The Madhya Pradesh police have registered a First Information Report against Bharatiya Janata Party member of Parliament and former cricketer Navjyot Singh Sidhu for allegedly inciting religious feelings of the people while delivering a poll speech at Kareli in Narsinghpur district on November 11.
Four suspected terrorists were arrested on Wednesday in Jabalpur during an operation by the Anti-Terrorist Squad and police on Wednesday.
The court transferred the custody of Samir Kulkarni, an accused in the case and one of the co-founders of right-wing group Abhinav Bharat, to the Madhya Pradesh police.
After being gang raped, her throat was slit with a knife while the attackers injured her private parts and left her to die.
Thirteen top SIMI leaders, including its former chief Safdar Nagori, were arrested from a house in Indore on March 27 where they were holed up to conduct the meeting of the banned outfit. Since then over a dozen SIMI workers have been arrested from different cities in the state.
Two suspected Students Islamic Movement of India activists, arrested for allegedly attending a secret training camp held by the outfit in Wagamon, Kerala in 2007, would be taken on Wednesday to the place where they had attended the camp. Shibili and Hafeez, who were recently handed over to a Kerala police team by the Madhya Pradesh police, would be produced before the Kanjirapally First Class Magistrate Court. They will then be taken to Kolahalamedu and Thangalpara.
A special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court in Mumbai on Monday granted custody of Sameer Kulkarni, one of the founder-members of right-wing group Abhinav Bharat, to the Madhya Pradesh police while remanding ten Malegaon blast accused to judicial custody till January 6.The MP police had sought the custody of Kulkarni, also accused in the September 29 Malegaon blast case, for allegedly instigating a mob to attack a church in Jabalpur and setting it on fire.
Qayamuddin Kapadia, one of the key conspirators of the July 26 serial blasts in Ahmedabad, has been arrested by the Madhya Pradesh police.He allegedly planted cycle bombs in the city as well as bombs in different parts of Surat. He was also responsible for purchase of cycles on which the bombs were mounted and kept in different parts of the city.
Soaked in patriotism, Indians marked the country's 71st Independence Day with the tricolour fluttering high and the national anthem reverberating at various spots across the nation.
In its ongoing drive against the proscribed Students Islamic Movement of India, the Madhya Pradesh police on Thursday arrested two more activists from this district.The arrested activists, Feroz Mohammed and Azhar Khan, were presented before a local court, which sent them to judicial custody till April 17. The duo admitted that they joined the organisation through SIMI activist Afzal Parvez, who was arrested in Indore recently. So far, police have arrested about 50 activists
During interrogation, all the three confessed to have been working to strengthen the organisation at the behest of top SIMI leaders. More arrests were possible in the coming days in the wake of revelations made by the arrested activists.
The Madhya Pradesh police has intensified its vigil on the activities of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India and so far, it has arrested 43 activists, state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in Katni on Friday. "Terrorism is the biggest problem confronting the nation at present and the state police, besides intensifying its vigil on the activities of the banned organisation, has also arrested its 43 activists from different parts of the state," Chouhan said.
An exclusive account of SIMI chief Safdar Nagori's confession of terror plots across India.
According to crime branch officials, Nagori is an expert trainer who can influence young people with his inflammatory speeches. He may be a crucial link to other blasts in the country as well.
Five activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India were arrested on Tuesday from Chanchoda town in Madhya Pradesh, police said.They were detained by the police on Monday from a hideout. However, four of their associates managed to escape from the spot.In Neemuch district, another suspected SIMI activist was arrested by the police.They were arrested on charge of indulging in unlawful activities and would be produced in court today for remand.
The crackdown by Madhya Pradesh Police, along with central security agencies, began in and around Indore on Wednesday night and neighbouring Dhar district of the state during which top brass of the banned outfit was arrested. Among the prominent SIMI leaders arrested were Shibly Peedicaal Abdul, wanted in connection with Mumbai train serial blasts of July 2006, and former SIMI Chief Safdar Nagori and his brother Kamruddin Nagori, chief of the outfit's operations in AP.
Praveen Kakkar has alleged that the Income Tax raids at his premises were politically motivated, and claimed nothing objectionable was found against him in the two-day operation.
Though Madhya Pradesh police are tight-lipped in this regard, all the indications are directed towards SIMI activists Abu Faisal, who was arrested from a hotel in the Gwaltoli area of the city in 2006 while attending a meeting of the banned organisation. He was release later on bail.
Conclusive evidence to link state-based SIMI activists with the Mumbai blasts is yet to be found, though a prankster was arrested on Wednesday for sending an e-mail to a newspaper office about the attacks.
Bhatt, president (Manufacturing) of the Company's Pithampur plant, reached Indore on Sunday morning after being rescued from a makeshift mud hut from Natua Ka Pura ravines of Chambal area in Morena district on Satuday night. He was abducted by armed persons when he was returning home to Indore from Gwalior, in his Toyota Corolla, on January 18.
Senior executive of pharma major Nicholas Piramal Ashwini Bhatt and his driver, who were kidnapped on January 18, were traced by the Special Task Force of Madhya Pradesh Police along MP-UP border on Saturday.
On the other hand, lakhs of people in 39 villages affected by leakage from the Jaswant Sagar dam in the state heaved a sigh of relief as the water level receded.
On Thursday, the Madhya Pradesh police gave him a clean chit.
A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped after being abducted from her home by an unknown person in Dharuhera area, police said on Tuesday.
Thirty-two persons have been arrested in connection with the alleged gang rape of three women of the boy's family, which took place as a retaliatory measure on July 8, the police added.
Police Inspector Sunil Kushwah, allegedly in an inebriated condition, shot at BJP leader Manoj Pathak with his service revolver following a dispute over downing of shutters of a pan kiosk at the bus stand late on Wednesday night
The accused -- Ranga, Bhagwandas and Jankidas -- of the same village also dealt a heavy blow on Munni Bai's back
Intruders have allegedly looted the house of Ramniwas Lahoti, the elder brother of Chief Justice of India Justice R C Lahoti, in Guna, Madhya Pradesh, police said on Monday.
Three schoolchildren were burnt with cigarette butts allegedly by the superintendent of a remand home in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, police said on Saturday.
Her in-laws suspected her of killing her husband.
The owner of the house she lived in and his friend allegedly raped the woman on Sunday night, and when she threatened to complain doused her with kerosene and torched her.
The suspect was hiding in a house in Kakori area. The densely populated neighbourhood was cordoned off and at least 20 commandos were involved in the operation, police said.
Madhya Pradesh police said violence in Bhind and Morena districts was 'sponsored'.
Newly-elected Bahujan Samaj Party Member of Legisative Assembly from Dholpur B L Kushwaha, wanted in a chit fund fraud case, was detained by police at the assembly here when he had gone to take oath.
The Anti Terrorist Squad of Madhya Pradesh police captured five suspected Students Islamic Movement of India activists from Sendhwa Pathar area in Barwani district following an encounter in the early hours on Monday, a top police official said.
People paid their last respect to Raza who had wished to be buried in this tribal-dominated district where he once lived.
The opposition parties also alleged that the gangster was killed to protect the UP government.
After groping in the dark for nearly a month over the massive explosion in Petlwad town that killed 89 people, Madhya Pradesh police are pinning hopes on the outcome of the DNA profiling of three unclaimed bodies of from the explosion site to ascertain whether Rajendra Kasawa, the prime accused in the case was dead or alive.
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