New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested another key absconder in Kerala’s Sreenivasan murder case, linked with the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) terrorist organisation. K.P. Muhammadali, the PFI Palakkad district president, was taken into custody on Thursday morning at the IGI Airport, New Delhi, on his arrival from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he had been hiding for the past four years.With this, the total number of accused arrested in the case now …
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Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) A police station for the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will be set up in West Bengal soon. A proposal on this count was cleared at a meeting of the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday. The work for setting up the police station will commence shortly, the State Municipal Affairs and Urban Development Minister Agnimitra Paul, a fashion designer‑turned‑politician, informed media persons at the end of the cabinet meeting.The eastern…
Bengaluru, July 21 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted searches at eight locations across Bengaluru in connection with a money laundering investigation linked to the alleged recruitment and funding of individuals to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror outfit in Syria.The probe is based on a First Information Report (FIR) registered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under provisions related to unlawful activities and terrorism.According to the …
Kolkata, July 19 (IANS) One more person has been arrested in connection with the house explosion in Rajarhat in Kolkata on Friday, taking the total number of arrests in the case to two, police said on Sunday.The arrested accused, identified as Shahenshah, is a broker who allegedly helped the main accused, Mohammad Shamim, secure a rented room in the house using a fake identity. Mohammad Shamim was arrested on Saturday from Sodepur in North 24 Parganas district. According to the police, Shahensha…
Kolkata, July 18 (IANS) The police on Saturday detained one person in connection with the explosion in a house in the Rajarhat area in the northern outskirts of Kolkata. The police said the prime suspect, Md Shamim alias Salim, a resident of the Kamarhati area of North 24 Parganas district, was on the run. According to the police, an explosion took place in a house in the Dakshin Narayanpur area of Rajarhat last night. One person was injured in the explosion. It is learnt that two people rented …
Imphal, July 18 (IANS) A joint team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Manipur Police on Saturday arrested two more accused from Manipur’s Kangpokpi district for their alleged involvement in the abduction and killing of six Naga civilians, police said. A senior police official said the latest arrests have taken the total number of accused apprehended in the case to four. All four are alleged to have been involved in the abduction and murder of s…
New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) India on Friday yet again slammed Pakistan for it support and sponsorship of cross-border terrorism while using it as an instrument of state policy. Addressing a bi-weekly media briefing in New Delhi on Friday, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that that investigation continues in last year’s heinous Pahalgam terror attack carried out by Pakistan-backed terror groups.”The Pahalgam terror attack took several innocent lives. You all saw …
Ranchi, July 16 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday carried out coordinated raids at multiple locations in Jharkhand’s Lohardaga district in connection with the petrol bomb attack on the regional office of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Ranchi in June.The agency searched the premises of suspects linked to the case and examined digital devices, documents and other potential evidence.An NIA team reached Lohardaga at around 4 a.m. on Thursday, accompanied by local…
Bengaluru, July 14 (IANS) A Special Court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Bengaluru has convicted and sentenced Mohammed Haneef Khan, a key accused in the 2020 Al-Hind ISIS terror conspiracy case, to seven years of rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 48,000. Haneef Khan is the first accused to be convicted in the case, in which the NIA has so far chargesheeted 20 accused, all of whom have been arrested.According to the NIA, Haneef pleaded guilty during the trial, which co…
Bhubaneswar, July 14 (IANS) In a coordinated operation in and around Bhubaneswar in Odisha, multiple teams of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday searched three locations in connection with the bomb blast that occurred in the Sundarpada area of Bhubaneswar in January 2026, the NIA said in an official statement. The premier anti-terror agency further added that the targeted locations were identified through detailed analysis of various evidence collected earlier from one accused ar…