A view of National Investigation Agency (NIA), in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested two alleged key associates of Canada-based “listed individual terrorist” Arshdeep Singh Gill aka Arsh Dalla, soon after they landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport from Manila in Philippines. The … Read more
A view of National Investigation Agency, in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu In a fresh crackdown against the cadres of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is carrying out searches at more than a dozen locations in various parts of the country including Uttar Pradesh and … Read more
National Investigation Agency Special Court on February 28 gave death sentences to seven out of eight convicts in the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train blast case. | Photo Credit: V. SUDERSHAN National Investigation Agency Special Court on February 28 gave death sentences to seven out of eight convicts in the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train blast case. Another was … Read more
File photo of Lt Col. Prasad Purohit at the Bombay High Court. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The Bombay High Court on Monday rejected a petition filed by Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit seeking discharge as an accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast that killed six and injured 101 others. A division bench of justices … Read more
Scholar-activist Anand Teltumbde, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, was on Saturday released from the Taloja central prison in Navi Mumbai, a day after the Supreme Court rejected the National Investigation Agency‘s (NIA) plea challenging the bail granted to him, an official said. Teltumbde, 73, who spent two-and-a-half years behind bars in the … Read more
The timing of the government’s action against the Popular Front of India was a secret till the end, but it carried a sense of the inevitable. Vijaita Singh, Abdul Latheef Naha, K.S Sudhi and Devesh K. Pandey report on the chronology and the reaction The timing of the government’s action against the Popular Front of … Read more
The outfit’s alleged links with extremist elements abroad being looked into, says an official The outfit’s alleged links with extremist elements abroad being looked into, says an official The enforcement agencies are probing the alleged links of the now-banned Popular Front of India (PFI) with the extremist elements in Turkey, and the others who extended … Read more
The NIA on Sunday arrested police officer Riyaz Kazi, an associate of suspended cop Sachin Waze, in connection with the case of an explosives-laden SUV found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani‘s residence, a police official said. After his arrest, Kazi was produced before a holiday court here which remanded him in the National Investigation Agency‘s (NIA) … Read more
Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh appeared before the NIA here on Wednesday to record his statement in connection with the case of an explosives-laden SUV found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani‘s residence, an official said. Singh reached the National Investigation Agency‘s (NIA) office in south Mumbai in a car around 9.30 am, he said. … Read more
The NIA has found that an amount of Rs 26.50 lakh was withdrawn from the joint bank account of Sachin Waze and his aide on March 18, five days after the Mumbai police officer was arrested for his alleged role in planting an explosives-laden SUV outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s home on February 25, the court … Read more