in the 1993 bomb blast case.
The accused had purchased Bitcoins worth $1,000 but someone duped him, following which he lodged a complaint with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an American intelligence and security service, but did not get a desired response.
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.
Former Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta was on Thursday appointed as the new Director General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), an anti-terror probe agency formed after the 26/11 attack in Mumbai.
