Imphal, April 18 (IANS) Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Saturday announced that the state government has decided to hand over the investigation into the Ukhrul district shooting incident to the National Investigation Agency for a thorough probe. According to police, two persons belonging to the Naga community were shot dead along the Imphal-Dimapur National Highway (NH-2) in Ukhrul district after unidentified armed assailants opened fire on vehicles heading towards the distri…
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New Delhi/Srinagar, April 18 (IANS) Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with a 30-year-old case involving alleged attacks on police personnel, officials said on Saturday. Shah was taken into custody by the NIA’s Srinagar branch on Friday evening and subsequently produced before a court in Delhi, which granted a three-day transit remand to enable the anti-terror agency to take him to Jammu and Kashmir for fu…
Imphal, April 18 (IANS) With an improvement in the law and order situation, the Manipur government on Saturday revoked the suspension of mobile internet and data services, including broadband, across five Imphal Valley districts, officials said. The suspension of mobile internet and data services was initially imposed for three days, hours after a deadly bomb attack in Bishnupur district on April 7. The attack, allegedly carried out by suspected Kuki militants, claimed the lives of two childr…
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) The arrest of alleged organised crime figure Daniel Kinahan in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) could impact funding channels linked to Khalistan elements, with Indian agencies closely monitoring the developments, sources said.Officials have long maintained that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has attempted to leverage global drug cartels to channel funds towards activities linked to the Khalistan movement. While the Dawood Ibrahim syndicate is believed to…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday granted “default bail” to 15 of the 35 accused in connection with the violence that erupted at Beldanga in West Bengal’s minority-dominated Murshidabad district earlier this year.The default bail was granted to these 15 accused persons after the investigating agency failed to submit a charge sheet against them within 90 days from the day of their arrest. However, the court had imposed certain co…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) The busting of the ISI’s spy network that used CCTV cameras to gather live feed of sensitive locations in various parts of the country will now be probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The case was first cracked by the Ghaziabad police, and investigations revealed that the network was widespread, and hence the need for an NIA probe. NIA officials say that the case details are being analysed. The agency would probe several angles of this case and also che…
Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sought custody of 12 of the 49 accused arrested in the case of harassing judges assigned to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) work in Mothabari, Malda district. The remaining 37 have been granted judicial custody. The lawyer of the arrested Mofakkerul Islam has filed a bail application. The state police had described him as the ‘mastermind’ of the incident.The hearing of the Mothabari case was held in the Kolkata …
Chandigarh, April 16 (IANS) The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday dismissed Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh’s plea challenging the legality of the third successive detention order issued against him under the National Security Act (NSA).”It is clear as daylight that the impugned order of preventive detention passed against the petitioner is immune from the powers of judicial review. Consequently, the petition stands dismissed,” a Bench headed by Chief Justice Sheel Nagu observed while …
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Radicalisation has become one of the biggest threats facing India. The agencies warn that radicalisation camps can come up at unassuming locations as they largely remain off the radar. The TCS case is one such example where the police found that professional seniority was used as a leverage to allegedly radicalise and also convert vulnerable junior employees between 2021 and 2026.While the probe is ongoing, the agencies are set to look into a larger pattern. More such …
Patna, April 15 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a supplementary chargesheet against Kundan Kumar, also known as Kundan Bhagat, in connection with a 2024 Bihar case involving the smuggling of illegal weapons.The chargesheet was submitted before the NIA Special Court in Patna, invoking multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Arms Act, and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).With this, Kundan Kumar becomes the sixth accused to be chargeshe…