Threat Calls to Gadkari: 2005 IISc Bengaluru Terror Attack Convict Brought to Nagpur as Part of Probe
1 year, 5 months ago

Threat Calls to Gadkari: 2005 IISc Bengaluru Terror Attack Convict Brought to Nagpur as Part of Probe

News 18  

A man convicted in the 2005 terror attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru and serving his sentence in a jail in Belagavi was brought to Nagpur on Saturday in connection with threat and extortion calls made to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari. Afsar Pasha was arrested from prison in Karnataka and brought here on a production warrant in the evening, Nagpur Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar said. A probe began after a threat and extortion call seeking Rs 100 crore was received on January 14 this year at the Nagpur-based public relations office of Gadkari. Pujari was brought to Nagpur on March 28 and two cases were registered against him under provisions of the Unlawful Activities Act and Indian Penal Code at Dhantoli police station.

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Lashkar terrorist, accused of funding terrorism in India, extradited from Rwanda
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1 month, 1 week ago

Lashkar terrorist, accused of funding terrorism in India, extradited from Rwanda

India Today  

The Central Bureau of Investigation has extradited a Lashkar-e-Taiba -linked terrorist accused of providing funds and arms and ammunition to Bengaluru-based militant modules from Rwanda, officials said. According to the officials, Salman Rehman Khan's extradition was part of a highly confidential operation conducted by the CBI's Global Operations Centre in collaboration with the National Investigation Agency and Interpol's National Central …

Delhi Man Arrested for Posting Threatening Messages on Email
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Delhi Man Arrested for Posting Threatening Messages on Email

The Hindu  

A 25-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly posting threat messages to a flight at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi. The police received two suspicious and potential bomb threat messages through an email account and took immediate action by registering a case under section 3(1)(d) of the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against Safety of Civil Aviation (SUA SCA) Act, …

Bengaluru BJP office was first target of accused in cafe blast case: NIA
4 months ago

Bengaluru BJP office was first target of accused in cafe blast case: NIA

Hindustan Times  

The two key accused in the Bengaluru cafe explosion case were involved in a “failed IED attack” at the office of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the city on January 22, the day of the consecration ceremony at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the National Investigation Agency said on Monday, as it filed its charge sheet against four people in …

Bengaluru engineer, who has been on NIA most wanted list since 2012, emerges as handler of three terror modules in Karnataka
4 months ago

Bengaluru engineer, who has been on NIA most wanted list since 2012, emerges as handler of three terror modules in Karnataka

The Hindu  

Mohammed Shahid Faisal, said to be 40-years-old and suspected to be based out of Pakistan, has been named by the National Investigation Agency as the alleged handler of the terror module that carried out an IED explosion at The Rameshwaram Cafe on March 1, 2024. 2012 link to two terror modules A convict in the 2012 LeT conspiracy case Shoaib …

Cyber Cell Arrests Man for Threat Calls to Raja Singh
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Cyber Cell Arrests Man for Threat Calls to Raja Singh

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The city’s cybercrime police on Tuesday arrested a man who was wanted for eight months for making threatening calls to BJP Goshamahal MLA T. Raja Singh. Raja Singh on October 28, 2023, had lodged a complaint with the cybercrime police stating that he was receiving frequent life threats from various phone numbers. “When he arrived from Dubai on Tuesday …

The Rameshwaram Cafe blast case: NIA arrests LeT terror case ex-convict
7 months, 2 weeks ago

The Rameshwaram Cafe blast case: NIA arrests LeT terror case ex-convict

The Hindu  

The National Investigation Agency on Friday arrested an ex-convict in a Lashkar-e-Taiba terror conspiracy case as the fifth accused in The Rameshwaram Cafe blast case. Shoaib Ahmed Mirza alias Chhotu, 35, a resident of Hubballi city, who served a sentence in the case and was out of jail, has allegedly emerged as the key link to the Thirthahalli module that …

NIA arrests one more in Bengaluru's Rameshwaram cafe blast case
7 months, 2 weeks ago

NIA arrests one more in Bengaluru's Rameshwaram cafe blast case

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Three days after a massive crackdown across four southern states in connection with its probe into the Rameshwaram Café blast case, the NIA on Friday arrested one more accused, identified as an ex-convict in a Lashkar-e-Taiba terror conspiracy case, officials said. In its investigation, the anti-terror federal probe agency found that Mirza, who was convicted earlier in a …

Probe against Kejriwal at nascent stage: Enforcement Directorate to HC
9 months ago

Probe against Kejriwal at nascent stage: Enforcement Directorate to HC

The Hindu  

April 03, 2024 10:57 pm | Updated 10:57 pm IST - NEW DELHI The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday opposed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging his arrest and remand in connection with the now-scrapped excise policy-linked money laundering case, saying that its “investigation is at a nascent stage” as far as he was concerned. During the hearing, senior advocate …

Bengaluru: 4 arrested for cheating woman of ₹4.10 crore with fake govt job offer
9 months, 1 week ago

Bengaluru: 4 arrested for cheating woman of ₹4.10 crore with fake govt job offer

Hindustan Times  

Bengaluru Sleuths from the central crime branch have arrested a gang of four men for cheating an art teacher from Kalaburagi district of ₹4.10 crore by promising to get her nominated as a member of the Karnataka Public Services Commission, the police said on Tuesday. Sleuths from the CCB have arrested a gang of four men for cheating an art …

Panjagutta Police nabs suspended DSP of Special Intelligence Bureau
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Panjagutta Police nabs suspended DSP of Special Intelligence Bureau

The Hindu  

The Panjagutta police took the now suspended Deputy Superintendent of Police of the Special Intelligence Bureau into custody on late Tuesday night. He was booked for tampering with evidence, breach of trust, and other criminal offences during his stint in the crime records bureau of SIB D. Praneeth Kumar alias Praneeth Rao, who was working in the District Crime Records …

Bengaluru man held for sending ‘bomb threats’ to RGIA
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Bengaluru man held for sending ‘bomb threats’ to RGIA

New Indian Express  

HYDERABAD : A Bengaluru-based man who sent numerous fake bomb threat emails to the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport was apprehended by the police on Sunday. During the interrogation, the accused, Vaibhav Tiwari, 34, confessed to sending the hoax emails from his email address. Tiwari sent the first mail on Thursday around 7 am, alerting the airport authorities to not open …

Delhi EOW probe against jail officers for aiding Sukesh’s crime nexus
1 year, 2 months ago

Delhi EOW probe against jail officers for aiding Sukesh’s crime nexus

The Hindu  

Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has granted permission to Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing to launch an investigation against eight prison officers accused of helping ‘conman’ Sukesh Chandrasekhar run an organised crime syndicate from Rohini jail, a Raj Niwas source said on Wednesday. A Raj Niwas source said the eight accused are Group B officers who have been arrested for providing …

LeT links under lens as man threatens Gadkari, say officials
1 year, 5 months ago

LeT links under lens as man threatens Gadkari, say officials

Hindustan Times  

The National Investigation Agency has found that gangster Jayesh Pujari, also known as Shakeer Ahmed, who made three telephonic threat calls to Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari from a Belagavi prison, earlier this year, has connections with Islamic terrorist organisations, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, officials familiar with the matter said on Saturday. Local senior police officials and jail staff closely monitoring …

Ahead of Khalistani rally on 8 July, India expresses concerns over threats to its officials in Canada
1 year, 6 months ago

Ahead of Khalistani rally on 8 July, India expresses concerns over threats to its officials in Canada

Firstpost  

After posters informing about the Khalistani rally on 8 July were circulated in Canada, India expressed its concerns to the Canadian authorities about threats to its high commissioner in Ottawa and consulate general in Toronto who have been directly identified in the posters After posters informing about the Khalistani rally to be held on 8 July were circulated in Canada, …

'Mantri ji se baat karni hai, unhe threaten karna hai': Union Minister Nitin Gadkari receives threat again
1 year, 7 months ago

'Mantri ji se baat karni hai, unhe threaten karna hai': Union Minister Nitin Gadkari receives threat again

India TV News  

Nitin Gadkari Death Threat: Union Minister and senior BJP leader received a death threat via phone call at his Delhi residence. "Union minister Nitin Gadkari received a death threat via phone call at his official residence on Motilal Nehru road in Delhi. Delhi Police informed that the information regarding the death threat call received at Union Minister Nitin Gadkari's residence …

Videos of ‘attacks on migrants’: Bihar YouTuber booked under NSA in TN, moves SC for relief
1 year, 9 months ago

Videos of ‘attacks on migrants’: Bihar YouTuber booked under NSA in TN, moves SC for relief

Hindustan Times  

Bihar YouTuber Manish Kashyap, arrested last month for allegedly spreading fake videos of migrant workers being attacked in Tamil Nadu, was booked under the National Security Act on Thursday, police in the southern state said, even as the Supreme Court agreed to hear on April 10 a plea by the 35-year-old to club all cases filed against him in the …

Nitin Gadkari threat calls case: Nagpur police seize mobile phones, sim cards from Karnataka jail
1 year, 9 months ago

Nitin Gadkari threat calls case: Nagpur police seize mobile phones, sim cards from Karnataka jail

India TV News  

Just a few days after a person made threat call to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari's office in Nagpur, the police recovered two mobile phones and as many sim cards from a jail in Karnataka’s Belagavi. As part of their investigation, the local police with the help of their Belagavi counterparts searched the premises of Hindalga Central Jail in the Karnataka …

NIA raids 3 places in Nagpur in Gazwa-e-Hind case
1 year, 9 months ago

NIA raids 3 places in Nagpur in Gazwa-e-Hind case

Deccan Chronicle  

Nagpur: The National Investigation Agency on Thursday conducted searches at three locations in Nagpur in its ongoing probe into Gazwa-e-Hind case that is linked to the radicalization of impressionable youth over various social media platforms for carrying out violent terrorist acts. The places searched by the NIA officials included the residential premises of the suspects involved in anti-national activities and …

Nitin Gadkari's Nagpur Home & Office Receive Three Threat Calls Demanding Rs 10 Cr, Security Beefed Up
1 year, 9 months ago

Nitin Gadkari's Nagpur Home & Office Receive Three Threat Calls Demanding Rs 10 Cr, Security Beefed Up

News 18  

Union Minister and BJP leader Nitin Gadkari’s Nagpur home and office received three threat calls against him, demanding Rs 10 Crore. Notably, Jayesh Pujari was the same person whose name had been used to make similar calls to Gadkari’s office in January, a PTI report said. Rahul Madane, deputy commissioner of police, said three calls, two in the morning and …

Nitin Gadkari's office receives 3 extortion calls; case registered in another matter linked to viral posts
1 year, 9 months ago

Nitin Gadkari's office receives 3 extortion calls; case registered in another matter linked to viral posts

India TV News  

Union minister Nitin Gadkari's office in Nagpur received three extortion calls from a man demanding Rs 10 crore, a police official said on Tuesday. "Three calls were received at the office of Nitin Gadkari, all by one man who identified himself as Jayesh Pujari. Man booked for circulating posts links to Gadkari In another matter, the cyber cell of Nagpur …

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Gets 'Death Threat', Caller Says He's 'Dawood', Wants 'Rs 100 Crore'
1 year, 11 months ago

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Gets 'Death Threat', Caller Says He's 'Dawood', Wants 'Rs 100 Crore'

News 18  

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari’s office in Nagpur received three threatening calls on Saturday morning, as per Nagpur police. Three threat calls were received at Gadkari’s public relations office in the Khamla area between 11.25 am to 12.30 pm. The minister received death threats in the name of a person called ‘Dawood’ on Gadkari’s Public Relations Office landline number, the police …

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari gets death threats, security tightened
1 year, 11 months ago

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari gets death threats, security tightened

India TV News  

Nitin Gadkari gets death threats: Security around the office and home of Union Minister for Road Transport Nitin Gadkari was tightened following extortion-cum-death threats, officials said on Saturday. At least three calls were received by Gadkari's private office in the city - between 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. - and the caller purportedly uttered the name of absconding mafia don …

Can’t Monitor Murder Probe Forever: Bombay High Court To Rationalist Narendra Dabholkar’s Kin
1 year, 11 months ago

Can’t Monitor Murder Probe Forever: Bombay High Court To Rationalist Narendra Dabholkar’s Kin

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday sought to know CBI’s stand on the court continuing to monitor the probe into rationalist Narendra Dabholkar’s murder, even as it observed that it cannot do so forever. A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and P D Naik was hearing a 2015 petition filed by Dabholkar's daughter Mukta Dabholkar seeking that the …

Terror funding: Court sends ex-NIA SP Negi, activist Khurram Parvez to jail
2 years, 10 months ago

Terror funding: Court sends ex-NIA SP Negi, activist Khurram Parvez to jail

India Today  

A Delhi court on Friday sent NIA's former Superintendent of Police Arvind Digvijay Negi, Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez and others to judicial custody for a month in a case related to terror funding in the valley. Special Judge Parveen Singh sent the accused persons to jail till March 24 after they were produced before the court on expiry …

Offered to surrender in 2018 cheating case but UP cops refused, claims KP Gosavi
3 years, 2 months ago

Offered to surrender in 2018 cheating case but UP cops refused, claims KP Gosavi

India Today  

KP Gosavi, one of the independent witnesses of the Narcotics Control Bureau in the Mumbai cruise drugs seizure case, has claimed that he was going to surrender in Lucknow on Monday but the police did not accept his surrender. Gosavi was seen in a selfie with Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan after NCB raids on a cruise …

Charges framed against five in a 2013 draft case
3 years, 4 months ago

Charges framed against five in a 2013 draft case

Hindustan Times  

In a 2013 draft case, the special court of Central Bureau of Investigation has framed charges against five accused including an assistant manager, New Officers Colony branch of State Bank of India in Patiala. The case dates back to 2013, when Gurpreet Singh opened an account with Uttrakhand Gramin Bank, Balawala, Dehradun after impersonating himself as Neeraj Kumar, chief, Haryana …

Delhi: 99 held at IGI Airport for visa fraud under special operation since 2020
3 years, 4 months ago

Delhi: 99 held at IGI Airport for visa fraud under special operation since 2020

India TV News  

The Delhi Police arrested at least 99 persons in an operation launched last year to crack down on a racket that helped people travel abroad illegally on fake papers such as passports and visas, officials said on Saturday. A team of Indira Gandhi International airport police under the supervision of DCP IGI Vikram Porwal arrested three agents in connection with …

'Stay away from SSR case': Kolkata man booked for threat calls to CM Uddhav Thackeray, Sena MP Sanjay Raut
3 years, 10 months ago

'Stay away from SSR case': Kolkata man booked for threat calls to CM Uddhav Thackeray, Sena MP Sanjay Raut

India Today  

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad on Wednesday filed chargesheet against the man accused of making threatening calls to the residence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut and other leaders of the state. As per the 450-page chargesheet against Palash Bose, a gym instructor from Kolkata's Tollygunge area, the ATS said he was disturbed after watching the …

NIA Arrests Absconding Khalistani Terrorist at Delhi Airport Upon Deportation from Cyprus
4 years ago

NIA Arrests Absconding Khalistani Terrorist at Delhi Airport Upon Deportation from Cyprus

News 18  

The National Investigation Agency arrested an absconding Khalistani terrorist at the Delhi airport following his deportation from Cyprus, an official said on Wednesday. The terrorist, identified as Gurjeet Singh Nijjar, is accused of hatching a criminal conspiracy to revive Sikh militancy in India for a separate state of Khalistan. Nijjar, the main conspirator, Harpal and Moin Khan were active on …

Nagpur resident sent to police custody till Oct 30 for 'Baby Penguin' remark
4 years, 2 months ago

Nagpur resident sent to police custody till Oct 30 for 'Baby Penguin' remark

Op India  

Sameet Thakkar, a Nagpur resident who was arrested by the Maharashtra police for allegedly posting objectionable comments against Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aaditya Thackeray, has been sent to police custody by a Nagpur Court till October 30. Maharashtra: A Nagpur court sends Sameet Thakkar to police custody till 30th October. He was arrested on October 24 …

IS terror module case: NIA interrogates 10 arrested accused
4 years, 10 months ago

IS terror module case: NIA interrogates 10 arrested accused

India TV News  

The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday said that it has interrogated 10 people arrested for their alleged involvement in hatching a conspiracy to wage war against India with the help of terror group IS. An NIA spokesperson in Delhi said that it interrogated Pachaiyappan, a resident of Kanchipuram, Rajesh, a resident of Chennai, Anbarasan a resident of Salem rural, A. …

NIA arrests man for raising funds for Lashkar-e-Taiba
5 years, 1 month ago

NIA arrests man for raising funds for Lashkar-e-Taiba

India TV News  

The National Investigation Agency on Monday arrested a man accused of raising funds for the Lashkar-e-Taiba through Hawala channels to sponsor terrorist activities in the country, officials said. Javed was arrested from Delhi on Sunday for his alleged role in funding LeT operative Sheikh Abdul Nayeem alias Sohel Khan who was held and charge-sheeted earlier for criminal conspiracy to carry …

Narendra Dabholkar murder case: Pune court remands two accused to CBI custody till 4 June
5 years, 7 months ago

Narendra Dabholkar murder case: Pune court remands two accused to CBI custody till 4 June

Firstpost  

The agency had arrested Punalekar and Bhave from Mumbai on 25 May in connection with the Narendra Dabholkar murder case Pune: A Pune court on Saturday sent Vikram Bhave and advocate Sanjeev Punalekar, the two accused in the Narendra Dabholkar murder case, to CBI custody. Suryavanshi submitted, “We want to know from Vikram Bhave whether more people were involved in …

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