Senior advocate Nitya Ramakrishnan, appearing for Navlakha, contested the figure of Rs 1.64 crore saying the agency's calculation of the amount payable was wrong and contrary to the relevant rules.
A Delhi court on Thursday sent the four accused arrested for the shocking breach of security at the new Parliament building to the city police's custody for seven days for interrogation.
The National Investigating Agency may not oppose bail application of suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Liyaqat Shah, who was arrested by the Delhi police for his alleged role in a conspiracy to carry out terror attacks in New Delhi.
A court in New Delhi on Tuesday granted two-hour custody parole to Kashmiri leader Sheikh Abdul Rashid to take oath as a Lok Sabha MP on July 5.
Accepting National Investigation Agency's plea seeking custody of Tahir Merchant, a close ally of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, for thorough interrogation in a fake currency case, a special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Friday remanded the accused to agency's custody till November 16.
Two men were arrested in Kerala for allegedly placing a telephone post across a railway track, endangering the lives of passengers. The accused, Rajesh and Arun, were taken into custody and confessed to placing the post on the tracks, but the police are still investigating a possible sabotage angle. The incident occurred on the Kollam-Shenkotta route, and the accused have a criminal track record, with one involved in 11 criminal cases and the other in five cases. The police are investigating whether more people were involved in the incident.
A special court in Panchkula on Friday declined the application of National Investigation Agency seeking further custody of Kamal Chauhan, a disgruntled Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh worker arrested by the investigation agency, in connection with the Samjhauta Express blast.
The driver, identified as Khursheed Ahmed alias 'Surya', said to be an overground operative of the banned LeT, is a resident of Awantipura.
The National Investigation Agency on Friday told a Delhi court that it has been unable to get the custody of 26/11 key handler Abu Jundal, whom it wanted to interrogate for unearthing the conspiracy hatched by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba for terror strikes across India.
The NIA said it was making the plea to get the custody of Jundal alias Syed Zaibuddin from the Delhi Police, as it had registered a case on June 8 on the orders of the Ministry of Home Affairs about the alleged conspiracy hatched by the deported terrorist and others to wage war against India.
Both Lawrence and Anmol Bishnoi have been named as wanted accused in the April 14 firing incident outside the Bollywood actor Salman Khan's Galaxy Apartment in Mumbai's Bandra area.
Officials said that 22-year-old Shakir Bashir Magrey, a furniture shop owner and resident of Hajibal, Kakapora in Pulwama, had provided shelter and other logistical assistance to suicide-bomber Adil Ahmad Dar.
The agency filed an affidavit opposing the bail plea of dismissed police officer Sachin Waze, a prime accused in the cases related to the Antilia bomb scare and subsequent killing of businessman Mansukh Hiran.
Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was on Saturday arrested by the National Investigation Agency Hyderabad in connection with the February 2013 Dilsukhnagar blast case after a Delhi court allowed its plea and granted the probe agency his two-day remand.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has claimed that the documents seized during the nation-wide raids conducted at offices of Popular Front of India (PFI) and its leaders contain highly incriminating materials targeting prominent leaders of a particular community.
A Delhi court on Friday allowed the National Investigation Agency to quiz Wasim Akram Malik, a Kashmir resident, for 14 days in its custody in connection with the September 7 Delhi High Court blast case.
According to NIA sources, a person in personal protective equipment was seen near Mukesh Ambani's residence Antilia. "The NIA is probing if Sachin Waze was present on the spot near Antilia where the Scorpio was abandoned. His alibi and CCTV footage is being investigated," sources said.
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.
Former police officer Sachin Waze, an accused in the Antilia bomb scare-Mansukh Hiran murder case, on Friday moved an application before a special court here seeking permission for placing him under 'house custody' for recovery post an open heart surgery.
Behal is also a member of the legal cell of the separatist amalgam led by Geelani and a 'close associate' of the Hurriyat hawk.
Delhi Police on Monday arrested one of National Investigation Agency's (NIA) most wanted terrorists Mohammad Shahnawaz Alam and his two associates who were part of an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-sponsored module 'disguised' as an Islamic State (IS) module and seized incriminating material, including those suspected to be used in an improvised explosive device (IED) fabrication, officials said.
Gogoi was the only one whose bail was rejected by the court and he was released after spending 567 days in jail once Special NIA Judge Pranjal Das cleared him along with the three others of all charges.
The court of special judge in Guwahati on Friday granted 13 days National Investigation Agency custody for Raj Kumar Meghen, 65, the chairman of the banned United National Liberation Front, one of the oldest and biggest militant outfit in the North East that has been fighting for Manipur's secession from India since 1964.
A bench of Justices V Ramasubramanian and Pankaj Mithal, which extended the protection from arrest to Gogoi till March 3, said it would hear the matter on Friday.
The Supreme Court of India has expressed concern over the protracted trials in heinous offences related to Maoist activities, stating that indefinite incarceration violates the right to liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution. Two separate benches of the court granted relief to two accused, citing the delayed trials. One bench expedited the trial of a man accused of transporting ammunition for a banned organization, while the other granted bail to a man accused of transporting materials for Naxal activities. The court emphasized the importance of speedy trials and suggested the establishment of special courts to handle Maoist-related cases, aiming to expedite proceedings. The court also criticized the practice of examining an excessive number of witnesses, which can lead to indefinite delays in the conclusion of trials.
Additional sessions judge Chander Jit Singh granted the relief to Rashid, who had moved the court seeking interim bail to campaign in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections.
Two other accused in the case -- suspended police constable Vinayak Shinde and cricket bookie Naresh Gor -- were remanded to 14-day judicial custody by the court.
The NIA said in its affidavit that Waze's case was different from that of Varavara Rao accused in the Elgar Parishad case and while the latter had been granted medical bail, Waze was asking for continuing judicial custody in the form of house arrest.
Without naming Waze's accomplice, the National Investigation Agency said certain "incriminating material" was also taken out by someone from the joint locker of Waze and his aide, who is a suspect in the case, from a bank located in Versova area in Mumbai.
The agency has not done an "in- depth" investigation, it said.
Irfan Khan is accused of plotting Kolhe's murder, allotting special tasks to the other accused and supplying vehicles and money to them.
The NIA reportedly registered a First Information Report on Wednesday regarding the murder case of Bajrang Dal activist Harsha Nagaraj, also known as Harsha Hindu.
Teltumbde, who is in jail for the last one-and-a-half years, had approached the HC last month, challenging the order of a special court in the city denying him bail on merits in July.
There is ample material against activist Gautam Navlakha in the charge sheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case and prima facie he is connected with the alleged offence, a special court in Mumbai has said while denying him bail.
Singh, 31, and Rashid, 56, won the recent Lok Sabha elections from Khadoor Sahib in Punjab and Baramulla in Jammu and Kashmir, respectively, as Independents while being incarcerated.
The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict on a plea of activist Gautam Navalakha seeking bail in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case of Bhima Koregaon lodged in Maharashtra.
The National Investigation Agency arrested Waze on Saturday night in connection with its probe into the recovery of a Scorpio containing 20 gelatin sticks near Mukesh Ambani's home on February 25.
'Shoma didn't have the luxury of time. She was already suffering from so many ailments.'
Kataria has been involved in a big nexus of the human traffickers since last year and may have links with an international gang, the police said.
Taking forward its probe into the activities of Islamic State following the arrest of its five alleged operatives in Hyderabad, the National Investigation Agency on Tuesday searched various locations in the city and recovered 17 rounds of ammunition, besides computers and scanners which were used for online communication.
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