New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted the National Investigation Agency (NIA) a last opportunity to file its rejoinder in its appeal seeking the death penalty for Yasin Malik, the Kashmiri separatist leader and chief of the banned JKLF, who is serving a life sentence in a terror-funding case.A Division Bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Ravinder Dudeja allowed four weeks’ time to the anti-terror agency to place its rejoinder on record and listed the matter for furt…
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Chaibasa/Ranchi, Jan 23 (IANS) Security forces scored another success in the ongoing anti-Naxal operation in Jharkhand’s Saranda forest as a woman Maoist was killed in a fresh encounter on Friday morning, officials said. The exchange of fire took place between the remote villages of Kumdi and Hinjodiri under the Kiriburu police station area in Naxal-affected West Singhbhum district.With this, the total number of Maoists killed in the operation has risen to 16.On Thursday, 15 Maoists, including…
Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS) A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday gave freedom to the Union government to order a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the violence and tension for two days last week at Beldanga in minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, reportedly over the alleged murder of a local migrant worker from that district in Jharkhand.The Division Bench of Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen also directed…
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the National Investigation Agency (NIA) three weeks’ time to file its response on the bail plea of Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in a terror-funding case. The matter will now be heard on February 10.Seeking additional time, the NIA told the apex court that new facts had emerged in the case and that it would file a detailed reply to Shah’s rejoinder affidavit. The court accepted the request.Shabir Shah, 74, has sough…
Bengaluru, Jan 12 (IANS) The Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fact-finding committee formed in the backdrop of row surrounding demolition and rehabilitation of encroachers in Kogilu Layout region of Bengaluru by the Congress-led state government after the intervention of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) has demanded a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in this matter. Speaking to the media after submitting a report to the State BJP President and MLA B.Y. Vijayendra at …
Srinagar, Jan 9 (IANS) Former Chief Minister and president of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti said on Friday that the recent actions of the Hindu groups have negated the decision of the people in the “Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir” to reject the two-nation theory of Mohammad Ali Jinnah by joining Mahatma Gandhi’s secular India.Addressing a press conference here, Mehbooba Mufti said the leadership of J&K joined the secular India represented by Gandhi, thereby rejecting the t…
Imphal, Jan 6 (IANS) The Manipur government has handed over the investigation into the incident, in which two persons, including a woman, were injured in two consecutive explosions in Bishnupur district, to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), officials said on Tuesday. A police official said that the case relating to the two consecutive explosions on Monday, triggered by locally made Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), has been forwarded to the NIA for an in-depth investigation.He said tha…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) Initiating the prosecution proceedings in the high-profile Neemrana hotel firing case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed chargesheets against the two main shooters, with alleged links to Khalistani terrorist Arsh Dalla.The arrested accused, Puneet and Narinder Lalli, have been chargesheeted for various offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Arms Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.”The Punjab-based shooters had carried out the actual …
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday charge sheeted four more CPI (Maoist) cadres in connection with the murder of a ‘Gopniya Sainik’ of the Bijapur district police in Chhattisgarh. The four accused, identified as Raju Kursam, Sukku Kursam, Shankar Kursam and Mannu Kursam, have been charged under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, said a statement.This takes the total number of accused charges…
Mumbai, Dec 31 (IANS) Former National Investigation Agency (NIA) director general Sadanand Date has been appointed as Maharashtra’s director general of police (DGP) for a two-year term, the state government announced on Wednesday. Date, a 1990 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, will take over from incumbent Rashmi Shukla when she completes her tenure on January 3.According to the government order, Date has been appointed to the post for two years, irrespective of his retirement date. H…