A special court here will deliver its verdict in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case against mafia don Abu Salem and six others on June 16, it was announced on Monday. The seven accused were produced before Special TADA Court Judge G. A. Sanap here for an ongoing hearing on the judgment date. Besides Abu Salem, …
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May 29, 2017The presence of Maharashtra Education Minister Girish Mahajan and some police officers at the wedding of a niece of India’s most-wanted gangster Dawood Ibrahim in Nashik on 19 May has created a row. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mahajan, known to be a close aide of the state CM Devendra Fadnavis, was accompanied by ten …
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May 25, 2017The publishing industry calls this genre "True Crime". We have not seen much of it from Delhi, despite the city being awash with media outlets. Perhaps this is because Delhi is a city where politics matter above all, and crime is of secondary importance. In 2015, there was Aarushi by journalist Avirook Sen but this …
May 17, 2017One of India’s most wanted terrorists, Dawood Ibrahim is in critical condition in a Karachi hospital, media reports have said. The underworld don suffered a heart attack on Friday night and was hospitalised in a serious condition. However, Dawood’s close aide Chota Shakeel has denied all the reports saying he was fine. Meanwhile, another report suggested that …
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April 29, 2017A Pakistani money changer known for his ties with Indian don Dawood Ibrahim has been jailed for 68 months in the US for conspiring to commit money laundering, it was reported on Tuesday. Altaf Khanani, who has already spent over a year in a Miami jail, was also fined $250,000 by a Florida court, Dawn …
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April 4, 2017A BJP MP from Karnataka on Monday courted controversy by comparing Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur, whose social media post against the ABVP has gone viral, with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Kaur, the daughter of an Indian Army captain who died in the Kargil war, launched a social media campaign against the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya …
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February 27, 2017A BJP MP from Karnataka on Monday courted controversy by comparing Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur, whose social media post against the ABVP has gone viral, with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Kaur, the daughter of an Indian Army captain who died in the Kargil war, launched a social media campaign against the RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya …
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February 27, 2017Three of the nine places cited by India as addresses of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in Pakistan have been found incorrect by a UN committee, which has removed these from its list. One of the addresses which have been dropped by the UN Security Council’s Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee was found similar to that of …
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August 23, 2016Fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s nephew Alishah Parkar on Wednesday tied the knot with the daughter of a city-based businessman in a traditional Muslim ceremony here, with Mumbai police keeping an eye on the event. Alishah, the son of Dawood’s late sister Haseena Parkar, and Aisha Nagani got married at a mosque in Nagpada area …
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August 17, 2016