Terrorism-related incidents in Delhi since 1997

2012

• January 21: A Delhi court will hear arguments taking cognizance of the charge sheet filed by NIA against Pakistani-American LeT operative David Coleman Headley and eight others including JuD chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and LeT militant Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi. Headley and others are charged with planning and executing terror strikes in India, including the 26/11 Mumbai attack.

• January 19: Investigators probing the IM Bihar module, part of which was busted by the special team of Delhi Police in 2011, has found that the chief of IM operations in India, Yasin, had been making frequent trips to several areas of Bihar towards the beginning of this decade for recruitment to the terror cause.

Sources have also confirmed that at least two members of the present module were present near L-11, Batla House, the encounter site on September 13, 2008, though till then they had no knowledge of the exact role played by the Azamgarh module.

Investigators had believed that the Bihar module had only become active after the Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh) module, operating under Atif Ameen, was busted in the Batla House encounter in September 2008.

Counter-terrorism agencies have narrowed down on the terror-financing module that is operating out of New Delhi, and is believed to have aided IM operatives in executing the July 13 triple blasts in Mumbai and the Delhi blast. Sources in counter-terrorism agencies said that they had identified the recipient of the money illegally channeled from Dubai to a hawala operator in Delhi.

• January 18: Police have arrested a Darbhanga-based leather-business owner, Naquee Ahmad in connection with the 13/7 Mumbai terror case.

Security agencies have been put on a high alert after IB warned the Delhi Police last week that a LeT operative, identified as one Rehman, may have gained entry into the city to carry out a terror strike during the upcoming Republic Day (January 26) celebrations.

The Police are also monitoring the activities of suspicious "Naxal [Left Wing Extremist] sympathisers" and many NGOs are being watched closely.

• January 15: alleged IM militants Salman alias Chotu and Shahzad Ahmed alias Pappu have allegedly confessed to the Bangalore Police that they had got explosives for the 2008 Delhi serial blasts from Udupi, a coastal town in Karnataka.

• January 14: The MBMC asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to institute a CBI probe into the September 19, 2008 Batla House encounter in New Delhi that killed two IM militants and a Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chandra Sharma.

Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav during his Kranti Rath through Azamgarh raked up the Batla House encounter and said that the Congress must tell the truth to the people.

• January 13: The Law Ministry is learnt to have cleared a proposal of the Home Ministry seeking an extension of the ban on SIMI for another two years.

A Delhiite had allegedly travelled to Pakistan to meet a 'notorious counterfeiter' Iqbal Kana and procure FICNs, Delhi Police claimed after seizing FICNs with a face value of INR 22.4 million and arresting two persons from two separate places in the city.

• January 12: The Delhi Police seized FICN worth INR 60 million from Dabri area in south-west Delhi. A team managed to get hold of a tempo near Dabri carrying several gunny bags with cloth packets.

• January 10: The NIA has claimed to have busted a major FICNs racket and arrested 14 persons - including leaders of the gang operating out of Malda in West Bengal - during a nationwide swoop. The accused were found to have direct links with their coordinators in Pakistan where these notes were printed.

• January 9: In a joint operation, a special team comprising personnel of the NIA, the Border Security Force and the West Bengal Police arrested one Morgen Hossain (23) of Malda in West Bengal. Investigators seized FICN worth INR 27,000 from Hossain, suspected to be the kingpin of FICN operations in India. Based on his information and specific intelligence inputs, the agency conducted raids in New Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal and arrested 10 suspects.

• January 7: As opposed to 18 people, a majority of whom belonged to banned outfits were arrested in 2010, 25 full-blown terrorists were arrested in 2011. A special team of Delhi Police scanned the length and breadth of the country to bring the IM to its knees in a blitzkrieg operation.

• January 2: four IM operatives recently arrested by Delhi Police have reportedly confessed that three of them were involved in planting bombs at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore during an IPL match in 2010.

As reported earlier, in a nationwide investigation, Police Forces, supported by intelligence agencies, had arrested seven IM members. Yasin managed to escape.

The arrest of two operatives of the BKI on December 22 has confirmed what Delhi Police have been suspecting for a while now -- that the Punjab-based terror outfit is on the lookout for a major strike to announce its revival.

2011

• December 26: The security of VVIPs in Punjab is being reviewed in the wake of the revelations made by Sarabpreet Singh alias Prince (30) and his childhood friend Jaswinder Singh (30), BKI militants arrested by Delhi Police on December 22. According to the Police, the BKI is on an overdrive to recruit cadre.

• December 25: The 60-page NIA charge sheet (filed on December 24), highlighted roles of LeT founder Hafiz Saeed, LeT commander Zakir-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, al-Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri and two serving Pakistani ISI officers - Major Iqbal and Major Sameer Ali in "larger conspiracy to organize spectacular terrorist attacks on places of iconic importance in India".

India will share NIA's charge sheet, filed against American terrorist David Coleman Headley and eight others, including Hafiz Saeed and two serving Pakistani ISI officials, with Pakistan during home secretary-level talks between the two countries in Islamabad in January, 2012.

• December 23: Two suspected BKI militants were sent to 10 days in Police custody. They were arrested by the Delhi police based on leads that they planned to assassinate some religious and political leaders.

• December 21: NIA has prepared a 'Terror Funding Template' (TFT), which will help its officials and investigators of states' anti-terror agencies to extract information on terror funding. The Template has been circulated to all states and Union Territories for getting relevant information from terrorists and terror suspects during their interrogation and probe.

• December 20: the Centre said a terror module busted in Delhi recently had links with Pakistan-based terrorist group LeT.

• December 18: Pakistani woman spy Soofia Kanwal, who was arrested at New Delhi along with her companion Imran on December 5, is suspected to be a suicide bomber or fidayeen. Preliminary inputs from IB and R&AW suggest that a woman fidayeen trained in Pakistani jihad launch pads had infiltrated into India on a terror mission.

During interrogation, Police have found out that senior BJP leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was on her radar and she was giving finishing touches to her terror plan on directions from her Pakistan. Soofia also had Gujarat's Akshardham temple on her radar.

• December 15: A Delhi Court extended the Police custody of seven suspected IM militants who have been arrested for their alleged role in blasts across the country by six days.

The Southeast District Police of Delhi arrested two persons, including one Nepalese, from Okhla and recovered FICN of 350,000. The arrested persons were identified as Sunny Singh Kunwar (30) from Nepal and Madan Tomar (27).

A report submitted by the Government prior to the APG annual meeting on money laundering in July had wanted a tab on Pakistan's strategy to route the FICN into India through Nepal, Bangladesh, UAE, Sri Lanka and South-East Asian countries like Thailand and Malaysia. It said roughly four out of every 1,000 currency notes in the country was fake. Besides FICN enter India through migrant labourers who are agents, from UAE, especially to areas like Malappuram and Chavakkad where the centres work under the façade of clinics or treatment centres.

• December 14: The Delhi Government informed the Delhi Court which is trying the 2008 Delhi serial bomb blasts allegedly by IM militants that it had given sanction to prosecute all 13 accused on the basis of ample evidence to establish their links with the terror outfit.

• December 12: Delhi Police revealed that they had arrested two Pakistani spies, identified as Soofia Kanwal and Imran, trained in Nepal, on December 5, from New Delhi Railway Station.

Security Forces traced the antecedents of two suspects from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Rafiq Dar (27) and Irfan Malik (32), who were arrested on December 10, from Sarita Vihar in New Delhi for stealing from hospitals in the city to Pakistan.

• December 8: NIA has unearthed a hawala operation of front organisations of Pakistan-based terror outfits LeT and HM for providing money to families of terror operatives killed all over India. The NIA has detected in the last few years a well-oiled hawala operation to tune of around INR one Billion.

• December 5: Delhi Police sources are saying that there are at least four more modules each armed with a plan to wreak havoc in an Indian metro. According to Police, interrogation of the six IM operatives arrested from various locations across the country has revealed that the IM has sleeper cells in Chennai, Bangalore, Pune apart from New Delhi.

Delhi Police produced all six suspected IM cadres - Mohammed Qateel Siddiqui, Gauhar Aziz Khomani, Gayur Ahmed Jamali, Mohammed Adil alias Ajmal, Abdur Rehman, and Mohammed Irshad Khan - in court, from where they were remanded to 10 more days' Police custody.

• November 30: Delhi Police investigators announced the neutralization of a terrorist cell that they claimed was responsible for a string of nationwide attacks in the year 2010.

Fugitive IM 'commander' Muhammad Zarar Siddibapa - a Karnataka resident also known by the alias Yasin Bhatkal and the commander of the cell, who is wanted for his alleged role in a string of urban bombings that began in 2005 - escaped arrest, the Police said.

In a major arms haul, two half-assembled grenade launchers, pistol parts and four kilograms of white and brown powder were seized from a 'factory' at Mir Vihar near Rani Khera in southwest Delhi.

• November 23: An IM militant, identified as Mohammad Qateel Siddiqi (alias Sajjan alias Sajan alias Javed alias Shahjada Salim) was arrested from Anand Vihar bus terminal with a loaded 9 mm pistol, 14 cartridges, and the Fake Indian Currency Notes by a Delhi Police team. Two fake passports, a forged identity card of the National Cadet Corps, and a fake driver's licence issued in the fictitious name Vivek Mishra, were also recovered from his possessions.

• November 22: An IM militant, identified as Gauhar Aziz Khomani was arrested by a Delhi Police team.

• October 22: Wasim Akram Malik, who masterminded the Delhi High Court blast of September 7, 2011 has revealed that the attack was carried out by two Pakistanis from Lahore District of Punjab province.

• October 21: Stepping up its hunt for key conspirators of the Delhi High Court blast (September 7, 2011) case, the NIA disclosed for the first time terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen's role in the incident and issued a 'wanted' notice for three of its cadres.

• October 19: While probing the Delhi High Court blast case (September 7, 2011),the NIA seized three mobile phones and some documents, including papers relating to money transaction, from residence of one of the accused Wasim Ahmed Malik in Jammu and Kishtwar District in Jammu and Kashmir.

Security at the Karkardooma court complex in New Delhi was strengthened following Intelligence inputs that senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, who was to appear in court in connection with the anti-Sikh riots case, was the target of Khalistani militants.

• October 7: In third major arrest in Delhi High Court blast case (September 7, 2011), the NIA arrested a Kashmiri youth identified as Wasim Akram Malik, who was pursuing studies at Dhaka, Bangladesh from New Delhi soon after he alighted from a flight at IGI airport in the capital.

• May 28: The Union Government said that Forensic tests indicated use of the deadly explosive RDX in the September 7 Delhi High Court blast.

• September 7: At least 11 people were killed and about 91 others injured in a powerful blast outside Delhi High Court at around 10.15am.

• May 25: A low intensity explosion was reported outside the Delhi High Court.

• July 28: The Security of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) headquarters in New Delhi as well the residence of its Chief K. Vijay Kumar was beefed up after an anonymous letter claimed about 100 armed cadres of the CPI-Maoist will attack these two locations.

• July 7: A 52-Year old person was arrested along with Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) worth INR .575 million in Delhi.

• May 26: One person from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh was arrested by the Delhi Police in connection with the low-intensity explosion outside the Delhi High Court.

• May 25: A low intensity explosion was reported outside the Delhi High Court.

• May 10: 'Commander-In-Chief' of Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council (KCP-MC), identified as Nongthombam Anand alias Malemnganba (36), was arrested from Bangalore.

• May 6: A District Court in Delhi framed charges against 13 suspected IM militants for their alleged role in the September 2008 Delhi serial blasts (September 13, 2008), which killed 26 people and injured 135.

• February 21: The special cell of Delhi Police has confirmed that it has asked APHC-G Chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani not to leave the city after one of his close associates was found involved in a hawala(illegal money transfer) racket.

• January 15: A Delhi court awarded rigorous life imprisonment to six HuJI militants, including three Pakistani nationals, for plotting to abduct cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly in 2002.

• January 6: Five JeM militants were sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court in New Delhi connection with Millenium Park encounter case (August 30, 2003).

• January 2: A Delhi court convicted five JeM militants, for waging war against the country and being involved in spreading terror.

2010

• December 24: Six militants of the HuJI outfit, including three Pakistani nationals, were found guilty by a Delhi court, of conspiring to kidnap cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly in 2002.

• December 7: Two cadres of the Manipur-based KCP, who abducted five Government officials for ransom, were arrested in Delhi. The arrested militants were identified as Huidrom Nanao Singh alias Dinesh Singh and Mayengbam Santon Luwang. Both of them belonged to the Military Council faction of the KCP.

• November 22: A terror alert has been issued in Delhi as three suspected militants have reportedly sneaked into the city. The Special Cell of the Delhi Police is looking for three suspected terrorists, identified as Bilal Ahmed Bagh, Ibrahim Sheikh and Shahjahan who are believed to be planning a major terror attack on the city. The Police were informed about the presence of these militants in the capital by the Intelligence Bureau four days ago.

• November 15: The suspected HM militant, arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police on November 14 was wanted in nearly 10 cases involving several killings in the past decade. The arrestee, identified as Mohammed Abdullah alias Abdullah Inquilabi, a resident of Shahdara at Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir was wanted in several cases in Jammu and Kashmir. He was allegedly involved in the killing of the members of a community at Budhal in 2005. Also, he and his accomplices allegedly killed three Police personnel in another case. The Police suspect his involvement in nearly two dozen killings and abductions.

  A Delhi Court has acquitted an alleged Jammu and Kashmir-based militant of the LeT of the charge of waging war against the country, saying recoveries of huge cache of arms and hawala money from him were not proved.

• November 22: A terror alert has been issued in Delhi as three suspected militants have reportedly sneaked into the city. The Special Cell of the Delhi Police is looking for three suspected terrorists, identified as Bilal Ahmed Bagh, Ibrahim Sheikh and Shahjahan who are believed to be planning a major terror attack on the city. The Police were informed about the presence of these militants in the capital by the Intelligence Bureau four days ago.

• November 15: The suspected HM militant, arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police on November 14 was wanted in nearly 10 cases involving several killings in the past decade. The arrestee, identified as Mohammed Abdullah alias Abdullah Inquilabi, a resident of Shahdara at Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir was wanted in several cases in Jammu and Kashmir. He was allegedly involved in the killing of the members of a community at Budhal in 2005. Also, he and his accomplices allegedly killed three Police personnel in another case. The Police suspect his involvement in nearly two dozen killings and abductions.

  A Delhi Court has acquitted an alleged Jammu and Kashmir-based militant of the LeT of the charge of waging war against the country, saying recoveries of huge cache of arms and hawala money from him were not proved.

• November 14: A suspected HM militant hailing from Pakistan, wanted in many cases in Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested near Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus in South Delhi after a shoot out. Abdullah Inquilabi, a 'divisional commander' of the outfit in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri District, was arrested by Delhi Police's Special Cell, the elite anti-terror wing from Deer Park near IIT soon after he alighted from a bus.

• October 28: A Delhi court sentenced a Pakistani national to five years and six months in jail for spying as he was found supplying classified and secret details about the deployment and movement of Army through courier to his handlers in Pakistan, in 2005. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma also imposed a fine of INR 7,000 on the convict, identified as Asim Waseem alias Sumaar Ali after holding him guilty under the Official Secrets Act, the Indian Penal Code and the Foreigners Act. The Police found that the accused was passing classified and secret details about the deployment and movement of army through courier. They also recovered two driving licenses from Ali issued in Agra (Uttar Pradesh) and Hissar (Haryana).Ali was arrested by Delhi Police's Special Cell sleuths on September 15, 2005, following a tip off that a man from Pakistan's Rahimyar Khan District had entered the country and was spying on the directions of the Pakistan’s External Intelligence agency Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI).

• October 19: Delhi could escape a major terror attack in 2009 when one of the LeT terrorists from Rawalpindi in Pakistan, who tried to come in through the legal channel, was denied an Indian visa. The terrorist was supposed to be in Delhi to carry out an attack on the National Defence College (NDC) at Tees January Marg a target recommended by Pakistani-American LeT operative David Coleman Headley to his bosses on the basis that a strike on the institution would have killed more Indian Army officers than those who died in all Indo-Pak wars put together. The NIA interrogation report quoted Headley as saying about the LeT's Delhi mission, "Abdur Rehman (Lashkar operative) told me that a man from Rawalpindi was ready to carry out the attack (in Delhi) but he had trouble to get visa for India." Referring to Rehman, Headley explained that the Rawalpindi man's visa application was turned down because "he had a long beard". "Abdur Rehman told him to shave his beard and he had reapplied for visa," the report said quoting Headley. During his interrogation, Headley, also disclosed Rehman's network in Nepal, which was activated to help the Rawalpindi man once he would reach Delhi for his mission. It appears from the interrogation report that the LeT operatives were more interested in attacking the NDC than other targets in Delhi. "I gave him (Abdur Rehman) the reconnaissance videos and we discussed each and every target in detail. I told Rehman that we could kill more Indian military officers in an attack on NDC than had been killed in all the wars between India and Pakistan," Headley told his interrogators, adding Rehman seemed to be more interested in attacking NDC. That Delhi was perilously close to being attacked by the LeT, figures in the disclosures Headley made to the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) interrogators, who questioned him in Chicago in June 2010. In his statement to the NIA, Headley essentially repeated what he had earlier told the US's Federal Bureau of Investigation. As reported earlier, Headley had recceed several targets in Delhi the Sena Bhawan, Raksha Bhawan, Vice-President's residence, Israeli embassy and Chabad House in Paharganj area.

• September 26: Security sources in Britain warned that a plot is hatched by an unnamed al Qaeda linked militant outfit to target or abduct British athletes and fans coming to India for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in retaliation to Britain’s support to the war in Afghanistan. According to the report, citizens of Australia, Canada and New Zealand could be targeted for the same reason.

• September 23: Investigations into the email sent by the Indian Mujahideen (IM) hours after the Jama Masjid firing incident in Delhi on September 18 have revealed that a second-hand Nokia mobile handset purchased from a shop in Dongri in south Mumbai was used to send the threat mail. However, the shopkeeper has no records of the person who bought the handset. Investigators believe that the terrorist bought a second-hand mobile to reduce the chances of getting traced.

• September 21: A suspected Pakistani spy, identified as Shujat Haider, was arrested by the Police from Samalkha village in East Delhi. Police claimed of seizing confidential documents related to the Indian Army from the accused's possession and said that he had stayed in Delhi for the past one year to conduct reconnaissance of the Army installations.

  Mumbai Police detained two persons in connection with the bomb blast outside the Jama Masjid (Mosque) in Delhi. Also, the e-mail purportedly sent by the Indian Mujahideen outfit was traced to Borivali in Mumbai.

• September 20: Two persons have been detained by the Delhi Police Special Cell for questioning in connection with the attack on foreign nationals in the Walled City of Delhi. According to sources, the suspects were picked up from Northeast Delhi after their antecedents raised suspicion. Preliminary investigations into the attack on the Taiwanese nationals and the fire in a car parked near the area Police station indicated to the involvement of local elements. Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal said that the attack on foreign nationals and the subsequent low-intensity explosion in the car are being investigated from all possible angles. He also said that while separate cases have been registered in connection with the two incidents, circumstantial evidence has indicated that they are linked. The Police also plan to send teams to various parts of western Uttar Pradesh in the lookout for leads.

  Police have reportedly found that the e-mail, purportedly sent by the Indian Mujahideen outfit to an international news broadcaster a few hours after the attack, was sent from Mumbai. The authenticity of the e-mail's contents and its source is being verified.

  Australia and New Zealand issued travel alerts for their citizens travelling to India during the Commonwealth Games. Australia issued a terror alert asking its citizens to exercise "high degree of caution" because of the high risk of terrorist activity by militant groups. In its alert, New Zealand said there was "significant threat from terrorism" in India advising New Zealanders to take into account potential for attacks by militant groups. The alert dissuaded citizens from travelling alone, pointing out those further attacks could not be ruled out. in large cities and popular tourist destinations.

• September 19: Two Taiwanese nationals were injured when two armed assailants on a motorcycle opened indiscriminate fire outside Gate No. 3 of the Jama Masjid (Mosque) in the Walled City of Delhi. Subsequently, an e-mail, purportedly sent by the Indian Mujahideen outfit to a radio station, claimed responsibility for the incident and warned the Government against hosting of the Commonwealth Games. "We know that preparations for the Games are at their peak. Beware! We too are preparing in full swing for a great surprise! The participants will be solely responsible for the outcome as our bands of Mujahideen love death more than you love life," said the e-mail. The Police, however, ruled out the involvement of any organised terrorist group. "Investigation so far does not indicate any specific target or the involvement of any specific terror group. It appears to be the work of some local criminals or disgruntled people", said the Delhi Police Spokesperson Rajan Bhagat. The Police recovered seven empty 9-mm cartridges from the attack site.

  Separately, a vehicle parked near the site of the suspected terrorist attack in the Jama Masjid area caught fire after a suspected pressure cooker blast, reports Asian Age. The explosion in the vehicle triggered merely three hours after the gun attack. "The car went up in flames due to a suspected crudely-circuited pressure cooker bomb," said Rajan Bhagat.

  Australia said there was a "high risk" of an extremist attack during the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, in a travel warning that follows a gun attack on tourists in the Indian capital. "There is a high risk of terrorist attack in New Delhi," said the d travel bulletin from Australia's foreign department." Australians in New Delhi should be aware that the Commonwealth Games will be held in a security environment where there is a high risk of terrorism," it added.

• August 19: Fearing Munich Olympics like terror attack in the Delhi Commonwealth Games, swimming legend Dawn Fraser called on athletes to boycott the event but the Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) rejected her apprehensions insisting that the Indian capital would be safe and secure. Winner of eight Olympic medals and holder of several world records, the 73-year-old Fraser said she did not believe in India's security promises. But ACGA Chief Executive Perry Crosswhite downplayed her fears and said the former swimmer is far removed from what is actually happening in Delhi.

• August 11: A combined force of the Thoubal District Police, Army and the Special Cell of the Delhi Police arrested four cadres belonging to Military Defense Force faction of the KYKL from Shivaji Enclave in West Delhi. They were identified as Longjam Momocha Singh alias Deepak alias Langonba (24), self styled project officer Sagolsem Somananda Singh alias Mahesh (28), Maibam Radheshyam Singh alias Foreign alias Boris alias Dekora (26), and Sapam Shyamananda Singh alias Piktru (28). The combined team also recovered two laptops, mobile phones, 20 demand letters of the faction and ATM cards from their possession.

• August 13: A Delhi court sent five cadres of the Manipur based KYKL to 14 days judicial custody. They were identified as Langian alias Manocha, Maibam Radheyshyam, Sapam Samnanda Singh, Sagolshem Samanda and Ningathoujam Geetchandra alias Kalu. They were involved in extortion, bomb explosions and incidents of firing in Manipur. While Kalu was arrested on August 12, four other were arrested on August 11 in Delhi.

• July 19: The special cell of Delhi Police claimed of arresting a suspected agent of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), identified as Nafees Ahmed (60), recently. Nafees had reportedly helped a ISI agent set up base in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and also helped the latter procure an Indian passport on the basis of forged documents. A team of special cell, led by Assistant Commissioner of Police L.N. Rao, arrested Nafees a resident of Lucknow and recovered incriminating documents that were used to acquire the Indian passport for the Pakistani national who was arrested in November 2009. Nafees had been on the run for the last eight months. A reward of INR 25,000 had also been declared for any information on him. Inspector A.K. Singh received a tip-off that Nafees would come to Patiala House Court to meet a lawyer to consult him in one of his cases. A trap was laid and Nafees was arrested. "During interrogation, Nafees said that he was a school out, and initially started a building material business. During this period he came in contact with one Aman Waris and a few other travel agents operating from Lucknow and Gorakhpur in UP. With help from the travel agents Nafees cheated several persons by promising to arrange fake visas,'' said a Police officer Singh.

• July 21: A Delhi court issued non-bailable warrants (NBW) against five Pakistanis in a case filed by the NIA, charging them with facilitating terrorist attacks in India, but rejected its application for NBWs against Lashkar-e-Toiba LeT chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the first and second accused. While agreeing with the prosecution’s charges against the seven, Special Judge (NIA) S. P. Garg said no purpose would be served by issuing NBWs against Saeed and Lakhvi. For, a Mumbai trial court had issued NBWs against them and subsequently Interpol also issued Red Corner Notices. The NIA counsel had on July 20 said that Saeed and Lakhvi could be issued the "Special Notice" as the Security Council had imposed sanctions on them for their ties to the al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The five persons against whom NBWs have been issued are Karachi residents Sajid Mir alias Wasi and Abdur Rehman Hashim, Pakistani army officers Major Iqbal and Major Sameer Ali, and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) resident Illyas Kashmiri. All the accused have been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Convention (Suppression of Terrorism) Act for "facilitating terrorist acts and acts preparatory to terror attacks between 2005 and October 2009 in India including Delhi".

• July 14: The Delhi Police claimed before a court that the IM had allegedly carried out September 13, 2008 serial blasts in Delhi at the instance of its founder, now Pakistan-based Amir Raza Khan. "Amir wanted to avenge the death of his brother Asif Raza Khan in a Police encounter in 2001. This fact was revealed in a letter written by Aftab Ansari, facing death penalty in 2002 Kolkata''s American Centre attack case, to the widow of Asif," public prosecutor Rajeev Mohan said. Mohan was putting forth the arguments before Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Santosh Snehi Mann on charges to be framed against 14 suspected IM terrorists arrested so far in connection with the case. The prosecutor claimed the Police had in its possession emails records, disclosure statements of accused, besides intelligence inputs, to establish links between Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) with SIMI and IM.

• June 15: Two cadres belonging to MI Khan faction of the People’s United Liberation Front (PULF), including its ‘fighting commander’, were arrested by a combined team of the Manipur Police, Delhi Police and Army from near the Nizammuddin Flyover in New Delhi. They were identified as Mohammed Abbas alias Fajur Rahman alias Roshan alias Anil and Mohammed Rajauddin Khan. One laptop, one printer, fake vehicle documents and some counterfeit master keys were recovered from their possession. They were involved in over 10 different cases, including abduction and killing, in Manipur.

• May 31: A Delhi Court remanded a Navy mechanic who was arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan to 14-days judicial custody. Chand Kumar Prasad was produced after five-day custodial interrogation before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, who remanded him to judicial custody till June 13.

  The court also issued production warrant against three suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists for their role in the serial blasts in the national capital on September 13, 2008. Baweja allowed a plea of Delhi Police's Special Cell seeking production of three accused Mohammad Arif, Mohammad Arif Badruddin Sheikh and Saif-ur Rehman before the court on June 25. All the three suspects are currently lodged in Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad for their alleged involvement in serial blasts there on July 26, 2008.

• May 27: An employee of the Indian Navy was arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan and Police claimed of recovering from him some "secret and sensitive" documents like photograph of the Hindan Air Base and map of Meerut Cantonment. 24-year-old Chand Kumar Prasad, posted in the Navy's Aircraft Maintenance Unit in Mumbai, was arrested by Delhi Police's Special Cell from New Delhi Railway Station,Police sources said. He was allegedly passing on classified information to a Pakistan High Commission official through another person, Police said.

  Three Italian nationals were detained in New Delhi after ammunition and two empty magazines were found in a five-star hotel room, where they stayed earlier this week, reports The Hindu. Two of them, Giovani Cecconello and Donato Dngello, were detained in Pune and Giulio Pometto was held by immigration officials at the Mumbai airport. 24 live cartridges and two magazines of Italian make were found in their hotel room on May 24.

• May 17: A trial court sent Al Badr militant Sheikh Sajjad, who was arrested on charges of possessing communication equipment, meant for Kashmiri terrorists, to 14-day judicial custody. He was reportedly detained there for possessing as well as allegedly sending hi-tech communication equipment, including satellite phones, to militants in Jammu and Kashmir. Police said during interrogation it was revealed that he was a major supplier of satellite phones to suspected terrorists.

• May 12: A Delhi court convicted two Bangladeshi nationals for possessing explosives four years ago but acquitted them of the charge of being cadres of the LeT and waging a war against the country. Additional Sessions Judge S.K. Gautam held Alamgir Hussian Roni and Abdul Razzaq alias Aslam under the Explosive Substances Act.

• May 11: A 35-year-old man, wanted in connection with seizure of communication equipment meant for terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir five years ago, has been extradited from Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and arrested in New Delhi, Police said. Sheikh Sajjad, suspected to be linked to terror outfit Al Badr, was extradited on May 8 from Dubai where he was detained for his alleged involvement in sending hi-tech communication equipment, including satellite phones, meant for the militants. Upon his arrival here, Sajjad was arrested by Special Cell which produced him before duty magistrate on May 9. On May 10, he was again produced before the court which sent him to police custody till May 16. The consignment from Jeddah was seized at Indira Gandhi International Airport. Mohd Amin Khan, a resident of Srinagar who approached the customs officials to claim the consignment, was arrested a week later after the seizure of the consignment. At his instance, one Ubaid was also arrested, an unnamed senior Police official said, adding their interrogation led them to Sajjad. Ubaid was later acquitted by a court while Amin, who had a shoe shop in Chandni Chowk (New Delhi), was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment in this case.

• April 22: A Delhi court awarded the death penalty to three of the six cadres of the banned militant outfit, the Jammu Kashmir Islamic Front, who had been convicted of involvement in the May 21, 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast, in which 13 people were killed. District and Sessions Judge S. P. Garg, who awarded the death sentence to Mohammad Naushad, Mohammad Ali Bhatt and Mirza Nissar Hussain, said: "The convicts do not deserve a lenient view. It was the most dastardly act ... the convicts indulged in the killing of innocent persons without any provocation." Their accomplice Javed Ahmed Khan was sentenced to life imprisonment. The four were convicted on April 8, 2010 of the murder, conspiracy and attempt to murder under the Indian Penal Code. The other two, Farooq Ahmed Khan and his woman accomplice Farida Dar, who had been held guilty of minor offences under the Explosive Substances Act and the Arms Act, were sentenced to imprisonment for seven years, and four years and two months respectively.

• April 19: A Delhi court sentenced a former Jammu and Kashmir Police Constable to eight years rigorous imprisonment for being a cadre of the LeT. Mushtaq Ahmed Wani, who was posted as guard as the residence of Fazal Hussain Beigh, brother of ex-Finance Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Muzaffar Hussain Beigh, was arrested from the Red Fort in New Delhi on November 25, 2006, by personnel of the Delhi Police's Special Cell. Besides the prison term, Additional Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma, who pronounced the quantum of punishment, also imposed a fine of INR 50,000 on Wani (30), holding him guilty of various offences under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The court had held Wani guilty in the case on April 13.

• April 8: A Delhi session court convicted six militants, all belonging allegedly to a Kashmiri militant group, in the case 1996 Lajpat Nagar market blast case that killed 13 people and injured 39 others. The court also acquitted four others involved in the case due to lack of evidence against them. Out of six convicted militants, four have been held guilty for murder, attempt to murder and criminal conspiracy. The two others have been convicted for lesser offences like possession of explosives. Those facing trial on various charges were Farooq Ahmed Khan, Mohd Naushad, Mirza Iftikhar, Mohd Ali Bhatt, Mirza Nissar Hussain, Latif Ahmed Waza, Syed MaqboolShah, Javed Ahmed Khan and Abdul Gani and their woman associate Farida Dar. All accused, except the woman, are in judicial custody.

• March 10: A Bangladeshi national and his Kashmiri associate, both belonging to the HuJI outfit, were sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court for possessing explosives and waging war against country. Additional Sessions Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma sentenced Mohammad Amin Wani, a resident of Jammu and Kashmir, and Lutfur Rahman, the Bangladeshi national who was reportedly to have received training at the instance of Pakistan-based Jama'at-ud-Da'awa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, to life imprisonment. Awarding the sentence, the judge said they did not deserve capital punishment as the case was not the rarest of rare. Wani (29) was arrested on January 4, 2007, from Seeshganj Gurdwara in the old city area by Delhi Police's special cell for possessing INR 450000 hawala (informal money laundering system) money. Rahman (30) was arrested from Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway station with 1.5 kilograms explosives and a timer. According to the Police, the duo was in the capital to disrupt the January 26 Republic Day function.

• March 8: Arrested IM cadre and September 13, 2008 Delhi serial bomb blast accused Salman Ahmed was remanded to eight-day Police custody,. The investigators claim that he has already provided some details of the LeT plans to launch fresh attacks on Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. As reported earlier, Ahmed was arrested on March 6 by the ATS of Uttar Pradesh Police from Siddarth Nagar District. However, Police claimed that they recovered a Nepali passport obtained under a fake name and an international SIM card from Salman’s possession. After his name cropped up in the bomb blast cases, Police claimed, he moved to Nepal, where he reportedly got the passport issued in June 2009. With the help of the passport, which was issued in the name of Mohd Fahad Ansari, the IM operative travelled to Pakistan and other countries. Ahmed is believed to have gone to Pakistan in December 2009 and returned to Nepal in January 2010. According to Police, Ahmed is an expert in carrying out blasts. He is also alleged to have received training in handling weapons and explosives during his stay in Pakistan.

• March 4: Delhi Police sought death penalty from a court against two Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) militants, including a Bangladeshi national, who have been convicted of waging war against the country and possessing explosives. Public Prosecutor Vinod Kumar Sharma argued for the capital punishment against Mohammad Amin Wani, a Jammu and Kashmir resident, and Lutfur Rahman, the Bangladeshi national who is reportedly to have received training at the instance of Pakistan-based Jama'at-ud-Da'awa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed.

  A Delhi court allowed the National Investigating Agency (NIA) to interrogate a suspected LeT militant as part of its probe against Pakistani born American national David Coleman Headley charged with conspiring in November 26, 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, PTI reported. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja allowed an application by the NIA seeking permission to examine Mohammad Aslam who was arrested by the Delhi Police's Special Cell from the Ajmeri Gate side of the New Delhi railway station on August 25, 2009.

• February 26: The Border Security Force (BSF) Director General's office in New Delhi received a mysterious parcel on with pieces of detonators in it. One person has been arrested in this connection.

• February 18: A Delhi court remanded a suspected IM terrorist to seven days' Police custody in a fresh case relating to the serial explosions in Delhi on September 13, 2008.  The Delhi Police special cell sleuths produced the accused before the court after completion of his 12 days' police remand. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja allowed the Special Cell to keepShahzad, arrested from Uttar Pradesh on February 1, in their custody till February 25. He has to be interrogated in connection with the recovery of a laptop and two mobile phones from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh at his instance. He is also to be interrogated with regard to whereabouts of 14 absconding IM terrorists for their alleged role in the serial blasts in the Delhi. Shahzad absconded with Junaid following an encounter with Delhi Police at Batla House in south Delhi on September 19, 2008, six days after the serial blasts.

• February 16 : A Delhi court convicted two Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B) militants, including a Bangladeshi national, of possessing explosives, hawala (informal money laundering system) money and waging war against the country, charges which envisage death penalty as the maximum punishment. Additional Sessions Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma held Mohd Amin Wani, a Jammu and Kashmir resident, and Lutfur Rahman, the Bangladeshi national, who is reportedly to have received training at the instance of Pakistan-based Jama'at-ud-Da'awa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, guilty in the case. Both the convicts were charged under the various provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including those relating to waging war against the country and other offences under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Explosive Substances Act.

• February 3: A city court in New Delhi sent Shahzad Ahmad alias Pappu, an IM terrorist and wanted for his  role in September 13 2008 Delhi serial bomb blasts, to three days Police custody after he was produced before a magistrate.  Ahmad was brought to the national capital late on February 2 after he was arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in Azamgarh on February 1.

• January 12: Two LeT militants were sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment each by a Delhi court for possessing RDX in connection with a conspiracy to carry out a suicide attack at the Indian Military Academy in 2005. Convicts Hamid Hussain and Mohd Shariq, who were arrested with about 10 kilograms of RDX, were also fined of INR 125000 and INR130000 respectively.

• January 3: The Delhi Police announced a reward of INR 50,000 to those who provide information leading to the arrest of each of the three Pakistani terrorists. Investigations in the case have been handed over to the Special Cell. However, taking a serious view of the lapse, the Union Ministry for Home Affairs (MHA) has sought a report from the Delhi Police and the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) on the incident.

• January 1: Three Pakistani terrorists, who were kept in the Lampur detention centre for deportation, managed to escape from the Police custody at Kotwali in Delhi . The three were arrested, along with five others, by the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police in October 2000 for triggering bomb blasts near the Red Fort. They had recently completed their jail term. The Police said on January 2 that Rafaquat Ali, Abdul Razzaq and Mohammed Sadiq were lodged at the Lampur centre as per an order issued under Section 3 of the Foreigners’ Act by the Special Branch of the Delhi Police.

2009

• December 19: A Delhi Court acquitted a suspected Hizb-e-Islami militant on charges of carrying RDX four years ago.  Nazir Ahmed Khan, a resident of Mendser in Jammu and Kashmir, was apprehended by Delhi Police's special cell on June 4, 2005 from Daryaganj on a tip off. 

• November 17: Four men allegedly circulating counterfeit currency notes were arrested by the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police. Over INR 1 million in fake notes smuggled in through the India-Bangladesh border were seized from them.

• November 14: The Delhi Police arrested a Pakistani spy from the Indira Gandhi International Airport when he was trying to board a flight to Saudi Arabia,  with a set of vital documents relating to some defence installations, including Ghaziabad's Hindon airbase and Meerut cantonment area. During interrogation, he reportedly claimed that he was from Karachi in Pakistan. After being induced by Pakistan’s ISI to work as a spy against monetary compensation, he was trained and then sent to Nepal by air, from where he illegally entered India through the porous India-Nepal border, sources said.

• September 25: A suspected aide of underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim, identified as Naresh Jain, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate from the residence of his brother Shyam at Pitampura in north Delhi. He was accused by the United States (US) for funding terrorist activities and running a hawala (informal money laundering system) operation over INR 50 billion.

• September 17: Delhi Police filed four supplementary charge sheets against a suspected Indian IM terrorist charged with hacking the Wifi system to send e-mails to media groups just before the September 13, 2008 serial blasts in Delhi. The Police have till now filed 13 supplementary charge sheets in connection with the Delhi serial bomb blasts cases.

• September 9: The special cell of Delhi Police filed the third supplementary charge-sheet in the September 13, 2008 serial bomb blasts case. Filing the charge sheet before chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja, the Delhi Police alleged the involvement of Mohammad Akbar Ismail Choudhary, part of the media wing of IM, for helping in sending terror e-mails to television channels before and after the bomb blasts in Delhi, Jaipur, Surat, Ahmedabad and Bangalore.  

• August 25: A suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant was arrested at the Ajmeri Gate side of the New Delhi Railway Station shortly before he was to board a train for Maharashtra. According to Delhi Police, a Pakistani passport identifying him as 27-year-old Yusuf, a Jammu and Kashmir identity card bearing his name as Salim, a consignment of chemical explosives four detonators and two timers were recovered from his possession. During interrogation, the arrested militant identified himself as Mohammad Aslam of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir. "We are cross-checking the information provided by him. He could have been assigned the task of ferrying the consignment," said a Police official. The Police suspect that the militant recently visited Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Police is also trying to ascertain whether the suspect planned to create disturbance during the Ganesh Chaturthi (Religious Festival) celebrations in Maharashtra.

• August 6: Two suspected Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) militants, who were allegedly planning terror attacks in the national capital ahead of Independence Day on August 15, were arrested in the night, a senior Delhi Police official said. Javed Ahmed and Ashiq Ali were arrested by Delhi Police's Special Cell from central Delhi's Daryaganj area when they were traveling in a car. "We caught them from Mahavir parking area," Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) P. N. Agarwal said. "We had Intelligence inputs about the movement of these militants and we tracked them," the officer said. He said two AK-47 rifles, about 100 cartridges and two grenades were also recovered from the militants, who were in their early 30s. Asked about their nationality, the official said they appeared to be Indians, PTI reported.

• June 11: An Indian Mujahideen militant, identified as Akbar Ismail Choudhary, brought to Delhi from Hyderabad by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police, was produced in a court, which remanded him to 10 days' Police custody. Akbar was reportedly an accomplice of Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, the head of the IM's media cell. Akbar was arrested by the Anti-Terrorism Squad of the Maharashtra Police in 2008. The Special Cell is to interrogate Akbar to reconstruct the sequence of events leading up to the serial blasts in Delhi on September 13, 2008.

• June 4: A key Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant, identified as Mohammad Omar Madini, was arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police near Qutb Minar in south Delhi. He was reportedly operating from India and Nepal for the past several years. The Police have recovered USD 8000, some Nepali currency and a diary containing a list of suspected LeT conduits and militants active in and outside India. Meanwhile, security and intelligence agencies suspect he was in direct touch with top operatives of the outfit in Pakistan, including its chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed. Madini reportedly disclosed that he infiltrated into India recently on a ‘talent hunt’. Madini had allegedly been directed by his LeT leaders to create a large network of operatives in major cities through whom deadly attacks could be carried out in the future. His job was to spot talent, cultivate them, initiate them to join the outfit and fight for its cause.

• January 17: Seven top militants of the Manipur-based Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) were arrested from unspecified locations in the national capital in an operation code named 'Operation Grand Slam' conducted by a joint team of the Army, Manipur Police and Delhi Police. They have been identified as N. Amumacha Singh, who had recently been nominated as the president of the newly unified group of the KCP (Mangang, City Meitei and Lamphel) factions, Chongtham Manglemjao Singh alias KK Nangba alias Chouba alias Koi alias Irabot, a leader of the KCP-Mangang group and presently general secretary, home secretary and foreign secretary of the newly unified group Chongtham Ibomcha Singh, leader of the KCP-Lamphel group, presently nominated collector of the newly unified group Chongtham Ning Lamba Singh, son of KK Nangba and nominated military head of political section of the unified group Ng Ratan Singh, deputy finance secretary of the group and two lady cadres. Details of the group's extortion activities and a draft of a press release meant to be released on January 26 were recovered from the hideout.

2008

• November 23: A suspected Indian Mujahideen cadre, identified as Quaumuddin, was remanded to seven days police custody by a local court in Delhi, in connection with the September 13-serial bomb blasts in Delhi. The suspected terrorist was reportedly brought by the Delhi Police from Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh on transit remand.

• September 27: A 13-year old boy was killed in an explosion at the crowded Mehrauli area of South Delhi. Twenty-three persons were injured. Two men who were in their mid- 20s riding a black motorcycle dropped a polythene bag containing the bomb near an electrical goods shop at the Mehrauli Sarai market around 2-15 p.m. The teen-age boy Santosh, who was standing nearby, picked it up when the bomb exploded killing him. Preliminary investigations indicated that a low-intensity device concealed in a tiffin box was used to trigger the explosion. Two of the injured persons subsequently succumbed to their injuries in the hospital, taking the death toll to three.

• September 20: Three Indian Mujahideen terrorists, Zia-ur-Rehman, Shakir Nisar and Mohammad Shakil were arrested in the morning of September 20 from the Jamia Nagar area. Police sources said that the terrorist module had planned to detonate at least 20 bombs in several places in the national capital.

• September 19: Two Indian Mujahideen terrorists, including a key functionary of the outfit, who played a major role in the Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and the recent Delhi serial blasts, were killed in an encounter with the Special Cell of the Delhi Police at Batla House in the Jamia Nagar locality of South Delhi. The encounter took place after a tip-off received by the Delhi Police that Mohammad Bashir, alias Atiq, of the Indian Mujahideen, involved in the Ahmedabad blasts, had been living with some other suspected militants in a flat at L-18 Batla House. The operation began at 10.30 a.m. and continued for an hour in which Bashir and his accomplice Mohammad Fakruddin, alias Sajed, both residents of Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, were killed. While one alleged terrorist identified as Saif Ahmad was arrested from the spot, another, Zeeshan, was arrested later, in the Jhandewalan area. Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, a highly decorated officer, who led the operation, was also killed in the encounter. An AK series assault rifle and two .30 pistols were found at the spot.

• September 13: 24 persons were killed and 151 more injured in a series of five bomb blasts in the busy market places of national capital New Delhi. The first explosion took place at Karol Bagh at 6.10 pm. The next explosion took place at 6.35 pm near the Metro Station at Barakhamba Road. Five minutes later, another explosion took place at the Central Park in Cannaught Place. Two more explosions took place in the M-block market of the Greater Kailash area at 6.30 pm and 6.40 pm. Initial investigations revealed that the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were configured using ammonium nitrate. Four live bombs were recovered and diffused. While one bomb was found outside the Regal Cinema in Cannaught Place, two more bombs were diffused in the Central Park at Cannaught Place and at India Gate. In an e-mail to the media, the Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the explosions. Subsequently, one of the injured persons succumbed to his injuries taking the death toll to 25.

• July 30: An e-mail threatening to set off bomb blasts in the national capital Delhi was received by the Japanese embassy in Delhi. The e-mail stated that after the blasts in Jaipur and Ahmedabad, there will be bomb blasts in Delhi, sources said. The Sarojini Nagar area was identified as one of the targets. The market there was targeted by terrorists in October 2005.

• July 29: Central intelligence agencies and the Delhi Police arrested a Bangladeshi national, identified as Mohammad Hakim, from the New Delhi railway station. Hakim, who was reportedly carrying some explosive material, is believed to be part of the module linked to the recent terrorist attacks in Bangalore and Ahmedabad. ''Hakim is being taken to Siliguri by a team of IB and special cell officers. They suspect that other members of the module could be hiding there. His interrogation has also thrown up vital facts about the low-intensity serial blasts reported in Mehrauli and Malviya Nagar recently,'' said an unnamed senior police officer. Hakim has told the police that he was trained in bomb making by one Mohammad Ansari, who, too, is a Bangladeshi national.

• June 24: The Delhi Police arrested a cadre of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), Habib-ur-Rehman, from the Sarai Kale Khan area. He had allegedly provided logistic support to two Pakistanis who were caught with a large cache of ammunition, including RDX, from Delhi in September 2001. Rehman, who belongs to the Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh, went into hiding after the arrest of two Pakistanis

2007

• July 27: A suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant, identified as Sabbir Ahmad, was arrested at Chandni Chowk along with a 9mm pistol of Chinese make. During interrogation, he reportedly told the police that he was residing in a guesthouse at Majlis Park in Adarsh Nagar for the last three days. Police said they raided the guesthouse and recovered one AK 56 rifle, two magazines and four hand grenades, apart from some Indian currency. Sabbir, a native of Kashmir, was reportedly working for the LeT for the last few years and was sent to Delhi by his commanders to carry out terrorist activity.

• July 26: Two suspected militants to the Manipur-based militant outfit, the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), were arrested from northwest Delhi's Azadpur. Police said that both the militants are involved in several extortion and murder cases and were in Delhi to escape attacks by the rival outfits. The duo was identified as the outfit's chairman Mangol, a resident of Imphal West district, and the outfit's vice-chairman, Oinam Suranjoy Singh of Bishnupur district.

• June 12: A suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant was arrested from near the Azadpur Sabzi Mandi in north Delhi. Identified as Mukhtar Ahmed Khan from Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, the militant was carrying about 1.5 kilograms of RDX, a timer and two detonators. Delhi Police sources said that Khan was scheduled to go to Pakistan by the Delhi-Lahore bus on June 13 to meet LeT commanders based in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). Police further said that the explosives seized from him were meant to cause bomb blasts in Delhi at the behest of LeT commander Abu Alqama. Khan was supposed to hand over the explosives to another LeT operative in Delhi before taking the bus to Lahore. Khan revealed to the police that he initially worked for LeT for money but later gained the confidence of Abu Musab alias Tahir and Abu Hamza, the district commanders of LeT in Srinagar. Khan had visited Pakistan in January 2006 and attended the LeT camp at Muzaffarabad in PoK and received three month-training in the use of weapons and explosives.

• April 26: Three LeT militants, including a Pakistani national, were arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police outside the Dilli Haat (a crowded shopping complex) in the national capital. The police recovered two kilograms of RDX, three detonators, two hand-grenades, a timer and INR 25,000 in cash from them. The three were identified as Abu Kasim, a Pakistani national, and Shafaqat and Shabbir, residents of Jammu and Kashmir. Shafaqat and Shabbir reportedly said that they were recently directed by their handler to hand over the consignment of explosives to a Pakistani militant. The police suspect that the Kasim was part of a "core strike team" dispatched to carry out explosions in the Capital.

• February 27: An illegal ammunition-manufacturing unit has been unearthed in Ghaziabad by the Crime Branch of the Delhi police. A middle-aged man, identified as Irshad Ali was arrested and 175 live rounds of .315 bore, raw material and some equipment were recovered from the unit.

• February 27: Military intelligence officials along with special cell of Delhi Police arrested Captain Salim Zafar Azad, a suspected agent of Pakistan's ISI from a residential colony in East Delhi and produced him in a court on February 28. The army official who served as an army doctor had deserted his services on May 18, 1997 when he was posted at Military Hospital in Dinjan Cantonment in the Dibrugarh district of Assam. Subsequently, he spent a few years in Bangladesh and then moved to Delhi and was reportedly overseeing a part of ISI's operation.

• February 4: Four suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed militants, including a Pakistani national, were arrested following an encounter with the Delhi Police under the Ranjit Singh flyover near Connaught Place. Police recovered three kilograms of RDX, four detonators, a timer, six hand grenades, a .30 bore firearm, US $ 10,000 and INR 50,000 from them.

• January 25: A suspected LeT militant was arrested with 2.5 kilograms of RDX by the Special Cell of Delhi Police from near the Seelampur Metro station. The militant was to hand over the explosives to a LeT module that was to carry out blasts in New Delhi on Republic Day (January 26).

• January 4, 2007: Two suspected Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) militants, Lutful Rahman and Mohammed Amin Wani, were reported to have been arrested on January 17 by the Delhi Police. Daily News & Analysis reported that both were arrested earlier this month. Rahman, a Bangladeshi national, was arrested in Adarsh Nagar locality of North-West Delhi, while Mohammed Amin, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested in South Delhi's Nizamuddin area on January 4. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Alok Kumar, disclosed: "We have recovered 1.6 kg of RDX, a detonator and a timer from Mohd Amin and INR 4. 5 lakh from Lutuful Rahman." Police suspect that they were planning to subvert the Republic Day celebrations on January 26.

2006

• December 31, 2006: Two terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit, identified as Samiullah and Ali Mohammad, were arrested along with two improvised plastic explosive devices at the New Delhi railway station by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police. The Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Karnal Singh, said the two were planning to plant a bomb in the crowded Paharganj Market near the railway station on the New Year's Eve.

• December 19, 2006: Three suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were arrested from the Red Fort area by the Delhi Police. The arrested, identified as Mohammad Salman Khurshid, Abdul Rehman and Mohammad Akbar Hussain, were planning terrorist strikes in the national capital. Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Karnal Singh, informed that two kilograms of RDX, two detonators and one hand grenade were recovered from their possession.

• December 10, 2006: Two militants belonging to the Lashkar-e-Toiba were arrested in the national capital New Delhi and 1.5 kg of RDX was recovered from them. Gulzar Ahmed and Mohammed Amin, both hailing from Kashmir, were arrested from the Mahipalpur area in South-West Delhi. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar said that besides the explosives, INR 20, 00, 00 and two detonators were also recovered from them.

• November 22, 2006: Two suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militants were arrested in the national capital along with a large quantity of explosives, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar. Imran and Ghulam Rasool, hailing from Jammu and Kashmir, were arrested from a shopping complex in the Dwarka locality of west Delhi by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police. Around 1.5 kg of RDX, INR 2.5 lakh and two timers were recovered from their possession.

• October 16, 2006: Two Lashkar-e-Toiba cadres, belonging to Bangladesh, were arrested early morning from Old Railway Station along with 1.5 kg of RDX. The duo was identified as Mohammed Aslam Gir and Abdul Razaq, residents of Rajshahi district in Bangladesh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar informed. They were arrested soon after arrival from Jammu by Pooja Express at around 0500 hours.

• August 10, 2006: Delhi Police personnel arrested two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists, including a Pakistani national, outside Ajmeri Gate terminal of the New Delhi railway station. The duo was identified as Anaz from Islamabad and Abrar Ahmed from Bahraich in the State of Uttar Pradesh. Official sources said that the terrorists had disembarked from the Swaraj Express at platform number eight and were about to get into an autorickshaw when police arrested them. Two kilograms of RDX and five detonators were recovered from them.

• July 11, 2006: A conduit of the LeT, Ajaz Hussain Khwaja, hailing from Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested from the Lodhi Road area of New Delhi. Two kilograms of RDX and INR 49 lakhs were recovered from him. Police sources said that the conduit was working for Pakistan-based LeT terrorist Mukhtar Ahmed. Hussain allegedly used to collect explosives and money through hawala channels and supply it to terrorists on Ahmed's directions. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar said that the terrorist was living in the Jangpura locality of the city for some time and was arrested when he went to the Lodhi Road area in a car, apparently to hand over the cash and explosives to someone.

• July 4, 2006: The Delhi Police arrested two people who were allegedly manufacturing and supplying sophisticated firearms to Maoists. The two, Alahuddin and Nizamuddin, were arrested at the New Delhi railway station for possessing arms, including 14 pistols and 28 magazines, said a senior police official. “They are residents of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, and supply arms to Maoist insurgents in Bihar,” said Additional Commissioner (Crime Branch) Muktesh Chander.

• May 8, 2006: A Pakistani national belonging to the LeT was shot dead in an encounter with the police outside Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on May 8-night. Four kilograms of RDX, four detonators and Rs. 50,000 were recovered from the incident site. The encounter followed the arrest of two other LeT terrorists at Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station earlier in the evening. A team led by Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Ajay Kumar had arrested the terrorists when they arrived by the Mumbai-Amritsar Golden Temple train.

• April 14, 2006: Fourteen persons, including a woman and a girl, were injured in two bomb explosions inside the Jama Masjid in the Walled City area of New Delhi soon after the evening prayers. Initial investigations indicated that low-intensity crude bombs were used. According to eyewitnesses, the first explosion took place at 5-20 p.m., soon after the worshippers went to a tank at the centre of the mosque to clean themselves. A few minutes later, the second bomb exploded near the tank.

• March 20, 2006: Paramjeet Singh Bheora, 'head of operations' of the Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) in India, and two of his accomplices who were planning to set up base in Delhi were arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police near G T Karnal road. Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police (Special Cell), Karnal Singh, said Paramjeet and his accomplices Jasbir Singh and Bhupinder Singh were arrested following an exchange of fire. He added, "four kilograms of RDX, three detonators, one remote control device along with a wireless set, one timer, three pistols, 39 live cartridges and three fired cartridges were recovered from them. The stolen Santro car in which they were traveling was also seized." Paramjeet was allegedly involved in the assassination of Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995 and had taken over control of the BKI after its previous chief Jagtar Singh Hawara was arrested by the Delhi Police on June 8, 2005.

• February 27, 2006: Two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists, Shamil and Shaheen, were arrested at the New Delhi Railway Station when they arrived by the Howrah New Delhi Express. According to police, they had come from Bangladesh with the intention to set up a base in Delhi and carry out terrorist activities.

• February 10, 2006: With the arrest of two alleged Al-Badr terrorists, Irshad Ali and Mohammad Muarif Qamar alias Nawab, and recovery of explosives, the Delhi Police claimed to have foiled a terrorist plan to trigger off blasts in the national capital.

• February 4, 2006: Nasir, an alleged Hizb-ul-Mujahideen operative, is arrested from the Defence Colony area of national capital on charges of funding separatist organisations in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).

2005

• November 11, 2005: An alleged conduit of the JeM who shuttled between India and Bangladesh and had ferried the terrorists involved in the July 5-Ayodhya attack was arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police at Old Delhi Railway Station.

• October 29, 2005: At least 62 persons were killed and 155 others were injured in three powerful serial bomb explosions in the national capital on October 29-evening. While two bombs exploded at busy marketplaces (Sarojini Nagar and Paharganj), one exploded inside a Delhi Transport Corporation bus at Govindpuri.

• October 4, 2005: Police reportedly arrested a terrorist of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and seized Rupees 10 lakhs from him near Golcha Cinema in the Daryaganj area. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Ajay Kumar, said the terrorist, Mushtaq Ahmed, from Handwara in the Kupwara district of J&K, was arrested when he came to deliver some Hawala (illegal financial transaction) money.

• September 10, 2005: Delhi Police arrested an alleged ISI agent and claimed to have recovered sensitive military documents from him. 24-year-old Irfan Kausar, hailing from the Gujranwala district of Pakistan’s Punjab province, was arrested from a cyber cafe in the Bhikaji Cama Place area of South Delhi when he was allegedly sending confidential information about the Indian military through the Internet. Documents regarding deployment and movement of military units and their weapons in the Ambala Cantonment in the Indian Punjab were seized from him, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Tajendra Luthra told reporters.

• August 23, 2005: Delhi Police arrested a senior LeT terrorist from Zakir Nagar in the southern part of the national capital. Abu Razak Masood is reported to be the outfit's coordinator in Dubai. Police said the accused was involved in a blast in Hyderabad, the capital city of Andhra Pradesh, and had been declared a proclaimed offender in the case.

• August 1, 2005: The Special Branch of Delhi Police arrested a national of Ghana, Kofy Admork Brown, from the West Vinod Nagar area for his alleged links with terrorist groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir. Fake passports and visa to several countries were seized from his possession.

• July 14, 2005: Two Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorists were arrested from the Old Delhi railway station in connection with the May 22 blasts at two cinema halls. The terrorists were identified as Dilbagh Singh, a close relative of the Pakistan-based BKI chief Wadhawa Singh, and Surender Singh Kanda, a Kenya-based non-resident Indian, who reportedly works as a visa agent.

• July 12, 2005: Unearthing a terrorist plot to attack the capital’s Palam Air Force Station, the Delhi Police arrested a HM terrorist and a Deputy Director of the Jammu and Kashmir Government and recovered a large quantity of arms and ammunition. Hizb cadre Abdul Majid Bhatt, wanted under the Public Safety Act in J&K, was arrested from the New Delhi Railway Station along with three detonators when he was about to board a train. Mohammad Qayoom Khan, a Deputy Director with the Soil Conservation Department, was arrested in Srinagar by a Delhi Police team on charges of financing terrorist activities after receiving funds through Hawala, Joint Commissioner of Police (Southern Range) B S Bassi told reporters in Delhi. Qayoom, who possesses a Masters degree in Agronomy, acted as a channel for routing Hawala funds, Bassi said, adding he had recently given Rupees 50 lakhs to the terrorists.

• July 1, 2005: Delhi Police arrest four terrorists, identified as Masood, Zahid, Bashir and Nazir, from the South-West Delhi area. They also recover four Chinese pistols, its 18 cartridges, 35 cartridges of AK-47 rifle, one hand grenade, Rupees 50,000 fake currency, a cheque of Rupees 9.5 lakh and a map of the Indira Gandhi International Airport and army dresses.

• June 8, 2005: Jagtar Singh Hawara, 'operations chief' of the BKI in India, who was one of the four inmates who had escaped from Burail Jail in Chandigarh on January 21, 2004, was arrested along with two other accused in the May 22, 2005 theatre blasts from the G.T. Karnal Road in Narela Industrial Area of Delhi.

• June 5, 2005: A joint team of the Delhi and Punjab Police arrests two BKI activists, Bahadur Singh and Gurdip Singh alias Kaka, from Nawanshahar district in Punjab.

• June 1, 2005: A day after police arrested BKI activists, Balvinder Singh and Jaganath Yadav, in connection with the blasts at the Liberty and Satyam cinema halls on May 22, the Delhi Police (DP) seized illegal arms and ammunition from a hideout of a BKI terrorist, who is still at large. The DP conducted a raid at the hideout of Jaspal Singh at Inderpuri and recovered 1 kg of RDX, a timer, detonator, a.303 rifle, 20 rounds of ammunitions, a uniform of a Punjab Police head constable and several fake driving licenses.

• May 30, 2005: Two BKI terrorists were arrested in connection with the May 22-bomb blasts at two cinema halls in the national capital. While Balwinder Singh was arrested from a village at Nawanshahar in the State of Punjab, the other accused, Jagannath, was arrested from Madipur in Delhi. Rupees 2.94 lakh in cash, 1 kg of RDX and 2 kg of gold was recovered from the latter’s house.

• May 22, 2005: Two explosions triggered by crude devices at two cinema halls in Delhi during the screening of the Hindi film Jo Bole So Nihal killed one person and injured at least 60 others. In the first incident at Liberty Cinema on the G. T. Karnal Road, the device reportedly exploded under a seat in the sixth row. The second bomb exploded at the toilet of Satyam Cinema in Patel Nagar. The Delhi Police Commissioner, K.K. Paul, stated that both the explosives were of a crude nature and did not contain any splinters.
  
  The Special Cell of Delhi Police is reported to have arrested Mohammed Ishaq, a suspected LeT terrorist, from outside Safdarjung Hospital in the capital city on May 22. 5.5 kilograms of RDX, two electronic detonators and Rupees 2.5 lakhs in cash were also recovered from his possession.
  
  

• May 12: An alleged LeT terrorist was arrested by the Delhi Police soon after he arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi by an Air India flight IC 856 from Singapore. Harun Rashid, a resident of Siwan in the State of Bihar, had disclosed that he was working for a LeT module in association with Parvez and Doctor. He secured money from his handler Abdul Aziz who, in turn, was sending it to Shams and Shahnawaz. An active member of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Rashid had risen to the rank of "Ansar."

• April 25, 2005: Delhi Police is reported to have shot dead two LeT terrorists near the Pragati Maidan area of the capital. They also recovered one AK-series rifle, two revolvers and some magazines from the incident site.

• March 5, 2005: Three LeT terrorists were shot dead in an encounter with the Special Cell of the Delhi Police at Kakrola Mor in South-West Delhi. A huge quantity of ammunition, including three AK-56 assault rifles, hand-grenades, live cartridges, satellite phones and some documents were recovered from their hideout. According to police, the terrorists were allegedly planning to target the Indian Military Academy in Dehra Dun. The encounter was a sequel to the arrest of Hamid and Sariq, residents of Seelampur in North-East Delhi at Mubarak Chowk on G.T. Karnal Road. The police recovered 10.5 kg of RDX from the jeep in which they were travelling. They also confessed that about half-a-dozen other militants were living in a house at Bharat Vihar in South-West Delhi.

• January 19, 2005: The Delhi Police arrests a Harkat-ul-Jehadi-e-Islami (HuJI) terrorist, identified as Firdaus Ahmed Bhatt alias Manzoor, from the Baba Kharak Singh Marg in New Delhi. A native of Shorra in the Kashmir Valley, Manzoor has reportedly been involved in terrorist activities since 1993.

• January 3, 2005: A BKI terrorist who was involved in an assassination attempt on a senior police official in Punjab and wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for various crimes in the US was arrested by the Delhi Police. Prem Pal Singh had stayed in the US, UK, Germany and Thailand for over 16 years using fake passports, said Deputy Commissioner of Police, Deependra Pathak.

• December 22, 2004: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence is reported to have seized fake currency with the face value of Rupees 46 lakh and arrested four persons, including two Bangladeshi conduits, from New Delhi. The consignment, in the denomination of Rupees 500, was sent from Pakistan for circulation in the country and was seized at a hotel in the Paharganj area of Central Delhi.

• September 23, 2004: Delhi Police personnel arrest a suspected HM terrorist from the Jama Masjid area. According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Ashok Chand, the terrorist, identified as Shabir Ahmed Shah, who had been trained in Pakistan, had come to Delhi for treatment to facial injuries suffered during a landmine explosion.

• August 16, 2004: The Special Cell of Delhi Police shot dead a suspected LeT terrorist during an encounter at Dwarka in South-West Delhi. A .30-bore Chinese pistol was recovered from the slain terrorist. According to the Joint Commissioner of Police, Karnal Singh, the slain terrorist was a Pakistani national.

• July 26, 2004: The Delhi Police arrests a 23-year-old Pakistan national who was allegedly attempting to set up an espionage base in the Capital. Ghulam Mustafa Qureshi alias Ali Hasan, a resident of Hassanpur in Punjab (Pakistan), was arrested from a cyber cafe in the Laxmi Nagar area of East Delhi while sending sensitive defence matter through the Internet, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Ashok Chand. Site plan of the Delhi Cantonment area, telephone numbers of defence establishments, a loaded camera with clicked photographs of defence areas and a diary containing Pakistan numbers along with Pakistani and Bangladeshi currency, an ATM card of Muslim Commercial Bank and fake driving licenses were seized from his possession.

• April 5, 2004: A member of the LeT was arrested for allegedly trying to set up a terrorist base in the city. Irshad Ahmed Malik was arrested outside a guesthouse at Bhogal on March 27 and a revolver of foreign make along with eight live cartridges and Rupees 275,000 in cash was recovered from him.

• February 13, 2004: A Jammu based trans-border terrorists’ courier, Ved Prakash Sharma alias Billa was arrested by the Delhi Police from Mukarba Chowk area of North West Delhi and four kilograms of high-grade explosives were recovered from him. According to Additional Commissioner of Police (Special cell) Karnal Singh, the explosives were of high-grade nature, suspectedly plastic explosive PETN. Sharma had earlier worked for terrorist organisations like Babbar Khalsa and Khalistan Commando force, the police official added.

• February 10, 2004: An Al Jehad terrorist, identified as Abdul Hai Peer, hailing from Sopore in the Kashmir valley, was arrested by the Delhi Police from the Adarsh Nagar area of the capital. Police also recovered a 7.63 mm Spanish pistol, an unspecified amount of foreign currency and some Pakistani visa papers from his possession.

• January 25, 2004: Acting on intelligence input, the Delhi Police's Special Cell arrested three LeT terrorists from Laxmi Nagar in East Delhi. Three kilograms of high explosives, detonators, timers, rocket-propelled grenades and foreign currency were seized from their possession. The terrorists disclosed that they belonged to the LeT and were sent to disrupt the Republic Day celebrations, police sources said.

• January 22, 2004: The Delhi Police arrested a Hizb-e-Islami (HeI) terrorist, identified as Ayaz Mohammad Shah, near the Metro railway station in north-east Delhi and recovered 3.5 kilograms of high explosives and Rupees 300,000 from his possession. The arrested terrorist reportedly belongs to the Anantnag district in J&K.

• October 23, 2003: The Delhi Police arrested a BKI terrorist from the Delhi-Gurgaon border. A locally made pistol and a live cartridge were seized from his possession. The accused had been in Delhi for the last one month and was in contact with other terrorist outfits, police sources said.

• September 29, 2003: Two terrorists, Mohammed Majid and Mohammed Amran, of the Harkat-ul-Jehadi-e-Islami (HuJI) who were earlier arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) for engaging in anti-India activities, pleaded guilty before a Delhi Court. They reportedly admitted that they had plotted to assassinate President A P J Abdul Kalam and abduct cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly. According to official sources, they had also planned to trigger explosives at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center in Trombay, Maharashtra.

• September 24, 2003: The Delhi Police arrests six persons, including a Pakistani and a Nigerian national, who were funding terrorist activities in the city through the sale of narcotics. The gang reportedly operated on the directions of the ISI and used to transport narcotics through Punjab into Delhi, which later passed into the hands of the Nigerian who sold it in the international market.

• September 16, 2003: Acting on the revelation of Noor Mohammad Tantray, a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist, the Delhi Police arrested a Hawala operator, Rajender Prasad, from Karol Bagh allegedly for delivering Rupees two million to the former. The amount was reportedly received from a Dubai-based unidentified person. Tantray had been arrested from the Sadar Bazaar area on August 30.

• September 3, 2003: Police arrests a LeT terrorist from the Mahipalpur area of southwest Delhi. Police sources said the arrested terrorist identified as Abdul Karim, a resident of Mendhar in Poonch district of J&K, was attempting to set up a base for the outfit in Delhi.

• August 31, 2003: Delhi Police personnel arrested two JeM terrorists from Sikandarabad in the Bulandshahar district of Uttar Pradesh and later booked them under the Prevention of Terrorist Act (POTA). The police also seized 23 electronic detonators, three remote-control devices and Rupees 85,000 from them. According to Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell), Neeraj Kumar, the arrested terrorists, Raees Ahmed and Atiq Ahmed, are brothers of Habibullah, one of the two terrorists killed on August 30-night in an encounter at the Millennium Park in south Delhi.

• August 30, 2003: Two terrorists belonging to the JeM outfit were killed in an encounter in the Indraprastha Millennium Park near Nizamuddin Bridge in Delhi. Police also seized a huge quantity of arms, including AK-series rifles and ammunition from the possession of slain terrorists. Police sources said one of the slain terrorists was a Pakistani while the second is believed to be a Delhi resident. Earlier, Delhi Police intercepted a truck containing explosives at the Qutub Road parking lot in Sadar Bazaar, central Delhi. The seizure included 10 hand grenades, 10 grenade shells and one Under Barrel Grenade Launcher. Three persons, including the driver and cleaner of the truck were arrested in connection with the seizure. One of the arrested persons revealed during interrogation that he was supposed to hand the ammunition to the JeM terrorists at Indraprastha Park.

• August 10, 2003: Two LeT terrorists, Altaf Hussain and Aftab Ahmed, were arrested by the Delhi Police from the Connaught Place area along with a Chinese pistol, a wireless set and some incriminating documents.

• June 10, 2003: Delhi Police arrested a LeT terrorist from the West Delhi area. The arrested terrorist, Gafoor, is believed to be a ‘key local accomplice’ of another LeT terrorist who was killed during an encounter with the police on May 22, 2003, in the Najafgarh area. A country made pistol and three live rounds were also recovered from his possession.

• May 22, 2003: Delhi Police arrested a LeT terrorist, identified as Mehboob, from the Bhajanpura area. The terrorist belongs to the Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh. A pistol and eight live cartridges were also recovered from his possession.

• May 18, 2003: A bag containing two live cartridges of AK-47 rifle, two empty .38mm cartridges, five empty 9mm cartridges and 16 empty 22mm cartridges, among other things, were reportedly recovered from the Rajpath area in Delhi. Police recovered the ammunition reportedly after intercepting messages from Pakistan-based LeT and JeM that indicated likely suicide attacks on Parliament, Reserve Bank of India and India Gate.

• April 4, 2003: Delhi Police arrested two HM terrorists, including the Srinagar ‘area commander’, Feroz Ahmad Sheikh. These terrorists were planning to attack crowded areas and kill senior police officials in the city.

• February 26, 2003: Police in Delhi arrested one person––Abdul Wahid–– for his alleged links with a Lahore-based agent of the ISI, Tariq. He was reportedly involved in Hawala transactions and was passing on money to ISI operatives in India. His arrest followed the arrest and subsequent interrogation of two more ISI agents––Abid Mohammed alias Nihal Chand and Mohammed Arif––in Chandigarh, Punjab, on February 25.

• February 10, 2003: Delhi Police arrested two associates of Pakistan-based Mafia don Dawood Ibrahim and unearthed a network of counterfeit currency notes, allegedly printed in Pakistan and brought to India through Nepal. Fake currency worth Rupees 2.64 lakh was also reportedly recovered from the arrested persons, who are also reportedly wanted in the March 1993-Mumbai serial bomb blast case.

• February 6, 2003: Delhi Police arrested two leaders of the secessionist All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), including its Delhi-based spokesperson Shabir Ahmed Dar, for allegedly receiving funds from the Pakistan High Commission for passing them on to terrorist outfits in J&K. Police also arrested a woman identified as Anjum Zamrooda Habib after she came out from the Pakistan High Commission premises. An amount of Rupees 3.07 lakh besides some documents and propaganda material was recovered from her possession.

• December 14, 2002: Delhi Police killed two suspected Pakistani terrorists, while they were moving near some offices of the Indian Air Forces and paramilitary forces, including that of the Border Security Force, in the suburbs of south Delhi. Police recovered two AK-47 rifles, some hand grenades, magazines and other documents from the car, in which they were traveling. Documents recovered indicted the terrorists belonged to a hitherto unknown organisation called Tehreek-e-Ghaznavi, and according to Delhi Police Joint Commissioner Niraj Kumar, it could be a cover for the LeT.

• July 2, 2002: Delhi Police arrested two persons, including a LeT terrorist, and seized Rupees seven lakh in cash. The arrests followed information that a Hawala dealer was to hand over a cash consignment to a LeT terrorist.

• February 8, 2002: Delhi Police arrested three suspected terrorists from the Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station while they were attempting to leave for Agra. The arrested terrorists, of whom two are Pakistani nationals and the third from Bangladesh, are said to be on the payroll of Mafia don Aftab Ahmed Ansari. They are reported to be involved in the January 22, 2002, terrorist attack on the American Centre in Kolkata.

• January 15, 2002: Four LeT terrorists were arrested in New Delhi and eight kilograms of RDX was recovered from them. They had arrived in the capital with plans to cause blasts at crowded places in the run-up to the Republic Day Parade on January 26. Police also recovered Rupees 35 lakh cash from the four terrorists, reportedly natives of Anantnag district in J&K.

• January 5, 2002: Delhi Police arrested a Hawala operator from the Lal Kuan area of North Delhi for his alleged involvement in financing ISI agents in India. Abdul Bari, who ran a shop in Naya Bans in Lahori Gate area, was detained following the arrest of Pakistani national and ISI agent Dilshad from Jalpaiguri district by West Bengal Police on January 4.

• December 30, 2001: Delhi Police arrested a LeT terrorist and recovered an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and other explosive materials from him. Yunus, a resident of Meerut, was arrested upon arrival in Delhi from Muzzafarpur, Bihar.

• December 13, 2001: Five terrorists attack India’s Parliament while in session. 11 persons, including five terrorists are killed, and 30 persons injured. Among the dead are six security force personnel, including a woman constable.

• December 6, 2001: The police arrested two suspected HM terrorists from Adarsh Nagar area in Northwest Delhi. A suspected Hawala operative, who was said to be funding the terrorists, was also arrested from the Jama Masjid area. The police also seized 1.8 kg of explosives, four live electronic detonators, three mobile phones, five phone cards and Rs 67,000 in cash from the two alleged terrorists, both residents of Baramulla in J&K. An additional Rs 1.48 million of Hawala money was seized in subsequent raids. During interrogation, the terrorists reportedly told the police that they were working for the HM chief Syed Salahuddin and had come to Delhi to collect Hawala money and pass it on to terrorist outfits in J&K. They were also reportedly instructed to deliver explosives to contacts in Delhi.

• September 19, 2001: Delhi Police arrests Abdul Rahman, a suspected Harkat-ul-Jehad terrorist, who reportedly confesses he was involved in several attacks on SFs in J&K.

• September 12, 2001: Delhi Police arrest two Pakistani terrorists of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. Two kg of RDX, a hand grenade and two detonators are recovered from them. In a raid that followed, six kg of explosive material is recovered from a house.

• August 11, 2001: Two persons were injured when a bomb exploded in the South Extension area of Delhi, ahead of the Independence Day celebrations on August 15.

• August 9, 2001: In a joint operation, the Maharashtra and Delhi Police arrested office secretary of the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Waqau-ul-Hassan, in Delhi on charges of criminal conspiracy under the Indian Explosives Act. A senior police official said the Maharashtra police had been on the look out for Hassan in connection with cases of explosion in Jalgaon district of the State.

• July 5, 2001: Delhi police arrest two terrorists of the Harkat-ul-Jehadi-e-Islami (HuJI) from the Inter-State Bus Terminal. Police also recovered 1.9 kg RDX, one pencil timer, one detonator and a battery from their possession. During interrogation, the terrorists confessed that they had been asked to carry out blasts by HuJI chief Illiyas Kashmiri. Police sources said the two had crossed over to Jammu through Sialkot border on June 23 and came to Delhi on June 26. They were also said to be responsible for carrying out as many as four operations against the army at Surankote in the Poonch district.

• June 21, 2001: Delhi Police arrest six terrorists of the Jammu Kashmir Islamic front.

• June 15, 2001: Delhi Police foil an alleged plot to blast the United States Embassy in New Delhi by apprehending two terrorists. Six kg of RDX, detonators and timers are recovered from one of the accused, a Sudanese national. His Indian accomplice is identified as Shameem of Bihar.

• May 21, 2001: Delhi Police arrest three persons and recover a huge quantity of explosives from the parking lot of Gurudwara Rakab Ganj, a Sikh religious place, near Parliament House.

• May 20, 2001: A bomb blast occurs at the high-security Border Security Force (BSF) headquarters located inside the Central Government Offices Complex, which houses many of the offices of Indian security and intelligence agencies, in south Delhi. However, no damage was reported. BSF sources said it was an AK-47-launched grenade. This is the first time that a grenade launcher has been used in a terrorist attack in the national capital.

• May 14, 2001: Delhi Police unearthed a counterfeit currency racket involving ISI agents with the arrest of one person in South Delhi. Fake currency notes worth Rs. 30 lakhs were also recovered from his possession. The counterfeit currency was reportedly brought by the accused from Dubai. The supplier of the fake currency is suspected to be an associate of Pakistan-based underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

• May 9, 2001: Two separate explosions were reported from two highly sensitive areas in New Delhi. The first bomb went off near Army Headquarters. Within ten minutes, another bomb exploded in a parking lot on Dalhousie Road behind the south block- which houses the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of External Affairs. One person was injured in the explosion.

• May 6, 2001: Delhi Police arrest six suspected ISI agents in New Delhi. The arrested were plotting to kill Tarun Tejpal, editor-in-chief of the portal tehelka.com and his colleague Anirudha Bahal.

• May 4, 2001: Delhi Police arrest a Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front terrorist for his suspected role in planting an explosive device in Connaught Place area on May 2. An explosive device, a pistol and some hand grenades were recovered from the accused, Azad Ahmed Qureshi.

• April 27, 2001: Special Cell of the Delhi Police seized a major haul of high explosive RDX and fake Indian currency worth Rs.2 lakhs and arrested two persons, including a terrorist of the HM. They were identified as Majid Khan Gazi alias Mohammad Altaf and Inhisar Ahmed. During interrogation, Khan, a resident of Srinagar, reportedly told police that he was trained in sophisticated weapons in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and was directed by an ISI official to become a 'resident agent' and set up bases in India.

• January 17, 2001: Delhi Police arrest a Pakistani terrorist of the Al Badr with one kg of RDX and a detonator.

• January 1, 2001: Police recover three powerful grenades from the Jamia Milia Islamia area in Delhi, close to where a LeT terrorist was arrested in connection with the attack on the Red Fort, on December 26, 2000.

• December 26, 2000: One Pakistani terrorist is killed and another is arrested after an encounter in New Delhi. Police report that the two were part of a six-member squad, which carried out the suicide attack on the army garrison in Red Fort on December 22. Police also report that the other four members of the squad managed to escape.

• December 22, 2000: A LeT Fidayeen (suicide squad) launches an attack within the army garrison at Red Fort in New Delhi and kills three SF personnel. All members of the squad escape after the attack.

• December 6, 2000: An ISI agent, a resident of Lahore, was arrested from Badarpur along with 10 kg of high-explosive RDX, some arms and ammunition and documents. He was engaged in spying in India for the preceding six years and had illegally entered the country in 1994 through the Nepal border. He was initially engaged in gathering information on civil and military infrastructure and troop movement in Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat.

• November 20, 2000: Delhi Police arrest a HuM terrorist and also recover some explosives.

• October 15, 2000: Delhi Police recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition at a city's market in Azadpur and arrested four suspects in this connection. Police announced that the cache was smuggled into India from Pakistan through the Western border and was being routed through the capital for final delivery at Jalandhar in Punjab.

• October 10, 2000: Delhi Police arrest a medical student who is a supporter of the Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen outfit and seize some explosives and rupees one million.

• October 4, 2000: Delhi Police arrest a Pakistan-trained HuM terrorist and seize some explosives from his possession.

• September 9, 2000: Police arrest a LeT terrorist in Delhi. He confesses that he was involved in the August 10-car bomb explosion in Srinagar, in which 15 persons were killed and 30 more injured.

• June 18, 2000: Two civilians were killed in a bomb blast near the Red Fort in old Delhi. This explosion was immediately followed by another explosion near the first one. No one was injured in the second blast.

• June 20, 2000: Saifullah, J&K chief of the Al Badr Mujahideen outfit, is arrested in New Delhi while receiving a consignment of RDX.

• March 16, 2000: Three days before the arrival of U.S. President Bill Clinton, a low intensity bomb explosion injures seven persons at the Sadar Bazaar market.

• February 27, 2000: A bomb explosion at a guesthouse in the Paharganj area, opposite New Delhi railway station, injures eight persons.

• January 24, 2000: Delhi Police arrests a Pakistani national along with 2.9kg of RDX, electronic detonators, hand grenades and Rs 50,000 in fake currency.

• January 17, 2000: Police arrest three persons, including a Pakistani, in Delhi, and recover 860grams of RDX, two ABCD timers and four electronic detonators from them. The Pakistani national was arrested earlier in 1998, too, for circulating counterfeit currency.

• January 6, 2000: 20 persons are injured in a bomb explosion in a passenger train car at the Old Delhi railway station.

• June 3, 1999: Explosion in the Chandni Chowk area in front of Red Fort injures 27 persons.

• April 16, 1999: A bomb explodes in a train at the Holambi Kalan railway station killing two persons.

• December 19, 1998: Crude bomb explosion in the Bhajanpura Hindu temple injures an unspecified number of people.

• August 31, 1998: One person is killed and 17 others are injured in a bomb explosion at the Turkman Gate area.

• July 26, 1998: A high intensity explosive in a bus parked at Kashmiri Gate, Interstate Bus Terminal, kills two persons and injures three others.

• January 9, 1998: A bomb exploded in the midst of a lunch-time crowd just 100 yards from the New Delhi police chief's office injuring more than 40 people.

• December 30, 1997: Four commuters are killed and about 30 others injured when a bomb explodes in a bus at Rampara Chowk near Punjabi Bagh.

• November 30, 1997: Three persons were killed and 73 wounded in blasts outside places of worship in the Chandni Chowk area.

• October 26, 1997: A woman was killed and 34 persons sustained injuries in two bomb explosions in Karol Bagh. The toll could have been higher but police detected and defused a third bomb.

• October 18, 1997: One person was killed and 23 others wounded when two bombs exploded in the crowded Rani Bagh market in North West Delhi.

• October 10, 1997: A child was killed and 18 persons injured in three consecutive blasts at Shanti Van near the Kingsway Camp crossing and Chhata Rail near the Red Fort.

• October 1, 1997: Two explosions disrupted a religious procession in the Sadar Bazaar area injuring 30 persons. A few hours later, three blasts destroyed three carriages of the Frontier Mail train that had just left Delhi. Three passengers were killed and several others injured.

• July 14, 1997: Eighteen persons were injured in an explosion in a bus near the Red Fort.

• January 4, 1997: Bombs exploded in a Haryana Roadways bus on Sonepat Road and in a taxi a few kilometers away in quick succession. One passenger was killed and 11 others injured.

Source: Compiled from English language media sources.