Tag: NIA

Audio clip row: Darj MP seeks NIA probe

Darjeeling MP SS Ahluwalia has requested Union home minister Rajnath Singh and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe an audio clip that is purportedly a telephonic conservation between a man, Achutam Bhattarai, of the Hills and Darjeeling police station inspector-in-charge (IC) Soumyajit Roy. In the clip, the voice being claimed as that of the …

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March 14, 2018

NIA seizes mobile phones, jihadi literature, Pak flags from Srinagar jail

A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team on Monday raided the Srinagar Central Jail and seized a Pakistani flag, mobile phones and jihadi literature, police sources said. Twenty NIA officials assisted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and National Security Guards carried out the searches. “Some mobile phones, SIM cards, iPods, …

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March 12, 2018

Terror funding case: Mehbooba urges Rajnath to free photojournalist

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti said on Sunday she had spoken to Home Minister Rajnath Singh seeking the release of a Kashmiri photojournalist arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). “Spoke to Rajnath Singhji to look into Kamran Yousuf’s case. I’ve requested him to intervene so that the life of a young budding …

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March 11, 2018

After SC verdict, Hadiya says ‘all this happened as I embraced Islam’

After her marriage with Shafin Jahan was upheld by Supreme Court, Hadiya on Saturday said “all this happened as I embraced Islam”. Hadiya and her husband arrived in Kerela on Saturday from Salem and drove to the office of the Popular Front of India (PFI) where she briefly interacted with the media. “The Constitution gives …

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March 10, 2018

NIA to probe human trafficking cases

The apex anti-terror body National Investigation Agency (NIA) will be the nodal authority for probing cases of human trafficking after the government today approved a proposal in this regard, according to an official. The Union Cabinet today okayed the draft Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, which also proposes a punishment of life …

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February 28, 2018

Pak diplomat Amir Zubair plotted terror attacks: NIA

Pakistani intelligence officer Amir Zubair Siddiqui while working in Pakistan’s High Commission in Sri Lanka as Visa Counsellor engaged people to indulge in espionage and terror activities in India, said an NIA supplementary chargesheet filed in a Chennai court in a 2014 case. The chargesheet was filed on Thursday by Special Public Prosecutor CSS Pillai …

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February 24, 2018

NIA takes over Sunjuwan terror attack probe

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) took over the probe into the Sunjuwan Military Station attack on Thursday, 22 February. The elite investigation agency has reportedly registered a case in the 10 February attack on the military camp located in Jammu which claimed the lives of six soldiers and one civilian. Ten others were injured in …

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February 23, 2018

Moral policing

This is not a run-of-the-mill comment on the khaki community “seeing red” in the roses proffered on Valentine’s Day, nor on the predators lurking in public parks ready to pounce on courting couples they project as being in a “compromising position”. It is worse, institutionalised. In its arrogance, the National Investigation Agency decided to prescribe …

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February 21, 2018

NIA gets transit remand of five behind LeT terrorist’s escape

A court here on Thursday granted the NIA two days’ transit remand of five accused in LeT terrorist Naveed Jat alias Abu Hunzullah’s escape case. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has already taken over the investigations of the case and booked five locals named Tika Khan, Syed Tajamul Islam, Muhammad Shafi Wani, Shakeel Ahmad Bhat …

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February 15, 2018

NIA, STF seize bomb-making materials from Sagardighi

Following a joint raid by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police, materials meant for making improvised explosive devices (IED) were seized from some houses at Nayagram area of Sagardighi in Murshidabad district. About 50 detonators, some wires, batteries, tin containers, all kept in bags, were also recovered, …

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February 8, 2018

Tightening grip on separatists

Amid tightening of screws on Kashmiri separatist Hurriyat leaders by the National Investigative Agency (NIA) on charges of terror funding, a section of Hurriyat leaders including All Parties Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and JKLF head Yasin Malik reacted rather vehemently, stating that those arrested by the NIA for terror financing had no active …

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February 8, 2018

NIA nabs one more in connection with LeT activities probe

The National Investigation Agency has arrested an alleged hawala operator from Uttarakhand in connection with its probe into the activities of Pakistan- based Lashkar-e-Taiba in India, an official spokesperson said here on Wednesday. Abdul Samad, the fifth person arrested in the case, was arrested in Haridwar yesterday and brought to Delhi, the spokesperson said. Samad, …

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February 7, 2018

Terror funding: Court to hear bail plea of Salahuddin’s son

A special court will hear on March 7 the bail application of Syed Shahid Yousuf, son of globally- wanted terrorist Syed Salahuddin, in a terror funding case. District Judge Poonam A Bamba posted the matter for arguments after the NIA filed its written submission on the application of Yousuf, who is currently in judicial custody. …

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February 6, 2018

Terror funding case: Court accepts charges against Kashmiri separatists

A court here on Friday accepted the framing of terror charges against Pakistan-based terrorist leaders Hafiz Saeed and Syed Salahuddin and seven Kashmiri separatist leaders, accused of sponsoring and stoking terror in Jammu and Kashmir. After taking cognisance of an NIA charge sheet, Judge Tarun Sahrawat directed the probe agency to supply the copies of …

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February 2, 2018

STF arrests 2 suspected members of JMB, recovers 50 kg explosives

Two suspected members of the Bangladeshi terrorist organisation Jamaat ul Mujhadin Bangladesh (JMB) were arrested yesterday by the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police with 50 kilograms of explosives. The police said, they were responsible for the low intensity IED blasts at Bodh Gaya last month when the Dalai Lama was visiting the religious site. …

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February 2, 2018

No foreign links to BSF jawan who complained of bad food

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which probed Tej Bahadur Yadav, the BSF constable who was dismissed in April 2017 for possible “connection with foreign contacts”, has found nothing of the sort. According to The Indian Express, the NIA looked into Yadav’s social media profiles and call records to see if he was in touch with …

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February 1, 2018

Corrective snub

It was nothing short of a reprimand the Supreme Court administered to “big government” in general, and the National Investigation Agency in particular when directing that body to discontinue its probe into the marriage aspect of the “Hadiya case”. Other angles of the alleged “love jihad” could certainly be investigated ruled a Bench headed by …

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January 26, 2018