The Delhi police probe into the February 13 terror bombing on Israeli envoy Tal Yehoshua's car in New Delhi has revealed that journalist Syed Mohammad Kazmi had plotted it in collusion with members of a military arm -- Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, including one Syed Ali Mahdiansadr.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav issued the warrant against Masod Sedaghatzadeh, an Iranian national who is said to be detained in Malaysia, after Special Cell of Delhi Police said he was also involved in the conspiracy of the blast.
Delhi Police has issued look-out notice for three youths in connection with the controversial event at the JNU last week.
India took the first step towards legalising drones by officially publishing draft rules for drone operations in the Official Gazette on Friday. The rules, termed The Unmanned Aircraft System Rules, 2020, are open for public consultation for 30 days.
Four modules of Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsa International, arrested for planning to target religious figures, were on Wednesday sentenced to imprisonment already undergone after they pleaded guilty for being member of the banned outfit.
The probe by the Bengaluru police in coordination with the special cell of the Delhi police has revealed that the team of 10 persons from the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami and the Lashkar-e-Tayiba had split into two groups to carry out a series of operations in Karnataka.
Suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda and three others, who were accused of helping Pakistani and Bangladeshi terrorists sneak into India in 1997 to carry out terror strikes, were on Saturday discharged in the case by a Delhi court which cited lack of evidence.
One more suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorist allegedly involved in the Pune serial blasts in August has been arrested in Jaipur by the Delhi police, taking the total number of arrests to four.
A Delhi court on Monday charged alleged top naxal leader Kobad Ghandy with being a member of a banned terror outfit and furthering its activities in violation of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
The Delhi Police on Friday filed a charge sheet in a court against suspected top Indian Mujahideen operatives Tehsin Akhtar, Zia-Ur-Rahman and three others for allegedly setting up an illegal arms factory in the national capital from where a huge quantity of arms and ammunition were recovered.
Two suspected terrorists of the Babbar Khalsa International have been arrested by the Delhi police. The police claimed that some politicians and religious leaders were on the duo's target list. The arrested have been identified as Sarvpreet and Jaswinder. A team of Delhi police's Special Cell apprehended the duo, said a senior police official.One of them was arrested from Punjab while the second person was apprehended from north-west Delhi's Shalimar Bagh
'Especially at a time when truth is being twisted and a new narrative is being manufactured.'
A round-the-clock three-tier security ring has been thrown around the special cell office of the Delhi police where the prize catch in 26/11, Sayed Zabiuddin alias Abu Jundal of the Lashker-e-Tayiba, has been kept.
The Mumbai police on Tuesday moved a court in New Delhi seeking custody of alleged 26/11 Mumbai terror attack key handler Abu Jundal, who is currently in the custody of the special cell of the Delhi police.
The Delhi police was specifically told on Wednesday by a court in New Delhi not to permit any other probe agency to interrogate journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the February 13 bombing of an Israeli diplomat car.
The Delhi police on Wednesday recorded the statement of pro-Pakistan hardliner Hurriyat Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani in connection with the allegations that he had given a recommendation letter to arrested Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant Athesham Malik for getting a Pakistani visa.
The BJP's document for Delhi polls sparked a row by describing people from NE states as 'immigrants'.
A CRPF vehicle had suffered slight damage when a Santro car went up in flames after an explosion at Tethar village, seven km from Banihal, shortly after a Jammu-bound convoy crossed the Jawahar Tunnel, the gateway to Kashmir valley.
A suspected hawala operator, who allegedly handed over Rs 10 lakh to fugitive Indian Mujahiddin operative Yasin Bhatkal for executing the July 13 triple blasts that killed 27 people in Mumbai, has been arrested from Delhi, the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad said on Tuesday.
Toral Varia Deshpande brings you the details of how rivalry between India's two of the most recognised agencies, the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad and the Special Cell of Delhi Police, has cost India one it's most wanted terrorist and 13/7 Mumbai serial blasts mastermind -- Yasin Ahmad Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal.
The Delhi police on Saturday denied that it had made journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged role in the bombing of an Israeli diplomat's car, sign blank papers and documents without letting him read them.
A madrassa teacher from Bengaluru has been arrested by Delhi Police for suspected links with Al Qaeda, making it the fourth arrest in its ongoing operation against the terror outfit.
The Delhi police's Special Cell has lodged an FIR under sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and sections of the IPC dealing with sedition to investigate the violence at Red Fort in Delhi on January 26.
The custody of two alleged Indian Mujahideen members, brought to New Delhi from a Bangalore jail, was on Monday given to Delhi police for ten days by a court in the Jama Masjid attack case in which Mumbai's 26/11 terrorists' handler Abu Jundal is also an accused.
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.
Two days after naxal leader Kobad Ghandy was absolved of the terror charges under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act for want of proper sanction, the police has made a fresh plea to a Delhi court with a renewed sanction of his prosecution under the anti-terror law.
A Delhi court has sentenced an army jawan to seven years in jail for doubling as a Pakistan intelligence agent and supplying sensitive defence-related information to the neighbouring country.
The Delhi police on Wednesday told a court in New Delhi that the conspiracy of Israeli diplomat car bombing case was hatched outside India and the possibility of foreign hands in it cannot be ruled out.
The Jayalalithaa-led All India Anna Dravida Munetra Kazhagam government on Thursday underlined its determination to act against land grab cases, in which connection many DMK functionaries have been jailed, assuring victims their "lost property" would be reclaimed.
Banned Indian Mujahideen terror outfit is suspected to be behind the low intensity blast outside the Delhi high court in May last year.
The city police on Tuesday moved the Delhi high court for slapping of a more stringent spying charge, entailing 14 years' jail term, on suspended Indian diplomat Madhuri Gupta
A suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba militant arrested for allegedly planning to carry out bomb blasts in the capital was on Saturday acquitted by a Delhi court. Mukhtar Ahmed Khan, arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police in June, 2007, was acquitted by Additional Sessions Judge S S Rathi as the prosecution failed to prove its case.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said public sector banks plan to hire 50,000 persons and open 10,000 branches in the current fiscal.
Even before the holiday season has begun, all airlines have jacked up their fares on many busy air routes by 10-25 per cent over the past few days.
Sources in the special cell have said that police forces in multiple states have been asked to track the regrouping of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India. Sahim Salim reports.
A Nepali national, suspected to be behind supplying explosive materials to Maoists in India and Nepal, has been placed under arrest in the capital New Delhi's central district area. Police officials said that the accused has been arrested with several explosive detonators and wires.
As Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Rakesh Maria claimed a breakthrough in the 13/7 Mumbai blasts case on Monday he seems to have ruffled quite a few feathers. Though he junked out reports of a tiff with the special cell of the Delhi police in carrying out the probe, insiders say the arrests of the two Darbhanga operatives were an attempt by the ATS to gain an upper hand in the investigation.
A Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy was allegedly tortured by a staffer of the jail in Punjab province where she is being held, according to a media report on Wednesday.
One person was detained in Uttar Pradesh on Friday in connection with the low-intensity explosion outside the Delhi high court. Investigators, however, said they were yet to make any concrete breakthrough in the case.
A Special Cell team arrested Jani under Section 41(1) of CrPC and will hand him over to the New Delhi district police.
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