New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Indian agencies have reported a sharp rise in counterfeit currency seizures, pointing to a renewed push by organised networks to expand operations.Investigators say the syndicate linked to Dawood Ibrahim, operating from Pakistan, is increasingly directing operatives in India to print fake notes locally instead of relying on cross-border smuggling routes through Pakistan and Bangladesh.The trend points to a deliberate attempt to scale up production, with signs of a coor…
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Lucknow/Delhi, April 14 (IANS) A court in Lucknow on Monday sentenced three terrorists linked to the Al-Qaeda-affiliated terror module Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH) to life imprisonment for conspiring to carry out serial blasts in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the country. Special Judge (NIA/ATS) Jitendra Kumar Pandey convicted and sentenced Minhaj Ahmad alias Minhaj, Musiruddin alias Musir alias Raju, and Tauheed Ahmad Shah alias Sobu Shah in the case investigated by the National Investigation…
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Indian security agencies are closely monitoring signs of a possible resurgence of the Base Movement in South India, a group linked to Al-Qaeda. The outfit was active during 2015–16 and had carried out low-intensity blasts, largely targeting the judiciary and police.An official has said that several members of the group remain active online and are now attempting to regroup, particularly in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.Recent intelligence inputs indicate that individuals …
Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency has applied to the court for the custody of 47 accused arrested in the Kaliachak incident, an official of the central investigation agency said. About 12 First Information Reports have already been filed in this incident. Incidentally, the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate in Malda district had already remanded those arrested in this incident to police custody. Later, the court ordered that the 46 accused be placed in judicial …
Bengaluru, April 8 (IANS) A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has convicted and sentenced four Bangladeshi nationals in a transnational human trafficking case, the official statement said on Wednesday. The NIA Special Court in Bengaluru sentenced Zakir Khan, Badal Houladar, Kabir Talukdar, and Mohammed Bachchu Gharami to three years of rigorous imprisonment.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on each of them, with an additional one month of imprisonment in cas…
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) The rapid rise of crypto-hawala is emerging as a serious concern for security and enforcement agencies, with digital channels increasingly replacing the traditional hawala system that relied on personal trust and informal networks.While the purpose of such transactions remains unchanged, concealing the origin and destination of funds, the method has shifted to technology-driven platforms that make transfers appear routine and harder to detect. Officials say this transit…
Kolkata/New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Strongly condemning the alleged attack on judicial officers in West Bengal’s Malda district, the Calcutta High Court Bar Association on Tuesday passed a resolution suspending one of its members and calling for strict action against those involved. In a resolution adopted at an urgent general body meeting held at 1:30 p.m., the Bar body expressed “grave concern” over the incident that took place in the early hours of April 1 at Kaliachak in Malda, where sev…
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) For the Khalistani terror groups, the narrative is fast falling. A referendum call by the proscribed terror group Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) had earlier attracted a crowd of 1.3 lakh, but a recent event in Canada turned out to be a damp squib. The SFJ had called for an anti-India referendum and asked people to gather in large numbers outside the Triveni Temple and Lakshmi Narayan Temple at Brampton and Surrey. The SFJ was in for a surprise to see that the police had made e…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) A Delhi court on Monday sent seven foreign nationals, accused of imparting terror training in Myanmar, to 30 days judicial custody in a case being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The NIA Court at Patiala House passed the order after the accused were produced before it following the expiry of their previously granted custody. The seven accused — six Ukrainian nationals and one American citizen — were arrested in connection with an alleged int…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take over the probe into the incident in West Bengal’s Malda district, where seven judicial officers deputed for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were allegedly held hostage for several hours at a BDO office in Kaliachowk.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi, while hearing a suo motu writ petition regis…