A key operative of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen was on Friday arrested from Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi by the National Investigating Agency.
A Delhi court on Thursday granted the National Investigation Agency five-day custody of two suspected operatives of banned Indian Mujahideen to interrogate them in connection with the February 21 Hyderabad blasts but pulled up the agency for its "casual" approach and unpreparedness.
The Indian Mujahideen which keeps raising its head once in a way to cause a ruckus in the country has been operating in a very interesting manner of late.
A largely behind-the-scene operative, Yasin Bhatkal is today on the watch list of the Interpol with a red corner alert issued against him.
Shoaib Pottanikal, 49, was arrested by a team of Ahmedabad Crime Branch sleuths
The National Investigation Agency is tracking down terrorists hiding in Uttar Pradesh and Naxals in Andhra Pradesh.
Confessions by Indian Mujahideen operative Yasin Bhatkal negate the Maharashtra ATS theory that convict Mirza Himayat Baig played a role in the Pune attack. Vicky Nanjappa reports
Besides Bhatkal, the others convicted were Asadullah Akthar of Uttar Pradesh, Zia-ur-Rahman alias Waqas of Pakistan, Tahseen Akhthar of Bihar and Aizaz Shaik of Maharashtra. All of them are in judicial custody.
The serial blasts at Bengaluru were undertaken at the behest of the founder of Indian Mujahideen Riyaz Bhatkal, according to T Naseer, the Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative who was arrested on the Bangladesh border and is being interrogated by the Bengaluru police.
Continuing its crackdown on Indian Mujahideen, the Delhi police and central security agencies have arrested one more important cadre of the terror outfit who had provided refuge to top IM operative Yasin Bhatkal in November last year.
'The operation was planned in a manner so as not to alert the terrorists.' 'Every precaution was taken to keep it low-key so as not to alert the terrorists and surprise them and arrest them.'
A slip up by the Maharashtra Anti Terrorist Squad a year ago has proved to be a costly error for India's security establishment. The primary suspects behind Thursday's Hyderabad blasts -- Indian Mujahideen founder Yasin Bhatkal and operatives Tabrez and Waqas -- were staying under one roof in Mumbai. However, just minutes before the police could nab them they managed to slip out.
Miniscule outfits will strike the country with new names, indicate security sources.
Naquee Ahmed, one of the 13/7 blasts accused, was in contact with Indian Mujahideen's elusive chief operative Yasin Bhatkal through a popular social networking site since 2008, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad claimed on Sunday.Naquee, who hails from Darbhanga district of Bihar, was initially arrested on January 10 this year on charges of forgery for allegedly procuring mobile phone SIM cards using fake documents.
With the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad naming Dubai-based Muzaffar Kola, an associate of jailed 1993 serial blasts accused Mustaffa Dossa, as a wanted accused in the 13/7 triple blasts case, the link between underworld and home grown-terror outfit Indian Mujahideen has surfaced
A local court on Friday extended till February 18 the police custody of two alleged operatives of Indian Mujahideen, arrested for one of the three bomb blasts that rocked the metropolis on July 13 last year.
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad has arrested a close associate of Indian Mujahideen's elusive chief operative Yasin Bhatkal in connection with the 13/7 serial bomb blasts case, taking the total number of arrests to five.
Investigating agencies probing the Mumbai serial blasts are trying to ascertain if the Indian Mujahideen or the underworld had played any role in the terror strike that claimed 26 lives. They have been unable to pinpoint a motive for the blasts so far, say sources. The fact that the terrorists carried out the deadly blasts without relying much on technology has also stumped investigators. Terror outfits like the Indian Mujahideen are known to use sophisticated technology.
The police have been looking at a suspicious transaction of Rs 20 lakh which was traced between Delhi and Pune. The police say this money was facilitated by a jeweller in Pune, which later landed in the hands of two suspected IM operatives. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The United States of America has issued an advisory to all its citizens in India regarding a specific attack by terrorists. The warning by the US states that crowded markets in Delhi may be targeted by terror groups.
A telephonic conversation between two suspected members of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen gave the security agencies clue about the outlawed wing's alleged involvement in triggering the Pune blast, police sources said on Sunday. Days after the German Bakery blast on February 13, in which 17 persons were killed and over 50 injured, alleged IM operative Salman Ansari's telephonic intercepts suggested that he had received a phone call from someone, believed to be Riyaz Bhatkal
Investigations into 13/7 Mumbai serial blasts case has revealed that there have been no cell phone records and no intercepts from Pakistan.
A largely behind-the-scene operative, Yaseen Bhatkal is today on the watch list of the Interpol with a red corner alert issued against him.
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad has arrested an alleged Students Islamic Movement of India operative, who was wanted in the 2008 serial bomb blasts in the city, from Belgam in Karnataka.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal and his aide Asadullah Akhtar were chargesheeted by the Delhi police in a court on Thursday in connection with the September 2010 Jama Masjid terror attack case where a bomb fitted in a car had exploded.
The e-mail sent out by terror group Indian Mujahideen claiming responsibility for Tuesday's Varanasi blast, which killed an infant and injured 32 people, was traced back to Navi Mumbai. The e-mail shot to media houses minutes after the blast has got both the investigators as well as intelligence agencies thinking. Why do IM operatives continue to hack Mumbai servers to shoot terror mails?
Terror outfit Indian Mujahideen has claimed responsibility for the blast that occurred at a Varanasi ghat on Tuesday evening, in which 20 people have been reportedly injured.
Officials said this was another example of Pakistan misusing higher studies as bait for recruitment in terror groups.
The Ahmedabad police have filed five more chargesheets in connection with last year's serial blasts, which claimed the lives of 57 people. All the chargesheets have more than 1,000 pages each and blame Indian Mujahideen and operatives of the Students Islamic Movement of India for the explosions, Crime Branch officials said.The documents give details of how the different IM modules worked in coordination to successfully execute the terror attack.
Mohammad Ejaz Ahmed, an alleged operative of the Indian Muslim Mohammadi Mujahideen, was on Friday produced before a Hyderabad court and remanded in judicial custody.
'I condemn terror in all forms. Terror activities end up killing innocent people and hence I feel terror activities should not be carried out.'
Yasin Bhatkal is a prized catch, no doubt. What he tells is going to shape the understanding of how the Indian Mujahideen operated, and how far and well its network was spread. But, perhaps the cat was let out of the bag too soon, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.
Suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative T Naseer, who is in the custody of the Bangalore police, has made a stunning disclosure that fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim is the primary financer for the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and also the Indian Mujahideen. Naseer says every terror strike carried out in India is funded by the D-gang.
Central agencies had been monitoring certain leads, which said a group of people hailing from Kerala along with Lashker-e-Tayiba's support were trying to enter Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir through North Kashmir.
A petition challenging the tribunal's verdict was mentioned before the bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, which agreed with the Centre seeking a grant of interim stay. The apex court issued a notice to the SIMI and posted the matter for hearing after three weeks.
Even as the Bengaluru police maintain that the minor blasts in Chinnaswamy stadium on Saturday were an act of a mischief-monger, they are also not ruling out the possibility of a module of the Indian Mujahideen undertaking this operation.
The terror jigsaw is becoming clearer with the arrest of Salman, an operative of the dreaded Indian Mujahideen. He has echoed the statements of the security agencies who said the IM benefited the most from the heat that was on the Lashkar-e-Toiba.
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.
'Whether she is in power or not, she always makes it a point to visit us. This is her best quality as a leader.'
The politics of polarisation became part of the political landscape of the national capital after the Batla House encounter.
