A special NIA court here on Friday sentenced 19 people, including four Bangladeshi nationals, to jail terms ranging from six to 10 years in the Khagragarh blast case. All the 19 convicts, out of a total 31 accused in the case, had admitted their guilt in the blast in a house at Khagragarh in Burdwan district of West Bengal on October 2, 2014.
The National Investigation Agency has transferred three officers over allegations of bribery.
The NIA was looking for Sheikh for a long time. Sources had informed the police about the whereabouts of Sheikh, who was working as a painter and a labourer in Indore. The NIA team performed the operation in total secrecy, without even informing the local police.
The Burdwan case is related to the large scale conspiracy by the JMB to radicalize, recruit and provide training in arms and explosives to its members in India to commit terrorist acts and wage war against the country and Bangladesh, according to the officials.
The accused identified as Fayaz Ahmad Magray, Nisar Ahmad Tantray, Syed Hilal Andrabi and Irshad Ahmad Reshi had allegedly helped the terrorists to plan and execute the attack on the CRPF group centre.
The raid was carried out at the residence of Wani alias Bardana, of Achgoza Keller in South Kashmir's Pulwama. He had claimed his business was stalled after India banned cross border trading in the wake of Pulwama attack on February 14 this year.
The National Investigation Agency has arrested 14 people after they were handed over to India by Saudi Arabia recently for allegedly attempting to set-up terror outfit 'Asnarulla' in Tamil Nadu, court officials said Monday.
The NIA has arrested Habibur Rehman Sheikh, wanted in the 2014 Burdwan blast case, from the Dodabalpur area of the Karnataka capital.
Additional Sessions Judge Anil Antil allowed NIA to quiz Mohammad Arif Ghulambashir Dharampuria in its custody. The agency had sought 12-day custody of the accused.
"If anybody is to be blamed for the incident, it is Mamata Banerjee. We demand an NIA investigation into the killing of two of our supporters," said BJP leader Mukul Roy.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday carried out searches at 10 places in Tamil Nadu in connection with the investigation into an Islamic State module case, where few people conspired to raise funds and wage armed struggle against the state.
Ramalingam was attacked by a gang on February 5. The accused used sickles and tried to chop off his hands, grievously injuring him in the process.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested Islamic State sympathizer Mohammad Faiz for allegedly conspiring to commit terrorist attacks in Delhi, National Capital Region (NCR) and Uttar Pradesh, the agency said.
An NIA spokesman said Irshad Ahmad Reshi was picked up from Pulwama in south Kashmir after the interrogation of Nisar Ahmed Tantray and Syed Hilal Andrabi, nabbed earlier by the probe agency.
The NIA produced Yasin Malik before a Delhi court in connection with a case related to funding of separatists and terror groups in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday. The court has sent him on an NIA remand till April 22.
SPO Adil Bashir, a resident of Zainapora village of Shopian, had decamped with seven AK assault rifles of the personal security officers of the legislator from Wachi constituency in Shopian.
Separatist leader Yasin Malik shifted to Delhi’s Tihar Jail ahead of hearing in NIA court
Recently, the agency had served a third notice to the Mirwaiz asking him to appear before it in Delhi after he had expressed security concerns regarding his visit to the national capital while responding to the two notices served to him by NIA earlier.
Farooq has been summoned on charges of involvement in a terror funding case, police sources said on Friday.
Nisar had shifted to the UAE recently and was believed to have been in constant touch with Mudasir Ahmed Khan, one of the main handlers of the February 14 attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama, in which 40 personnel were killed.
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