Terrorism-related Incidents in Maharashtra since 2006

2012

January 26: prior to executing the 13/7 blasts in Mumbai, IM operatives Yasin Bhatkal and Riyaz Bhatkal bargained extensively on the amount to be spent to execute the terror attack. Though Yasin demanded INR 1.7 million to bomb three places in Mumbai, he was paid only INR 1.2 million by IM leaders, investigations have revealed.

Maharashtra ATS revealed that the hawala money to fund the attacks was routed through UAE.

January 25: The Maharashtra ATS made its ninth arrest in a fraudulent SIM card case.
January 24: Maharashtra ATS chief Rakesh Maria said that the IM first recruited youths from Cheetah Camp in Trombay (Maharashtra), then Kondwa in Pune (Maharashtra), then Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh and now Darbhanga in Bihar.

The investigations into the bogus SIM cards racket led the Police to the accused in the July 13, 2011 Mumbai triple blast case (also known as 13/7).

The ATS recovered 400 documents provided by Tikole through which prepaid SIM cards were bought by the IM module members.

Eight persons have been arrested by the ATS in the 13/7 case so far.

January 23: Maharashtra ATS claimed to have made a major breakthrough in the triple Mumbai blasts July 13, 2011 that claimed 27 lives, with the arrest of two of the accused hailing from Bihar.

Yasin Bhatkal, the mastermind of the 13/7 Mumbai blasts, might have succeeded in evading the Police, but he remains in India, officials of the Maharashtra.

January 19: 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 17: Two Pakistanis - Tavrez and Bakas - and two Indian nationals - IM operative Yasin Bhatkal and an unidentified man - had executed the blasts at Zaveri Bazaar, Opera House and Kabutarkhana in Dadar on July 13, 2011.

2011

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 Inter-Services Intelligence (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 20: The Centre said a terror module busted in Delhi recently had links with Pakistan-based terrorist group LeT.
December 16: The Supreme Court stayed a Bombay HC order permitting custodial interrogation of Malegaon blast (September 8, 2006) accused Lieutenant Colonel, Shrikant Purohit by NIA and also issued notice to Maharashtra ATS on his plea for bail.
December 14: After facing some reverses in their strongholds, the CPI-Maoist has formed a 'Golden Corridor Committee' to build its base in hitherto untouched industrial areas of Gujarat and Maharashtra, stretching from Pune to Ahmedabad, including commercial hubs like Mumbai, Nashik, Surat and Vadodara. Besides, the Maoists have planned to expand their movement to Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara and Yavatmal Districts of Maharashtra in addition to their existing bases in Gadchiroli, Gondia and Chandrapur in the state.
December 9: Interrogation of six suspected IM operatives, arrested recently for their alleged role in various terror attacks across India, reveals that Pune's [Maharashtra] famous Dagdusheth Halwai was also on their radar. It is also revealed that the agenda of the refurbished Indian Mujahideen is targetting religious places, voicing the concerns of Pakistan and large-scale destruction.
December 1: The Maharashtra ATS chief Rakesh Maria said that the State ATS would get the custody of suspected IM operative Mohammad Qateel Siddiqui (27), arrested by the special cell of the Delhi police, for interrogation in the German Bakery blast case. Siddiqui was arrested with five other IM operatives by the Delhi Police for their alleged involvement in terror strikes at the German Bakery in Pune, Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore and near Jama Masjid in Delhi.
November 29: In an estimate made by the Union Government, Maharashtra reported nearly 85% of the total seizure of FICNs in the India during the year 2011.
November 16: Seven persons accused of planning and executing the 2006 Malegaon serial bomb blasts (September 8, 2006) were released after a trial court in Mumbai granted them bail.
November 9: Bombay High Court rejected the bail plea of Lt Col Prasad Purohit while allowing that of another accused, Ajay Rahirkar in the 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing case.
November 5: A special MCOCA court granted bail to all nine persons accused in the Malegaon blasts case (September 8, 2006) after the NIA told the court it had no objection to any of their bail pleas.
November 4: The NIA is said to have found that Hindu extremists, who are suspected of orchestrating the Malegaon bomb blasts (September 8, 2006) in Maharashtra had allegedly used two Muslim men to plant the bombs in and around a mosque in the textile town.
November 3: The NIA is said to have found that Hindu extremists, who are suspected of orchestrating the Malegaon bomb blasts (September 8, 2006) in Maharashtra had allegedly used two Muslim men to plant the bombs in and around a mosque in the textile town.
September 25: The Mumbai Police Chief claimed that the group which carried out the triple blasts in Mumbai on July 13, 2011 has been identified.
September 16: Maharashtra Police have received inputs from central intelligence agencies about possibility of terror attacks on luxury buses plying between Mumbai and Ahmadabad and steps have been taken to foil any such bid.
September 9: A Sessions Court in Thane in Maharashtra discarded charges under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) brought against the two persons sentenced to 10 years imprisonment over the 2008 theatre blasts, observing that as the target was a drama producer, the offence was not a "terrorist act" intended to threaten the country's sovereignty.
September 8: The Maharashtra Police recommended that the State Government ban right-wing groups including Sanatan Sanstha and Abhinav Bharat.
September 4: The NIAconcluded that the Mumbai serial blasts (July 13, 2011) was the handiwork of the homegrown militant outfit IM.
September 3: A resident of Mumbra town who was recently arrested by the Maharashtra ATS in a case involving FICNs has emerged as a key suspect in the Mumbai serial blasts case (June 13, 2011).

The Maharashtra state ATS believes that the Mumbai serial blasts (July 13, 2011)strike was funded by the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI through the Saudi Arabian route and executed with the help of local city youth.

August 30: After being convicted by a sessions court in Mumbai, two persons, were sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for carrying out an explosion and planting explosives in theatres in different cities of Maharashtra in 2008.
August 9: A sessions court in Mumbai convicted two persons, allegedly linked to the Hindutva outfit Sanatan Sanstha, of conspiring and carrying out blasts at theatres around Mumbai in 2008. Four other accused charged with the same offences were acquitted of all charges against them.
July 22: Mumbai ATS arrested three persons in connection with the Mumbai serial blasts case (13/7). According to sources, two of the arrestees hailed from Northern Maharashtra while the third one was from Gujarat.
July 13: Three serial bomb blasts in the span of 10 minutes ripped through three of the busiest hubs in Mumbai city -Zaveri Bazar, Opera House and Dadar-, killing 17 people and injuring 131 others. The first explosion was at 6.54pm at Zaveri Bazaar, followed by another at Opera House a minute later. The third explosion was at 7.06pm outside Kabutarkhana, a few metres from the western side of Dadar railway station.
May 31: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, , arrested a person in Mumbai who allegedly sent an e-mail to the CBI giving information about future terror strikes in 10 large cities of India, including Mumbai and Delhi.
April 25: A special court in Pune in Maharashtra deferred the framing of charges against the alleged mastermind Mirza Himayat Baig in the German Bakery bomb blast case (February 13, 2010) till June 7.
April 22: The extremist leader Swami Aseemanand, who is accused of masterminding bomb explosions in Ajmer Dargah, Mecca mosque, Malegaon and Samjhauta Express, told a trial court in Ajmer that he was innocent and that probe agencies had extracted a confession from him under duress.
April 20: The Maharashtra ATS filed a supplementary chargesheet against Praveen Mutalik accused in the Malegaon blast case (September 29, 2008) in the Maharashtra Control of Organized crime Act (MCOCA) Court.
March 21: The Centre warned Maharashtra Police about a possible terror plot to target the cricket World Cup final in Mumbai on April 2.
March 15: A special MCOCA court rejected the bail application of all the nine persons accused in the Malegaon blast case (September 8, 2006).
March 6: Residents of Malegaon (Maharashtra) said the special CBI team reinvestigating the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts told them that their probe revealed that the RDX used in the blasts was stolen from the Army.
February 25-26 : A local court in Mumbai granted four days' transit remand to Mohammed Asad Siddiqui, a SIMI cadre and an accused in the August 14, 2000 Kanpur blast case, arrested in a joint operation by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and Uttar Pradesh ATS in Mumbai on February 25.
February 23: Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving LeT militants of the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks (also known as 26/11), has decided to challenge the death penalty recently awarded to him by the Bombay High Court. "He wants to challenge the order," Farhana Shah, Kasab's counsel, told The Hindu on February 23.
February 21: The Bombay High Court upheld the death sentence awarded by the trial court to the lone surviving Pakistani gunman, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab who is accused of involvement in the Mumbai terrorist attacks (November 26, 2008, also known as 26/11). It also upheld the acquittal of co-accused Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed for want of corroborative evidence. Among the several charges against Kasab, the most serious was his waging a war against the Indian government, the Bombay High Court said. Upholding his death sentence, Justice Ranjan Desai said, "Perhaps the weightiest aggravating circumstance is that Kasab waged a war against the Government of India pursuant to a conspiracy which was hatched in Pakistan, the object of which was to inter alia destabilise the Government of India and to weaken India's economic might."
January 13: A special court in Mumbai granted permission to the CBI for reinvestigating the Malegaon blast case (September 8,2006) in Maharashtra in the wake of Swami Aseemanand's (the hardliner religious leader accused of involvement in terrorist activities and currently in Police custody) statement linking Hindu groups to the case.
January 6: As part of its effort to crack down on terrorism, the Maharashtra Government made it harder for people convicted of terrorist and extremist activities to get out of jail early.

2010

December 24: A manhunt was under way in Mumbai for four alleged cadres of the LeT outfit that attacked the city in 2008 (November 26), amid warnings of a strike on foreign targets over Christmas and New Year.
December 23: The Mumbai Police issued an advisory stating that four LeT militants had entered Mumbai with the intention of causing an "extremely dangerous and violent attack" on the city in view of the coming festivals and New Year celebrations.
December 22: The Centre put Mumbai (Maharashtra) and Ahmedabad (Gujrat) on high alert after getting specific intelligence inputs that LeT militants had sneaked into these two cities to strike at any time in coming days.
December 15: The Criminal Intelligence Unit of the Mumbai Crime Branch arrested an Indian national for "suspicious and anti-national activities" on December 10, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy told a press conference in Mumbai.
December 13: Slain Mumbai Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) Chief Hemant Karkare was on the hit list of the Islamist militant outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM).
December 10: During the question hour in the Maharashtra Legislative Council it was disclosed that a check by the Mumbai Police revealed that 60 per cent of the prepaid mobile SIM cards in the city were issued against bogus documents.
December 7: A local court in Mumbai remanded two suspected LeT operatives, arrested for allegedly plotting strikes on oil and military installations in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat and a railway station in the metropolis to judicial custody till December 20.

Pakistani-Canadian terror suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana, co-accused with the Pakistani-American LeT operative David Coleman Headley in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks (also known as 26/11), will be tried in a federal court in Chicago on February 14.
November 29: The Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested two suspected LeT militants in Thane District in Maharashtra. The duo was allegedly trying to recruit members for carrying out terrorist activities targeting oil installations in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat. They were also instructed to provide details about military installations in Mumbai, Pune and Aurangabad.
November 25: Mumbai Police arrested a person believed to have been involved in the Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) blast (February 14, 1998), in which 33 people were killed and 153 others were injured, from the international airport in Mumbai. The accused has been identified as Shabbir.
November 21: Intelligence inputs sent to Mumbai Police by Central Agencies have hinted at Islamist militant outfits LeT, HM and IM joining forces to carry out a terror attack on a five-star hotel in Mumbai, similar to the November 26, 2008 offensive. Security agencies said a seven-member gang comprising operatives from the three outfits has apparently been dispatched to the city.
October 21: Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, the mastermind in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks (also known as 26/11) videotaped the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and its large residential colony in Mumbai for the Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). This video, Headley revealed, was not given to the LeT. During his interrogation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Chicago, Headley said, "(in March 2008) Major Iqbal (who he described as his "handler" in the ISI) asked me to explore BARC in Mumbai and specially its staff colony as a target. He gave me the mobile phone camera (and) some counterfeit money." After he returned, Headley gave the video to Iqbal but did not give it to his LeT colleague, Sajid Majid.
October 19: The ISI, Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, played a major role in helping prepare the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks (also known as 26/11), one of the planners of the attacks has told Indian interrogators. Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, who confessed to surveying targets for the attacks that left 166 people dead, made detailed claims about support from the ISI, said Britain's Guardian newspaper. Headley described dozens of meetings between officers of the ISI and senior militants from LeT, said the paper, citing a 109-page Indian Government report into his interrogation. Guardian said Headley claimed the ISI was attempting to strengthen militant organisations with links to the Pakistani State which were being marginalised by more extreme groups. Headley claimed that at least two of his missions were partly paid for by the ISI and that he regularly reported to the spy agency, said the British daily. "The ISI... had no ambiguity in understanding the necessity to strike India," Headley is cited as telling the Indian investigators, who reportedly interviewed him over 34 hours in the US in June. The documents suggest, however, that the ISI's supervision of the militants was often chaotic and that most senior officers in the agency may have been unaware of the scale of the attacks before they were launched, added the paper. Headley, who changed his name from Daood Gilani, confessed to his role in plotting the attacks after being arrested in the US. In exchange for pleading guilty to the attacks, US prosecutors agreed he would not face extradition to India or the death penalty.
October 18: The Maharashtra Government opened arguments in the Bombay High Court on October 18 on confirmation of death sentence to Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving Pakistani LeT terrorist involved in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks (also known as 26/11). The arguments began in court 49 before Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice R V More through video conference to enable Kasab hear the proceedings from the Central Jail where he is imprisoned in the high security bomb and bullet proof cell. On May 6, 2010, the trial court had awarded death sentence to Kasab. In accordance with law, death penalty was referred to the High Court for confirmation.
October 17: Two of the three wives of Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley forewarned the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks (also known as 26/11),. Headley’s American wife had given the FBI in New York a tip-off on his LeT links in 2005, while his Moroccan wife, Faiza Outalha, had told authorities in the US embassy in Islamabad, less than a year before the Mumbai attacks, that Headley was plotting a terror strike. Faiza Outalha, claims she even showed the US embassy officials in Islamabad a photo of Headley and herself in the Taj Mahal Hotel, where they stayed twice in April and May 2007. "Hotel records confirm their stay," the New York Times (NYT) reported. Outalha said that in two meetings with officials at the US embassy in Islamabad, she told them that her husband had many friends who were known to be LeT members. "Despite those warnings by two of his three wives, Headley roamed far and wide on Lashkar’s behalf between 2002 and 2009, receiving training in small-calibre weapons and counter surveillance, scouting targets for attacks, and building a network of connections that extended from Chicago to Pakistan’s lawless north-western frontier,".Mike Hammer, spokesman of the National Security Council, White House, told PTI, "Had we known about the timing and other specifics related to the Mumbai attacks, we would have immediately shared those details with India." He said the US "regularly provided threat information" to Indian officials in 2008 before the attacks in Mumbai, adding, "It is our Government’s solemn responsibility to notify other nations of possible terrorist activity on their soil." He made the remarks when asked about an investigative report on the Mumbai attacks published by Pro Publica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
October 16: One of the accused in the Pune (Maharashtra) bakery blast case had said LeT operatives were being trained in Sri Lanka. Though the training was said to have taken place in an area close to Colombo, Sri Lankan authorities denied this citing heavy presence of Security Force personnel in the area.
October 15: The wife of a key figure in the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks (also known as 26/11) warned US federal agents three years beforehand that her husband was training with a Pakistani militant group. The wife of David Coleman Headley warned Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in August 2005 that her husband had undergone intensive training with LeT and was in contact with extremists. Headley's wife, who was not named in the report, called a terrorism hotline after getting into a fight with him in August 2008, the Post said. The FBI agents followed up, and interviewed her three times, the newspaper reported in a story co-authored with journalism foundation Pro Publica. She told agents that her husband "was an active militant in the terrorist group LeT, had trained extensively in its Pakistani camps, and had shopped for night vision goggles". Despite the warning, Headley was able to continue moving freely, travelling to Pakistan, India, Dubai and Europe in 2006, gathering information and material that made the attack possible. US anti-terrorism agencies did warn Indian counterparts about a possible LeT plot to target Mumbai in 2008, but it was unclear whether the warnings were based on Headley's wife's tip-off two years earlier. Headley was reportedly also bragging about being a US Government informant before the attacks, telling his wife and others that he is working for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and FBI. Headley did work as an informant for the DEA in the 1990s when he was known by his birth name Daood Gilani and had been arrested for smuggling heroin from Pakistan. After a second arrest and more work for the agency, he went to Pakistan, where he became radicalized, the Post reported. Then, after the September 11, 2001 attacks, he began telling people he was working for a joint DEA-FBI project. But FBI officials told the Post they did not believe Headley, who changed his name in 2006, had ever worked for the FBI. Headley, the son of a former Pakistani diplomat and a white American woman, is being held in the United States. He confessed to plotting the attacks and in exchange for pleading guilty, US prosecutors agreed he would not face extradition to India or the death penalty.
October 8: The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) received an e-mail threatening to blow up either BSE or Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi or a Mumbai-Delhi flight. Intelligence Bureau too received similar alerts stating there was a possibility of another 26/11-like terror attack through the sea route. Accordingly Security was beefed up around BSE and all along the sea coast. Also, Navy, CISF, Coast Guard personnel and fishermen were put on high alert.
September 28: Pakistani militant Ajmal Kasab filed an appeal in Bombay High Court challenging death penalty awarded to him for killing 166 persons in the Mumbai terrorists attacks on November 26, 2008 (also known as 26/11). Kasab challenged the death penalty saying it was a harsh punishment imposed on him and pleaded that there were lapses in evidence produced by Police in the trial court.
September 23: Sheikh Lalbaba Mohammed Hussain Farid alias Bilal, the LeT militant arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for planning to commit a terrorist activities, has been granted Police custody till October 2 by the Nasik sessions court.

Fahim Ansari, who was acquitted by a trial court in the November 26, 2008, Mumbai terror attacks case (also known as 26/11), was produced before a session’s court in Mumbai. He was brought from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh after warrants against him, and another co-accused, Sabahuddin Ahmed, were issued to "secure" their presence in the case, currently at the Bombay High Court.

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: 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: Sheikh Lalbaba Mohammed Hussain Farid alias Bilal, who was recently arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for allegedly planning attacks on sensitive establishments in Nasik and for being the mastermind behind the German Bakery blast in Pune, was denied Police custody by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, citing "slow investigation." The ATS has challenged the decision in the session’s court.

Lawyers defending LeT ‘commander’ Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others charged with involvement in the in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks said that none of them will go to India as part of a proposed commission to record the testimony of key witnesses, including surviving attacker Ajmal Kasab. "We will not go to India because of security concerns. There has been hatred among the general public against Kasab," senior advocate Khwaja Sultan, the counsel for LeT ‘commander’ Lakhvi, said. Sultan noted that the lawyer of Fahim Ansari, one of the Indians accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks, was shot dead. "We cannot risk our lives by going to India when we are the counsel for the accused here," he added. He also claimed it would not be easy for the Indian government to provide security to the proposed commission.
September 16: Mirza Himayat Baig, the LeT operative arrested by the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) over his alleged involvement in the German Bakery blast case in Pune, revealed during interrogation that he had purchased the haversack and the mobile phone used in the blast from two shops in South Mumbai’s Crawford Market. An earlier forensic probe had found that the trigger used for the blast was an alarm ringer within the cell phone with the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) placed inside a red haversack. Baig is believed to have come to Mumbai by a private bus and stayed at a guesthouse in the Crawford Market area for a day under his operative name ‘Yusuf’. The guesthouse is a dormitory with INR 180 as daily rent. The Maharashtra ATS seized the guesthouse register in which they identified his ‘handwritten name and signature’. Documents of purchase and registers at the two shops were seized too. The agency is tracing his travels within the state and collecting evidence to establish the chain of events.
September 14: Mirza Himayat Baig, the alleged mastermind behind the Pune German Bakery bomb blast case, and his accomplice Ahmed Zarar alias Yaseen Bhatkal, who is still absconding, had carried a three kilogram RDX bomb from Udgir to Pune, a distance of 380km, in state transport buses before the detonators were finally attached with the bomb hours before the blast on February 13. A senior officer of the ATS said that to avoid any suspicion, the duo dared to carry the bomb in a polythene bag. "It was easier to carry and nobody would suspect that someone is carrying explosives in a polythene bag," the officer added.
September 13: A senior Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) officer said that the two militants, identified as Sheikh Lalbaba Mohammed Hussain Farid alias Bilal and Himayat Baig, who were arrested by the ATS in Mumbai in the German Bakery blast case, had plans to target sensitive places in Nasik. According to the ATS, Sheikh Lalbaba Mohammed Hussain Farid had already conducted a reconnaissance mission of the Maharashtra Police Academy, the Police Commissioner Office and the Army camp at Deolali in Nasik on the instructions of Himayat Baig.
September 10: The Mumbai Police are on the lookout for two foreign nationals who have reportedly sneaked into Maharashtra and entered the City to launch a terror attack during the festive season. Following inputs from intelligence agencies, an alert was sent on wireless that places of worship are likely targets. The Police, while releasing pictures of the duo, Kalimuddin Khan alias Rameshwar Pandit and Hafeez Sharif, refused to confirm whether they were from Pakistan. "As of now, we only have information that they are foreign nationals," said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy. The Police asked the public to be alert and inform authorities if they spot the two persons.
September 9: Rakesh Maria, chief of the Maharashtra ATS told journalists in Mumbai that Himayat Baig, the alleged mastermind of the German Bakery blast case (February 13, 2010) in Pune, arrested by the ATS, received one-to-one training in bomb-making in Colombo in Sri Lanka in 2008 from Fayyaz Qazi, an absconding LeT operative. Maria said, the Sri Lankan city was chosen only as a meeting point and there was no other significance to it. Ruling out the LTTE or any other connection, he said, "There seems to be only two reasons for choosing Colombo: the access to the country is easy as there is visa-on-arrival facility."

Maria also said that Baig earlier received training in Bhatkal in Karnataka as well in 2007. He was trained in the methods of indoctrinating youth and the techniques to deal with Police interrogation. His primary job was to recruit and send youth for training to Pakistan. He even became a member of the Popular Front of India (PFI) for the same purpose. He was in touch with the LeT and had also been to Ashoka Mews in Pune (the media hub of the Indian Mujahideen which was busted by the ATS).
September 8: Mirza Himayat Baig, chief of the LeT unit in Maharashtra along with another person, Sheikh Lalbaba Mohammad Hussain Farid alias Bilal, was arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on September 7. They were involved in the German Bakery blast case in Pune in which 17 persons died and 56 others were injured on February 13. At a press conference in Mumbai, ATS chief Rakesh Maria said Baig was involved in every stage of the incident, from conspiracy to planting the bomb in the bakery.
August 30: Bombay High Court deferred to September 20 the hearing on the confirmation of the death penalty awarded to Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving LeT militant of the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks after his lawyers sought time to file an appeal. Kasab’s lawyer Amin Solkar is set to file an appeal by September 20 in the Bombay High Court. He told the court that the filing of appeal was getting delayed as the charge sheet was voluminous and also because of the refusal of trial court defence lawyers to share case papers.

The Supreme Court issued notice to the Maharashtra ATS on a special leave petition filed by Sadhvi Pragnya Singh Thakur, accused in the Malegaon bomb blast case, seeking bail by default of the ATS keeping her in "illegal" detention without recording her arrest. Counsel Mahesh Jethmalani alleged that she had been kept in illegal custody from October 10, 2008 till October 23, 2008, when she was first produced before a Mumbai magistrate. The notice is returnable in four weeks.
August 29: A session’s court in Mumbai has issued transfer warrants against Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed, acquitted by the trial court in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case. Senior Police inspector Ramesh Mahale said over telephone that the warrants were issued on August 26. The court has directed that they should be produced before it on September 23.The duo is currently in police custody in Uttar Pradesh in connection with cases there.
August 10: Maharashtra Government filed an appeal in the Bombay High Court challenging a lower court's verdict acquitting Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed of conspiracy in the 26/11 case. Special public prosecutor Ujwal Nikam confirmed that the appeals had been filed. The state has contended that the special court erred in acquitting Ansari and Ahmed and that the Police have substantial evidence against the duo.
August 3: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested 28 Bangladeshi immigrants, working as labourers in Nagpur for illegally staying in the city. They were remanded to custody till August 5. "Due to terror threat, we keep a close watch on immigrants from Bangladesh. They come here to work as cheap labour, but some have ulterior motives as well," inspector Purushottam Chaudhary told The Hindu. The arrestees have been charged under the Foreigners' Act for entering the country without valid documents.
July 19: The Bombay High Court reapplied the MCOCA to the September 29, 2008 Malegaon blast case. The case, as a result, has been transferred back to the Special MCOCA court. The High Court also held that the bail applications of the accused would be heard afresh by the MCOCA court. The court's order was with reference to an appeal filed by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), challenging the revocation of the MCOCA. A Division Bench of Justices B.H. Marlapalle and Anoop V. Mohta noted that "all the orders [of the Special Court] are required to be quashed and set aside and all the bail applications would stand restored to the file of the Special court for being decided afresh on their own merits."
June 19: The Maharashtra State ATS arrested a key Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) militant, who had been on the run after firing at Narcotic Control Bureau officials in Punjab in 2009. Nishant Singh Karam Singh (27), who is also allegedly involved in drug smuggling, was arrested from Chembur after he arrived in the Mumbai from Nanded with five of his associates. The Police have seized a 12 bore rifle with 24 rounds of cartridges, two Point 32 pistols and a Toyaota Innova from him. Singh has been remanded in Police custody till June 28. Singh, who was a sepoy in the army, had served in Kargil, Siachen and Jammu and Kashmir. He has not reported to duty for the past 4 years. "We have sent pictures and other details to the Punjab Police who are supposed to send a team to the city by late evening,’’ said ATS chief Rakesh Maria. Acting on a tip-off, the Nanded ATS unit, led by Deputy Commissioner of Police P. Sawant arrested Singh at Diamond Garden. When asked what was Singh doing in Mumbai, Maria said, "We have to interrogate him before making any comment.
June 15: Abdul Samad Bawa, who was arrested by the Maharashtra ATS in a 2009 arms case, was granted bail by a court. The judge cited lack of material evidence as the main reason for grant of bail. Samad is also a suspect in the February 13, 2010 Pune German Bakery bomb blast case. Samad was arrested on May 24, 2010 for allegedly supplying arms to three persons on August 5, 2009. Samad, a resident of Bhatkal Taluk (revenue unit) in Uttara Kannada District of Karnataka, was arrested at the Mangalore airport. Shortly after the arrest, Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram termed Samad the "prime suspect" in the Pune bomb blast case. However, the ATS has not yet confirmed his links to the blast.
June 3: The Government of Maharashtra has decided to give a compensation of INR 14, 23,500 for loss or property to owners of the German Bakery based in Pune, which was destroyed by a bomb blast on February 13, 2010 killing 17 people and injuring 65.
May 24: The Maharashtra ATS arrested a Karnataka resident Abdul Samad Bawa for his involvement in February 13, 2010 bombing at German Bakery in Pune, and in jihadist networks which have executed a series of urban bombings across India bombings since 2005. Mangalore resident Bawa was arrested by the Maharashtra ATS soon after his return from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and flown to Mumbai for questioning. Government sources said India's intelligence services had worked closely with their counterparts in the UAE to secure Samad's return to India. Police have been seeking Samad's brother, Mohammad Zarar Siddi Bawa, on suspicion that he may have played a central role in executing the German Bakery bombing. Investigation sources said informants identified an individual filmed by the café's closed-circuit camera as Bawa. Bawa, also known as 'Yasin Bhatkal', has been named as fugitive by authorities involved in the prosecution of members of a jihadist network called the Indian Mujahideen (IM), which carried out multiple urban bombings nationwide. Samad, intelligence sources said, had flown to Dubai on March 25, 2010.

The trial in the July 2006 serial train bomb blast case is scheduled to restart in a special court. Seven RDX bombs kept in first class coaches of Mumbai’s suburban trains exploded on July 11, 2006. The Anti Terrorist Squad said that the conspiracy was hatched in Pakistan and at least five of the 13 arrested persons had gone to that country for terror training. The Police also said Pakistan-based militant outfit LeT had used the banned organisation, SIMI, to engineer the blasts. The trial started in a special court in December 2007. However, matters could not progress as the accused had challenged the application of certain provisions of law. The legal dispute was finally settled by the Supreme Court in April 2010 before the trial court in Mumbai could hear the case again. The process involved a delay of more than two years. In 2007, Saeed Ahmed, son of serial bombing accused Sohail Shaikh Shabbir Masiullah arrested for the 2006 Malegaon blast, and Zameer Rehman, accused in the Aurangabad arms haul case, had filed petition in the Bombay high court challenging the constitutional validity of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). When the High Court upheld the decision to slap MCOCA, the accused moved the Supreme Court in 2008 and it stayed their trials.
May 13: A charge sheet in the case of murder of November 26, 2008 (also Known as 26/11) Mumbai terrorist attacks defence lawyer Shahid Azmi was filed in a MCOCA court in Mumbai. Azmi represented Fahim Ansari, who was acquitted in the 26/11 terrorist attacks case. He was shot dead in his office at Taximen’s colony in Kurla on February 11, 2010. Ramesh Mahale, senior Police inspector of the Mumbai Crime Branch, said that the 600-page charge sheet cited four persons as accused and five others wanted as accused. The arrested are: Devendra Baburao Jagtap alias JD (28), Pintoo Devram Dhagle alias Raju (25), Vinod Yashwant Vichare (32) and Heshmukh Shankar Solanki alias Rohit. One of the wanted accused is a well known gang leader Bharat Nepali. He had worked for the underworld gangster Chhota Rajan gang. Nepali, along with Vijay Shetty alias Bala Shetty and Bhagwant Singh, ordered the contract-killing.
May 6: The Special Sessions Court in Mumbai sentenced the lone surviving LeT militant, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, to death for his involvement in the November 26, 2008 (also known as 26/11) Mumbai terrorist attacks. Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab "shall be hanged by neck till he is dead", the court pronounced. Kasab was given the death penalty on five counts: murder, abetment to murder, waging war, criminal conspiracy and committing terrorist acts.

He was also awarded life imprisonment on five counts: attempt to murder in furtherance of a common intention, kidnapping and abducting in order to murder, conspiracy to wage war, collecting arms with the intention of waging war and causing explosion thus endangering life and property. "You have been given the death penalty for murdering Indian citizens, Police Officers, conspiring with Lashkar [LeT] leaders and committing terrorist acts. The court has said while giving the judgment that you shall be hanged unto death," Judge M.L. Tahaliyani told Kasab. The Indian Penal Code Sections under which Kasab has been given death penalty are: 302 (murder), 302 read with 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 121 (waging war), 302 read with 34 (common intention) and 302 read with 109 (abetment) read with 120 B.

He has been given death for the offence punishable under Section 16 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. For the other offences, he was awarded rigorous imprisonment, simple imprisonment and imposed with fines. Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told reporters that a confirmation of the death penalty from the Bombay High Court was awaited. Kasab would continue to be housed at the high security Arthur Road jail till further orders by the Government.
May 3: A special sessions court in Mumbai pronounced Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving LeT militant of the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks (also known as 26/11), guilty of waging war against India, after a 271-day trial. The 1,522-page judgment convicted Kasab of conspiring to wage war, along with nine other terrorists and 20 co-conspirators in Pakistan, and of murder and abetment to murder, among other offences. Among the 20 wanted accused indicted by the court are LeT chief Muhammad Hafeez Saeed and other operatives Zaki-Ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Zarar Shah and Abu Hamza. The arguments for the quantum of sentence will begin on April 4 (today). Special sessions judge M.L. Tahaliyani at the Arthur Road jail court in Mumbai acquitted the other two accused, Indians, Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed, of "all the charges framed against them." The two had been accused of making and conveying maps of target locations in Mumbai. The court said: "The preparations made for the attacks by Kasab and nine other attackers, and the co-conspirators, the training imparted to the gunmen, the arms and ammunition involved and the quantity of cartridges reached proved beyond reasonable doubt that this was not a simple case of murder but an offence punishable under Section 121 of the Indian Penal Code [IPC]." This Section refers to "waging, or attempting to wage war, or abetting in waging of war, against the Government of India." On the basis of call data records, circumstantial evidence and Kasab's retracted confession, the court found him, the other gunmen and 20 co-conspirators guilty of criminal conspiracy under Section 120B of the IPC. From the conversations with the handlers and circumstantial corroboration of Kasab's retracted statement, the court came to the conclusion that "they [co-conspirators] were stationed somewhere in Pakistan." In incidents involving the nine deceased accused, Kasab has been found guilty of offences punishable under Section 302 (murder) read with Section 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention) of the IPC. Under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the court found him guilty of "being a member of the terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Toiba." Kasab was held guilty of "committing terrorist acts under Section 15 of the UAPA." He was pronounced guilty of offences under various sections of the Arms Act, the Explosives Act, the Explosive Substances Act, the Passport (Entry into India) Act, the Customs Act, the Railways Act and the Foreigners Act, and acquitted in some minor cases.

The Maharashtra Government will challenge the acquittal of Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed from the 26/11 case. Hours after the special court pronounced its verdict, State Home Minister R R Patil said that the Government will study on what grounds the duo was granted the benefit of doubt. "We will seek opinion of the law and judiciary department before deciding on the future course of action, including challenging the verdict in a higher court."
April 7: Maharashtra Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) submitted its investigation report on the February 13, 2010 Pune bomb blast report to the State Government claiming the perpetrators of the bombing that killed 17 people have been identified and their arrest would be made soon. The report was submitted by newly-appointed ATS Chief Rakesh Maria to the State Home Department and was then forwarded to the Union Government, ATS sources said but refused to disclose the identity of the suspects. According to the sources, terrorist outfit IM is suspected to be behind the bomb blast and the suspects would be arrested in a day or two. State Home Minister R.R. Patil had told the Legislative Council on April 6 that the investigating agency had identified the suspects and more details would be disclosed after their arrest. The Police department has zeroed in on the accused.
March 26: The investigations into the arrest of two terror suspects, who were planning to set ablaze the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation’s (ONGC) Bandra headquarters, revealed that they were also plotting to strike at two more places in Mumbai, including Bandra’s G7 cinema complex, officials said. The Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested two suspects, Abdul Latif (29) and Riyaz Ali Imtiyaz (22), on March 14.
March 18: Meanwhile, the Police custody of Abdul Latif Sheikh alias Guddu and Riyaz Ali alias Rehan, arrested on the charge of plotting to set ablaze the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) office in Mumbai, was extended to March 26. Prosecutor S.K. More told journalists that apart from ONGC, Thakkar Mall and Mangaldas market, there were "two to three more targets." He also said that the investigation agency had "confirmed" the possibility of attacks of the listed targets.
March 14: The Maharashtra ATS arrested two militants for plotting to set ablaze the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) office in Mumbai, ATS chief K.P. Raghuvanshi said. The duo, identified as Abdul Latif Shaikh (29) of Bandra and Riyaz Ali (23) of Dahisar, were arrested at 8.30 p.m (IST) on March 13 from Matunga area on information given by Central agencies. Raghuvanshi said that the two were suspected of working on plans to target Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, offshore installations of the ONGC in Mumbai and Nhava Sheva, fuel storage tankers of oil companies in Sewri, Thakkar Mall in Borivili and Mangaldas cloth market, adds Times of India. However, they were produced in court on March 14 and remanded to Police custody till March 18. The ATS Chief said both were in touch with a person from Pakistan, whom they referred to as "uncle." They had received instructions from Pakistan to get their passports readied. Raghuvanshi also said that the ATS was probing their links with terror outfits in Pakistan.
February 27: The death toll in the February 13 German Bakery blast in Pune rose to 17, with the death of one Aditi Jindal of Chandigarh (23).
February 25: In a raid on a house at Shendrun village in the Shahapur taluk (revenue unit) in Thane (Rural) District, the Police seized 150 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, 450 electronic detonators and 500 gelatine sticks, all together worth INR6750. The Police has arrested house owner Bhimraj Rajulal Gurjar. Two other accused, Rajulal Gopilal Gurjar and Khemraj Dherulal Gurjar, are absconding. All the three hail from Rajasthan, the Police said. A case under the Explosives Act has been registered.
February 24: The death toll in the February 13, 2010 bomb blast in German Bakery in Pune (Maharashtra) has gone up to 16 as Anas Al Fatih Suleiman (21), a Sudanese national, succumbing to his wounds. He is the fourth foreign national and second Sudanese to have died in the blast.

The National Defence Academy in Khadagwasla (Maharashtra) and defence establishments in Pune (Maharashtra) figure on LeT hit list, apart from civilian targets such as Osho Ashram and Chabad House, FBI has told the Government. According to FBI chief Robert Mueller, who was in New Delhi on February 23 to discuss co-operation in terror matters, American terror suspect David Coleman Headley had extensively surveyed and video graphed Army sites in Pune’s cantonment area as well as the Raksha Bhavan in New Delhi.

The SIMI and the IM have claimed responsibility for the Pune bomb blast, Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh said. Singh told media persons that he has received two letters to this effect, purportedly from the two organisations but did not elaborate.

A designated anti-terrorism court in Pune passed an order restraining the electronic media from telecasting footage of the blast site. A Police prosecutor urged that the telecast of the site footage was hampering investigations.
February 21: The death toll in the German Bakery bomb blast in Pune rose to 15 as two more persons succumbed to injuries sustained in the attack. They were identified as Vikas Tulsyani (24) and Rajiv Agarwala (23).
February 20: The death toll in Pune bomb blast raises to 13 as one, Atul Anap (30), succumbed to his injuries at the Inlak Budhrani Hospital in Pune.
February 19: The Kolhapur District Police seized 70 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, 6,525 gelatine sticks and 10,225 electronic detonators, all together worth INR.97, 900. "The main factor is ammonium nitrate. We are trying to ascertain if the material was meant for any subversive activity, and to whom it was being sold to. Ammonium nitrate is used for agriculture by mixing with fertilizers. However, it can be mixed with petrol to set off a blast. We are not sure if the ammonium nitrate was for legal purposes like mining, etc. The quantity seized was unlicensed," District Superintendent of Police Yashasvi Yadav toldThe Hindu. Yadav also said that an official of the ATS would arrive from Mumbai to interrogate the persons held. Fouer persons identified as Badrilal Devaji Chowdhury, Kishan Chowdhury,Mohanlal Vaishnav and Jamnalal Vaishnav were arrested in this connection. A case under the Explosives Act, Explosive Substances Act and the Indian Penal Code, pertaining to licensing issues with regard to possession of explosives and negligent conduct with respect to explosives, was registered against the accused.

A Sudanese student, who was injured in the February 13 Pune bomb blast has died, taking the toll in the terror attack to 12. 26-year-old Sudanese student Amjad Elgazoli, who was studying at WadiaCollege in Pune, died in the night of February 19 in Inlak Budhrani hospital, hospital sources said. He is the third foreigner to be killed in the February 13 blast. Nadia Macerini, an Italian woman, and Iranian national Sayyed Syed Khani were killed in the bomb blast.
February 17: The death toll in the Pune bomb blast has raised to 11, as Aditya Mehta, of New Delhi, who sustained injuries in the blast, died at the Jehangir Hospital.

Pune Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh expressed suspicion that the bomb that went off at the German Bakery might have been triggered by a remote control. A final confirmation was still awaited. Meanwhile, it had been confirmed that RDX, ammonium nitrate and petroleum hydrocarbon oil were used in the bomb.
February 15: Pune Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh at a press briefing informed that the toll in the February 13 bomb blast has gone up to 10, after 24-year old Abhishek Saxena from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh succumbed to his injuries. The report confirms that altogether 10 persons, including two foreign nationals, were killed and 60 others injured in the incident. Singh further reaffirmed that RDX, ammonium nitrate and hydrocarbon oil were used in the bomb blast. He, however, refused to confirm if the bomb was remote-controlled, as being suspected.

In the first breakthrough in the bomb blast probe, investigators detained two suspects from Kudalwadi and Janwadi on the outskirts of Pune city. They were picked up after sleuths probing the case identified conversations between suspected terrorists. It is also believed that these two men are the same who were spotted in a hotel’s CCTV footage, located in front of the blast-hit German Bakery. The footage showed the two men entering the bakery with a bag.

A television report also claimed that two more persons were also detained in Aurangabad District.
February 13: Nine persons including four foreigners, all women, were killed and over 40 injured in a bomb blast in the famous German Bakery on North Main Avenue in Koregaon Park near the Osho Ashram in Pune around 7.30 p.m. (IST). Unofficial figures put the number of injured at 50. Initially the Police said it was a gas cylinder blast, but the explosion is now suspected to be an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) using an ammonium nitrate fuel oil mix, with RDX as a booster, Police sources added. About 7 kilogrammes explosives may have been used. Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said preliminary reports indicated that it was a bomb blast. The bag containing the bomb was said to be under a table, according to one eyewitness account, and a waiter is said to have tried to open it. This caused the explosion which devastated the bakery, located near the Jewish Chabad House. The bakery is a popular spot with foreign tourists. Six or eight of the injured are said to be foreign nationals.

The Union Government said the scene of Pune’s bomb blast was very close to Osho Ashram which had been surveyed by LeT operative David Coleman Headley, which the Maharashtra Government had been alerted about this in the month of October, 2009. Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said it was worth noting that the German Bakery, the site of the blast, was about 200 yards away from the ashram, which was one of the sites surveyed by Headley. The Lashkar operative visited Mumbai and other parts of the country ahead of the November 26, 2008 terror attack. Pillai said the Multi-Agency Centre (MAC) had alerted the Maharashtra Police about the survey done by Headley.

One week before a bomb went off in Pune’s German Bakery killing eight, the Jama'at-ud-Da'awa (JuD), front organisation of the LeT, in Pakistan had warned of the city being a potential target. Addressing a rally in Islamabad on February 5, Abdur Rehman Makki, ‘deputy’ to JuD leader Hafiz Saeed said that at one time, jihadis were interested only in the liberation of Kashmir but the water issue had ensured that "Delhi, Pune and Kanpur" were all fair targets.
February 11: Two unidentified assailants shot dead the defence lawyer of the 26/11 accused Fahim Ansari at suburban Kurla in Mumbai. The slain lawyer was identified as Shahid Azmi

2009

December 21: A high-level committee appointed by the Maharashtra Government to go into the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks has found serious lapses on the part of the then Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor in handling the "war-like" multi-pronged attack. However, the two-member committee did not find any serious lapses to act or react on the part of individual officers and Police Men of the Mumbai Police. "
November 20: A mysterious letter threatening to trigger multiple bomb blasts in different places of the Mumbai city, including the Raj Bhavan and the Chief Minister’s residence, prompted the Police to step up security around vital installations.
September 16: LeT militant Aslam Kashmiri (27) had undergone training in Pakistan much before lone arrested terrorist Mohammad Ajmal alias Kasab and his nine other cadres were trained to carry out the November 26, 2008 (also known as 26/11) Mumbai terrorist attacks, said Mumbai Police.
September 15: A suspected LeT militant, Aslam Kashmiri, was produced before a MCOCA court in Mumbai, which sent him to Police custody till September 29. Kashmiri is suspected to have sent at least four youths to Pakistan for terrorist training, a senior Maharashtra Police official said.
August 26: An investigation into the geographical locations of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses used for the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks (also known as 26/11) led the Police to places in Pakistan, Russia, Kuwait and the United States. Five of the 10 locations traced are in Pakistan, Crime Branch Cyber Cell inspectorMukund Pawar said in his testimony before the special sessions court in Mumbai. The US FBI gave the Indian Police a list of 10 IP addresses. As per the charge sheet, it is from these addresses that the email id kharak_telco@yahoo.com was accessed to make payments to CallPhonex, a US-based Internet communication service provider. Pawar said that he was tasked with finding the actual locations from where the IPs were accessed. Cyber Cell officials used the services of the website www.all-nettools.com to trace the physical addresses. "I downloaded the information available on the website in respect of the 10 addresses," he said. Five IPs - 58.27.167.153, 118.107.140.138, 203.81.224.201, 203.81.224.202, and 203.81.224.203 - were traced to Pakistan, Pawar added.
August 18: A US based Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) dealer deposed via video-conference in the terror trial in Mumbai to point to yet another Pakistani link in the November 26, 2008 attack. The owner of Callphonex said that a client, via e-mail, posing as an Indian wholesale reseller of VoIP, took several accounts and paid for it from Pakistan in October 2008 and once again just a day before the strike on Mumbai. He informed how a person identified as Kharak Singh, who became his client, paid him "$ 250 by Moneygram from one Mohammad Ishfaq and later $ 229 by Western Union Money Transfer from Pakistan" before the attack. The owner of Callphonex said he had given the customer 15 PC-to-phone accounts, 10 common-client accounts and five Direct Inward Dialling Austrian phone numbers.
August 13: A US representative of the Yamaha motor company deposing live from the FBI office in Los Angeles via a video-conference link set up in the trial court next to the Arthur Road Jail, said the outboard motor recovered by Mumbai Police from the 10 Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists was among the ones sent by the company in Japan to Pakistan. This was for the second day running US witnesses pointed out the Pakistan connection in the November 26, 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai. This was also the first technologically aided long-distance testimony in the trial. The American who was identified by an FBI agent in the US, who in turn was identified on video by an FBI agent present in the Mumbai courtroom was examined by special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam to prove that a Yamaha engine recovered from the inflatable dinghy used by the terrorists to make their way into the Mumbai shores was from Pakistan. The witness, whose identity special judge M. L. Tahaliyani has barred from being revealed, said, ''Vehicle model Yamaha angular 40 was dispatched to Business and Engineering Trends in Pakistan on January 20, 2008. It was sent from Japan to Karachi seaport.''
August 12: Reinforcing the Pakistan link to the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, the FBI told the special court in Mumbai that its probe had established that the terrorists came from Karachi in Pakistan. In a testimony at the trial of the lone surviving LeT militant Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab, an FBI forensic expert, giving evidence for the first time in India in a terrorism-related case, said the terrorists had used Global Positioning System (GPS), a satellite navigation system, to locate targets. Deposing before Special Judge M.L. Tahaliyani, the FBI official said the GPS devices recovered by the Mumbai Police from the slain terrorists indicated plans for a return journey from Mumbai to Karachi and Rawalpindi. He added, "Way Point" data retrieved from the GPS devices pointed to the route from Karachi to Mumbai and also positions between these two cities. He also said that he had examined five GPS devices and a satellite phone.
August 6: A special POTA court in Mumbai sentenced to death all the three persons convicted in the bomb blasts case of August 25, 2003 which claimed 54 lives and injured 244 persons. The case comprises blasts at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar on August 25, 2003 and also the blast aboard a bus at Ghatkopar on July 28, 2003 and the planting of a bomb in a bus in the Santa Cruz Electronics Export Processing Zone on December 2, 2002, which, however, did not explode. Judge M.R. Puranik, after pronouncing the sentence against Haneef Sayyed, his wife Fahmeeda and Ashrat Ansari, said they "shall be hanged by the neck till they are dead." They were sentenced under three Sections: 120B of the Indian Penal code (IPC) for hatching a criminal conspiracy to cause bomb blasts, 120B read with Section 302 (punishment for murder) of the IPC, and 120B read with 3 (2) (a) of the POTA, stipulating the punishment for a terrorist act. They were given life term under Section 120B read with 307 (attempt to murder) of the IPC. Life term was awarded for offences under POTA's Sections 3 (3) for attempting to commit a terrorist act and 4 (b) for unauthorised possession of arms. They were also given life term under Section 3 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908 (punishment for causing explosion likely to endanger life or property).
July 31: The MCOCA court revoked the application of MCOCA in the Malegaon blast case of September 29, 2008. However, the investigating agency of the case, the Maharashtra Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS), has obtained a stay on the order. The ATS chief K.P.S. Raghuvanshi said, "We have obtained a stay of four weeks. We are going to challenge the order in the High Court." The operative part of the order states that the case will be transferred to the sessions court (in Nashik), Raghuvanshi added.

The Additional Sessions Judge of Akola District granted bail to the five alleged Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) cadres. The judge directed the accused be released on a personal bond of INR 7500 and surety of the like amount. The five accused SIMI cadres who were in jail under magisterial custody till August 7 were identified as Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Rahman, Abdul Ahmad A. Samad, Mohammed Harun Gyasuddin, Mohammed Siddiq Abdul Wahab, Shaikh Mahmood alias Munnabhai S.K. Lal of Pusad.
July 23: Special judge M. L. Tahaliyani ruled that the confessional statement given by Pakistani national and the lone arrested LeT militant Ajmal Kasab would stay on the records though the trial against him would continue. Tahaliyani, while passing the order, observed that Kasab had given a ''voluntary confession'' and his statement could not be removed from the records. ''The trial will proceed. The confession will stay though I will not make any comment on its evidence value at this stage,'' the Judge added.
July 21: Two militants of the proscribed SIMI, identified as Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Rehman and Abdul Ahad, were arrested from the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra, Police said. While Abdul Rehman was arrested from Mana village in Akola District on July 19, Abdul Ahad (68) was arrested in Amaravati District in the night of July 20. Earlier, the Police had arrested three more SIMI cadres when they were on their way after attending a meeting at Mana village in Mutizapur administrative division. "During the interrogation of the arrested accused, it was revealed that they wanted to come together on one platform. That's the reason why they held a meeting in Mana village," District Superintendent of Police, Pravin Padwal said.
July 20: The Maharashtra Police arrested four SIMI militants from Mana village in the Akola District. The cadres were arrested while trying to flee in an Indica car, before they were intercepted. After receiving an initial tip off from intelligence inputs, the Police neutralized a secret SIMI meeting, which was taking place with 35 cadres present at the meeting. However, the Police managed to arrest only four of them while the others managed to escape.
July 15: The MCOCA Judge Y.D. Shinde was given additional security after he received a threat to his life late. Shinde, who is handling high profile cases like the July 2006 Mumbai train bomb blast case, Malegaon bomb blast case and the case against the Indian Mujahideen (IM) outfit, reportedly got a threat call from a PCO demanding that the men who are under arrest since 2006 should be released. "
July 14: The Intelligence Bureau, in an alert, warned that at least seven places in Maharashtra - including a reputed bank in Mumbai and an important railway junction in Navi Mumbai - could be attacked. The alert, dated July 8, also contains photographs of the seven targets.
June 23: The Special Sessions Court trying the Mumbai terror attacks case issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against 22 of the 35 wanted accused, including the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa (JuD, the Lashkar-e-Toiba [LeT] front) chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who was released in Pakistan recently. Judge M. L. Tahaliyani granted the prosecution plea on the ground that most of the accused found mention in the confessional statement of lone captured LeT terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Amir alias Kasab. Other pieces of evidence include phone records of CallPhonex. Besides, the accused were charged with conspiring to wage a war against the Government of India.
May 28: The Mumbai Police recovered 917 live cartridges and arrested one person in this connection. The Joint Commissioner of Police, Rakesh Maria, said that Mumbai-based Mansood Khan was arrested along with 500 live cartridges and another 417 were found atop a public toilet. All the live rounds were reportedly of firearms .30, .32, 9 mm and .375 and 12 bore. They are good quality foreign-made cartridges, Maria added.
May 14: The Mumbai Crime Branch extradited an aide of underworld gangster Chhota Shakeel, identified as Gurpreet Singh Bhullar, from Bangkok. The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Nisar Tamboli, said that Bhullar was involved in a murder case and there was a red corner notice against him.
April 22: Two persons suspected to be accomplices of the gangster Chhota Shakeel’s gang were arrested along with two firearms and six live cartridges recently near the J.J. Hospital in south Mumbai, ATS officials. The duo was identified as Manoj Dubey and Sunil Navner. "We received a tip off that the duo would arrive near the junction with firearms. Accordingly, we laid a trap and caught the accused," the officials said.
April 17: A Mumbai-based private news channel received an email threat warning of at least five bomb blasts across the country during the parliamentary elections. The email was sent from indian.agentshubham@yahoo.com and has been traced to Lahore in Pakistan, Police said. "The email has been traced to the same person who had earlier threatened to blow up Taj hotel in south Mumbai and one of its properties in Chennai,'' said an investigator.
April 10: The Pune Police arrested a gangster, identified as Asif Dadhi alias Asif Mohammed Iqbal Shaikh, from the Laltopi Nagar area in Pune. Asif was suspected to have links with radical Islamic groups, including the banned SIMI, and the underworld. The Police have recovered a pistol, two live cartridges and a mobile phone, all worth INR 54000, from his possession.
January 5: An Indian Mujahideen (IM) cadre, identified as Anwar Ali Bagwaan, was arrested for allegedly obtaining two apartments for the outfit in Pune. Bagwaan also reportedly trained the IM militants on administering sedatives on persons they were planning to kidnap. The rent and cash deposit for the apartments were provided by the IM founder Riyaz Bhatkal and his brother, both of whom are still absconding. Bagwaan was produced before a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court which remanded him to Police custody till January 16.

2008

December 3: Eight kilograms of RDX, fitted with a timer, was recovered by the bomb squad near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) in Mumbai. Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Rakesh Maria, said the explosives were in two sets -one of four kilogram each.
November 29: Forensic experts have determined that an e-mail claim of responsibility for the November 26 Mumbai terrorist attacks issued by the unknown group Deccan Mujahideen was first generated on a computer located in Pakistan. Based on studies of the internet protocol addresses used to send the mail, computer specialists at India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, found that the Russia-based e-mail address account was opened by a computer user based in Pakistan.
November 28: The only militant arrested during the multiple terrorist attacks in Mumbai, identified as Mohammad Ajmal Amir, revealed during interrogation that boats in which they came from Karachi in Pakistan were arranged by an unidentified front man of mafia don Dawood Ibrahim, who runs several custom clearing houses in Mumbai. Dawood's gang arranged boats and transferred arms, ammunition and plastic explosives to it, which took the LeT militants for carrying out attacks in Mumbai.
November 27: Mumbai Police sources said that they have preliminary evidence that operatives of the Pakistan-based LeT carried out the Fidayeen (suicide squad) attacks in Mumbai. The sole arrested militant, identified as Mohammad Ajmal Amir, is suspected to be a LeT cadre and a resident of Faridkot in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
November 26: At least 166 civilians, including at least 22 foreigners, 20 security force (SF) personnel and nine terrorists were killed and more than 300 persons sustained injuries in the multiple terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Among those killed were chief of the ATS, Hemant Karkare, Additional Commissioner of Police (east Mumbai), Ashok Kamte, and Inspector of the Anti Extortion Cell in Mumbai Police, Vijay Salaskar. The terrorists, who apparently came in by boats, struck at 10 places in south Mumbai including five-star hotels, hospitals and train stations. Among the locations attacked were: Oberoi-Trident Hotel, Taj Hotel, Nariman House, Wadi Bunder, Cama hospital, GT hospital, VT station, Leopold Cafe, Girgaum and Metro cinema. There were also reports of a low intensity blast in Ville Parle and grenade attack in Santa Cruz. An unknown outfit, Deccan Mujahideen, sent an email to news organizations claiming that it carried out the attacks.
November 21: The Maharashtra ATS invoked the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) against one more Malegaon bomb blast suspect, identified as Sudhakar Chaturvedi, besides 10 other suspects.
November 20: The ATS decided to invoke the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crimes Act (MCOCA) against all 10 suspects arrested in the Malegaon blast case. At a press conference in Mumbai, ATS chief Hemant Karkare said, "There was no need for each of the accused to have more than one charge sheet as prescribed under the Act. There were other provisions which could be used to apply the MCOCA". The case will now shift to the special MCOCA court in Mumbai from Nashik and the investigation would be completed within 90 days, he added.

The ATS is going to take custody of the Abhinav Bharat leader Sudhakar Chaturvedi from the Matunga police. Sudhakar Chaturvedi, national coordinator of the Abhinav Bharat, was allegedly involved in planning the Malegaon blast along with Lt-Col Prasad Shrikant Purohit. Chaturvedi was arrested by Matunga police on November 4 on charges of carrying a revolver without licence and possessing a fake ID of Deolali military cantonment.
November 19: The Malegaon bomb blast suspect Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit was remanded to two-day police custody till November 21 by a Pune court in a case of forgery.
November 17: A Nashik court extended the judicial custody for eight Malegaon blast suspects, identified as Pragya Singh Thakur, Shiv Narayan Kalsanghra, Shyam Bhawarlal Sahu, Ajay Rahirkar, Jagdish Mhatre, Rakesh Dhawde, Sameer Kulkarni and Ramesh Upadhyay, till November 29.

A special POTA court in Mumbai acquitted two accused of the 2003 Mumbai twin blasts case, identified as Rizwan Ladduwala and Mohammed Hassan Batterywala. This followed an order passed by the Supreme Court on October 21 upholding the Central POTA review committee’s order discharging them from the provisions of the Act.
November 16: An arrested Indian Mujahideen (IM) cadre from Mumbai confessed to the Ahmedabad police during interrogation that terrorist attacks in Indian cities are being financed though hawala (informal money transfer system) transfer from abroad. Amir Raza Khan, brother of Asif Raza Khan, played a key role in the hawala racket that secured funding from individuals and institutions for jihadi activities in India.
November 14: A Nashik court remanded Malegaon blast accused Dayanand Pandey to police custody till November 26 and permitted police to conduct polygraph, narco-analysis and brain mapping tests on him.
November 13: The Mumbai ATS recovered the laptop of Malegaon blast accused Lt-Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit. Most of the contents in the laptop are reportedly about Abhinav Bharat, an organisation of Hindu hardliners who actively participated in this blast. "Purohit is also a co-founder of Abhinav Bharat.'' said an ATS officer.
November 12: The Mumbai ATS with the help of Uttar Pradesh ATS has arrested one more September 2008 Malegaon blast accused, identified as Dayanand Pandey alias Mahant Amritanand, the Peethadheeshwar (chief) of Sharda Sarvagya Peeth (monastery) in Jammu, from Rawatpur village under Kalyanpur police station in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. He reportedly belongs to Varanasi and is currently residing in Trikutanagar locality of Jammu Tawi in Jammu and Kashmir. He had left for Jammu in 2003 and returned to Kanpur a couple of days back. He has been charged under the specific sections of the Explosives Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
November 10: A Nashik court remanded five Malegaon blast suspects, identified as Ajay Eknath Rahirkar, Jagdish Chintaman Mhatre, Rakesh Dattaram Dhawde, Sameer Kulkarni and Ramesh Upadhyay, to judicial custody till November 17. Rahirkar had reportedly given INR 1.95 lakh to Kulkarni, INR 85,000 to Upadhyay, and INR five lakh to various persons at the behest of Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit. Rahirkar also transferred INR 10, 73,200 through hawala (informal money transfer system) channels, said Public prosecutor Ajay Misar.
November 9: The Maharashtra Police defused seven crude bombs in a grass heap at Majargaon village in Jalna district. The intensity of the bombs might have damaged a 100-feet area and no arrest had been made so far, said Superintendent of Police Sandeep Karnik.

The Maharashtra ATS has arrested one more Malegaon blast accused, identified as Ramji, from the tribal-dominated Dangs district in south Gujarat. Ramji was employed as a "sevak" in Shabri temple and was alleged to have used Sadhvi Pragnya’s motorbike in Malegaon. He is reportedly linked to the Hindu Jagran Manch activist Swami Ashimananda.
November 6: The Maharashtra ATS said that Lieutenant-Colonel Shrikant Purohit had confessed to being the mastermind of September 29 Malegaon blast. He also admitted to supplying the RDX and weapons to members of the Abhinav Bharat, a radical Hindu outfit. "I am the mastermind of the blast. I arranged for the RDX and weapons but I can't understand how the weapons reached Abhinav Bharat members," Purohit reportedly said in his confession.
November 5: The Maharashtra ATS arrested another Malegaon blast suspect, identified as Lt Col Srikanth Purohit from Mumbai. Purohit was produced before a Nashik court, where he was remanded to 10 days of police custody and also allowed for narco-analysis tests. This is the first instance of an army officer being arrested in connection with a terrorist attack.

Mumbai Police has identified two non-resident Indians (NRIs) as having provided part of the funds that sustained the operations of the Indian Mujahideen (IM). Both NRIs had bank accounts in the Gulf and these were being used to channel funds to IM members in Mumbai, the police said. The police have frozen both accounts and issued lookout notices against the two NRIs.
November 2: The Maharashtra ATS arrested three Malegaon blasts accused, Ajay Eknath Rahirkar, Jagdish Chintamani Mhatre and Rakesh Dattaram Dhawade. Ajay Eknath reportedly handled the finances of the group behind the September 29 blasts.
October 29: Two Malegaon blast suspects, Sameer Kulkarni and Ramesh Upadhyay, arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad were produced in a Nashik court and remanded to Police custody till November 10.
October 26: The ATS of the Maharashtra Police arrested one more suspect, identified as Major Prabhakar Kulkarni (retired), from Pune for links to the September 29 Malegaon and Modasa blasts. Kulkarni was commandant of the Bhosala Military School and two other alleged former servicemen, Major Y.D. Sahasrabuddhe and Major Ramesh Upadhyay, assisted him in providing training in making and exploding bombs using RDX, the ATS officials said. The prime suspect, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, along with her two accomplices, Shivnarayan Singh and Shyam Bhavarlal Sahu, was said to have been in constant touch with Major Kulkarni. Kulkarni reportedly worked as the secretary of the Hindu Sainiki Sanstha.

The arrested IM cadre, Mansoor Peerbhoy, a software engineer, who allegedly wrote the e-mails ahead of serial blasts in various parts of the country, has expressed his willingness to become an approver and help the investigating agencies. The Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria said, "The application has been filed before the MCOCA court by his lawyer and we have been asked to file our say by November 4".

The ATS of the Maharashtra Police arrested one suspect from Bhopal for his involvement in the September 29 blast in Malegaon and took him to Mumbai.
October 23: The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested three persons on charges of being involved in the September 29 blast in Malegaon of Maharashtra. They were identified as a sadhvi (female saint) Pragnya Singh Chandrapal Singh, Shiv Narayan Gopal Singh Kalsanghra, and Shyam Bhawarlal Sahu. While Pragnya Singh was arrested from Surat in Gujarat, the other two persons were arrested from unspecified places in Madhya Pradesh. Subsequently, the Nashik Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court remanded the arrested to police custody till November 3. They have been booked under various sections of the Indian Explosives Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The ATS chief Hemant Karkare said that the Forensic Sciences Laboratory report had revealed "traces of RDX" in the September 29 blast in Malegaon.
October 14: Mumbai Police claimed that three recently arrested terrorists belonging to the IM have confessed that they were part of the team that executed the blasts targeting the railway networks in Mumbai on July 11, 2006. Sadiq Shaikh, co-founder of the IM, who was arrested on September 24 in Mumbai; Arif Shaikh, who was held along with Sadiq; and Saif, who was held following the Jamia Nagar shootout in New Delhi on September 19 have claimed that they were the ones who caused the blasts in Mumbai's local trains on the orders of Riyaz Bhatkal of Karnataka. Five other men belonging to this module, as per their confession, are Mohammad Atif Amin and Mohammed Sajid, who were killed in the New Delhi shootout; Zeeshan, who was arrested after the shootout; and Saif's brother Dr Shahnawaz Khan and Abu Rashid, both of whom are absconding.
September 23: The Mumbai police arrested five suspected members of the IM. While Afzal Mutalib Usmani (32) was arrested from Uttar Pradesh, Mohammed Saddik Shaikh (31), Mohammed Arif Shaikh (38), Mohammed Zakir Shaikh (28) and Mohammed Ansar Shaikh were arrested from their Mumbai residences. All the accused, originally from Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh, have worked with the banned SIMI, Joint Commissioner (Crime), Rakesh Maria told journalists. "They broke away from SIMI to form the radical group of IM. Saddik, was one of the co-founders of the outfit along with Atiq, killed in the Delhi encounter, and Roshan Khan, who is yet to be traced. The police are on the lookout for Khan", Maria added. The police have booked the arrested terrorists under the Explosives Act, Arms Act, various sections of the Indian Penal Code and for criminal conspiracy. The recovered items from the arrested terrorists include 10 kilograms of gelatin or ammonium nitrate, 15 detonators, eight kilograms of ball bearings, four fully active electronic circuits, one sub-machine carbine, two .38 revolvers and 30 cartridges of 9 mm carbine and eight cartridges of .38 revolver.
September 11: The ATS in Mumbai charge sheeted six members of the Sanatan Sanstha, an organisation involved in the blast at a cinema hall in Panvel screening the movie ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ and for planting bombs in Thane and Navi Mumbai auditoriums, staging the Marathi play ‘Aamhi Panchpute.’ The organisation had claimed that the movie and the play showed Hindu goddesses in a bad light. The six persons, Ramesh Hanumant Gadkari, Vikram Vinay Bhave, Mangesh Dinkar Nikam, Santosh Sitaram Angre, Hemant Tukaram Chalke and Haribhau Krishna Divekar are in police custody.
August 26: Gujarat Police arrested Tanveer Pathan alias Sameer, a suspected SIMI member, from the Mira road area in Mumbai for his alleged involvement in the planting of bombs in Surat. Police sources said Pathan's name was revealed during the interrogation of Sajid Mansuri, an accused arrested in connection with the Ahmedabad serial blasts case.
August 22: Mumbai Police sources quoting information provided by Karimulla Khan Osan Khan, a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, said that fugitive underworld gangster Dawood Ibrahim, his relatives and other associates are living in Pakistan. Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Deven Bharti said "According to Khan, many of the absconding accused in the blasts case are living in Pakistan where they have been given various jobs." Dawood, who has stakes in many businesses in Karachi and lives in the city, is allegedly involved in construction projects across Pakistan, Bharti said. Dawood is allegedly protected at his Karachi residence by former Pakistani armed forces personnel and Khan has claimed that he had seen the gangster meet with ISI officials at his Karachi residence.
August 21: The ATS of the Mumbai Police arrested Feroz Mehboob Pathan (32), a suspected to SIMI member and part of the recently neutralised sleeper module of the outfit, from the Ghorpade Peth area of Pune in connection with the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts.

Maharashtra Police have arrested a key accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, Karimullah Khan Osan Khan, at Nallasopara, a Mumbai suburb. Joint Commissioner (Crime), Rakesh Maria, told journalists that Khan (46) was a declared absconder and a red corner notice was issued against him in 1995. The Central Bureau of Investigation had announced a reward of INR 500000 for information on him. Maria said Khan was a close confidant of a blast convict, the late Ejaz Pathan, and was instrumental in overseeing the landing of RDX and other ammunition on the Shekhadi coast in Maharashtra’s Raigad district.
August 2: Immigration officials at the Mumbai International Airport detained a passenger in connection with a blast in the Judicial Magistrate First Class court in Hubli in Karnataka in May 2008. The passenger Iqbal Shaukat Ali is alleged to be a SIMI activist. A resident of Belgaum in Karnataka, Ali had fled to Sharjah soon after his name emerged as one of the major suspects in the blast. Subsequently, he was remanded to four days of police custody.
June 4: An explosion in the parking lot of a drama theatre in Thane injured seven persons. The explosive was wrapped in a plastic bag and was placed on a cycle. It exploded when staff of the theatre tried to remove it.
April 10: Mumbai Police arrested two SIMI cadres from the Thane district. The duo, identified as Irshad Salim Khan and Israr Ahmed Abdul Hamid Tailor, are believed to be close to the arrested SIMI secretary-general, Safdar Nagori. Khan is a civil engineer by profession and was the former president of the outfit while Israr Ahmed is a computer professional.
March 11: A senior cadre of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Dr Arif Abrar, who had surrendered before a lower court in Nagpur in January 2008, was granted bail by the 10^th Ad hoc Sessions Judge. Abrar who was lodged in the Nagpur central jail after police interrogation is expected to be released shortly. Defence lawyer A.M. Rizway stated that court found no incriminating evidence against him.
February 16: An ex-Serviceman, Shailesh Jadhav, was arrested, from the Pune railway station when he was about to board a train for Jodhpur, for having alleged links with Pakistan’s external Intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Some classified documents pertaining to the Army were seized from his possession.

2007

October 15: The Mumbai Police claimed to have arrested an ISI agent recently. Police sources said that the agent, identified as Mohammed Qamar Shafi Afghani, was passing vital information to Pakistan. Afghani lived in the Govandi slums from where the Police had earlier arrested Mohammed Ali, another person accused in the July 11, 2006 Mumbai explosions case. Police seized Afghani’s passport, a CD, ration card and five credit cards, which were reportedly gifted by an ISI agent called Tayyeb. Afghani had visited Pakistan twice - in 2006 and 2007. Joint Commissioner of Police, K. P. Raghuvanshi, said, "We had information that Afghani had been clicking photographs and passing information on some vital institutions in Mumbai. We have got his remand till October 26.’’

An anonymous e-mail threatening to blow up the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was received in Mumbai. Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order), K.L. Prasad, said, "An NSE official has received the e-mail and I asked for security to be beefed up at the buildings immediately after being told about it."
September 26: Mumbai Police found six low-intensity crude bombs near the Andheri railway station and arrested two persons in connection with the recovery. Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Rakesh Maria, said the bombs were made of low-intensity explosives such as gunpowder in which nails, ball bearings and nut-bolts were used as shrapnel. Those arrested were identified as Rajeev Jaigovind Singh and Soumitra Badal Roy. Singh was carrying the bombs in a backpack while Roy was arrested following Singh’s interrogation.
August 12: The Aurangabad city Police seized 29 kilograms of ammonium nitrate explosive abandoned by a man in an auto rickshaw near the Aurangabad railway station. Police said that the man, aged around 30, had earlier alighted from the Devagiri Express, running between Secunderabad and Mumbai Central, at around 2330 hours and boarded an auto rickshaw to reach the central bus stand.
July 15: The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai Police in collaboration with the Kutch Police in Gujarat claimed to have neutralized a sleeper cell of Pakistan-based militant outfit Al Badr that was operating from the Bhendi Bazaar area of Mumbai since 2006. Pakistani national Mohammed Salim Memon alias Salim Malai and two other local operatives - Sultan Ansari of Nagpada and Irfan Lakhani of Mumbra - were arrested from different parts of Mumbai. Preliminary investigations revealed that Memon had been staying illegally in the Bhendi Bazaar area for more than 30 years. Memon was first arrested on May 8 by the ATS from Nagpada area while in possession of 30 fake credit cards which he was attempting to sell to unsuspecting people and had been released on bail later.
July 12: Police in Pune arrested a person hailing from Jammu and Kashmir, who was working as a watchman, for suspected links with a terrorist outfit in his home State. "The person is in our custody since last evening and we are probing his alleged links with a terrorist organisation operating in Jammu and Kashmir," an unnamed Police officer said.
May 25: A team of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh Police arrested a meat shop owner from Jalna in central Maharashtra on suspicion that he had carried the RDX packed in containers that were blown up in the May 18 bomb blast in Hyderabad, capital of Andhra Pradesh. The arrested person, Shoaib Faqruddin Jagirdar, is also a muttawali (custodian) of a local dargah (shrine), is suspected to have played a key role in sending four youth along with RDX from Jalna to Hyderabad.
May 20: The Nagpur Police seized 6.9 tonnes of the ammonium nitrate-based explosive ANFO (Ammonium nitrate-fuel oil), the same type of explosive used in the Mumbai train blasts on July 11, 2006, from a quarry near Kuhi, about 45 kilometres from Nagpur. Five persons, including the quarry owner, were arrested.
February 13: Abdul Qayyum Shaikh, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case and a key member of the fugitive underworld Dawood Ibrahim gang, was arrested at Panjrapole junction in Mumbai by the city Police.
January 20: Four persons were arrested and 6.5 kilograms of TNT explosives were recovered from them in suburban Andheri of North-West Mumbai. Two of the arrested persons were identified as Sakhu Gaikwad and Gautam Telore from Igatapuri in the Nasik District.
January 8: An alleged aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police in Mumbai. The accused, identified as Ateek Ahmed, is a proclaimed offender wanted in several cases of murder, attempt to murder, riots, Arms Act and Explosive Substances Act registered in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.

2006

December 16: The Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Mumbai Police arrested Abrar Ahmed, suspected of planting bombs in the textile town of Malegaon on September 8. He is ninth person to be arrested in the case.
November 21: The Maharashtra Police arrested one more person, identified as Hamid, for his alleged role in the Malegaon serial bomb blasts, from an unidentified location in the Yavatmal District.
Ten members of the Pakistan-based gangster Dawood Ibrahim's gang were arrested by the Mumbai Police after having been deported from the United Arab Emirates. They were identified as Anjum Phajlani, Jameel, Sabir Shaikh, Salim Fruit, Sayyed Mehandi, Mustafa Ghulam, Khota Shakeel, Aziz Chaipani, Arif Bhaijaan and Shahid Qureshi.
November 8: A cadre of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Imran Ansari, having alleged links with the July 11 Mumbai serial train blasts case accused Rahil Sheikh, was arrested under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
November 7: Two Unani (traditional oriental medicine) doctors, Salman Farsi Aaimi and Farogh Iqbal Makhdomi, were arrested in overnight raids at Malegaon and Govandi in the Nasik District in connection with the Malegaon bomb blasts.
November 2: The Maharashtra Police arrested Shabbir Ahmed Masiullah Ansari alias Batterywallah for his alleged involvement in the Malegaon bomb blasts. Ansari was already in the custody of Mumbai Police since August 2 for his alleged complicity in the Malegaon blasts.
October 30: Maharashtra Police arrests Noorul Hooda Shamshul Hooda, a SIMI activist, in connection with the Malegaon serial bomb blasts of September 8, 2006.
October 8: A suspected SIMI cadre, Nurullah Samsudoha, is arrested from the Jaffar Nagar area of Malegaon town.
October 3: Maharashtra Police arrests Asif Khan Bashir Khan alias Junaid alias Abdullah from Belgaum in the Karnataka State in connection with the July 11, 2006, Mumbai serial blasts.
September 28: Maharashtra Police arrest three persons, identified as Mohammed Ali of Govandi, Sajid Ansari of Mira Road and Abdul Wahid of Mumbra, for their alleged involvement in the 7/11 Mumbai blasts conspiracy.
September 11: A bomb connected to a remote control device was found and subsequently defused outside the Lifeline Hospital at Nashik.
September 10: Police seizes 29 boxes of detonators each containing 50 pieces, 11 boxes of gelatine, each containing 25 kilograms, 75 pieces of wire and five bags of ammonium nitrate, each containing 50 kilograms in Tembha village off the Mumbai-Nashik highway in the Thane District.
September 8: Forty people were killed and 65 others sustained injuries in three bomb blasts at Malegaon town in the Nashik District.
August 23: Two suspects in the October 2005 Delhi serial bomb blasts are remanded to custody of the Mumbai Police till August 28 by a local court in Mumbai. Firoz Abdul Latif Ghaswala and Mohammed Ali Chippa, who were lodged in a jail in Delhi, are brought to Mumbai and produced before a local court.
August 22: Mumbai Police shot dead a suspected Pakistani terrorist and arrested another in an encounter at Antop Hill in Mumbai. Police also recovered one AK 47, some cartridges and a white powdery substance from the encounter site.
August 18: Two SIMI cadres are arrested from the Wardha District on suspicion of their alleged involvement in terrorist activities. Police sources said that while Waqar Baig Yusuf Baig was arrested from Mahadeopura in Wardha city, Jitaullah Rehman Mehmood Khan was detained at Kazipur in the textile township of Hinganghat.
August 13: Mumbai Police claim to have neutralized a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) module in the capital by arresting two suspected militants, identified as Shabbir Ahmed Mushiullah, a resident of Malegaon in Nasik, and Nafiz Ahmed Jamir Ahmed Ansari, a resident of Govandi in north-east Mumbai.
August 12: The Anti-Terrorist Squad of Maharashtra Police arrests Ehtesham Siddiqui, an activist of the outlawed SIMI, in connection with the July 11 serial blasts in Mumbai.
August 8: Three SIMI cadres were arrested in connection with the July 11 Mumbai serial blasts from Nagpur. They were identified as Shakil Warsi, Shakir Ahmed Nasi and Mohammad Rehan Khan.
August 1: Police arrested a suspected agent of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's external intelligence agency, identified as Arif Lakhani, from Manmad in the Nashik District. Lakhani was allegedly sending military information to a Pakistani handler operating from New Delhi.
July 23: Tanvir Ansari, a doctor, practising Unani medicine in central Mumbai, who Police said is an operative of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, was arrested in connection with the 7/11 explosions in Mumbai.
July 20: Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad arrests two persons in Bihar and one in Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra in connection with the July 11 serial blasts in Mumbai. Khalid Aziz Raunak Aziz Sheikh and Kamal Ahmed Mohammad Vakil Ansari, belonging to Basupatigaon in the Madhubani District, near the India-Nepal border are arrested from Patna in Bihar. Mobile phones and half kg of black powder are recovered from them. Police said the arrested have links in Nepal and Bangladesh and are part of a larger terrorist network.
July 12: At least 350 persons are detained for interrogation in connection with the 7/11 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai. Most of the detentions are made in Malwani, a north-eastern suburb of the metropolis.
July 11: At least 200 persons are killed and 700 others are injured in seven bomb blasts targeting the railway networks in Mumbai. First class compartments of trains at Mira-Bayandhar, Jogeshwari, Mahim, Santacruz, Khar, Matunga and Borivli stations on the Western Railway are targeted in the serial explosions.
June 20: The Mumbai Police, during raids at various places in south Mumbai and Andheri, arrested at least 13 unidentified persons who are involved in the circulation of counterfeit Indian currencies. The arrested are linked to the ISI in its plan to subvert the Indian economy. Reports added that most of the fake currencies are made in Bangladesh or Pakistan.
June 1: Three suspected LeT terrorists are shot dead during an abortive attempt to storm the headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindu organization, at Nagpur.
January 6: The Mumbai Police arrests three suspected LeT terrorists from Nagpada in south Mumbai and seized some arms and material used for manufacturing explosives from their possession.
January 4: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrests Riyaz Siddiqui, an aide of extradited gangster Abu Salem, for allegedly supplying arms and ammunition to those who carried out the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai.

Source: Compiled from English language media sources.