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Terrorism-related incidents in Madhya
Pradesh since 2007
2018
Sl. No.
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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Nature |
1
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March 31
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Bhopal
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The Special Court of the NIA
has convicted two members of the SIMI-Abu Faizal (28) and Ikrar
Sheikh (36) under the sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and
395 (dacoity) of the IPC and sentenced life imprisonment to
both of them in 2010 Dacoity case. The accused had committed
the dacoity and looted gold jewellery worth INR 1.46 crores
and INR 41,000 in cash at Manappuram Finance Limited's branch
at Hamidia Road in Bhopal on August 23, 2010.
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Non-Violent
(Judicial Proceeding) |
2017
Sl. No.
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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Nature |
1
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February 10
|
Indore
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ATS from Mumbai detained a suspected
SIMI operative from Khajrana area of Indore (Madhya Pradesh).
The suspect identified as Jadil Parvez was held from Khijrabad
Colony in the area where he had been living since the past 2-3
months, ATS sources claimed. Jadil, who hails from Unhel town
of Ujjain District, had allegedly been living with his sister
Heena.
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Non-violent |
2 |
February 27 |
Indore |
SIMI 'chief' Safdar Nagori and other 10 members
of his terrorist outfit were sentenced to life imprisonment
in a 2008 case of sedition by a special CBI court in Indore
in Madhya Pradesh. Special CBI judge B K Paloda convicted all
11 for sedition, collecting arms, ammunition and explosives
with the intention to wage war against the nation and for being
active members of a banned terrorist outfit. Nagori was the
'general secretary' of SIMI when it was banned. Besides 45-year-old
Nagori, the others convicted are Hafiz Hussain (35), Aamil Parvaz
(40), Shivli (38), Qamruddin (42), Shahduli (32), Qamran (40),
Ansar (35), Ahmed Baig (32), Yasin (35) and Munroz (40).
"The judgment was delivered to 10 of the 11
accused through video-conferencing as they are lodged in Sabarmati
jail in Ahmedabad where they are being tried for the Ahmedabad
blasts (Gujarat, 2008)," public prosecutor Vimal Mishra said.
Only one of the accused, dental student from Karnataka Munroz,
was in the Indore court and his father wept upon hearing the
verdict.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
March 7 |
Jabdi station
/ Shajapur District |
In the first-ever strike in India by Islamic
State (IS), a module radicalised by the terrorist organisation
triggered a low-intensity blast in Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train
Madhya Pradesh, injuring 9 passengers. The incident occurred
near Jabdi station in Shajapur District of Madhya Pradesh. A
high alert has been sounded across the state after the explosion.
IG (Law and Order) Makrand Deouskar said the explosion was caused
by a pressure pipe bomb filled with ammonia nitrate kept inside
a bag on the luggage rack.
|
Violent |
4 |
March 7 |
Pipariya |
Moments after the train blast, three men were
held as they stepped off a bus near Pipariya in Hoshangabad
District of Madhya Pradesh and after they were interrogated
they revealed of other suspects in Lucknow and Kanpur. Following
a standard protocol, the information was shared with Central
Intelligence agencies, which alerted the Uttar Pradesh Police
and the state ATS. Three men arrested in Pipariya, Madhya Pradesh
are identified as Danish Akhtar alias Jaffar, Aatish Muzaffar
alias Al Kasim (both from Kanpur) and Syed Mir Hussain alias
Humza a native of Aligarh, in Uttar Pradesh.
|
Non-violent |
5 |
March 14 |
Khargone District |
A 26-year-old man, identified as A Shaikh, was
detained in Khargone District of Madhya Pradesh by the Maharashtra
ATS in connection with a case related to Islamic State (IS).
He is being brought to Mumbai for questioning, a senior Police
official said here. According to Police, Shaikh, who has completed
his M.Tech, was allegedly in constant touch with one of the
accused in the case, who was earlier arrested for his alleged
links with the banned terror group. "Shaikh has not been placed
under arrest so far. We are examining his role in the case,"
the official said without elaborating further.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
March 14 |
Madhya Pradesh |
The NIA has registered a FIR in the latest Islamic
State (ISIS) inspired cases in the Madhya Pradesh and Lucknow
(Uttar Pradesh) terror operations. The principal focus of the
investigators would now be to digitally track the mastermind
behind the modules, who is believed to be abroad. The move is
to ensure that further radicalisation of Indian youth is stopped.
After forces managed to identify a Lucknow terror module linked
to ISIS, top intelligence sources had confirmed that search
activities were initiated to find 20 odd youths who might have
joined the Islamic radical group earlier and are now back in
the country. As per information, all the 20 members - mostly
based out of Kerala - were in Syria recently and might have
returned to India to act on the radical groups agenda. While
there have been no ISIS related terror activities in India,
the Lucknow terror module raised a lot of security concerns
for the country. The Centre has pinpointed five states where
ISIS activists could surface, including Uttar Pradesh, Kerala,
Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Intelligence operations
have already commenced in these states for monitoring any kind
of terror activity.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
March 27 |
NS |
Two of the three men arrested from Madhya Pradesh
within hours of an explosion on board the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger
train on March 7 have told the NIA that their original target
was not this train but the Lucknow-Bhopal Pushpak Express on
which they travelled the previous night, Indian Express reports
on March 28. Atif Muzaffar and Syed Mir Husain told the NIA
that they travelled in the Pushpak Express on March 6 with an
explosives-filled bag, but could not plant it because of the
"heavy rush" and "alert passengers".
Official sources said Atif bought three tickets
for the Pushpak Express but throughout the journey, they could
not find a suitable spot or the right time to plant the bomb.
They got off at Bhopal railway station on March 7-morning where
Atif and Danish made a last-minute decision to place the bomb
on the passenger train that was waiting to leave for Ujjain.
"After their failure to plant the bomb on the Pushpak Express,
they got desperate. They managed to get into the last coach
of the Bhopal-Ujjain train that was about to leave the station,
left the bag filled with explosives and got off", sources said.
The explosion left 10 persons injured.
From the question of the arrested men, the NIA
has learnt that the four Saifullah included met each other in
December 2015 and two months later, in February 2016, they decided
to form a group in the name of jihad. "They rented a room in
Lucknow where they gave themselves "code" names - Jiya Abu Ibrahim
for Atif; Jafar Abu Ismail for Danish; Ali Abu Makaiel for Saifullah;
and, Hamza Abu Waqas for Husain," sources said. Syed Mir Husain
told his interrogators that they used the code names while interacting
with each other, and also with the intention of hiding their
original identities. "Saifullah had even made a fake ID card
in the name of Ali," sources said.
For one year, from February 2016 to February
2017, the four travelled across the country, hoping to cross
over into Pakistan from Jammu, Kashmir, Punjab and Rajasthan;
or into Bangladesh, but found it was not as simple as they had
imagined.
They also went to Kozhikode in Kerala to explore
ways of "migrating to the Caliphate". While they did not meet
with much success, they met several persons who they thought
could help them establish contact with the IS, sources said.
In July 2016, during Ramzan, Atif became the ameer (chief) of
the group and the four took the oath of allegiance to the Islamic
State.
|
Statement |
8 |
August 1 |
Indore
|
A homoeopath doctor and his associate were arrested
on August 1, in Indore (Madhya Pradesh) for allegedly printing
FICNs in invalid denomination of INR 500. Police seized five
pieces of the notes from Dr Deepesh Yadav (34) and his aide
Krishna Rathore (21). Pardeshipura Police Station in-charge
Rajiv Tripathi said they also seized a computer, a scanner and
a printer used for printing the notes from the duo. "We are
interrogating them to find out how many such fake notes they
have circulated so far," he added.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
August 9 |
Gwalior
|
Madhya Pradesh ATS in a joint operation with
Punjab Police arrested three men and busted a terror module
that sources say had direct links with Pakistan's ISI backed
banned terror outfit ISYF. The arrests were made from Madhya
Pradesh's Gwalior city. Those arrested have been identified
as Balvinder Gill, Balkar Singh and Sathyendra Rawat. The trio
was picked up from their hideouts in Dabra, Chinor and Dulpura
area of Gwalior. Two of them were also associated with KLF,
said officials.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
August 10 |
Gwalior
|
The three men arrested on August 9 night by
Madhya Pradesh ATS and Punjab Police had supplied pistols to
pro-Khalistan militants for targeted political killings in Punjab.
The arrested trio includes cousin of a Canada-based Khalistan
separatist leader. The three were identified as Balkar Singh
(45), Balwindar Singh (28) and Satyendra Rawat (26) from Dabra,
Thatipur and Chinor areas of Gwalior District. According to
key sources connected with the joint operation, Balkar was originally
a native of Gurdaspur District of Punjab, who had migrated to
Gwalior District over three decades back and was primarily engaged
in agriculture.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
August 29 |
Khandwa
|
Three SIMI members were sentenced to life imprisonment
by a Bhopal special court for attempted murder of a BJYM activist
in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa town in 2009. While BJYM president
Pramod Tiwari had escaped unhurt, a BJYM activist, Dubey was
critically injured in the attack that took place on the night
of January 2, 2009. There were seven accused in the murder case,
but four of them were killed in an alleged encounter near Bhopal
in 2016. Besides Abu Faisal - who was the key conspirator in
the attack and is facing trial in other terror-related cases
- Abdullah Hussain and Raquib were sentenced to life imprisonment
for attempt to murder Dubey. The trio were also sentenced to
10 years in jail for the attempt on Tiwari's life by Special
Judge Girish Dixeet. Both the sentences will run concurrently.
|
Non-violent |
12 |
September
26 |
Bhopal
|
The 'chief' of the SIMI, Abu Faisal and Sarafat
Ali, have been sentenced to three years imprisonment each by
the CJM Court in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, in connection with
the Khandwa jail break. A fine has also been imposed on both
of them. The jailed duos have been named in the controversial
Khandwa jail break of 2013. The SIMI is said to be involved
in similar incident in 2016 where eight SIMI terrorists were
killed in an encounter after escaping from the Bhopal Central
Jail.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
October 26 |
Bhind
|
The Beed Police and Madhya Pradesh (MP) Police
team jointly neutralised a FICN racket, seizing fake currency
worth INR 1,50000 in denomination of INR 100 and INR 50 from
Sayed Shakoor Shabir and arrested him in a joint action from
an unknown location. According to Beed Police sources, MP Police
had arrested one Kartar Singh who was circulating fake notes
of INR 61,000 in market at Bhind in MP. He confessed that he
got fake currency from Shabir hailing from Beed. MP Police team
With the help of Beed Police raided house of Shabir and seized
FICN along with printing material and machines from his possession.
|
Non-violent |
14 |
October 29 |
Patnipura
|
Five men were arrested, for printing and distributing
FICN in Indore. The members of an inter-state gang have till
now printed INR 10,00,000 in fake notes in the denominations
of INR 2,000, INR 500 and INR 100 and consignments were also
sent to other states. Police recovered INR 2,60,000 fake notes
from their possession. Working on a tip off, Police arrested
five persons found trying to use the notes in Patnipura area.
|
Non-violent |
15 |
November 5 |
Bhopal
|
An absconding accused involved in printing FICNs
and circulating them in market, identified as Abhishek Chouhan
was arrested by Bhopal city crime branch in Betma in Indore
District. He was on the run after his five accomplices were
arrested a few days ago. ASP (crime) Amarendra Singh said that
following a tip off about the presence of accused Abhishek Chouhan
in his residence in Betma, a joint team of crime branch and
MIG Police Station reached Betma and arrested him. A printer,
cutter and fake notes amounting INR 7,100 were also recovered
from the accused.
During sustained interrogation, the accused
told Police that he works with a company in Pithampur. Prime
accused of the gang Naresh had given him lift on his bike in
Pithampur a few days ago following which they became friends.
Naresh told him that he prints FICNs of INR 2000, 500 and 100
at home. Later, Naresh gave him fake notes of INR 5,000 to circulate
it in the market. Abhishek later started printing fake notes
with Naresh and accused Rameshwar at their home in Pithampur.
To circulate the notes in the market, they included Rajesh,
Chandrashekhar and Nandu in their group. Abhishek also confessed
to circulate fake notes in Indore, Dhar and Ujjain as well.
Earlier, Crime Branch team had arrested five
accused named Naresh Pawar, Narendra Chouhan, Rajesh Mali, Chandrashekhar
Parmar and Rameshwar Parihar a week ago in connection with the
printing of FICN and recovered INR 2.60 lakh from them. The
investigation is underway into the case
|
Non-violent |
16 |
November 6 |
Ujjain
|
Gujarat ATS picked up one person, identified
as Uruzkhan Pathan of Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh) for questioning
in connection with the firearms which were to be supplied to
alleged Islamic State (IS) operatives, Ubaid Mirza and Kasim
Stimberwala who were arrested by Gujarat ATS on October 25.
According to the FIR registered by ATS, both Mirza and Stimberwala
were planning to carry out 'lone wolf' attacks on a synagogue
in Khamasa area of Ahmedabad city to kill Jews. Senior ATS officials
said that Pathan had been picked up but not yet arrested. He
works at a bakery in Ujjain. "During Pathan's interrogation,
it came to light that Ubaid Mirza had met him in Delhi," said
a senior ATS official. Later, Ubaid had phoned Pathan and asked
him to arrange for an imported pistol and some ammunition.
Senior ATS officials said they suspect that
Pathan knew that the weapons were to be used for a lone wolf
attack on the Synagogue in Khamasa area of Ahmedabad. "On the
directions of Ubaid, Stimberwala had recced the Synagogue on
12th of September with logistic support from two in Ahmedabad.
Both Ubaid and Stimberwala were to flee to Jamaica after the
attack to take shelter with a radical preacher named Mohammed
el Faisal who was born as William Forrest" a senior ATS official
added. Sources in ATS also said Ubaid was in contact with one
Zabiullah of Tamil Nadu who was to help him smuggle gold with
the help of one air hostess based in Tamil Nadu. "We have dispatched
a team to Tamil Nadu to record the statement of Zabiullah and
track the air hostess," an ATS officer said.
|
Non-violent |
17 |
November 6 |
Ujjain
|
Gujarat ATS picked up one person, identified
as Uruzkhan Pathan of Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh) for questioning
in connection with the firearms which were to be supplied to
alleged Islamic State (IS) operatives, Ubaid Mirza and Kasim
Stimberwala who were arrested by Gujarat ATS on October 25.
According to the FIR registered by ATS, both Mirza and Stimberwala
were planning to carry out 'lone wolf' attacks on a synagogue
in Khamasa area of Ahmedabad city to kill Jews. Senior ATS officials
said that Pathan had been picked up but not yet arrested. He
works at a bakery in Ujjain. "During Pathan's interrogation,
it came to light that Ubaid Mirza had met him in Delhi," said
a senior ATS official. Later, Ubaid had phoned Pathan and asked
him to arrange for an imported pistol and some ammunition.
Senior ATS officials said they suspect that
Pathan knew that the weapons were to be used for a lone wolf
attack on the Synagogue in Khamasa area of Ahmedabad. "On the
directions of Ubaid, Stimberwala had recced the Synagogue on
12th of September with logistic support from two in Ahmedabad.
Both Ubaid and Stimberwala were to flee to Jamaica after the
attack to take shelter with a radical preacher named Mohammed
el Faisal who was born as William Forrest" a senior ATS official
added. Sources in ATS also said Ubaid was in contact with one
Zabiullah of Tamil Nadu who was to help him smuggle gold with
the help of one air hostess based in Tamil Nadu. "We have dispatched
a team to Tamil Nadu to record the statement of Zabiullah and
track the air hostess," an ATS officer said.
|
Non-violent |
2016
Sl. No.
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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Nature |
1
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January 20
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Madhya Pradesh
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A high alert has been sounded
in Madhya Pradesh after a suspected terrorist, Syed Ahmed in
custody escaped by jumping off a moving train near Itarsi railway
station in Hoshangabad District. "Syed Ahmed had been arrested
in Vellore in Tamil Nadu from where he was being taken on Raptisagar
Express on a court warrant to Lucknow [Uttar Pradesh]. He managed
to jump off the train when it was running slow near the Itarsi
station," Hoshangabad Superintendent of Police Ashutosh Pratap
Singh said. Ahmad had threatened to blow up a number of places,
including a 'dargah' (Sufi shrine) in Lucknow, and had a number
of cases registered against him in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh,
he said.
|
Non-violent |
2 |
February 1 |
Putli Ghar area / Bhopal
|
The NIA arrested a 24-year-old terror suspect,
identified as Azhar Iqbal from Putli Ghar area of Bhopal as
part of the agency's crackdown on alleged sympathisers of Islamic
State (IS). A resident of Barkheda in Madhya Pradesh's Raisen
District, Iqbal was said to be hiding in the residence of one
Laik Ahmed before NIA sleuths apprehended him, sources said.
According to the sources, he used to move around
with some members of the group and even attended some of its
meetings. Conspiracy to carry out terror attacks was purportedly
discussed at these meetings. NIA is investigating a large scale
conspiracy in which young men from across the country were allegedly
planning to carry out terror attacks in the name of the IS.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
February 16 |
Khandawa District |
In a joint operation, the Odisha Police, Telangana
Police, Central Intelligence Bureau and Tactical Wing of Odisha
SoG arrested five suspected SIMI cadres, including a woman member,
from Quereshi Mohalla area in Rourkela in Sundergarh District.
The arrested cadres were identified as Mehboob alias
Guddu (27), Amzad Khan alias Dowd (27), Zakir Khan alias
Sadik (32), Mahammed Salik alias Sallu (32) and Nazma,
mother of Maheboob, all hailing from Khandawa District in Madhya
Pradesh. According to Arun Sarangi, the arrested SIMI rebels
were involved in at least 17 explosions in Odisha, Telangana,
Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Besides, they were
also carrying out anti-social activities in Bihar and Jharkhand.
In 2013, all the terrorists had escaped from Khandwa Jail in
Madhya Pradesh and were hiding in Rourkela since then. After
the jailbreak, the terrorists killed two Police personnel during
a bank loot incident in Telangana. They decamped with INR 48
lakh from the bank. The extremists also killed a Policeman in
Madhya Pradesh. They were also involved in several train robbery
cases and a bank loot incident in Sundargarh District of Odisha.
|
Non-violent |
4 |
March 13 |
Madhya Pradesh |
Bomb making literature of al Qaeda is emerging
as favourite guidebook for SIMI and IM operatives in India.
Ongoing interrogation of the four suspected SIMI operatives
arrested on February 17, 2016 from Rourkela city area in Sundergarh
District of Odisha revealed that they and other lone wolf attackers
had learnt from al-Qaeda literature how to make bombs and trigger
blasts in the country. The four SIMI men who had escaped from
Tantya Bheel Jail in Khandwa District of Madhya Pradesh on October
1, 2013 have revealed during questioning by intelligence agencies
and MP ATS, that they had learnt how to make low intensity pressure
bombs out of al-Qaeda's bomb making literature.
It was revealed that the pipe borne explosives
were subsequently triggered with the help of timer device in
May 2014 in the Bengaluru-Guwahati Express train at Chennai
railway station. Similar explosive was used to trigger blast
in the Faraskhana Police Station premises at Pune in July 2014,
central intelligence and MP ATS sources stated on March 14.
A similar explosive blasted while being prepared
by the SIMI men at their hideout in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor,
resulting in severe burn injuries to one of them, Sheikh Mehboob
alias Guddu in September 2014. The four SIMI operatives,
including Sheikh Mehboob alias Guddu, Zaqir, Amjad and
Mohammad Saliq, who were arrested from their hideout in Odisha's
Rourkela District on February 17 are presently being grilled
by MP ATS and central intelligence agencies.
|
Non-violent |
5 |
March 19 |
Ujjain District
/ Madhya Pradesh |
Police seized a cache of explosives, including
detonators from a bag stashed in a hostel room in Ujjain District
of Madhya Pradesh, ringing alarm bells about a possible terror
strike at the Mahakumbh. The seizure comes exactly a month after
the arrests of runaway SIMI operatives who had enacted the daring
Khandwa jailbreak. Owner of the bag, Sajid Khan, had checked
into Room No. 212, Atishay Sheel Jain Hostel on March 18 after
showing his Aadhaar card at the counter. He left the room soon
after dumping his luggage and told the manager he was going
out for lunch.
|
Non-Violent |
6 |
June 19 |
Belgam |
Gujarat ATS arrested a suspected SIMI operative,
Nasir Rangrez, wanted in the July 26, 2008 serial bomb blasts
in Ahmedabad, from Khade Bazar Road of Belgam in Karnataka.
According to officials who arrested Rangrez, he was part of
larger conspiracy, hatched by terror outfits IM and SIMI, to
spread terror in Gujarat to avenge the killings of Muslims during
post-Godhra riots. "Before carrying out the blasts in the city,
Rangrez along with many other accused associated with SIMI and
IM recruited Muslim men to take revenge of riots and provided
them training at Pavagadh in Gujarat, Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh
and Waghamon in Kerala," official statement said.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
August 12 |
Khandwa
|
The Crime Branch of Odisha Police filed the
charge sheet against five SIMI activists arrested in February
at the Rourkela SDJM court in Sundergarh District. The four
SIMI militants and a woman, Najma (mother of Sheikh Mehmood,
one of the four) were arrested by the Police from a rented house
in Rourkela on February 16, 2016. All of them are residents
of Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh and were among the most-wanted
terrorists in the country. The NIA had announced an INR 10 lakh
reward on each of their heads.
|
Non-violent |
8 |
October 31 |
Bhopal
|
ATS of MP Police killed eight suspected SIMI
cadres in Bhopal. They were killed 10 kilometres away from a
prison in city outskirts. Two policemen were also injured in
the encounter which lasted for nearly an hour.
The slain militants were identified as - Mohammad
Aqeel Khilji alias Abdullah s/o Mohammad Yusuf, Mehboob
Guddu alias Malik s/o Ismail of Khandwa (MP), Mohammad
Khalid Ahmad s/o Mohammad Saleem of Sholapur Maharashtra, Mujeeb
Sheikh alias Akram alias Wasim alias Nawed
alias Nitin alias Faizan alias Chintoo
alias Yusuf s/o Zamal Ahmad resident of Juhapura (Ahmedabad)
Gujarat, Amzad s/o Ramzan Khan, Zakir Hussein Sheikh alias
Vicky don alias Vinay Kumar s/o Badalul Hussein and Abdul
Majid s/o Mohammad Yusuf of Ujjain (MP).
Theses militants had escaped from a prison
at the outskirts of Bhopal. "Eight SIMI activists had escaped
around 2-3am [October 31] by killing a jail security guard,"
DIG Bhopal Raman Singh had said. Their location was detected
near Manikheda area under Gunga police station following information
from local villagers. "When they were confronted by a few the
villagers, they started pelting stones. Villagers mistook them
as robbers and alerted the police. When they were asked to surrender,
they opened fire forcing police to retaliate," said Inspector
General Yogesh Chaudhary who was part of the operation. They
were carrying date and other food materials with them. Efforts
are being made to trace identity of those who supported them
in the jail break.
|
Violent |
9 |
October 31 |
Bhopal
|
Modus operandi of Bhopal prison break same as
2013 Khandwa jailbreak. The fugitives also used bed sheets as
ropes to scale the towering wall before escaping on two bikes
parked in the jail premises. They had also broken the bathroom
wall in their escape bid. Two Constables who confronted them
had suffered stab injuries. There was also a exchange of fire
by the security forces who tried to prevent the escape, but
it ended in vain. Banned in 2001, the SIMI has alleged links
with home-grown terror outfit IM and several of its top leaders
have been in jail.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
November 1 |
Bhopal
|
Of the eight SIMI militants killed by the Madhya
Pradesh Police in the outskirts of Bhopal, four -- Sheikh Mahboob
alias Guddu, Amjad Khan alias Dawood, Zakir Hussein
alias Sadiq and Mohammed Salik alias Sallu were
arrested by the Telangana Police in a joint operation in Rourkela
in Odisha in February, 2016. They were wanted in criminal cases
registered in Telangana. Along with the four SIMI activists,
Mahboob's mother Nazma Bi was also arrested by Telangana Counter
Intelligence sleuths and the Odisha Police in the joint operation.
After October 31 encounter in Madhya Pradesh, Telangana Police
officials confirmed that the four were also named as accused
in the April 2015 killing of a Constable and a home guard at
Suryapet town in Nalgonda District in Telangana.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
November 1 |
Bhopal
|
Underground members of the banned SIMI may use
the Bhopal encounter, in which eight suspected SIMI terrorists
were killed, to instigate Muslims against the central government
and Madhya Pradesh government. Intelligence agencies have warned
that SIMI may start its anti-national operations again with
fresh recruitment. Intelligence agencies are of the view that
the banned outfit would use Bhopal encounter to instigate Muslim
youth to carry out terror attacks.
|
Non-violent |
12 |
November 3 |
Madhya Pradesh
|
The Madhya Pradesh (MP) High Court rejected
bail plea of suspected SIMI cadre - Mohammad Sajid alias
Sheru for the third consecutive time. Sajid, a resident of Ujjain,
was arrested by MP ATS from Jabalpur in June 2011 along with
eight others, including Mehboob Guddu and Sheikh Mujeeb, who
were killed by Police On October 31 after jailbreak incident.
Charged with robbery in Piplia Mandi, Mandsaur District, Sheru
was arrested by MPATS in an operation called "Operation Vijay"
from a rented place in Ahmednagar Mohalla near Raja Chowk in
Jabalpur with other SIMI/IM cadres. His first bail application
was dismissed with direction to the trial court to conclude
the trial within 15 months after framing of charge within one
month. Second application was dismissed in view of earlier order
dated January 20, 2016.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
November 6 |
Bhopal
|
The Madhya Pradesh state government has ordered
a probe into the escape of eight SIMI terror accused from Bhopal
Central Jail, and senior Police officers in Madhya Pradesh have
admitted that the jailbreak was not the result of lax policing,
but an 'insider job', because of several discoveries that have
alarmed investigators. A senior police officer said that the
extent of insider help for the escape of the SIMI men was 'staggering'.
Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh also said that
it was "impossible to escape without inside collusion" and alleged
that the jailbreak was facilitated by "funding from outside".
|
Non-violent |
14 |
December 2 |
Bhopal
|
The eight suspected SIMI operatives who were
killed in an alleged encounter after their escape from Bhopal
Central Jail on October 31, dreamed of fighting for Islamic
State (IS), according to Police sources. This was disclosed
to the Police by nine other SIMI activists who are lodged in
the jail, said sources privy to the jailbreak investigations.
The escapees, especially AqeelKhilji, Amjad, Zakir and Mehboob,
harboured wish of joining the IS fighters in Syria, sources
said quoting the SIMI men. Despite knowing about the shrinking
IS base in Iraq and Syria, the eight were determined to go to
that country, police said. Police also claimed that the SIMI
men had often planned to flee India via Nepal with the help
of contacts in Uttar Pradesh and eastern India.
|
Non-violent |
15 |
December 18 |
Shahdol District
|
Madhya Pradesh Police neutralised a FICN racket
and arrested two persons for printing FICN in Shahdol District.
Copies of FICN worth INR 2,000 in new currency notes and printing
materials like printer and scanner were confiscated from the
counterfeiters. An inquiry has been launched into the matter.
|
Non-violent |
16 |
December 22 |
Chhatarpur District
|
Police arrested two persons, identified as Dharmendra
Singh (26) and Kamta Prashad (26) and recovered FICNs worth
of INR 2.92 lakh from Kanchanpur village of Bundelkhand region
in Chhatarpur District. The youth were circulating the notes
in the rural area of the region. After a tip-off, the Police
recovered 146 fake currency notes worth INR 2.92 lakh, said
SDO of Police, Luvkush Nagar, LS Mishra.
|
Non-violent |
2015
Sl. No.
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Date
|
Place
|
Incident
|
Nature |
1
|
January 26
|
Bhopal District
|
A man, identified as Zahoor
Khan was arrested, along with FICN worth INR 5,60,000 from Habibganj
railway station in Bhopal District of Madhya Pradesh. "Sehore-resident
Zahoor Khan brought the fake currency from Malda in West Bengal.
He had arrived in the Dakshin Express. He was dealing in counterfeit
currency for the past 7-8 years and is expected to have pumped
duplicate currency worth Rs 10 lakh so far," said ASP Shailendra
Singh Chouhan.
|
Non-violent |
2 |
February 6 |
Old Pandhurna in Chhindwara District
|
Maharashtra ATS along with the Madhya Pradesh
Police carried out raid at a house owned by Khusal Madankar
in old Pandhurna in Chhindwara District in Madhya Pradesh and
recovered huge amount of ammunition and explosive materials.
Police have recovered 1,768 electric detonators, 612 sticks
of Kelvex power 90 Class-2 explosive, 840 feet Detonating cord,
one exploder and other related equipments. Police registered
a case against two persons, identified as Mukesh Sankhla and
Rajmal Sankhla, both belong to Bhilwada District in Rajasthan.
The accused have been booked under the Indian Explosive Substance
Act-1908. Investigation of the crime is being done by Chhindwara
Police. ATS Nagpur unit is interrogating the accused for any
suspected link with anti-national elements, terror outfits or
Naxal elements.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
February 22 |
Hoshangabad District
|
The Delhi High Court has sought the response
of the Narendra Modi Government over a security breach in the
printing of currency at a mint in Hoshangabad District in Madhya
Pradesh. Acting on a PIL filed earlier this month, the court
has asked how lapses led to the printing of bank notes with
threads having Arabic inscriptions on them in 2012. The security
thread is one of the key distinguishing features in a bank note
to prevent counterfeiting. The PIL says the Security Printing
and Minting Corporation of India at Hoshangabad practically
printed fake notes.
|
Non-violent |
4 |
February 27 |
Bhopal railway station
|
Two persons, identified as Sujeet Singh and
Gausul Azim were arrested at Bhopal railway station in Madhya
Pradesh for possessing FICN worth INR 2.70 lakh, the Crime Branch
claimed. Both the accused are the residents of West Bengal.
D Sreenivasa Varma, DIG of Police, Bhopal zone, said following
a tip-off, two persons were detained from the railway station.
When Police searched their bags and baggage, fake currency worth
INR 2.70 lakh was recovered. "They were given money by one Mantu
Sekh, a resident of West Bengal, and asked to hand over to one
Zahoor Khan alias Pahalwan. Though, they were not aware that
Zahoor has been arrested by the crime branch," said Varma. The
accused were produced in the court and remanded to the Police
custody till March 3.
|
Non-violent |
5 |
April 15 |
Ratlam
|
Five persons from Madhya Pradesh, identified
as Imran Khan Muhammad Sharif, Wasim Khan, Mohammad Rizwan,
Anwar and Mazhar arrested from the town of Ratlam were part
of an IS-linked jihad cell planning strikes in India. Imran
Khan Muhammad Sharif, the leader of the five accused is alleged
to have been recruited online by an Indian jihadist he knew
as "Yusuf" - code, investigators say, for Karnataka-born Muhammad
Shafi Armar, a fugitive IM operative now leading group of Indians
fighting with the IS.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
April 29 |
Satna railway station
|
A joint team of CBI's Delhi and Jabalpur unit
arrested two persons, identified as Bablu and Rajeev Gupta from
Satna railway station in Madhya Pradesh and seized a superfine
quality of FICN with a face value of INR 1,049,000 from their
possession.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
May 6 |
Madhya Pradesh
|
The IS linked terror module (Madhya Pradesh)
was being persuaded by its Syria-based handlers to target BJP
and RSS leaders, apart from Police officers, outside Madhya
Pradesh. Sources in the intelligence agencies said the five-member
group had, on the instructions of one Yusuf-Al-Hindi, acquired
two pistols and learnt how to assemble IEDs from locally available
explosives.
|
Non-violent |
8 |
May 7 |
Madhya Pradesh
|
The UMHA has written to the Madhya Pradesh Government
proposing a probe by the NIA into the IS-linked module arrested
on April 15 in Ratlam. "We have asked Madhya Pradesh if it has
any objections to handing over the case to NIA, given its international
linkages. Once the state authorities give their clearance, a
formal notification transferring the case to the NIA will be
issued," a senior UMHA officer stated.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
May 14 |
Bhopal
|
A week after Bhopal Police arrested Waqar Khan
a 43-year-old man running a private security agency on May 9
with possession of wireless sets tuned to banned frequencies
of Army and police, Police seized around 70 more wireless sets
from him. He is on a Police remand till May 19. State ATS, military
intelligence and related agencies have joined investigations
following its international ramifications.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
June 11 |
Sehore |
Two SIMI cadres were awarded two years' rigorous
imprisonment for indulging in unlawful activities, in Sehore
(Madhya Pradesh). The sentence was awarded by Judicial Magistrate
Pravendra Kumar Singh to Abdul Karim and Rafiq Khan for having
indulged in unlawful activities in 2008, Assistant Public Prosecutor
Savita Salika said.They were arrested on April 6, 2008, while
distributing "objectionable" material against India. The Police
also recovered a diary which had names as well as addresses
of SIMI activists in different places of Madhya Pradesh: Indore,
Ujjain, Jabalpur, Mahidpur and Chachouda, besides pamphlets,
Salika said. The court also imposed a fine of INR 2,000 on each
of the two.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
October 30 |
Bhopal |
Chief of Madhya Pradesh unit of banned SIMI,
Abu Faisal alias Doctor, was pronounced guilty for the
murder of anti-terrorist squad constable Sitaram Yadav by a
special court in Bhopal. Sitaram Yadav, who tracked down the
SIMI terror network in the state, was shot on a highway in Khandwa
District by Faisal and his gang on November 29, 2009. Special
judge B S Bhadoria will state quantum of punishment on October
31. Another accused Mehtab was convicted under Arms Act in the
same case.
|
Non-violent |
12 |
October 31 |
Bhopal |
A special court at Bhopal awarded life imprisonment
to the 'chief' of Madhya Pradesh unit of SIMI, Abu Faisal alias
Doctor. Doctor was found guilty of murdering an ATS Constable
Sitaram Yadav in 2009. Besides murder, court also sentenced
him to life imprisonment under section 16A of UAPA. The SIMI
operative participated in the hearing through video conferencing.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
November 4 |
Madhya Pradesh
|
Madhya Pradesh Police sounded a high alert in
the State following intelligence input of possible terror strike
during the coming festive season. DGP Surendra Singh has ordered
all the SP for stepping up the security in their respective
Districts in the wake of the possible strike from terror groups
including the banned outfit, SIMI.
|
Non-violent |
14 |
November 25 |
Bhopal |
Police arrested one person, identified as Rahul
Shahi and seized nine FICN of INR 100 denomination from his
possession, in Bhopal.
|
Non-violent |
15 |
December 25 |
Neemrani village / Khargone District
|
Police arrested five persons along with FICN
with a face value of INR 5,800 at Neemrani village in Khargone
District of Madhya Pradesh. Those arrested have been identified
as Rajvinder Singh, Krishna Tilakraj Gupta, Shyanu Kishan Gupta,
Rahil Kishan Gupta and Lucky, all residents of Jammu (Jammu
and Kashmir). Another member of the gang, Aju Lalgarh, however,
managed to flee the spot along with a bag containing fake currency.
|
Non-violent |
2014
Sl. No.
|
Date
|
Place
|
Incident
|
Nature |
1
|
January 16
|
MP
|
Abu Faisal, the alleged
chief of IM Madhya Pradesh module and his gang were holed up in
a CPI-Maoist-infested forest in Odisha for more than a week after
escaping from a prison in Khandwa District.
|
Non-violent |
2 |
January 30 |
MP |
Three SIMI operatives
Safdar Nagori, Kamruddin and Mohamad Shafi were produced before
three different courts in connection with old cases in Ujjain
(Madhya Pradesh).
|
Non-violent |
3
|
February 3 |
MP |
A SIMI cadre, identified
as Juber, was arrested by The ATS from Nagori Mohalla in Mahidpur
area of Ujjain District. 200 detonators, gelatin rods and explosive
powder were recovered from his possession.
|
Non-violent |
4
|
February 4 |
MP |
Two persons, identified
as Irshad (19) and Zafar Pathan (19), were arrested along with
FICN with the face value of INR 16,500 from Afzalpur area of Mandsaur
District.
|
Non-violent |
5
|
February 5 |
MP |
A SIMI cadre, identified
as Irfan, was arrested by the ATS near Ujjain city of Ujjain District.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
April 27 |
Bhopal |
Madhya Pradesh ATS
arrested suspected SIMI activist, identified as Gulrez Mustafa
from Bhopal railway station.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
May 5 |
Bhopal |
SIMI activist Gulrez
Mustafa was produced in the court after his Police remand expired
and he has been sent to jail till May 13.
|
Non-violent |
8 |
May 12 |
Madhya Pradesh
|
ATS, in a charge-sheet
filed against 12 SIMI operatives, including its MP 'chief', Abu
Faisal before CJM Pankaj Maheshweri stated that MP Ujjain module
of SIMI led by Irfan Nagori had drawn an explosive jailbreak blueprint
to free their leader Safdar Nagori from Sabarmati Central Jail
in Ahmedabad.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
May 21 |
Madhya Pradesh |
Interrogation of
SIMI operatives by Madhya Pradesh ATS revealed that the organisation
wants to be the real face of home-grown terror, swearing allegiance
to Taliban and al Qaeda, looking beyond ISI patronage enjoyed
by IM.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
May 21 |
Madhya Pradesh |
SIMI Madhya Pradesh
'chief' Abu Faisal told the ATS that they had plans to take American
tourists hostage and use them as a bargaining chip to free Aafia
Siddiqui, convicted al Qaeda 'financer'.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
May 25 |
Madhya Pradesh
|
Haider Ali alias
Black Beauty, the alleged Patna blast accused wanted to build
a splinter group of the banned SIMI by inducting fringe elements,
who were on the run after Khandwa (Madhya Pradesh) jailbreak.
Jailbreak mastermind and state's SIMI ''chief'' Abu Faisal had
met Haider before his arrest in Barwani District on December 24,
2013.
|
Non-violent |
12 |
May 27 |
Madhya Pradesh
|
Intelligence agencies
have established a link between IM operatives who carried out
serial blasts at Patna in October 26, 2013, and the seven activists
of SIMI who had escaped from the Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh
on October 1, 2013. Sources said IM operative Haider Ali, during
interrogation, confessed that he used to receive money from Abu
Faisal who was the leader of SIMI in Khandwa. Of the seven SIMI
activists, three including Abu Faisal, were arrested again.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
May 30 |
Madhya Pradesh
|
IM operative Haider
Ali alias Black Beauty admitted that Abu Faizal alias
Doctor, the self-styled head of the Madhya Pradesh unit of SIMI
had funded the Bodh Gaya and Patna blasts last year. During the
sustained interrogation, Haider told the NIA team that it was
Faizal who was the brain behind the five bank robberies in MP,
including a Mallapuram heist in Khandwa in which Rs 1.25 crore
was looted in October last year. Haider's confession has helped
the investigating agency to establish the link between IM and
SIMI.
|
Non-violent |
14 |
June 6 |
Bhopal |
NIA which is investigating Patna blasts on October
27, 2013 suspects that money generated from a robbery at the Bhopal
branch of Muthoot Finance in August, 2010 was used in the terror
operation.
|
Non-violent |
15 |
June 8 |
Bhopal |
Madhya Pradesh Police arrested three people in
Bhopal and neutralised a fake lottery racket operated from Pakistan.
|
Non-violent |
16 |
June 9 |
Bhopal |
A special judge remanded two of three accused
in fake lottery case to Police custody till June 12, 2014. Those
remanded to CID custody were Vishnu Prajapati and Brijesh Patel.
Third accused in the case was sent to judicial remand till June
23, 2014.
|
Non-violent |
17 |
June |
Ujjain |
Police arrested one person, Deepak Gome from Tower
Chowk in Ujjain along with FICN with a face value of INR 9,300.
Gome told the Police that he had acquired FICN of INR 15,000 in
exchange for INR 5,000 from a person named Bunty of Jaora in Ratlam
District. Madhavnagar TI R K Singh said series OFB 846489, 3RC731187
and 4Ed527502 were printed on the recovered notes.
|
Non-violent |
18 |
July 10 |
Bhopal |
The Nagpur unit of Maharashtra ATS plan to take
custody of Abu Faisal, alias 'doctor', failed due to Bhopal
Jail's inability to provide security escort to the alleged culprit
whose name has been linked to several terrorist activities across
the country. The Bhopal Jail's warrant, stating their inability,
was produced before Judicial Magistrate first class DS Parwani.
Faisal had formed a sub-unit within cadres of banned SIMI called
'Maal-e-Ganimat' with an objective to raise fund for terror activities
by robbing non-believers.
|
Non-violent |
19 |
August 21 |
Indore |
Application of IM operatives, who had sought permission
to meet their family members on court premises during hearing
at Indore local court in Madhya Pradesh was rejected on security
grounds. IM operatives Mobin and Ameen, who were allegedly involved
in Ahmedabad serial blast that occurred in 2008, are currently
in Mumbai jail along with 17 other accused. They were produced
before third Additional Sessions Judge PK Sinha in Indore in connection
with cases of bank robberies in city.
|
Non-violent |
20 |
September 12 |
Jabalpur District |
Madhya Pradesh ATS arrested one person associated
with SIMI from Jabalpur District tracing incoming and outgoing
calls on one of the mobile phones left by Khandwa jailbreak (October
1, 2013) fugitives before they escaped from their hideout in Uttar
Pradesh's Bijnor District.
|
Non-violent |
21 |
October 6 |
Satna District
|
Police busted a gang involved in making FICNs
and seized 11,000 notes of INR 100 denomination after a raid at
a fake currency printing unit in Satna District of Madhya Pradesh.
Four people, identified as Sonu Pathak (20), Manoj Pandey (30),
Prasenjit Mishra (27), and Ashish Sharma have been arrested and
equipment used for printing notes was also detained from the premises.
|
Non-violent |
22 |
October 9 |
Chhindwara District
|
Madhya Pradesh Police arrested three persons,
identified as Babulal Sahu, and Parsuram Sahu of Harrai village
in Chhindwara District and Anupam Majumdar of West Bengal, from
Chhindwara District with FICN of INR 568,000. Police suspect it
as a module of an international syndicate allegedly involved in
pumping Pakistan-made superfine quality FICNs into remote tribal
areas of the state. Police have also come across more links of
the syndicate. DIG Chhindwara range, Umesh Joga said that "Chhindwara
now has the second highest circulation of FICNs because of tribal
population. We have dispatched our team to West Bengal for further
investigation."
|
Non-violent |
23 |
October 28 |
Khandawa |
The terrorists, who had escaped from the Jatana
area of Bijnor in UP after a low-intensity bomb blast on September
12, were also involved in a bank robbery in Telangana. Shaikh
Mehboob, Amjad Ramzan alias Dawood, Mohammad Aslam Ayub alias
Bilal and Zakir Hussain alias Siddiqui, owing allegiance to a
faction of the SIMI, had committed the bank robbery a few months
after running away from Khandawa jail in Madhya Pradesh on October
25, 2013. Sources in the UP ATS claimed that they had committed
bank robbery in Karimnagar to fund terrorist activities. It is
also believed that they also have links to the October 2 Bardhaman
blast in West Bengal.
|
Non-violent |
24 |
October 29 |
Chinwan |
The NIA, investigating the Bardhaman blast case,
will interrogate two persons arrested from Chinwan in Madhya Pradesh
along with huge amount of FICNs. NIA has found during the investigation
that the duo arrested by Madhya Pradesh Police allegedly made
several calls to Shakil Ahmed Gazi (who died in the Bardhaman
blast) six days before the blast. NIA officers believe the duo
might provide vital links in the case. The NIA also has information
that the duo was in touch with the six suspected SIMI activists
who fled from a jail at Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh and were allegedly
responsible for the Bijnor blast in UP.
|
Non-violent |
25 |
November 8 |
Satna District |
Five cadres of banned SIMI, who escaped during
the Khandwa jailbreak in October, 2013 are suspected to be involved
in the bank heist at Satna District of Madhya Pradesh. ATS team
has been dispatched to collect CCTV footage. Five masked robbers
had looted INR 15, 00,000 at gunpoint from Nadan branch of Madhyanchal
Rural Bank in Maihar Police Station. ATS officials said, the five
SIMI fugitives - Aizazuddin alias Aizaz, Mohammed Azizuddin
(Narsinghpur), Zakir Hussain alias Sadiq Badrul Hussain,
Mehboob alias Guddu Ismail Khan, Aslam Ayub Khan and Amzad
Ramzan Khan could be behind the Satna robbery.
|
Violent |
2013
Sl. No.
|
Date
|
Place
|
Incident
|
Nature |
1
|
January 29
|
14 Districts in Malwa region
|
FICN worth INR 510,650 was received by 14 branches
of the ICICI Bank, during the last three months.
|
Non-violent |
2 |
February 24 |
Rau Railway Station, Indore District
|
Police busted a manufacturing unit of FICN and
arrested five persons for making and spreading FICN.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
February 26 |
Tikamgarh, Tikamgarh District
|
Police arrested Swatantra Jain on charges of circulating
FICN.
|
Non-violent |
4 |
March 22 |
Haddigodam, Seoni District
|
ATS arrested five persons and seized cache ammunition
and some literatures from their possession. Police is probing
their link with leaders of banned outfit SIMI.
|
Non-violent |
5 |
May 3 |
Topkhana, Ujjain
District |
An alleged IM cadre, identified as Usman alias
Shahid Nagori and a prime suspect in the July 26, 2008 Ahmedabad
serial bomb blast case was arrested from Nagori Mohallah.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
May 23 |
Madhya Pradesh
|
The HDFC Bank reported to Indore Police about
FICN over INR 365,630 deposited in the bank's different branches
across Madhya Pradesh in first four months of 2013.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
September 27 |
Karond / Bhopal |
Three members of a gang were arrested by the Police
along with FICN with a face value of INR 165,000 from Karond area
of Bhopal city.
|
Non-violent |
8 |
October 1 |
Khandwa |
Six cadres of the SIMI and another under trial
escaped from Khandwa jail (Khandwa District).
|
Non-violent |
9 |
October 31 |
Khandwa
|
Khandwa District (Madhya Pradesh) Police issued
a lookout notice against the six SIMI operatives who escaped from
Khandwa District jail early on October 1.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
November 2 |
MP
|
MP CID has initiated a fresh investigation to
ascertain the culpability of passport authorities, especially
the then passport officer T.D. Sharma, pertaining to issuance
of a passport to Sameer Khan Pathan an alleged LeT) militant who
was killed by Gujarat Police on October 22, 2002.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
November 20 |
MP |
IB has issued a second alert warning that terrorists
could attack Narendra Modi. The IB said SIMI cadres and terrorists
associated with IM, including those who fled from Khandwa jail
in Madhya Pradesh (on October 1, 2013), may use an explosive laden
vehicle to attack Modi's convoy or rally.
|
Statement |
12 |
December 23 |
MP |
The MP Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested three activists
of the SIMI, including Mumbai based Abu Faisal alias 'Doctor'
who had escaped from Shahid Loknayak Tantya Bhil District Jail
in Khandwa District of MP with six others on October 2, 2013,
from a house in Barwani District of MP.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
December 25 |
MP |
Three SIMI cadres were arrested by Madhya Pradesh
Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). ATS chief and IG of Police Sanjiv
Sami said that interrogation revealed that all three were planning
attack on some important person and were also in touch with the
TTP, a militants group of Pakistan. These men were also in touch
with the accused in the case related to Patna bomb blasts (which
targeted a rally of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on October
27, 2013), Sami added.
|
Statement |
14 |
December 25 |
MP |
A SIMI cadre Abu Faisal alias 'Doctor', who was
arrested by Madhya Pradesh ATS from Barwani District on December
13, 2013, allegedly revealed about his plot to eliminate UMHA
Sushilkumar Shinde and BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate and Gujarat
CM Narendra Modi during interrogation by top officers.
|
Statement |
15 |
December 31 |
MP |
Madhya Pradesh ATS arrested four operatives of
SIMI from Ujjain.
|
Non-violent |
2012
-
December 17: The NIA arrested
Dhan Singh alias Baba Ram Lakad Das, accused in the
Malegaon blast of September 29, 2008, from Kamta village in
Satna District of Madhya Pradesh.
-
December 16: Hindu Right Wing
extremist Rajender Chaudhary was arrested in Ujjain (Ujjain
District) of Madhya Pradesh. NIA claim Rajender alias Samunder
alias Pehlwan along with one Amit planted bombs on the premises
of the Mecca Masjid (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh) on May 18,
2007.
-
December 10: The NIA said
Supreme Court that bail should not be granted to persons engaged
in circulating high value FICN as it amounted to an act of
terror intended to destabilize India's economy.
It said the network for smuggling
FICN was seized from Chengamanadum Nadakkavu and Kochi (in Kerala),
Bettiah and Raxaul (Bihar), Kolkata (West Bengal), Bhopal (Madhya
Pradesh) and Nawanshehr (Punjab).
-
November 22: Police arrested
two persons from Vijay Nagar area in Indore (Madhya Pradesh)
and recovered 26 FICN.
-
October 5: The Madhya Pradesh
ATS has shot off a letter to the TERM Cell, Bhopal, seeking
action against five telecom operators holding them responsible
for issuance of SIM cards to suspected terrorist.
-
July 2: FICNs with a face
value of INR 21,000 were seized by the Madhya Pradesh Police
from State Bank of India in Shahajpur.
-
June 30: MCOCA court allowed
Saquib Nachan, a key accused of Mulund blast case (March 13,
2003), to appear before a special tribunal in Delhi.
-
June 1: Police arrested a
key accused in connection with FICN racket from Ujjain along
Madhya Pradesh-Rajasthan border.
-
May 28: Madhya Pradesh ATS
has issued notices to five major telecom companies asking
"why they should not be charged under sections of Unlawful
Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for providing SIM cards to
the suspected terrorists without proper verification process.
-
May 17: The Madhya Pradesh
Police is searching for a truck that they suspect is loaded
with 20 tonnes of ammonium nitrate.
The District court in Bhopal
has framed charges against four alleged cadre of SIMI for indulging
in anti-national activities.
-
May 15: Ujjain Police arrested
Istaf involved in FICN case and brought him to Ujjain. Istaf
later revealed that the FICN are being supplied from Islamabad.
-
May 12: Ujjain Police busted
an inter-state racket dealing in FICNs having link to Pakistan
and arrested Mohsin and Akhlakh from Ujjain.
-
May 6: ATS arrested a SIMI
cadre, identified as Anwar Hussain (40), from Indore (Madhya
Pradesh).
-
April 28: A joint ATS team
comprising of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh Police arrested
a SIMI cadre, identified as Anwar Hazi (40), in Indore. Anwar
was a close associate of Abrar, who is in custody in Aurangabad
(Maharashtra),gfthe Police said.
-
April 27: A suspect, identified
as Mehmood Khan, was arrested for circulating FICNs of INR
1000 denomination in Satha Bazaar area of Indore. The matter
came to fore when he approached Bank of India branch in Satha
bazaar area to deposit some currency notes into his account,
Sarafa Police station in-charge B.S. Tomar told.
-
April 2: Three suspected activists
of SIMI, identified as Abu Faisal alias Doctor, local
module chief, Ejajuddin and Ikrar Sheikh alias Guddu,
were presented for identification by Bhopal Police at an Indore
Court in Madhya Pradesh in connection with their arrest in
2006 at hotel Vaadi in Chhoti Gwaltoli Police Station area.
NIA disclosed that Malwa region
of Madhya Pradesh, particularly Indore, is a major transit point
for converting FICN through labour contractors. Imran Manzoor
and Jenab Hasan of Kairana in Muzaffarnagar of Uttar Pradesh,
revealed this who were arrested by NIA near Chandini Chowk area
in New Delhi on March 28 and FICN worth INR 985,000 were recovered
from them.
2011
-
December 29: An ATS official
said that Habib's name had come to light in the interrogation
of another SIMI cadre, Abu Bashar of Azamgarh who was arrested
in August 2008 in Lucknow by Gujarat and UP ATS in connection
with the same case. Habib allegedly had played role in conducting
recce of places where the timer devices were planted in Ahmadabad
and also in triggering off the blasts. The official added
that Habib had studied at Islah madarsa (seminary)
near Sarai Mir where he came in contact with SIMI operatives
Abu Bashar, Abu Jafar and Anwar Azam, and then joined the
outfit. He also had attended training camps at Khandwa in
Madhya Pradesh and Ernakulum in Kerala between 2007 and 2008.
The camps were organised by SIMI president Safdar Nagori,
said the ATS official. Habib had been in regular contact with
top SIMI men, including Nagori, Kayamuddin Kapadia and Tauqir
before he played a role in the Ahmadabad serial blasts.
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August 29: Police busted a
racket of FICNs and arrested a man with FICNs worth about
.1 million INR of different denominations in Indore in Madhya
Pradesh.
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June 13: Police arrested 10
cadres of the banned SIMI from a house in Khandwa in Madhya
Pradesh.
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June 8: Eight militants who
were arrested on June 5 by the Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorist
Squad (ATS) had planned to attack judges involved in the Ayodhya
verdict. They were also behind the armed robbery that took
place at the gold finance company in Manappuram in the city
in August 2010.
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June 5: The Madhya Pradesh
ATS arrested eight suspected militants belonging to the Indian
Mujahideen (IM) and the banned outfit SIMI in Bhopal.
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March 30:
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, prime accused in the Malegaon
bomb blast case (September 29, 2008), was presented before
the judicial magistrate in Devas, Madhya Pradesh.
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January 19: The Indore Bench
of the Madhya Pradesh High Court directed the Central Bureau
of Investigation (CBI) to complete, within two months, the
probe in the case of missing witness, Dilip Patidar, in the
Malegaon blast incident (September 29, 2008).
2010
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December 31: Two suspected
militants, wanted in connection with some cases in Jammu and
Kashmir, were arrested in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. The arrestees,
identified as Shaukat Ahmed and Mehrajuddin Shergujri, hailed
from Bandipora District of Jammu and Kashmir.
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August 13: The Centre has
sought a report from the Madhya Pradesh Government on 600
tonnes of explosives reported missing while being transported
from Rajasthan. "It is a very serious matter. We have asked
the Madhya Pradesh government to send a report immediately,"
a Union Ministry of Home Affairs official said. 61 trucks
carrying the explosives were sent from Rajasthan Explosives
and Chemicals Limited at Dholpur to a trading company at Sagar,
Madhya Pradesh. The explosives were sent over four months,
from April to July 2010.
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June 24: An
alleged absconding Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)
cadre identified as Khalid Naeem was arrested by the Special
Task Force (STF) of Madhya Pradesh Police from Bhopal on.
The SIMI cadre was arrested from a house in Koh-e-fiza area,
an official release said. Various cases were registered against
Naeem in different Police Stations including Ujjain and Bhopal.
Since he was absconding in a case registered against him in
Ujjain, Police produced him in a court. During the absconding
period he spent some time in Raipur (Chhatishgarh) also, the
statement said. The court has remanded him in to judicial
custody.
2009
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November 28:
A motorcycle-borne youth suspected to be a SIMI cadre shot
dead three persons, including one ATS personnel, in the Teen
Pulia area of Khandwa District of Madhya Pradesh. The assailant
first shot at ATS constable Sitaram Batham in the Teen Pulia
area, city SP S. K. Nashine said.
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November 3: Four
cadres of the banned SIMI outfit were arrested near a graveyard
in the Madra Tekri locality of Jabalpur by
personnel of the Madhya Pradesh Police.
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October 30: Seven
persons were arrested from different parts of the Indore District
in Madhya Pradesh over the last seven days and booked under
section 188 of IPC on charges of providing shelter to five
SIMI cadres, Police said. Referring to the activities of SIMI
in the State, Director General of Police S. K. Rout told reporters
that so far Police have arrested 13 top SIMI leaders and 63
suspected cadres of the group.
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October 23: Security
of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan
has been beefed up in wake of a threat letter. Though the
letter (written in Hindi) bore no address, the sender’s name
was stated as LeT, said Inspector General A. K Soni adding
a team has been assigned to probe the matter.
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October 20: Five
SIMI cadres were arrested from Indore city in Madhya Pradesh.
Two of the arrested cadres, identified as Mohammad Shafiq
and Mohammad Yunus, belonged to Ujjain District, and were
wanted by the Police to stand trial for serial bomb blasts
in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) on July 26, 2008.
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August
31:
The
Madhya Pradesh Police arrested two Nepali nationals, identified
as Rajesh Gupta and Ateeq Ahmad, along with Fake Indian Currency
Notes (FICN). During interrogation, they revealed that Nepal's
former crown prince, Paras, son of King Gyanendra, and the
son of a former Nepalese forest minister, Salim Mian Ansari,
were the kingpins of the racket. Rajesh Gupta and Ateeq Ahmad
also stated that Paras was working with the Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's external intelligence agency,
and gangster Dawood Ibrahim, who is reportedly hiding in Karachi
in Pakistan. Yunus Ansari is also a business partner of Paras.
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May 28: The Madhya Pradesh
Police claimed to have arrested a terrorist who allegedly
planted a bomb in the Chennai Express train nine years ago.
"Ishaq Khan was arrested on a tip-off from Madhavganj in Morena
on Wednesday night. He planted a bomb in the Chennai Express
while it was passing through the District on May 20, 2000,"
the Morena District Police Superintendent Amrit Meena said,
adding, "Ishaq Khan was produced in a court today and remanded
to four days of Police custody." A probe revealed that the
bomb was wrapped in a newspaper published from Gwalior. On
that basis, the Chennai Police investigated in Gwalior and
Morena, but no arrest could be made then. The bomb had been
defused by the Police then, the report added.
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April 12: The Madhya Pradesh
Police arrested an Indian Mujahideen (IM) militant, identified
as Saif-ur-Rahman, from a Mumbai-bound train in Jabalpur.
Rehman was a resident of Azamgarh in the State of Uttar Pradesh
and reportedly planted bombs in Jaipur, capital of Rajasthan,
on May 13, 2008 and in Ahmedabad in Gujarat on July 26, 2008.
Rehman became an IM cadre after 2005 and was trained to plant
bombs and explosives after conducting a recce of potential
targets, said an officer. His modus operandi was to purchase
a bicycle, plant bombs on it and then posing as a student,
park it at a local railway station.
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February 9: A SIMI cadre,
identified as Amil Parvesh, a native of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh,
who was arrested by the Kerala Police from Indore in Madhya
Pradesh in connection with his suspected role in the training
camp of the outfit held in the Vagamon hills, was remanded
by the Kanjirapally First Class Magistrate Court in Kottayam
in Kerala to 15 days Police custody.
2008
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December 4: A Madhya Pradesh
court handed over an alleged terrorist, identified as Qayimuddin
alias Musa alias Rizwan, wanted in connection
with the July 26 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts, to the Anti-Terrorism
Squad of the Gujarat Police.
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November 10: The Gujrat Police
has said that the Madhya Pradesh Police have arrested the
main conspirators of the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts,
identified as Qayamuddin Kapadia, from an unspecified place
in Madhya Pradesh. Qayamuddin allegedly planted cycle bombs
in Ahmedabad and bombs in different parts of Surat and was
also responsible for the purchase of cycles on which the bombs
were planted and kept in different parts of the city, said
Joint Commissioner of Police of Ahmedabad, Ashish Bhatia.
He was also an expert in using explosives, and reportedly
present during various SIMI terror training camps in Waghamon
in Kerala and Halol near Vadodara and was instrumental in
training the participants.
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October 26: The Maharashtra
Police arrested one suspect from Bhopal, capital of Madhya
Pradesh, for his involvement in the September 29 bomb blast
in Malegaon and took him to Mumbai.
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October 23: The Maharashtra
Police arrested Shiv Narayan Gopal Singh Kalsanghra and Shyam
Bhawarlal Sahu from unspecified places in Madhya Pradesh for
their alleged involvement in the September 29 bomb blast in
Malegaon in Maharashtra.
An unidentified SIMI cadre
was arrested from the Nagda District in connection with the
July 26 serial blasts in Ahmedabad.
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August 17: Police in Indore
arrested a suspected SIMI activist in connection with the
serial blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26. The arrest followed
a tip off provided by the Gujarat Police. Nine persons arrested
by the Gujarat Police on August 16 for their alleged involvement
in the blasts had disclosed that the explosives used in the
blasts were sent from Madhya Pradesh.
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May 8: Three suspected SIMI
activists were arrested from the New Housing Board colony
area of Morena. Fake currency worth INR 80,000 and four mobile
phones were recovered from them. Police sources said that
one of the arrested Naajmia belongs to Kayamganj in Uttar
Pradesh, while the other two, Pappu alias Sudhir Jadaun
and Rajbir Gurjar, were from Morena.
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April 10: The Madhya Pradesh
Police arrested a SIMI cadre from Rishala area of Indore city.
The arrested cadre, identified as Hafiz Yusuf, has been an
active SIMI worker and played a significant role in collecting
funds for the outfit, police sources said. He was working
in a mobile shop in Indore.
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April 7: Six SIMI cadres were
arrested by the Madhya Pradesh Police. While five of them
were arrested from Guna, another suspected SIMI cadre, identified
as Naved Irfan, was arrested from Indore’s Muslim-dominated
Khajrana area for allegedly indulging in illegal activities
and aiding anti-national elements, a senior police officer
said. With these arrests, the total number of arrests of SIMI
cadres in the State, since March 27, has gone upto 35.
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April 5: Three SIMI activists
were arrested from Narsinghgarh town in Rajgarh District.
The Rajgarh Superintendent of Police D. K. Arya said that
SIMI cadres, identified as Irfan, Faizal and Shakir, were
arrested on charges of aiding anti-national elements and indulging
in illegal activities. An unspecified quantity of objectionable
material, video cassettes and CDs were recovered from the
house where the arrests occurred.
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April 4: Three persons, including
a woman, were arrested for allegedly renting their premises
to leaders of the banned SIMI in Indore and Khargone. A house
in the Shyam Nagar locality of Indore was rented to SIMI's
Andhra Pradesh unit chief Qamaruddin Nagori from where police
arrested top 13 leaders of the outfit on March 27. The house
rented to the SIMI by Gaffar Khan Bakerywale was registered
in the name of his daughter-in-law Shahnaz Bi. Police arrested
both Khan and Shahnaz for not providing information to the
police about giving their house on rent. Separately, in Khargone,
another person, identified as Shahzad Hussein, was arrested
for allegedly providing his farmhouse to the SIMI for running
training camps.
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April 2: The Madhya Pradesh
Police neutralised a training camp of the SIMI in Choral,
a popular holiday spot, 35-kilometres from the State capital
Bhopal. Police claimed that interrogation of the 13 arrested
SIMI cadres led to the information on the existence of the
camp. The Superintendent of Police Chanchal Shekhar said,
"We were told the camp trained SIMI activists from Jharkhand,
Kerala, Karnataka and a few other states. Each training camp
would train around 20 SIMI members. We have information of
five such camps in the past one-and-half years, which would
mean about a hundred SIMI activists trained in Choral." He
also said that the trainees were made to climb the surrounding
mountains and swim across the river daily. The police also
found evidence of a firing range and exploded bits of petrol
bombs.
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March 31: The Madhya Pradesh
Police arrested five SIMI cadres from an unspecified location.
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March 27: Thirteen leaders
of the SIMI, including the outfit’s General Secretary Safdar
Nagori, and his brother Kamruddin Nagori, were arrested following
several raids in Indore by the Madhya Pradesh Police. Police
described the arrested persons as active members of the outfit
hailing from Kerala, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra
and Madhya Pradesh. The arrested persons included SIMI’s Karnataka
unit chief Hafiz Hussain and Shibli, who is the mainstay of
the group’s operations in Kerala.
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January 20: Three persons,
including an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent from
Pakistan, were arrested by the Madhya Pradesh Special Task
Force (STF) from capital Bhopal for allegedly passing on sensitive
information about the Indian Army. "Mohammed Imran Warsi,
the ISI agent hailing from Karachi, was arrested in Bhopal
yesterday [January 20] with sensitive information regarding
deployment, unit details and important phone numbers of the
Indian Army," said Inspector General of Police (STF), Sanjeev
Singh. On information gathered from him, police arrested two
others — Iqbal and Akhtar—, who were acting as his local contacts
and supplying him sensitive information.
2007
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July 17: A suspected agent
of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI),
Pakistan external intelligence, was arrested in capital Bhopal
along with secret documents related to the Army, maps and
photographs of vital installations. During interrogation,
he revealed his identity as Mohammad Naeem, a resident of
Jhansi in the State of Uttar Pradesh, who worked as a fourth
grade employee of the Indian Railways.
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March 13: Two persons were
arrested in Indore for questioning in connection with the
February 19 explosions in the Samjhauta Express in the State
of Haryana. The duo, Huzefa and Pooran Thakur, were employees
of a shop in the Kothari market from where suitcases used
in the explosions were allegedly bought.
Source: Compiled from English language media
sources.
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