New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) A Delhi court on Friday granted the National Investigation Agency (NIA) an additional 45 days to complete its investigation in the Red Fort blast case that claimed 11 lives and left several others injured. Though the anti-terror agency had sought a 90-day extension, the Patiala House Court partially allowed the NIA’s plea and directed that the investigation be completed within the extended period.It also extended the judicial custody of the seven accused in the case ti…
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Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday remanded 36 accused individuals arrested in connection with the recent violence at Beldanga in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal to judicial custody till February 19.Of the 36 accused persons, 31 were presented before the special NIA court through a virtual hearing after NIA officials failed to produce them physically due to the inability of the Murshidabad district police to pr…
Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) team probing the recent case of violence at Beldanga in minority dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal, on Thursday morning, failed to produce 36 accused, arrested in the case, at a special NIA court.This is the second time the NIA has failed to produce the accused in court, and the reason is that the Murshidabad district police failed to provide adequate police escort again.Earlier, on February 5, the NIA team failed to pres…
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…
Patna, Feb 6 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted Md Fasi Uddin, a resident of Hyderabad, in connection with the seizure of high-quality Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) in Bihar, exposing a transnational counterfeit currency racket operating through Pakistan and Nepal.Md Fasi Uddin is the fifth accused to be charged in the 2024 case involving the recovery of fake currency from Banjariya in Champaran district.According to the NIA, he was an active member of an intern…
Patna, Jan 28 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has charge sheeted Lakshman Paswan, a prime accused, in connection with the attempted revival of the banned Maoist organisation — CPI (Maoist) — in the Magadh zone of Bihar, NIA officials said on Wednesday. Lakshman Paswan has been charge sheeted under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.According to the NIA investigation, he was actively involved in collecting levy from bus…
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…
Ahmedabad, Jan 27 (IANS) The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Tuesday said it has uncovered extensive evidence of an alleged terror conspiracy following the arrest of a 22-year-old man from Navsari district, with officials pointing to online radicalisation, possession of weapons and plans for targeted killings as part of a broader extremist agenda. The accused, identified as Faizan Shaikh, is a native of Dundawala village in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh. He had been residing in the Zara…
Kolkata, Jan 21 (IANS) A National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court here on Wednesday sentenced Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Syed Mohammad Idrish to 10 years of imprisonment. While hearing a sedition case against him, Judge Sukumar Roy issued this order, which also included a fine.NIA lawyer Shyamal Ghosh said that Idrish confessed his guilt in court. After considering all aspects, the court found Idrish guilty.In March 2020, college student Tania Parvin was arrested on charges of working fo…
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) Activist Sharjeel Imam on Thursday concluded his arguments before a Delhi court against the framing of charges in the alleged “larger conspiracy” case linked to the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots, stating that he never supported violence and had no coordination with co-accused Umar Khalid.Arguing before Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Sameer Bajpai of Karkardooma Courts, Imam’s counsel Talib Mustafa submitted that the prosecution had failed to establish any agreement or…