Patna, March 12 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary chargesheet against two more accused in a 2022 case related to an alleged conspiracy by the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) to disrupt peace and communal harmony through unlawful and anti-national activities.The chargesheet was submitted on Wednesday before the NIA Special Court, taking the total number of accused arrested and chargesheeted in the case to 20.According to the NIA investigation, the two ac…
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Mumbai, March 5 (IANS) The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested a 21-year-old engineering student, Ayan Sheikh, for his alleged links to Pakistan-based terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and the proscribed global terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), officials said on Thursday. Sheikh has been booked under Sections 38 and 39 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), along with Sections 152, 196, and 197 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Acc…
Srinagar, Feb 27 (IANS) The Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) wing of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday said it has secured non-bailable warrants (NBWs) against the chief of the United Jihad Council (UJC) and three other operatives of the proscribed terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) as part of an intensified crackdown on terrorist operatives.A CIK spokesperson said the warrants were obtained in connection with FIR No. 05/1996 registered at Police Station CIK under Sections 121, 121-A, 1…
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 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice on a plea filed by Tasleem Ahmed, an accused in the 2020 city riots “larger conspiracy case”, challenging the Delhi High Court’s order refusing to grant him bail under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and Prasanna B. Varale sought a response from the Delhi Police on Ahmed’s special leave petition (SLP) assailing the September 2, 2025 judgment of the Delhi High…
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Calcutta High Court to independently examine whether the invocation of provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was justified in connection with the recent violence at Beldanga in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district.A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a petition filed by the West Bengal government challenging the…
Jammu, Jan 12 (IANS) Police in J&K’s Jammu district said on Monday that they have arrested a drug peddler from whose possession heroin was recovered.A police statement said, “Continuing firm actions against the drug menace, Police Station City Jammu achieved a breakthrough by arresting a notorious drug peddler and seizing heroin during a targeted operation in the city. On 10.01.2026, acting on specific and credible inputs and under sustained surveillance to curb drug abuse, a police team…
Srinagar, Jan 7 (IANS) Police in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama on Wednesday said they recovered 4.5 kg of ‘Charas’ (Marijuana), thereby giving a big blow to drug trafficking in the district.A police statement said, “Continuing its firm crackdown against drug trafficking, Pulwama Police today achieved a major success by recovering 4.5 kilograms of Charas powder-like substance during routine patrolling in the Kulpora area of Pulwama district. During the operation, police apprehended one indivi…
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the bail pleas of student activists Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid in the “larger conspiracy” case behind the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots, holding that the prosecution material, taken at face value and read cumulatively, disclosed reasonable grounds for believing that the accusations against them were prima facie true. In its detailed judgement, a Bench headed by Justice Aravind Kumar stressed that at the stage of bail under the Unl…
New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to refuse bail to student activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the alleged “larger conspiracy” case linked to the 2020 Delhi riots.”We welcome the Court’s decision to reject the bail pleas of Delhi riots accused Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid. Those who pushed Delhi into the flames of riots should receive the strictest punishment. Political parties that supported such rioters sho…