Articles tagged under: Terrorism

Terrorist Shahnawaz reveals plan to shake Gujarat with serial bomb blasts

January 08, 2024
Terrorist Shahnawaz reveals plan to shake Gujarat with serial bomb blasts

New Delhi: A terrorist Shahnawaz Alalm who has been nabbed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has in his revelations before the NIA and Delhi Police admitted that serial bomb blasts were planned in Gujarat by Pune-Maharashtra module working for Pakistani spy agency Inter Service Intelligence(ISI). Shahnawaz has revealed that the terrorists had also planned to attack RSS, BJP and VHP office bearers in Gujarat. As per a news report, Shahnawaz told police that conspiracy was hatched to ...Read More

NIA picks up one for questioning in Surat in Ghazwa-e-Hind case

July 02, 2023
NIA picks up one for questioning in Surat in Ghazwa-e-Hind case

Surat: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has picked up a suspect from Surat in Gujarat. The suspect is being interrogated at present. His name is identified as Usman Ghani. Usman Gani is being interrogated in the Ghazwa-e-Hind case, which was registered by NIA last year at Phulwari Sharif police station in Bihar. The conspiracy to radicalize people using social media was busted in the course of this case. Ghazwa-e-Hind is associated with global terror outfit Al-Qaeda. NIA had interrogat...Read More

Gujarat ATS busts IKSP module; Arrests 3 Kashmiri youths from Porbandar and a woman from Surat under UAPA radicalized by handlers abroad

June 10, 2023
Gujarat ATS busts IKSP module; Arrests 3 Kashmiri youths from Porbandar and a woman from Surat under UAPA radicalized by handlers abroad

Porbandar/Surat: Gujarat ATS had received information that the banned terror organization Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) linked three radical youths were planning to leave India through the Porbandar coast in Gujarat. They were on their way to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan via Iran and had reached Porbandar. On the basis of this information, early in the morning on 9 June, the Gujarat ATS team kept watch at Porbandar railway station and identified and detained three youths for...Read More

Gujarat ATS exposes active Al-Qaeda India group; 1 Bangladeshi arrested, others detained

May 22, 2023
Gujarat ATS exposes active Al-Qaeda India group; 1 Bangladeshi arrested, others detained

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has successfully exposed an active group affiliated with Al Qaeda . During an operation, the ATS apprehended a Bangladeshi individual named Sojib, along with several other suspects who are currently in custody. In response to an alert from the Intelligence Bureau (IB) regarding a potential terrorist attack, the Gujarat ATS detained 4 suspicious individuals in Narol. Subsequent investigations revealed that these individuals were Bangladeshi nat...Read More

In Surat, NIA held a Maulvi for alleged involvement in violent Jihad and joining Muslim youth in ISIS

August 01, 2022
In Surat, NIA held a Maulvi for alleged involvement in violent Jihad and joining Muslim youth in ISIS

Surat: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) held a maulvi from Kanskivad in Surat for inquiry over suspicion of his involvement with the Voice of Hind online group involved in violent Jihad and joining of the Muslim youth in ISIS. A joint team of NIA and Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), along with the Surat SOG team raided Kansakivad on Sunday morning. A 25-year-old Maulvi Jalal teaching the Arabic language in a madrassa was held for inquiry due to suspicion of his involvement in the Voice of H...Read More

Al Qaeda threatens terror attack in India in places including Gujarat

June 07, 2022
Al Qaeda threatens terror attack in India in places including Gujarat

Gandhinagar: International Islamic terror group Al Qaeda has issued a letter, in which it has threatened India of terror attacks in Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. Read More

GujCTOC Act to be implemented in Gujarat from December 1

November 27, 2019
GujCTOC Act to be implemented in Gujarat from December 1

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GujCTOC) Act would be implemented in the state from December 1, Minister of State for Home, Pradipsinh Jadeja today informed. The act had got president's assent on November 5. Talking to newsmen Jadeja said that the act would put a check on the terror elements and also give more teeth to police against other organized crimes like contract killing and kidnappings for ransom and ponzi schemes. It would also help in bet...Read More

2008 Ahmedabad blasts: HC asks special court to conduct speedy trial

October 07, 2015

Ahmedabad The Gujarat High Court has directed a special court, trying the 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts, to conduct speedy trial of the case. "I may only say that the trial court shall make all possible endeavour to see that the trial proceeds expeditiously," Justice J B Pardiwala said. The court acted on a petition filed by Safdar Hussain Nagori- one of 78 accused in jail in the serial blast case, who had said in his plea that the trial of the case took more than seven years and so...Read More

Islamist militants incite anti-India attacks:Guardian reports

May 23, 2014

Ahmedabad, 23 May, 2014 The Guardian reports: An Islamic extremist group suspected of having links to al-Qaida has released a video within 24 hours of India's recent election result, calling for militant organisations across the Middle East and south Asia to attack India and Indian interests overseas. The video – issued by a little known group calling itself the Ansar-ut-Tawheed fi Bilaad Hind (Brotherhood for Monotheism in the land of Hind) – refers repeatedly t...Read More

Plot to kill Narendra Modi busted, Pakistani IM terrorist arrested

March 23, 2014

New Delhi, 23 March 2014 Assanation bid on BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has been busted. Delhi Police special cell has arrested four Indian Mujahidden terrorists from Jodhpur(Rajasthan) including Pakistani terrorist Waqas who was involved in Patna and Gaya blasts. Waqar was also behind 13/7 Mumbai blasts. Police have recovered ammunation and explosives. Jaipur's World trade park, Birla Mandi, Dev Mandir were on terror radar. Waqas is major catch. ...Read More