The seven are Muddasar Ahmad (22), Shahrukh Pathan (25), Abdul Taufiq (24) Shoaib Khan (22), Atib Rashid (22) and Yusuf Khan (32) and alleged mastermind Shaikh Irfan Shaikh Rahim.
The beheading of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Udaipur and the fatal stabbing of Umesh Kolhe in Amaravati were allegedly carried out by the people who wanted to take “revenge” on the victims for supporting now-removed BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma after her controversial comments on Prophet Mohammed.
NIA in its affidavit to Bombay High Court on Wednesday termed Sharma the "main conspirator" in the Mansukh Hiren murder case.
The ATS had claimed that the accused were planning to trigger blasts around Independence Day celebrations in 2021. Investigators had recovered an IED in the form of a pressure cooker bomb from the Lucknow residence of an accused.
The inputs came after the NIA submitted its chargesheet on Saturday against these four terrorists, in a special court in Jammu.
According to officials, a case against Multani, who was detained in Germany last week, was booked under various sections of IPC, including those related to waging war against country, and relevant provisions of stringent UAPA.
NIA conducted raids at around 11 places in Jammu and Kashmir in a recent terrorism conspiracy case. Searches are underway in Srinagar, Baramulla, Pulwama, Awantipora, Sopore and Kulgam.
NIA arrested 5 more accused persons namely Mohammad Haneef Chiralu resident of Srinagar, Hafeez resident of Budgam, Owais Dar resident of Pulwama, Mateen Bhat resident of Shopian, Arif Farooq Bhat resident of Srinagar.
The recent target killing of civilians in Kashmir is a sign of frustration by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists post the abrogation of Article 370, NIA DG Kuldeep Singh said in Aaj Ki Baat.
Accused Mehboob Pasha, a resident of Gurappanapalya, Bengaluru in association with Khaja Moideen accused in several cases registered in Tamil Nadu.
The NIA conducted raids at 45 locations in 14 districts of Jammu and Kashmir in connection with a terror funding case. The raids were conducted at the residences of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami outfit.
An NIA official related to probe said that the agency sleuths along with the CRPF are carrying out searches at multiple locations in several districts of J&K.
Abu Hajir Al Badri was in the notice of central agencies since April 2020 for his active role in the production and dissemination of IS propaganda monthly online magazine "Voice of Hind".
An NIA spokesperson said that the anti-terror probe agency has filed a charge sheet before the Special NIA Court in Ranchi on Thursday against 17 PLFI members from Bihar and Jharkhand.
Those chargesheeted include self-styled chief commander of the LeM, Hidayat Ullah Malik, and a woman, Baseerat-ul-Ain, both residents of Shopian in south Kashmir, and Mustaq Alam and his brother Jawed Alam of Deobahuara-Chhapra in Bihar, an NIA spokesperson said.
The raids were carried out in connection with the busting of a Lashkar-e-Mustafa (LEM) module in March and the recovery of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) dropped by a drone from Pakistan, an NIA spokesperson said.
Officials in anti-terror agency informed that raids were conducted in Anantnag, Srinagar, Awantipora, Baramulla and some other places in connection with a case registered 10 days ago relating to radicalisation in the Indian subcontinent.
National Investigation Agency has arrested two persons from Namapally in Hyderabad in connection with the explosions in parcel at platform number 1 of Darbhanga railway station on June 17.
On Thursday (June 17), an explosion took place at Darbhanga Junction Railway station in Darbhanga district of Bihar. A registered package had reportedly exploded. The said parcel was sent to Darbhanga from Secunderabad in Telangana.
In a major development, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two absconders belonging to the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) in the killing of Comrade Balwinder Singh Sandhu, a Shaurya Chakra Awardee. More to follow.
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