Farzana Khatoon, wife of National Investigation Agency officer Tanzil Ahmad who was shot dead in an April 3 attack which also left her grievously injured, succumbed on Wednesday morning.
The Centre on Friday supported a petition in the Supreme Court for a thorough probe into a "massive security breach" during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Punjab, and sought the involvement of the National Investigation Agency in the probe as there was a possibility of "international terrorist angle" and it was a unique case that had the potential to cause "embarrassment".
A National Investigation Agency Court on Thursday ordered release of a terror suspect, who allegedly conspired to kill prominent politicians and journalists in three states, on 'statutory' bail since the NIA failed to file chargesheet against him, a lawyer representing him said.
There have been no major blasts in the state, but most terror operatives are trained in camps in the state. Extremely volatile, Kerala has been declared a Red Zone by the NIA.
The NIA arrested the three during in-chamber proceedings before Special Judge Rakesh Syal and sought 15-day custodial interrogation.
The NIA is also probing all angles of the funding of separatist leaders.
The NIA had alerted the island nation that ISIS terrorists were planning to carry out strikes there.
The NIA told the court that Iqbal was required to be interrogated to ascertain the identities of his other associates and know about their funding pattern.
Modi will hold the post till his superannuation on May 31, 2021.
The National Investigation Agency carried out searches at the premises of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, his NGO and a few associates for the third consecutive day on Monday, even as it blocked the website of outlawed Islamic Research Foundation founded by him.
Continuing their investigation into the blasts ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Patna last October, the National Investigating Agency on Saturday recovered 16 live bombs from the Sithio village near Ranchi, Jharkhand.
A Delhi court on Tuesday extended till September 22 the National Investigation Agency custody of Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal after the probe agency said he was involved in "subversive activities" of causing bomb blasts in different parts of India since 2003.
The 83-year-old, who has challenged the Bombay high court's April 13 order rejecting his plea for permanent bail on medical grounds, is currently on interim bail on medical grounds and he was to surrender on July 12.
During investigation, 'sufficient evidences have not been found against' Pragya Singh Thakur and five others, the NIA said, adding it has submitted in the chargesheet 'that the prosecution against them is not maintainable'.
'It is funny that he's on CCTV all the time, but the Punjab police can't find him.'
'He never had anything to substantiate his allegations while dropping names. It was done more to divert the investigation,' NIA sources tell Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa.
At this moment it is not possible to say whether any organisation or an individual was involved, the home minister said. There were certain theories during his visit to the cafe on Friday night, expressing suspicion that someone might have done it out of 'heartburn', unable to digest the cafe's success and expansion.
The National Investigation Agency on Saturday arrested Abdul Mazeed Momin, an absconder, in connection with the Burdwan blast, taking the total number of arrested persons to 17.
In searches carried out in the city earlier, the NIA had arrested two people -- Mohammed Azarudheen and Shiek Hidayathulla.
Disposing of the plea on August 1, special judge AK Lahoti, however, noted the contentions raised by the accused are kept open and he is at liberty to point them out at the time of final hearing.
Official sources said all the banks, where Naik's and his organisation's accounts were in operation, have been asked to immediately freeze those till further directions.
After hearing the NIA's arguments, the court remanded all the accused to agency's custody till July 25, they said.
Police sources said that four persons have been detained for questioning in connection with Friday's low-intensity bomb blast at The Rameshwaram Cafe.
In its chargesheet, the NIA has alleged that Jundal during 2011 and 2012 had made "deliberate attempts for recruiting different persons through internet for joining Lashker-e-Tayiba terror organisation and carry out terror activities in India."
Abu Jundal, a 26/11 key handler and LeT terrorist, was on Monday handed over to the NIA for custodial interrogation by a Delhi court where he claimed that he was "tortured" physically and mentally during the probe by various agencies since his arrest in June this year.
National Investigation Agency officials seized Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar's home in Srinagar on Thursday, March 2, 2023. On December 31, 1999, Zargar was released along with Jaish e Mohammed founder Masood Azhar and the British terrorist Omar Saeed Shaikh in exchange for the passengers and crew on board IC-814, the Indian Airlines flight hijacked from Kathmandu and flown to Kandahar in Afghanistan.
In his recent speeches in Rajasthan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also targeted the Gehlot government over the incident.
Punjab Police Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh was on Monday put by NIA to exhaustive questioning for eight hours in connection with the Pathankot terror attack.
The home minister, however, said the government will make an exception in case someone from a family comes forward and informs the authorities that his or her close relative has joined a terror outfit.
In their first-ever visit to Sanatan Sanstha after taking over the Margao blast case, National Investigating Agency (NIA) officials on Saturday questioned its managing trustee at its Ramnathi ashram, around 30 kms from Panaji.
The NIA detained 31-year-old H Subuhani from Kadayanallur in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district for plotting terror activities.
Justifying enactment of the National Investigation Agency Act and transferring the probe in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case to the agency, the Union government on Wednesday told the Bombay high court that Parliament could enact any act for the whole or any part of the country.
The custodial interrogation of Abu Jundal, a 26/11 key handler and a Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist, has been completed, the National Investigation Agency told a Delhi court on Saturday.
In a judgment that seeks to define the role of the National Investigation Agency, the Bombay high court has ruled that as a matter of general rule the agency cannot be prohibited from carrying out fresh investigations or re-investigations in specific cases.
The Bombay high court in its judgment granting bail to activist Gautam Navlakha, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, has noted that there was no material on record to infer prima facie that he conspired to or committed any terrorist act.
Will the NIA 'get conviction' in Mecca Masjid blast, Ajmer Dargha blast and Malegaon blasts cases, he asked.
The arrests have been made in cases related to blasts outside court premises in South India since April this year.
Radha Vinod Raju, Special Director General of Police in Jammu and Kashmir, was today appointed as Director General of the newly established National Investigation Agency (NIA). A 1975-batch IPS officer, 59-year-old Raju, who heads the vigilance department in the militancy-hit state, will be the head of the NIA till January 21, 2010, an official spokesperson said.
The incident occurred on the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express train in which two months ago a man had set fire to his co-passengers, which resulted in three deaths including a toddler, leading to speculation that it might be a case of sabotage and connected to the earlier one.
Sayyed Liyaqat Shah, arrested in 2013 by Delhi police on charges of being a terrorist of banned outfit Hizbul Mujahideen and planning attacks in New Delhi, has sought his discharge before a Delhi court, saying no evidence has been found against him by the NIA.
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