Shahjahan Velluva Kandy, 32, from Kannur in Kerala, was arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police.
The right hand of TJ Joseph, professor of Newman College in Thodupuzha in Idukki district, was chopped off by alleged PFI activists on July 4, 2010.
Sattar, who was allegedly absconding after calling for a state-wide hartal on September 23 against nation-wide raids on the outfit's offices and arrests of its leaders, is expected to be handed over to the NIA during the day.
The 54-year old Mulakkal was arrested by Kerala police after intense interrogation in Kochi over the last three days.
Tension gripped Kerala as an unidentified person allegedly hurled an explosive substance at the state headquarters of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist on Thursday night.
Deepening the image crisis that has afflicted Communist Party of India-Marxist in Kerala, police on Monday registered a murder case against the party's Idukki district secretary M M Mani for his controversial speech stating that the party had eliminated political enemies in the past.
Jonathan Bond, a Swiss national, was detained by the Kerala police for attending a memorial function in Thrissur organised for Sinoj, a suspected Maoist who was killed while making bombs in Andhra Pradesh. The police allege that Bond spoke during the memorial function held in a private hall in Thriprayar, Thrissur on July 28.
The Supreme Court on Monday took suo motu cognisance of the deaths of three civil services aspirants in the basement of a coaching centre in New Delhi and sought responses from the Centre and the Delhi government.
"We are in close touch with Karnataka police. Madani will be arrested at the appropriate time. There is no confusion on his arrest between us," Kerala DGP Jacob Punnose told reporters at nearby Aluva.
Prima facie, the student was facing some personal issues, as was suggested by a suicide note left by him, a police official in Phagwara said.
Police have begun enforcing the liquor ban across Kerala in the wake of the state high court ratifying the state government's new liquor policy.
The National Investigation Agency probe into the killing of two Kerala fishermen is likely to be delayed as several key documents are being translated from Malayalam and Italian to English and the agency needs to question all foreign witnesses present on the Italian ship who left India long ago.
National Investigation agency officers and Kerala police have interrogated a Guruvayur-based builder for alleged links with the terror operative Tahawwur Husssain Rana.
After being informed about the test result, the couple went to the Nirmala Sishu Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram under the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) to see the baby whom Anupama had last seen when he was just 3 days old.
Three Naval personnel, including a Lt Commander, were arrested by the Kerala police on Thursday night for allegedly attacking the Harbour police station following a clash with the local police.
Vicky Nanjappa reports on the interrogation report of Shakeel Ahmed, a middleman who was arrested recently in the Kerala child trafficking case in which over 500 children were rescued.
'It is still God's own country. Nobody needs to worry about coming here. Anybody can come to Kerala without worry because bad elements will be kicked out of the state mercilessly... These terrorists visited many places and not only Kerala,' says Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala, reacting to the fears that Kerala has become a terror hub.
GMC principal Shashi Sudhan Sharma also requested senior superintendent of police, Jammu, to take all precautionary measures, including deployment of additional police personnel around the hostel and college premises, to avoid any law and order problem.
The sessions court had discharged Venkitaraman for the offence under Section 304 IPC as there was no medical report indicating he was drunk at the time of the accident.
Well-known Malayalam filmmaker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan was arrested from Neyyattinkara near Thiruvananthapuram based on a complaint filed by actress Manju Warrier on charges of blackmailing her and maligning her reputation via social media, the police said on Thursday.
The court premises witnessed high drama as the police forcefully took the duo into custody from the court complex.
'Since there is no photo-op, or quick fix solutions, politicians do not want to address climate change. It is very unfashionable.'
Former Jalandhar bishop Franco Mulakkal, who was acquitted by a local court in Kerala last year over rape charges by a nun, met Pope Francis in Vatican last week, a church source said in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.
The police had claimed that the SIM card used by the accused was bought by submitting a fake Aadhar card which led police to Surendran.
The opposition also made it clear that they have taken over the state-wide protest against SilverLine and would continue the agitation till the government withdraws from the initiative which they termed as "destructive" for the southern state.
While the opposition alliance is putting up a united front in Ghosi constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand's Dumri, Dhanpur and Boxanagar in Tripura and Uttarakhand's Bageshwar, its constituents are contesting against each other in Dhupguri in West Bengal and Puthuppally in Kerala.
Former India pace bowler David Johnson, who played two Tests in 1996, passed away in Bengaluru on Thursday.
Beginning with the bird's eye view of itself -- a narrow state of hills, rivers and high population density, in a tapering part of the Indian subcontinent. It can be a beautiful place shaped by aesthetic founded in appropriate lifestyle and progressive views, or a junkyard shaped by money and what money buys. The choice is Kerala's, notes Shyam G Menon.
According to the officials, the three-storey coaching institute, surrounded by residential and commercial establishments, had permission to use the basement as a store room, but it was being used as library in violation of the rules.
In a statement, it said 198 properties in the state were partially damaged and 30 houses completely destroyed in the rains from July 31 to till date.
'Everyone is entitled to their opinion because we live in a country like India and not a place where Shalini is taken, where forget having an opinion, women can't even talk to their family on the phone.'
Here is the chronology of events of the case.
The probe has found that the route-deviation of the motorcade was due to a slip-up in communication between the pilot officer and the driver.
Police has registered a case and some persons have been taken into custody.
Discounting any terror link, the Kerala police on Sunday took a man into custody for allegedly planting crude explosive material in the cargo-hold of a Kingfisher aircraft here last week in order to implicate security personnel.
The order was passed by the court in the district, public prosecutor Sicin G Mundakkal said.
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