Latest National Investigation Agency News & Updates

Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) After three failed attempts, the NIA will again try to produce the seven accused, arrested in West Bengal’s Beldanga unrest case, in a city court on Thursday.This would be the fourth attempt to produce the accused in court, as on the previous three occasions, the state police did not provide the necessary escort to bring the accused from Murshidabad district to Kolkata.The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which has been probing the Beldanga unrest as per the Calcutta H…

New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency has arrested two more individuals allegedly linked to the conspiracy behind the bomb blast in Delhi’s Red Fort area, pushing the total number of arrests in the case to eleven, the investigation agency said in a statement. The arrested persons have been identified as Zameer Ahmad Ahangar, a resident of Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir, and Tufail Ahmad Bhat, a resident of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.According to the NIA, both were actively in…

New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) A little known group called the Tehreek-e-Taliban Hindustan (TTH) has claimed responsibility for the recent killing of police personnel at a border outpost in Punjab. This has led Intelligence agencies to believe that there are renewed efforts to destabilise Punjab through tactical escalation.Two personnel of the Punjab Police who were on duty near the India-Pakistan border were found dead with bullet injuries on February 22.Gurnam Singh and Ashok Kumar, an Assistant Sub…

Chennai, Feb 22 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Sunday, launched a sharp attack on the DMK government, accusing it of presiding over a serious deterioration in law and order and failing to safeguard national security. State BJP President Nainar Nagenthran alleged that Tamil Nadu was increasingly becoming a refuge for extremist elements under the present DMK government. Referring to the recent arrest of six Bangladeshi nationals in Tiruppur by the Delhi Police, …

Visakhapatnam, Feb 20 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday charge sheeted two more accused in the 2025 Vizianagaram ISIS terror conspiracy case.One of the accused charge-sheeted is absconding,In a supplementary chargesheet filed on Friday before the NIA Special Court, Visakhapatnam, the agency has charged Arif Hussain alias Abu Talib and Imran Akram under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, BNS, Explosive Substances Act, 1908, and the Arms Act.The ca…

Patna, Feb 20 (IANS)The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary chargesheet against a fifth accused in connection with the 2024 AK-47 rifle seizure case in Bihar, further tightening its investigation into an alleged illegal arms smuggling network linked to extremist and criminal groups.The accused, identified as Manjoor Khan, a resident of Muzaffarpur district, was arrested by the NIA in August 2025 as part of its ongoing probe into the case.According to the NIA, investigat…

New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against a senior woman commander of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) in connection with the abduction and murder of a villager during a ‘Jan Adalat’ held in Chhattisgarh in 2023, NIA officials said on Friday. The charge sheet, submitted before the NIA Special Court in Jagdalpur city of Bastar, names Raje Kange alias Malti alias Nirmala, Commander of the Raoghat Area Committee, as the prime accus…

Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday approached the Calcutta High Court seeking its intervention in directing the West Bengal Police to submit the case diary of last month’s violence at Beldanga in minority-dominated Murshidabad district to the central agency officials probing the matter.In its petition, the NIA counsel had argued that the state police was refusing to hand over the case diary in the matter despite the Supreme Court’s Division Bench of Chief …

Kolkata, Feb 19 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA), on Thursday, sent an e-mail to the police in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, seeking the case diary in last month’s violence in Beldanga, NIA sources said on Thursday. It is alleged that no action has been taken to hand over the case diary in connection with the Beldanga violence case so far.Although the central probe agency claimed that the Supreme Court has ordered the case diary in the Beldanga violence case to be submitted b…

New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday filed a charge-sheet against three individuals, including a suspected Chinese national, in a cross-border human trafficking and cyber fraud operation originating from Myanmar.The accused—Ankit Kumar alias Ankit Bharadwaj, Ishtikhar Ali alias Ali, and Lisa—face charges under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) including 61(2), 127(4), 143(3), 308(2), 318(4), and 62 read with 143(3), as well as Sect…