New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two key absconders in connection with the targeted killing of local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Praveen Nettaru by cadres of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) in Karnataka in 2022, an official said on Sunday. Abdul Nasir and Naushad were nabbed respectively from Kochi (Kerala) and Hosur (Tamil Nadu) on Saturday in a meticulous operation carried out across the two states based on credible information from the…
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New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) The trial in the National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) terror conspiracy case against former Popular Front of India (PFI) Chairman E. Abubacker and other office-bearers of the banned outfit will commence on July 29 after they pleaded not guilty before a Delhi court on Saturday. Appearing before the Special NIA Court at the Patiala House Courts, all 21 accused denied the charges framed against them and opted to face trial. The court has fixed July 29 for the commencement…
New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed charges against eight accused, including Pakistani gangster-turned-terrorist Shehzad Bhatti, in connection with the IED car bomb blast in the parking area of Ambala’s Baldev Nagar police station in January this year, an official said. Bhatti, wanted in other terrorist cases too, and seven arrested Indian nationals have been chargesheeted under relevant sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, BNS 202…
Srinagar, July 10 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said on Friday that it has charged Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah among six other separatists for the 1996 Srinagar violence. A press release by the NIA said the agency has chargesheeted six senior leaders of the separatist Hurriyat Conference in connection with a 1996 case of mob violence and indiscriminate firing on police personnel in Srinagar (J&K). The chargesheet, filed on Friday before the NIA Special Court, Jam…
New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA), along with police and central security forces, is conducting simultaneous raids at 20 locations across Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Bihar, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Gujarat, Telangana, and West Bengal in connection with a terror conspiracy case, officials said on Wednesday.These raids are being carried out in connection with the NIA’s investigation into a terror-linked radicalisation case registered at the Visakh…
New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of alleged Indian Mujahideen media cell head Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy in the 2008 Delhi serial blasts case, holding that the gravity of the terror allegations, the material collected against him, and the advanced stage of the trial outweighed the long period of his incarceration as an undertrial. A Division Bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Madhu Jain dismissed Peerbhoy’s appeal challenging a trial court order r…
Banaskantha, July 6 (IANS) The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Monday took three of the eight accused arrested in the alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) module case to Bhagal village in Palanpur of Banaskantha district, as part of its ongoing investigation during police remand. According to the sources, the visit was undertaken to reconstruct the sequence of events, verify evidence gathered during the investigation and corroborate information obtained from the accused following their arrest.Th…
Amaravati, July 6 (IANS) YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) has accused the coalition government in Andhra Pradesh of acting in a vindictive manner against social media activists who are highlighting its failures in governance and said the party will stand by the victims, irrespective of their party affiliations.Former minister Ambati Rambabu told the media in Guntur that by haunting YouTuber influencers like KVR and Raavan, the coalition is digging its own grave by incessantly pursuing the cases till t…
Vijayawada, July 6 (IANS) A court at Gannavaram in Andhra Pradesh’s Krishna district has sent YouTuber and political commentator Bachalakuri Joseph alias Prashna Raavan, to judicial custody for 14 days in the case relating to alleged derogatory remarks against the state’s Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan. Arrested for the fifth time in less than a week, Raavan was produced before a judge late on Sunday night.After hearing arguments from both the sides, the judge remanded Raavan to judicial rem…
New Delhi, July 5 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday launched a blistering attack on the Congress, accusing it of treating “anti-national forces” as “revolutionaries” after a Delhi court rejected the bail pleas filed by Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the larger conspiracy case related to the 2020 North East Delhi riots.The court held that it was bound by the Supreme Court’s earlier order declining them bail and that their fresh applications were not maintainable.Talking to IANS,…