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  Saquib Nachan, ex-ISIS head and SIMI leader, dies during treatment at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital

  India | June 28, 2025 23:55 IST

  In 2023, the National Investigation Agency arrested Saquib Nachan during a sweeping nationwide operation targeting ISIS-linked terror modules. As part of the crackdown, the agency conducted searches at multiple locations, including Nachan’s residence in Maharashtra's Padgha.

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  Centre empowers states, UTs to declare SIMI banned organisation under UAPA

  India | February 05, 2024 20:55 IST

  The SIMI was first declared outlawed in 2001 when the Atal Bihar Vajpayee government was in power and since then the ban has been extended periodically.

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  Modi government extends ban on SIMI for five years under UAPA

  India | January 29, 2024 18:09 IST

  Among the terror acts in which SIMI members were allegedly involved are blasts in Gaya in 2017, M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore in 2014, and jail break in Bhopal in 2014.

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  Aaj Ki Baat: Full episode, July 14, 2022

  India | July 15, 2022 0:39 IST

  India's Number One and the most followed Super Prime Time News Show ‘Aaj Ki Baat – Rajat Sharma Ke Saath was launched just before the 2014 General Elections.

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  Know all about Abdul Subhan Qureshi, India's 'Bin Laden' who masterminded 2008 Gujarat blasts

  India | January 22, 2018 13:08 IST

  A highly radicalised SIMI operative, Qureshi is believed to have joined ranks with Indian Mujahideen after coming in contact with the dreaded Bhatkal brothers.

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  Bhopal encounter: Over 70 jail guards were on VIP duty during prison break

  India | November 04, 2016 14:59 IST

  A total of 80 personnel, including over 70 sentries, who were supposed to guard the Bhopal Central Jail where eight terror suspects belonging to SIMI managed a daring prison break last week before being gunned

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  MP govt orders judicial probe into Bhopal jailbreak, encounter

  India | November 04, 2016 10:12 IST

  Reeling under pressure from opposition parties and human rights activists, the Madhya Pradesh government today ordered a judicial probe into the sensational Bhopal jailbreak incident by eight SIMI operatives and their alleged encounter.

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  ‘Modi is next’: Two of killed SIMI activists had threatened PM on camera (Watch Video)

  India | November 03, 2016 23:52 IST

  Undertrial SIMI activists who were killed in an alleged encounter with MP Police after escaping from Bhopal Central Jail had once threatened Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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  PIL in MP High Court seeks judicial probe into encounter of SIMI activists

  India | November 03, 2016 21:55 IST

  PIL was today filed in the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking a judicial probe into the alleged encounter in which eight SIMI activists were killed in Bhopal on October 31.

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  Jailed terror accused eat ‘biryani' for years, need fast-track courts: Shivraj Singh Chouhan

  Politics | November 02, 2016 21:07 IST

  Shivraj Singh Chouhan today said that the terror accused stay in jail for years before they are sentenced and keep eating chicken biryani.

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  Contradicting police claims, MP’s ATS chief admits killed SIMI operatives were unarmed

  India | November 02, 2016 18:54 IST

  Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) chief Sanjeev Shami today said that the eight SIMI operatives who were killed in an encounter near Bhopal by police were unarmed.

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  Most bullet wounds above waist: Autopsy reports of SIMI operatives

  India | November 02, 2016 15:47 IST

  The post-mortem report-of the eight SIMI terror suspects who were gunned down by the police force after they escaped from Bhopal central prison, have revealed that each of them was shot at least twice, some

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  With Bhopal encounter, all suspects of 2014 Pune blast case now dead

  India | November 02, 2016 10:43 IST

  Three among eight members of SIMI who were killed in an encounter by Madhya Pradesh police on Monday were the suspects in 2014 Pune bomb blast case.

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  Bhopal encounter: MP home minister, DGP differ on probe

  India | November 02, 2016 10:08 IST

  Amid growing opposition clamour for an impartial probe into the death of eight undertrial SIMI activists in an alleged shootout with police, Madhya Pradesh’s Home Minister Bhupendra Singh on Tuesday said there was no need

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  Bhopal jail break: Police murdered my son, says SIMI operative’s mother; families demand CBI probe

  India | November 01, 2016 13:31 IST

  A day after eight SIMI activists were killed in an alleged police encounter, their families have decided to approach the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking a CBI probe.

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  Why do only Muslims and not Hindus break out of jail? asks Digvijaya Singh

  Politics | November 01, 2016 12:20 IST

  Raising serious doubts over the authenticity of the police version of the encounter of eight alleged SIMI activists, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh today wondered as to why only Muslims break out of jails in Madhya Pradesh.

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  Bhopal jail break: 'Some leaders can’t see martyrdom of our jawans'

  Politics | November 01, 2016 13:37 IST

  A day after Opposition parties criticised the government for killing eight SIMI terrorist, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today said that political leaders should refrain from the habit of questioning police and security forces.

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  Police rejects criticism of fake encounter of SIMI activists, says there was heavy exchange of fire

  India | October 31, 2016 23:43 IST

  Police today said there was heavy exchange of fire in which they the SIMI terrorists felled after which four countrymade guns and some sharp- edged weapons were recovered.

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  SIMI activists' encounter: Opposition questions govt’s version, demands probe; BJP defends police action

  Politics | October 31, 2016 19:53 IST

  Congress and other opposition parties on Monday demanded a judicial probe into the killing of eight SIMI activists in an encounter after their escape from Bhopal Central jail.

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  8 SIMI terrorists, who fled Bhopal jail, killed in police encounter

  India | October 31, 2016 16:04 IST

  Eight terror suspects of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India, who are accused of heinous crimes including murder, have escaped from Bhopal central jail after killing a security guard in the early hours of