Terrorism-related incidents in Madhya Pradesh since 2007

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.
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.
June 13: Police arrested 10 cadres of the banned SIMI from a house in Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh.
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.
June 5: The Madhya Pradesh ATS arrested eight suspected militants belonging to the Indian Mujahideen (IM) and the banned outfit SIMI in Bhopal.
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.
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

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.
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.
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

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
March 31: The Madhya Pradesh Police arrested five SIMI cadres from an unspecified location.
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.
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

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.
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.