In a breather for the Maharashtra ATS, arrested Yasin Bhatkal has confirmed to his interrogators that Gujaratis travelling in first class compartments of Mumbai locals were the target of 2006 train bombings as the IM wanted to avenge the 2002 Gujarat riots. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
A bench, comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran, however, issued notices to state of Maharashtra, returnable by three weeks, on a petition filed by Ibrahim Musa Chauhan.
It was a quirk of fate that made a Hyderabad-based advocate hire a cab instead of taking a local train to suburban Kandivali as the taxi blew up mid-way killing him in a powerful bomb blast in the 26/11 attack, a witness told the trial court on Friday.
The Bollywood star was found guilty of possessing a 9 mm pistol and an AK-56 rifle. Under the Arms Act, Dutt faces punishment ranging from five to ten years.
The designated Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (prevention) Act court hearing the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case found Asghar Mukadam and Shahnawaz Qureshi both accused in the Plaza blasts, guilty Monday afternoon.
Fugitive Indian Mujahideen operative Afzal Usmani, who had escaped from a Mumbai court last month, was rearrested by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad from Uttar Pradesh on Sunday when he was trying to flee to Nepal.
Sinha, who made no mention of tough anti-terror laws like POTA that his party is supportive of, maintained that fast-track courts should be set up instead to try terror cases.
The Election Commission sent a notice to Mangal Prabhat Lodha, the BJP's Mumbai chief. This is probably because a leading newspaper highlighted his utterances on its front page.
The Congress president, however, asserted that there could be no compromise on internal security.
'It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood.'
teams belonging to the intelligence, CoD and Criminal Intelligence Department, from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan are looking for the Mumbai blast suspects
The body of Yakub Memon, who was hanged in Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday morning for his role in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts, arrived home in Mahim locality of the metropolis.
The charges are against Salem for his alleged role in supplying arms to the co-accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast case.
CBI sources believe that more than Monica, it was Samira who holds keys to several intricate details about Salem.
Paving the way for his execution, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the review plea of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, sole death row convict and a co-conspirator of fugitive Dawood Ibrahim in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
'The police wasted nine years of his precious life. Who will compensate him now?' a relative of Abdul Wahid Shaikh, the only person acquitted in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, ask Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com
As the court starts providing a certified copy of the 6,000-odd page judgment to the 100 convicts and 23 acquitted persons from September 14, the voluminous court order would not be given free to the acquitted persons as per the law.
The son of a retired army officer was arrested by Goa police after he was found loitering suspiciously at the Vasco railway station gathering information about bomb blasts.
Actor Sanjay Dutt was on Thursday shifted from the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai to Yerwada Jail near Pune after he withdrew his application to be kept in a prison in Mumbai.
The application will be heard Tuesday as the prosecution has sought time to seek instructions.
According to the order, India could try Salem only for offences like forging passports, smuggling arms into Mumbai and not for heinous crimes like causing activities leading to death of civilians as in the case of the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts.
'acts of terrorism are controlled and monitored by ISI' -- Baloch leaders.
The admission came after a bomb blast at a Karachi business centre, the Kawish Crown Plaza, which police said was ostensibly owned by Ahmed Jamal but actually belonged to Dawood Ibrahim'.
Educated and intelligent, they are motivated by a desire for 'revenge.' A four-part series.
In Delhi vital installations and other sensitive places have been sensitised, police sources said.
Here is the chronology of major blasts in the country:
Saturday's terror blast in Pune comes almost 15 months since the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai
