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Incidents and Statments involving SIMI:
2015
Date
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Place
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Incident
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Nature of incident
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January 2
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New Delhi
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Delhi Police Commissioner, BS
Bassi said, that 13 terrorists have been arrested by the Special
Cell since January 2014. Of these seven are from IM, three from
LeT and three from SIMI. The arrested IM operatives include
engineering students Mahruf, Waqar Azhar and Shaquib Ansari
of the outfit's Rajasthan module.
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Non-violent
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January 2 |
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The Madhya Pradesh ATS clarified
to their counterparts in Karnataka that CCTV footage of suspects
moving around Bengaluru blast (December 28, 2014) site does not
match with pictures of any of the SIMI operatives, who had escaped
from Khandwa jail. Karnataka Police had been suspecting role of
Al-Ummah and five SIMI fugitives in the bomb blast.
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Non-violent |
January 5 |
India |
IM 'India operations chief' Yasin Bhatkal was
questioned by NIA in December 28, 2014 Bangalore (Karnataka) blast
case. "Some IM suspects are in Yerawada Jail, Pune. NIA officials
visited the prison last week and questioned some of them. But
there's been no major breakthrough. NIA sleuths also cross-checked
visitors of these terror suspects in the past couple of months.
The details of phone calls made from the STD booth in the jail
are also being checked," the sources said.
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Non-violent |
January 6 |
Patna, Bihar |
The NIA special court framed charges against 11
accused, all suspected to be operatives of IM and SIMI, for the
serial blasts at PM (then Gujarat chief minister) Narendra Modi's
'Hunkar Rally' at Gandhi Maidan in Patna (Bihar) on October 27,
2013. NIA Special Judge Anil Kumar Singh also directed the prosecution
to produce witnesses from January 19 onwards. The 11 accused in
the case are Haider Ali, Numan Ansari, Taufiq Ansari, Mujibullah
Ansari, Umar Siddiqui, Azharuddin Qureshi, Iftekar Alam, Firoz
Alam, Ahmad Hussain, Fakhruddin and a juvenile. Charges including
for murder, criminal conspiracy have been framed against them
under Sections 109, 120B, 121, 171A, 302, 324, 326, 360, 441 and
468 of the IPC, UAPA, Explosives Substances Act, and various section
of Criminal Law Act.
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Non-violent |
January 8 |
Bengaluru, Karnataka |
In a joint operation, the CCB and Karnataka's
internal security division arrested three alleged IM operatives
in two separate incidents and seized a huge cache of bomb-making
material and communication devices. The arrests were made in Cox
Town of Bengaluru, and Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada District. Announcing
the arrests, Police Commissioner MN Reddi said so far no connection
has been established between the trio and the December 28 explosion
on Church Street. But, Police will investigate further. Reddi
said around 5 kilogram of ammonium nitrate, gelatin, electrical
circuits, detonators and a walkie-talkie have been seized. "Three
men, Syed Ismail Afaq, 34, Saddam Hussein, 35 and Abdus Subur,
24 have been arrested. The first two were arrested from the house
in Pulakeshinagar in east Bengaluru and the third person was arrested
from Bhatkal town. Abdus Subur, 24 was MBA student in Bhatkal
and we are yet to identify the background of the other two arrested
men," Reddi added.
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Non-violent |
January 9 |
Bengaluru, Karnataka |
Three IM operatives who were arrested along with
a cache of explosives and communication equipment were produced
before a court in Bangaluru city and remanded in Police custody
till January 21. The three operatives were arrested in a joint
operation by the CCB and state internal security division on January
8 in two simultaneous raids in Cox Town east Bengaluru city and
Bhatkal District.
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Non-violent |
January 10 |
Mangaluru, Karnataka |
Two days after the arrest of three alleged IM
operatives, along with a cache of explosives, the Bengaluru Police
arrested another suspected IM operative, identified as Riyaz Ahmed
Sayeedi (32), at the Mangalore International Airport (Mangaluru,
Karnataka), just before he was to board a Dubai-bound Jet Airways
flight. The arrest comes in the wake of the bomb blast on Church
Street in Bengaluru on December 28, 2014. Police suspect that
Sayeedi, a resident of Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada District could
also be involved in some of the blast cases in different parts
of the country.
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Non-violent |
January 12 |
Bengaluru, Karnataka
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According to the Police officials, four suspected
operatives of IM arrested recently were part of a terror module
that was used to procure, fabricate and deliver deadly explosives.
A top Police official said that the IM operatives transferred
money through Hawala channels for funding and at least
one of them attended meetings in a foreign country, where a conspiracy
was hatched to manufacture and deliver deadly explosives which
were probably used for blasts in different parts of the country.
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Non-violent |
January 12 |
Hyderabad
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One of the arrested IM operative, Syed Ismail
Afaque was the man who assembled and supplied two IEDs used in
the Dilsukhnagar bomb blasts in February 21, 2013 (Hyderabad).
Top sources confirmed that Afaque, during joint interrogation
by the Karnataka Police and the NIA, reportedly confessed that
he had designed the IEDs and supplied them to other accused who
planted them at Dilsukhnagar and executed the blasts.
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Non-violent |
January 12 |
Tamil Nadu
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Tamil Nadu Police questioned four suspected IM
members, who have been arrested on charges of supplying bomb-making
material to different parts of the country. The Tamil Nadu Police
are ascertaining whether the accused supplied explosives for the
bombs on the Bengaluru-Guwahati Superfast Express train in Chennai
Railway Station last year. The twin blasts had occurred on the
train on May 1, 2014 at the Chennai Central railway station, killing
a software engineer on the spot.
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Non-violent |
January 12 |
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
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A letter, purportedly written by banned terror
outfit SIMI, has threatened to blow up a marriage hall on Thana
railway road in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. According to a complaint
filed by the manager of Agrasen Bhavan, the letter was found on
January 1 at the gate and it threatened bombing at gate number
1 and 2, between February 6-10, as it is rented out to 'kafirs'
(non-Muslims), sources said. The letter, written in Hindi by someone
claiming to belong to SIMI, said the organisation had joined hands
with the LeT, and was bracing to launch attacks across India.
Police said that prima facie going by the language of the letter,
the letter appears to be a hoax, but the Police have nevertheless
taken the matter seriously and are investigations are on.
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Non-violent |
January 13 |
India
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According to sources, the four suspected IM operatives
arrested in Karnataka last week had planned synchronized blasts
in Delhi, Hyderabad and Bengaluru on January 26 as the US President
Barack Obama is visiting India as the chief guest at this year's
Republic Day ceremony in Delhi. Timed for 7.30 am, the blasts
were meant to cause massive loss of life and property. One of
the accused had been in constant touch with IM handlers on social
media, according to the source. The handlers, hailing from Saudi
Arabia, had discussed how to spread jihad across India
and had allegedly exchanged contact numbers of youth who wished
to join the terror outfit. In December, Syed Ismail Afaque, a
homeopathic doctor arrested in Bengaluru, had met a second rung
IM handler in Sharjah and allegedly discussed plans to carry out
the attacks on Republic Day.
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Non-violent |
January 13 |
Delhi
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The four suspected IM operatives may be grilled
in the presence of the outfit's southern commander Yasin Bhatkal,
currently in a Delhi jail. Sources in the NIA Delhi wing said
that "Yasin is a key person in many terror acts. We'll keep asking
these suspects questions to get the right picture of what happened."
This comes in the backdrop of reports that the four arrests were
made following disclosures by Yasin.
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Non-violent |
January 14 |
India
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The NIA in its report to the Home Ministry said
that a group of SIMI terror suspects who have been dodging intelligence
agencies since their escape from Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh
in October 2013 are believed to be involved in the Bengaluru Church
Street bombing on December 28, 2014. The report said that the
suspects, weeks before they struck at Bengaluru, had also planted
an explosive in Roorkee in Haridwar District of Uttarakhand on
December 6, 2014 to target BJP MLA Sangeet Som to allegedly take
revenge for the Muzaffarnagar riots. In its report, the NIA has
also pointed out that Shaikh Mehboob (25), Amjad (25), Mohammed
Aslam (26), Mohammed Aijajuddin (30) and Zakir Hussain (32) were
members of the banned SIMI and believed to be involved in the
Pune Ganesh temple blast in July 10, 2014 and the Guwahati-Bengaluru
express blast at Chennai in May 1, 2014. They had also attempt
to create an explosive in UP's Bijnore in September 12, 2014.
The NIA has based its assessment on the similarity in the explosives
and detonators analysed in context of intelligence inputs.
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Non-violent |
January 15 |
Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh
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A team of NIA reached Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh
to collect information about some absconding members of the banned
SIMI. According to reports, NIA team went to the Nizamabad Police
station to collect information about Abu Shad and Shah Alam, the
natives of Fariha village for some case lodged in 2007. The NIA
sources said that despite the ban imposed on SIMI in 2001 it conducted
membership campaign in Kerala in 2007. The intelligence agencies
had identified 38 such persons of the district out of whom some
are absconding. The NIA team wanted to go to the village, but
they were advised not to go there, as it may cause tension in
the locality.
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Non-violent |
January 16 |
Bengaluru, Karnataka
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Bengaluru Police detained a fifth person in connection
with its investigation into revived activities of the IM terror
outfit. The detained man was identified by sources as Abdullah
Shabandri, a resident of the coastal town of Bhatkal in Uttara
Kannada District of Karnataka, who has been working in Bengaluru.
Sources said he was an associate in the activities of four others
who were arrested by the Bengaluru Police last week. "He has only
been detained for questioning," Police sources said, clarifying
that no fresh arrest had been made.
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Non-violent |
January 18 |
Bhatkal, Karnataka
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Investigations have revealed that the four IM
operatives, arrested last week from Bhatkal in Karnataka, had
supplied explosives for all the bomb blasts carried out by the
outfit in the country since 2008. Report said that the group,
being called the 'explosives module' of IM, led by Saleem Ismael
Ashfaque, was not known to any agency till now as it took explosives
delivery orders directly from Riyaz Bhatkal in Pakistan. Sources
said Ashfaque, known very well to Riyaz Bhatkal, used to procure
ammonium nitrate used in stone quarries and mines in the Karnataka
region. He is also said to have travelled to Pakistan and Saudi
Arabia, said a source, adding that he must have met Riyaz Bhatkal
there. An officer said Ashfaque, is a close friend of Pakistan-based
Riyaz and used to take orders directly from him through phone
or Nimbuzz chats, before delivering it to the operational
modules run by Yasin Bhatkal. More than 70 IM members have been
arrested since 2008 but nobody ever revealed the identity of the
explosives supplier. The group is believed to have supplied ammonium
nitrate and other related articles to operational units for the
various attacks in the country since the 2008 Delhi blast.
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Non-violent |
January 19 |
Bengaluru, Karnataka
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Suspected operative of IM, Syed Ismail Afaq, the
homeopath arrested by the Bengaluru Police (Karnataka) on January
8, was trained by the ISI in Pakistan, a Police source said. Police
also said that indoctrinated by Riyaz and Yasin, known as the
Bhatkal brothers, Afaq held a high position in the IM's hierarchy.
"He was creating Indian Mujahideen modules. His terror connection
had become a family problem, and his brother had written to him
cautioning him against such activities," the source said.
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Non-violent |
January 19 |
Hyderabad, Telangana
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Hyderabad Police is on high alert following alert
from Britain and the Indo-UK Counter Terrorism Joint Working Group
about an ensuing ISIS strike. Security has been stepped up at
airports and major railway and bus stations. Since a five-member
gang of alleged SIMI activists had already struck at a bank in
Karimnagar, all the Districts Police has also been on alert in
Telangana. Senior Police officers said that special security checks
are conducted in various parts of the city and they will continue
till January 26. Report added that major establishments in Hyderabad
and Cyberabad are under close surveillance. A special wing of
the Police is keeping a close watch on Internet users in the city
to track down people getting attracted to ISIS and leaving for
Syria or Iraq to join the terror group.
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Non-violent |
January 19 |
Karnataka
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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and Home Minister K
J George assured a delegation of citizens from the coastal Karnataka
town of Bhatkal that the Bangalore Police had not framed any innocent
person from the town in a terrorism probe against the IM.
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Statement |
January 20 |
India
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Ahead of US President Barack Obama's visit to
India, security agencies are concerned that a 'Waqas-2' may be
on the prowl or waiting in the wings to enter India from Pakistan.
Waqas alias Zia-ur-Rehman, is a Pakistani bomb-maker who
executed several blasts in India on behalf of IM until his arrest
in Bangladesh in March 2014. The information was worked out on
the basis of interrogation and recoveries made from IM's explosives
suppliers arrested recently in Bengaluru. Report said the agencies
have learnt that the accused were instructed to keep explosives
and circuits ready and wait for instructions to hand them over
to a bomb-maker who would contact them in the coming days. This
person was being sent by IM co-founder Riyaz Bhatkal in Pakistan.
It is, however, not clear if this person had already entered India
by the time the accused were arrested or is yet to enter. It is
suspected that this person may be a fresh face from Pakistan or
one of the various IM operatives from India, such as Dr Shahnawaz,
Mirza Shadab Baig, Bada Sajid and others, hiding in Pakistan.
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Non-violent |
January 21 |
Bengaluru, Karnataka
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A Bengaluru city court extended the police custody
of four terror suspects arrested recently in Bengaluru and Bhatkal
(Karnataka) till February 3. They are suspected to be part of
a prominent explosives' module of the IM. DCP Crime (Bengaluru)
Abhishek Goyal in a tweet said that "Court has extended
the Police custody of Aafaaque, Abdus Saboor, Riyas Syeedi & Saddam
Hussain up to February 3, 2015 in IM Explosive Seizure case."
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Non-violent |
February 2 |
New Delhi
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PM Narendra Modi, his 7 RCR residence and the
Indian Parliament are under terror threat from Pakistan based
terror groups. Intelligence agencies have warned Delhi Police
that terror groups operating in Pakistan have planned for a major
terror attack on PM Narendra Modi, 7 RCR and on the Indian Parliament.
Apart from terror groups like LeT and JuD, IS has also started
spreading its wings in Pakistan. According to the intelligence
inputs, terrorists are planning to carry out terror strike during
the Budget Session of Parliament that will begin on February 23,
2015 and conclude on May 8, 2015. The terrorists have been trained
in PoK. According to the reports groups like IM and SIMI are using
the name of IS to attract youths. There are also inputs that they
were being trained along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, and
after training, send them back into India to spread terror," said
a top official in the security.
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Non-violent |
February 3 |
Bengaluru
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A special court in Bengaluru (Karnataka) extended
the Police custody of two persons, accused of supplying explosives
to the IM terror outfit, by two days. The main accused in the
explosives supply chain, Syed Ismail Afaque, a homeopathy doctor
from the coastal Karnataka town of Bhatkal and his cousin Abdul
Suboor were again remanded to Police custody by the court. Afaque
and Suboor were arrested by the Bangalore Central Crime Branch
Police on January 8 on the basis of intelligence inputs. Afaque
has been identified as the main supplier of explosive material
since 2010 to members of the IM for blasts in the country.
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Non-violent |
February 3 |
Karnataka
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Karnataka Home Minister K J George informed the
state assembly that 23 suspected terrorists have been arrested
in the state during the last two years in different terror related
cases. In a written reply to a question by a MLA, he said 18 of
them had been charge sheeted and investigation was going on against
five others. George said 14 suspected terrorists were arrested
in 2013 which includes one each with links to HuJI and LeT, and
twelve persons linked to Al Ummah. In 2014, five persons were
arrested, that includes three persons with links to Al Ummah,
and one each linked IM and ISIS. In 2015, till now four persons
had been arrested with links to IM, the reply said. George also
said that till now a total number of 29 cases are pending before
the court.
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Statement |
February 4 |
Karnataka
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Syed Ismail Afaaq, one of the terror suspects
accused of setting up a local module of the banned terror outfit,
the IM in Karnataka's Bhatkal District, reportedly agreed to become
an "approver" in the case. This will help the Police build a case
against all the accused, including the other four suspects arrested
in connection with the case. Though there is no official confirmation
from the Police regarding Afaaq offering to turn approver in the
case, sources in the Bengaluru police indicate that he had given
his consent to cooperate. Sources in the Bengaluru Police said:
"Afaaq has agreed to become an approver in the case by revealing
details of the IM module and all the sleeper cells in Karnataka.
He took this decision after meeting his family members in jail.
This will make our case stronger." He is expected to submit a
letter in this context to the court, which is hearing the matter.
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Non-violent |
February 6 |
Mumbai
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An alleged IM operative, identified as Ejaz Shaikh
was arrested in connection with a 2010 case (September 19, 2010
firing and blast outside the Jama Masjid in Delhi) related to
sending an email to a media house on behalf of the banned outfit
warning about terror strikes in New Delhi. Police said that Ejaz
Shaikh, who is in jail for his suspected role in the July 2011
Mumbai bomb blasts, was placed under arrest in the 2010 case by
Crime Branch. DCP (Mumbai) Dhananjay Kulkarni said the 30-year-old,
who once worked in a BPO and is considered tech savvy, was produced
before a court which remanded him in Crime Branch custody till
February 13. Crime Branch had registered a case on October 10,
2010 against unidentified persons for sending an email to UK-based
BBC news channel warning that IM would carry out terror strikes
in the national capital, Police said. Investigation suggested
that the mail was sent from South Mumbai and accordingly a FIR
was registered by Cyber Cell. Police zeroed in on Sheikh, who
allegedly sent the email using his mobile phone. Police also added
that Shaikh, a Pune resident, is the brother-in-law of top IM
functionary Mohsin Chaudhary.
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Non-violent |
February 10 |
Hyderabad |
The NIA named suspected IM operative Ajaz Shaikh
as 'accused number 6' in the Dilsukhnagar twin blasts (February
21, 2014) case, accusing him of financing the terror strike. Ajaz
was arrested by Delhi Police's Special Cell last September form
Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh. NIA sleuths filed a petition in the
Special Court for NIA cases in Nampally, a few days ago declaring
Ajaz Shaikh, a BPO executive from Pune (Maharashtra) and part
of an IM sleeper cell, as the sixth accused and charged him with
financing INR 6,80,000 for executing the blasts. NIA officials
sought the court's permission to get Ajaz, now in Tihar jail,
to Hyderabad on transit. The court directed the agency to produce
him by February 15. It is learnt that the prime accused in the
case, Riyaz Bhatkal, used to send money to Ajaz from Dubai and
Kuwait through foreign exchange and hawala (illegal money
transfer) route. After collecting the money, he used to send it
to different people on instructions from Riyaz through the hawala
route for funding terror strikes.
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Non-violent |
February 15 |
Hyderabad |
Suspected IM operative Ajaz Shaikh, who has been
named accused in the Dilsukhnagar blasts (February 21, 2014) case,
has not only been a hawala money organiser, but also the
one who arranged fake identity cards for others involved in the
twin blasts. The NIA is likely to bring Shaikh to Hyderabad and
produce him in a local court on February 16. The NIA had named
Shaikh as the sixth accused in the case. "Using various software
tools, Shaikh created fake IDs and supplied them to IM operatives
since 2010. With these fake documents, Asadullah had entered into
a rental agreement with a flat owner in Mangalore in November,
2012, and subsequently came to Hyderabad to execute the twin blasts,"
intelligence sources said.
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Non-violent |
February 20 |
Hyderabad |
According to NIA, IM terrorists had chosen Dilsukhnagar
(Hyderabad) to carry out the twin bomb blasts on February 21,
2013 because they concluded that the area consisted of a large
Hindu population and that most of its residents including students
were converging at public places in the evenings. This was the
conclusion of NIA officers after interrogating four of the six
accused, who are in custody in the twin blasts case. While IM
operative and accused number one Riyaz Bhatkal is said to be holed
up in Karachi in Pakistan, Asadullah Akhtar, Waqas, Tehseen Akhtar
and Yasin Bhatkal are in judicial custody in Cherlapalli jail
in Hyderabad. Aijaz Sheikh, a Pune resident, was named as the
sixth accused in the case by the NIA few weeks ago and is still
lodged in Delhi's Tihar jail after being arrested by Delhi Police
in another case. Till date, NIA has filed two chargesheets in
the twin blasts case.
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Non-violent |
February 27 |
Mumbai
|
Police filed a supplementary charge sheet against
accused Ejaz Sheikh in connection with the 13/7 Mumbai triple
blasts cases. Special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said that
"We filed a charge sheet against Sheikh in the special MCOCA court".
According to the Police, Sheikh was in direct contact with IM
founder Riyaz Bhatkal. IM 'India operations chief' Yasin Bhatkal
was the key conspirator of the blasts.
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Non-violent |
February 27 |
Bengaluru
|
The NIA special court remanded two IM operatives,
Umer Siddiqui and Haider Ali alias Black Beauty, in Police
custody till March 7, 2015 for their interrogation in connection
with the December 28, 2014 Church Street blast in Bengaluru. Sources
said the Police intend to get information from them about IM/SIMI
modules assigned to carry out blasts in South India. The special
court directed the Bengaluru Police not to question the accused
between 8 pm and 8 am. The court also directed the Police to produce
the accused on March 7. A senior Police officer said Siddiqui
and Ali will be flown back to Patna (Bihar) on March 10 for them
to be present before the NIA special court in Patna for the next
date of hearing on March 19.
|
Non-violent |
March 18 |
Mangaluru, Karnataka |
Maharasthra Police produced seven persons accused
of waging war against India for a court hearing in Mangaluru.
The accused produced were Sayyed Mohammed Noushad, Ahmed Bava
Aboobakkar, Mahammed Ali, Javed Ali, Mohammad Rafiq, Fakeer Ahammed
and Shabir Bhatkal. They were among 13 persons arrested from various
places along the coast in October 2008. According to the charge
sheet filed before the jurisdictional court, the accused during
a period from 2004 to 2008 with an intention to create acts of
terror across India and create animosity among people of various
religions and communities came together as part of a conspiracy
and planned to carry out bomb blasts in the country. Ahmed Bava
and Mohammed Noushad were arrested by the Mangaluru Police on
charges of giving shelter to Yasin Bhatkal and Riyaz Bhatkal,
Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives on August 3, 2008. However,
as Ahmed Bava and Mohammed Noushad are the key accused in giving
shelter to the terrorists, Mumbai Police had sought their custody.
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Non-violent |
March 18 |
Chhattisgarh |
Chhattisgarh Police said that SIMI had hatched
a plot to target PM Narendra Modi during his campaign trail in
Chhattisgarh in last Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament)
elections. "SIMI's key leader Umer Siddique along with his associate
Hyder Ali had hatched the conspiracy at the coaching centre run
by the former in Raipur to attack Mr Modi during his poll campaign
at Ambikapur in Sarguja District in November last year. The SIMI
operatives had conducted reconnaissance of the site where Mr Modi
was scheduled to address the election rally," Raipur range IGP
G.P.Singh stated. According to Singh, Umer had visited Pakistan
to get training on terrorist activities. He used to train gullible
Muslim youth at several places in Chhattisgarh by brainwashing
them. "Umer was also recruiting cadres for Al Qaeda," Mr Singh
added. According to Mr Singh, Umer was planning to send the Muslim
youth to Afghanistan to fight for al Qaeda after training them
in militancy.
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Statement |
March 21 |
NA |
Sources said intelligence agencies have confirmed
that there are at least two former IM operatives who joined IS
recently. "While one, Armar, is learnt to be dead now, another
is still there. They had both been holed up in Pakistan since
2008. Anwer, who died in Afghanistan last year, also belonged
to IM," said a security establishment officer. One Indian youth
is also learnt to have joined the outfit from Singapore.
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Non-violent |
March 23 |
India
|
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh
has written to the CMs of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh
to ensure an early breakthrough in investigations so as to bring
terror suspects to book. While the blasts referred to by Singh
took place in Chennai and Bengaluru in May and December 2014 respectively,
a prime suspect behind these blasts is a group of SIMI under trials
who escaped from Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa jail in October 2013.
The separate letters to the three CMs recall the unsolved terror
cases from the recent past, including the Khandwa jailbreak in
Madhya Pradesh, the Chennai railway station blast of May 1, 2014
as well as the December 28, 2014 blast at Bengaluru. While one
person was killed and 14 injured in the blast in a stationary
train at Chennai railway station, the Bengaluru blast claimed
one life and left three others injured. While offering all the
three CMs Central assistance in solving these terror cases, Singh
requested them to send him a line on the progress made by the
investigating agencies so far.
|
Non-violent |
March 25 |
Aluva / Ernakulam District /
Kerala
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A camp at Aluva in the Ernakulam
District of Kerala is under the scanner of the NIA which is currently
miffed with several State Governments for not doing enough in
the cases against the SIMI. Intelligence Bureau officials said
that the five SIMI operatives who have been on the run since October
2013 after they broke out from the Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh
attended a camp at Aluva in Kerala which was meant to discuss
terror related activities. The officials added that the SIMI is
regrouping and this meeting at Aluva was held only to discuss
the future course of action. With the NIA now on the hunt for
the SIMI fugitives who had escaped from jail over a year back,
Intelligence is trickling in which suggests that they had made
several visits to Aluva. A camp at Aluva which was aimed a regrouping
several members of the SIMI is being seen as a big development
by the security agencies. Reports said that these kinds of camps
are extremely dangerous and we have seen in the past as well how
the members regrouped and became extremely dangerous. Aluva has
been used in the past by members of the LeT too. The confessional
statement by Abdul Karim Tunda, a key LeT operative gives a clear
indication of how Aluva had been used a training ground by several
operatives. Tunda gave a perspective as to how these camps not
always train for combat, but to hold meetings for a large gathering
of people. It is aimed at changing the mindset of the people at
large so that they carry out anti India activities, Tunda had
also revealed. Intelligence Bureau officials said that these camps
have mushroomed on and off in various parts of Kerala. There are
preachers flown in from Saudi Arabia who give out sermons only
with an intention of radicalizing the youth.
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Non-violent |
March 26 |
Delhi
|
A Delhi court acquitted Shahid
Badr Falahi, the former chief of the banned terrorist group SIMI,
in connection with a 2001 case in which he was facing charges
of promoting enmity between different groups. Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate Sanjay Khangwal passed the acquittal order. Shahid’s
counsel H A Siddique said that his client was facing trial for
allegedly posting three stickers on the wall of Jamia Millia Islamia
University, New Delhi which allegedly contained provocative content.
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Non-violent |
March 26 |
Bangalore
|
The SIC in Bangalore (Karnataka)
was left flabbergasted after a suspected IM terrorist named in
several cases, including the 2008 Delhi serial blasts, was brought
in as an RTI applicant. Terror suspect Akbar Ismail Choudhary,
who is currently lodged in Arthur Road jail (Mumbai Central Prison),
was escorted by Mumbai Police to Bangalore in a train to answer
a summons from the SIC. Choudhary had filed an RTI application
in May 2014 seeking to know the status of the case registered
with Ullal Police station in Karnataka in 2008.
|
Non-violent |
March 26 |
India
|
Almost three months after the
Bengaluru Police busted the 'explosives module' of IM, agencies
have found strong evidence of involvement of Islamic fundamentalist
group PFI in 2011 Mumbai bombings, 2012 Pune blasts and 2013 Hyderabad
Dilsukhnagar twin bomb blasts. While it is already known that
IM's Riyaz Bhatkal, Yasin Bhatkal, Tehsin Akhtar, Assadulah Akhtar
and Waqas planned these bombings, the responsibility of procuring
explosives was given to PFI. SIMI member, Syed Ismail Afaque Lanka,
arrested in January 2015 by Bengaluru Police, has disclosed that
he had sent PFI members to buy material- ammonium nitrate, gelatin
sticks, non-electrical detonators, capacitors etc - which was
used by IM members to assemble the deadly bombs that took many
lives. Other than these three consignments, Afaque had also procured
a huge consignment of explosives last year which he claimed was
meant to carry out serial attacks on the anniversary of 9/11 (September
11, 2001 terrorist attack in United States) or 26/11 (November
26, 2008 Mumbai terror attack). Afaque disclosed that these explosives
were easily available in coastal Karnataka and used in mining
or fishing purposes. The intelligence agencies and NIA thoroughly
grilled him for past two months over his association with IM,
SIMI and other outfits. He admitted having visited Pakistan several
times and meeting IM's Afeef Hasan, Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal. Associated
with SIMI for a long time, the 36-year-old homeopath had also
attended several meetings of SIMI and IM in the past in Dubai
and Pakistan.
|
Non-violent |
March 26 |
Ernakulam District, Kerala
|
The examination of prosecution
witnesses in the August 15, 2006, Panayikulam (Ernakulam District,
Kerala) SIMI camp case was completed at the NIA Court in Kochi.
The court would begin procedures under Section 313 of the CrPC
on April 18, 2015. NIA Court Judge K M Balachandran examined 50
witnesses, 230 documents and 10 material objects in the first
phase of the trial. The accused persons in the case are P A Shaduly
alias Harris, Abdul Rasik, Ansar alias Ansar Nadim,
Nizamudeen alias Nizamon, Shammi alias Shammer,
Shammer, Abdul Hakeem, Nizar, Mahayudheenkutty alias Taha,
Muhammad Nisar, Ashkar, Nissar alias Muhammed Nissar, Salih,
Hasim, Riyas, Muhammad Naizam, and Nisar. Binanipuram Sub Inspector
K N Rajesh had received information on August 15, 2006, about
a secret meeting of SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India)
at an auditorium at Panayikulam. On visiting the spot, he found
that there were 17 persons in the room and some of them were making
inflammatory speeches. Seditious books and pamphlets were also
seized from the spot where the meeting was being organised. Later
on, Lhari Dorgee Latoo, Superintendent of Police, NIA, filed the
chargesheet against a total of 17 persons in the case in 2010.
|
Non-violent |
March 27 |
India
|
The Mumbai ATS obtained custody
of two suspected IM operatives, identified as Ismail Afaque and
Sadddam Hussein who are alleged to have supplied explosives for
the July 13, 2011 blasts in Mumbai. A special court in
Bangalore (Karnataka) handed over custody after the Mumbai ATS
filed an application stating that the agency would like to question
the duo. The ATS stated that Afaque and Hussein would also
need to be investigated with regard to their role in the August
1, 2012, Junglee Maharaj Road blasts in Pune (Maharashtra).
|
Non-violent |
March 27 |
Bangalore
|
Three months after the December
28, 2014 Church Street blast of Bangalore (Karnataka) and days
after UHM Rajnath Singh wrote to the CM on the slow pace of investigation
into the case, the City Police are still hoping for a breakthrough.
“With no material evidence from the blast scene, it is a blind
case where the investigation is based on theories, elimination
and intelligence inputs,” a Police officer said. The City Police
are still toying with two theories — the involvement of either
the SIMI module that escaped from a Madhya Pradesh jail in 2013
or the Patna module of the IM. They are unable to eliminate either
of the theories.
|
Non-violent |
March 27 |
India
|
UHM Rajnath Singh’s letter indicated
that the still-at-large SIMI module had turned out to be a major
national security threat. The last known location of the module
was Hospet in Bellary District. The module has reportedly abstained
from using mobile phones, making it difficult for the police to
track its members down.
|
Non-violent |
March 30 |
Maharashtra |
Maharashtra ATS took custody of two alleged associates
of IM 'India operations chief' Yasin Bhatkal in connection with
the July 13, 2011 (13/7) Mumbai (Maharashtra) blast from Bangalore
Police. Sayyed Ismail Afaq Lanka and Saddam Hussain Fairoz Khan
are suspected to have provided explosive materials to Yasin to
carry out blasts across the country. According to ATS, Bangalore
Police had on January 8, 2015 arrested Lanka and Khan with explosives
and booked them under UAPA and Explosives Substances Act. "Our
team went and questioned the two. During questioning it emerged
Lanka and Khan had supplied explosives to Yasin Bhatkal and Asadullah
Haddi, another accused in the case, too to execute the blasts
in Mumbai," said an ATS officer.
|
Non-violent |
March 31 |
India |
The NIA is all set to coordinate between the Police
of Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka to
launch a manhunt for the five SIMI operatives who have gone missing
ever since they broke out of the Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh
in October 2013. As per the information available the SIMI operatives
are moving in one batch of four. One of the members was injured
while preparing a bomb at Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh last year and
he has been out of the picture.
|
Non-violent |
April 1 |
Nalgonda District/ Telangana |
Two cadres of the SIMI, Aijazuddeen and Aslam
had opened fire on a Police team at the Suryapet bus station in
Nalgonda, resulting in the death of two Security Force personnel,
identified as constable Lingaiah and home guard Mahesh. They injured
an inspector, a constable and a local politician going in a car
nearby. They fled with the carbine belonging to the police and
were on the run ever since.
|
Violent |
April 1 |
Patna, Bihar |
Based on preliminary investigation, NIA has concluded
that the three bombs, one of which exploded, found in a Patna
(Bihar) house on March 30 belonging to one Kundan Kumar were meant
for terror attacks. Curiously, the bombs had the same timer, Lotus
brand analogue clocks, as used in 2013 Patna and Bodh Gaya blasts.
According to NIA charge-sheets in the cases, the two blasts were
executed by members of SIMI. "Even the circuit is similar. But
containers are different. Instead of pipes (as in Patna blasts),
they have used milk cans. This, however, is no indicator of which
group is behind this blast. Various groups make similar kinds
of circuit and Lotus clocks are locally available timers," said
the officer. Central agency sources, however, refused to indicate
whether jihadi or saffron groups could be involved in the
blast.
|
Non-violent |
April 2 |
Patna, Bihar |
Bihar Police's ATS has sought the CCTV footage
of all the wards of Beur Central Jail and Phulwari sharif camp
jail to study whether Kundan, a suspect in the blast in a Bahadurpur
colony flat in Patna on March 30, hobnobbed with those jailed
in connection with the Patna and Bodh Gaya blasts. Sources said
terrorists owing allegiance to IM, which allegedly triggered blasts
in Patna's Gandhi Maidan and Bodh Gaya in 2013, are lodged in
the Phulwarisharif jail. They are also shuffled to the Beur jail.
The shifting is done in a secretive manner. Though the ATS is
waiting for forensic report of the bombs seized from the spot
at Bahadurpur, intelligence officials, who were also associated
with investigations into Patna blasts, said the chemical composition
of the Bahadurpur bombs and the timer device used in them were
the same as those in the bombs exploded in Gandhi Maidan.
|
Non-violent |
April 4 |
Nalgonda District/ Telangana |
Two cadres of the SIMI and a Policeman were killed
and two others injured in an encounter with the Police near Janakipuram
in Nalgonda District of Telangana. Telangana DGP Anurag Sharma
stated that the slain duo were identified as Mohammed Aijazuddeen,
a native of Kareli in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh
(MP) and Mohammed Aslam alias Bilal, who hailed from Ganesh
Talai in the Khandwa District of MP. In the exchange of fire a
Police constable, Naga Raju, died on the spot. A Police inspector,
Bala Gangi Reddy, and a Sub Inspector, Siddaiah, received critical
injuries. All States were asked to look for the five SIMI members
- Mohammad Eijazudden, Mohammad Aslam, Amjad Khan, Zakir Hussain
Sadiq and Mehboob Guddu, by the UMHA.
|
Violent |
April 5 |
Nalgonda District/ Telangana |
Khandwa (Madhya Pradesh) jailbreak fugitives and
SIMI cadres, Mohammad Ejazuddin and Mohammad Aslam, who were shot
in an encounter in Nalagonda District of Telangana on April 4,
had plans to kill PM Narendra Modi and a plot to bomb the Sabarmati
Jail in Gujarat to free their 'chief', Safdar Nagori, according
to reports. They had made attempts to link with al Qaeda to free
9/11 accused and scientist Aafia Siddiqui from FBI custody in
the US. Telangana DGP, Anurag Sharma stated, "Aijajuddeen and
Aslam have been the active members of SIMI in Madhya Pradesh and
were involved in acts of terror in India". They had also formed
a separate wing called 'Maal-e-Ganeemat' within SIMI to fund their
terror activities. Interrogation report of SIMI cadre Ejazuddin,
Aslam and Abu Faisal shows they wanted 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 |
April 6 |
Telangana |
Investigations by the NIA into the killing of
two SIMI cadres in Nalgonda District of Telangana indicate that
the terror module was planning a strike in Delhi. NIA sleuths
are pursuing leads that show that the terror module was using
Hyderabad and Vijayawada for logistics while planning a strike
in the national capital. An unnamed senior intelligence official
of the Andhra Pradesh Police said, "There is a strong Delhi link
emerging. According to the NIA, the SIMI operatives were planning
to strike in Delhi or its surroundings." He said that apart from
the Delhi-Hyderabad train ticket recovered from the suspects,
the NIA had "specific inputs" pointing to a plot to strike in
the capital. It is suspected that Hyderabad, Nalgonda and Vijayawada
have SIMI supporters. The official revealed that Nalgonda District
has around 45 identified sympathisers of SIMI and other terror
organisations.
|
Non-violent |
April 6 |
Telangana |
Telangana DGP Anurag Sharma said, "The two SIMI
operatives, Mohammad Aijajuddeen and Mohammad Aslam alias
Bilal, who were killed in Police encounter in Nalgonda District
April 4, were suspected to be involved in Bangalore-Guwahati Express
blast at Chennai Central railway station". He said the counter
terror units of various states and national probe agencies were
in Nalgonda to probe the case.
The duo, along with their accomplices, were involved
in a series of crimes across various states since 2009. In 2009,
they killed Pramod Tiwari, a BJP leader of Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh.
They were arrested in 2011. After their escape from jail, they
robbed Jharsiguda Gramina bank in Odisha in December 2013, SBI
Choppadandy branch in Karim Nagar in Telangana and escaped with
INR 46,00,000 in February 2014, was responsible for the bomb blast
in front of Faraskhana Police Station in Pune (Maharashtra) in
July 2014, another bomb blast at Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh in October
2014, robbed Mini-Muthoot office in Medak District in Telangana
and escaped with 3.2 kilogram gold in October 2014 and robbed
a branch of HDFC Bank in Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) in February 2015.
|
Statement |
April 7 |
Nalgonda / Telangana |
Five suspected SIMI terrorists were killed in
an encounter in Nalgonda District of Telangana while they were
trying to escape from Police custody. The dead terrorists have
been identified as Vikaruddin Ahmed. Syed Amjad, M Hanif, M Zakir
and Azhar Khan. All the five terrorists were being taken to a
court in Hyderabad from Warangal when they attacked the police
officials escorting them. According to Police officials, the terrorists
also tried to snatch the weapons and escape after which the SF
personnel opened fire killing all of them. The incident took place
on the highway from Warangal to Hyderabad. Telangana Police said
all five terrorists had ISI connections and were working for SIMI.
The state has been put on high alert after the news of suspected
terrorists moving around in the state.
|
Violent |
April 7 |
Nalgonda/ Telangana |
A Police Sub-Inspector, identified as D Siddaiah
who was critically injured in exchange of fire with SIMI cadres
in Nalgonda District (Telangana) on April 4 succumbed to his injuries.
Siddaiah, had suffered four bullet injuries in the incident and
was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Hyderabad.
|
Violent |
April 7 |
Mumbai/Maharashtra |
A court in Mumbai (Maharashtra) discharged Ejaz
Shaikh (28), a suspected IM operative, in a case of sending terror
email after the 2010 Varanasi bomb blast. "During the investigation,
the Police did not find evidence against Shaikh and hence we filed
an application under Section 169 of the Code of Criminal Procedure
requesting the court to discharge him from the case," confirmed
a senior ATS officer.
|
Non-violent |
April 9 |
Bolangir District/ Odisha |
A Police team from Telangana returned after spending
three days in Bolangir District in Odisha looking for suspected
'Odisha links' of banned terrorist outfit SIMI. Bolangir SP Deepak
Kumar said "They were essentially looking for any local linkages
with the SIMI. Nothing concrete has emerged in the investigation
so far, but investigation is on." "Security measures have been
stepped up in the district on the basis of the investigation by
the Telangana Police," he added.
|
Non-violent |
April 10 |
Juhapura / Ahmedabad District
/ Gujarat |
Gujarat ATS has found signs of banned SIMI regrouping
in Ahmedabad. Alerted by some suspicious movements, its sleuths
raided a house in Juhapura in Ahmedabad District in search of
Yasin Patel alias Falahi, a key SIMI operative. Falahi
could not be arrested, but Police have confirmed information that
he was present in the city on March 28, 2015 and met former SIMI
cadre.
|
Non-violent |
April 16 |
Tamil Nadu |
According to NIA, the SIMI has been on revival
mode was planning setting up of cells in the states of South India.
They were constantly moving around the border areas as they found
it easier to escape between states, an NIA official said. It has
also been found that SIMI operatives after carrying out the Chennai
train blast had moved into the border area of Tamil Nadu and Andhra
Pradesh. Investigations by the NIA have revealed that these operatives
had taken shelter in a place called Tada which is along the AP-Tamil
Nadu border.
|
Non-violent |
April 18 |
India |
The encounter of two SIMI operatives on April
4 in Telangana has led to a threat to the lives of Police officers
as Pakistan based outfits now plan to attack Police and carry
out serial explosions to avenge the deaths of the terrorists.
Central intelligence agencies have intercepted phone calls from
Pakistan in which leaders of terror outfits LeT and IM are heard
'vowing' to avenge the encounter killing of Aijajuddeen and Mohammad
Aslam by Telangana Police.
|
Non-violent |
April 22 |
India
|
Government has decided that NIA will probe the
blast at a VHP rally in Roorkee (Uttarakhand) on December 6, 2014
and explosion at a house in Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh) on December
14, 2014 as SIMI operatives were suspected to be involved in both
the incidents. The UMHA received the requests of the governments
of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh to hand over the two cases to
NIA and a formal order is being issued in this regard, official
sources said.
|
Non-violent |
April 22 |
India
|
UMHA suspects the SIMI members' involvement in
a series of incidents in different parts of the country, including
blasts at the Chennai railway station in May 2014, the explosion
in Bijnor and the blast in Roorkee. It is also being suspected
that the same module had carried out the blast at Bengaluru in
2014 that had left a woman dead. NIA wants all these cases shifted
to the agency. UHM Rajnath Singh had written letters to the chief
ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka last month asking them to
speed up investigations into the respective terror cases in their
states.
|
Non-violent |
April 27 |
Delhi
|
The bail plea of a suspected IM operative, Mohammad
Mansoor Asgar Peerbhoy facing trial in the September 13, 2008
Delhi serial blasts case, has been rejected by a Delhi court which
said evidence placed on record revealed that a prima facie
case was made out against him. Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh
Singh dismissed the bail plea of Peerbhoy, who was alleged to
have been involved in the conspiracy which led to serial blasts
and had purportedly sent e-mails to media houses before the explosions.
The serial blasts claimed 26 lives and 135 people were injured.
|
Non-violent |
April 27 |
Telangana
|
In the wake of SIMI threat of retaliatory strikes,
Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao's security has been increased
significantly. During the TRS public meeting at Parade Grounds
in Secunderabad, besides providing unprecedented security to the
CM, some Policemen, posted at entry/exit points, were given photographs,
reportedly of missing SIMI operatives and wanted Maoists, and
tasked to keep tabs on persons entering the meeting. Already,
the state Police were warned by central intelligence agencies
about possible retaliatory attacks either by SIMI or IM sympathisers.
Incidentally,
|
Non-violent |
May 5 |
Bijnor,
|
NIA officials reached Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh
to probe the blast that occurred on September 12, 2014 at a bomb-making
facility. The blast occurred by accident, exposing the unit to
authorities. The men behind it are suspected to be six SIMI terrorists
who had escaped from Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh in 2013. All
six have still not been traced.
|
Non-violent |
May 7 |
Bahraich / Uttar Pradesh
|
A LeT operative Irfan Ahmed alias Papu,
who had sneaked into Uttar Pradesh from Nepal in disguise of an
earthquake victim, was arrested by intelligence agencies and a
team from Special Cell of the Delhi Police from Bahraich. Irfan
is also alleged to be the head of IM Nepal branch, according to
reports. DGP UP A K Jain said Irfan was wanted in connection with
the Rajdhani Express blast in Kanpur in 1993. "He was released
on parole in 2004 after which he initially fled to Kolkata and
then took refuge in Bhairwa area near Kathmandu in Nepal...He
was arrested in Nepal on a tip-off of the Indian intelligence
agencies and was lodged at Palpa jail. But the prison building
collapsed in the recent earthquake after which he fled Nepal,"
Jain said.
|
Non-violent |
May 17 |
Bengaluru /Karnataka |
The NIA is likely to take over the probe into
December 28, 2014 IED blast at a busy road in Bengaluru (Karnataka)
in which a woman was killed and another two injured. Report said
that the Centre may issue a notification to this effect soon asking
the NIA to carry out the probe into the incident in which suspected
militants had wrapped the IED in a plastic bag and placed it in
a bushy plant near a restaurant in the city. Initial leads suggested
the role of banned SIMI behind the attack and NIA had provided
all assistance to the state Police during the probe. However,
after the blast, Karnataka Police had claimed that it had busted
a terror module of banned IM and their role in the Bengaluru blast
was being probed.
|
Non-violent |
June 11 |
Sehore / Madhya Pradesh |
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 |
June 11 |
Maharashtra |
Maharashtra ATS has announced a INR 1 million
reward for information on three alleged SIMI operatives from Khandwa,
Madhya Pradesh module, identified as Meboob alias Guddu Ismail
Khan, Amjad Ramjan Khan and Zakir Hussian Sadiq alias Vicky Don
alias Vinay Kumar. These men are suspected to be involved in the
Faraskhana Police Station blast in Pune (Maharashtra) in July
2014, which left four people injured. Sources said the Maharashtra
ATS wants to catch these men soon, as they are believed to have
set up several bases in parts of the state in 2012. The men specialise
in robbing banks and using the money for jihadi activities, Police
sources said. Some of the members of the group had been trained
in Kerala in 2006 and the group has close links with Abdus Qureshi
alias Tauqeer of the IM. In the past, several members of IM were
sheltered by the SIMI module. Incidentally, Pune was the centre
for SIMI in the past, and more recently, it has been one of the
main bases of the IM too.
|
Non-violent |
June 25 |
Maharashtra
|
The Maharashtra ATS filed its supplementary charge
sheet against alleged IM operative Syed Ismail Afaq (34) and Saddam
Hussein (35), who are suspected to have provided explosives that
were used in the 13/7 Mumbai (Maharashtra) blasts.
The charge sheet details the meeting between the
IM 'India operations chief' Yasin Bhatkal and Assadullah Akhtar
alias Haddi, who allegedly travelled to Bhatkal (in Karnataka),
three months prior to the blasts, to procure the explosives from
the duo. The duo has allegedly confessed to the Bengaluru Police
that they procured the explosives from quarries in Karnataka.
They managed to get the explosives through an illegal channel
and handed the consignment over to Yasin Bhatkal and Assadullah
Akhtar, officials told.
|
Non-violent |
June 25 |
Karnataka
|
Illegal quarries have become the source of explosives
for terrorist groups. A few illegal quarries in Karnataka have
come under the scanner following a confession of IM operatives
who have told the Police that they would easily procure explosives
from such units. Prior to the carrying out the Chinnaswamy stadium
blast (April 17, 2010) and the 13/7 Mumbai attacks, both Yasin
Bhatkal and Assadullah Akthar had visited few quarries in Karnataka
and sourced explosives that were used in the blasts. Both the
Karnataka Police and the Maharashtra ATS included these submissions
in their case files and the hunt to track the owners of these
illegal quarries supplying explosives to terrorists is on.
|
Non-violent |
July 3 |
Hyderabad
|
Arrested IM 'India operations chief' Yasin Bhatkal
made a call to his wife from Hyderabad jail saying he would be
out soon with help from Damascus (Syria), triggering fears about
the jailed jihadi getting help from IS. In the five-minute-long
chat, according to the intercepts, Bhatkal is heard telling his
wife Zahida, "Damascus se log madad kar rahe hain. Mai jald hi
riha ho jaoonga. [Pople from Damascus are helping. I will be free
soon]." Agencies suspect IS could help Bhatkal by enlisting the
support of Ansar-ul-Tawhid Fi Bilad Al Hind (AuT).
|
Non-violent |
July 6 |
Telangana |
The judicial remand of arrested IM 'India operations
chief' Yasin Bhatkal was extended. "It was a routine appearance
for remand extension," a prison official said while dismissing
reports that Bhatkal threw a piece of paper with something written
on it inside the court premises. Bhatkal is lodged in the Cherlapally
Central Prison of Nalgonda District in Telangana.
|
Non-violent |
July 6 |
India |
Intelligence agencies suspect that Mirza Shadab
Baig and Mohammed Sajid alias Bada Sajid, the two absconding
accused in the July 26, 2008 Ahmedabad (Gujarat) and May 13, 2008
Jaipur (Rajasthan) blasts cases have managed to enter into Afghanistan.
Sources from the Gujarat Police said in addition to these two,
the other two militants who have joined terror outfits, probably
al Qaida, are Arizkhan alias Junaid and Mohammed Khalid
who are suspects in the Jaipur blasts case.
A top official of the Gujarat Police said that
the four terror suspects have posted their photos on a website
and have promoted the life of fighters in Afghanistan. The Gujarat
Police officials said that during interrogation of the other accused
nabbed in the serial blasts case it had come to light that these
absconding accused had plans to reach Afghanistan and fight against
Americans. The IM module was neutralised by the Gujarat Police
about 19 days after the Ahmedabad blasts, in August 2008, with
the arrest of Mufti Abu Bakar, a native of Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh.
|
Non-violent |
July 6 |
Nalgonda District/ Telangana |
With reports of IM 'India operations chief' Yasin
Bhatkal's alleged conspiracy to flee from jail surfacing, Cherlapalli
prison authorities in Nalgonda District of Telangana are mulling
to put in place electronic eyes at least in barracks where terror
suspects like Bhatkal and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
(ISI) agents are housed to keep a track of their movements. As
of now, 12 alleged ISI activists are lodged in Cherlapalli jail.
Presently, CCTVs are installed at the entrance
of Cherlapalli jail to monitor people entering the premises. The
internal security is manned by security guards without the aid
of any electronic surveillance. "Besides CCTVs for internal security,
there is severe shortage of security men to guard the four towers
of Cherlapalli jail and for external security. On Monday we wrote
to the government to sanction 50 armed Telangana State Special
Police (TSSP) personnel. As dangerous criminals are lodged in
Cherlapally jail, there is a need to improve surveillance," a
senior Telangana prison official stated.
|
Non-Violent |
July 7 |
India |
CCB filed a 1,700-page charge sheet against four
IM operatives it had arrested on charges of terrorism in Bengaluru,
Bhatkal and Mangaluru in January, 2015, reports dajiworld.com.
Syed Ismail Afaaque, 36, Sadam Hussain, 29, Syed Abdus Suboor,
24, and Riyaz Ahmed Sayeedi, 32, all hailing from Bhatkal town
in Uttara Kannada District of Karnataka, have been named in the
charge sheet.
The CCB has formally accused them of supplying
gelatin sticks and other explosive material to various terror
outfits which carried out bomb blasts in various parts of the
country. The four men have been charged under sections 120(B),
121(A) and 511 of the IPC, 1860, sections 13, 16, 18, 20 and 38
of the UAPA, 1967, and sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Explosive Substances
Act, 1908, a senior police officer said on the condition of anonymity.
The CCB has listed as many as 123 witnesses in the charge sheet
but the identity of several key witnesses has not been disclosed
so as to "protect their lives."
The CCB also claimed to have recovered a large
quantity of electronic detonators, gelatin sticks, ammonium nitrate,
Jihadi literature and posters, besides assembled circuit boards
which are used in bomb blasts, while arresting the four accused.
|
Non-violent |
July 7 |
Azamgarh District/Uttar Pradesh |
Azamgarh (District) in Uttar Pradesh is on the
radar of the Central intelligence agencies once again. The trigger
is the news of Mohammad Sajid alias 'Bada Sajid', who was
on the 'most wanted' list of the National Investigation Agency
(NIA), being killed in Syria while fighting for the Islamic State
(IS) there.
After the latest development, the intelligence
agencies are learnt to have quickened their search for seven other
suspected hardcore terrorists on NIA's 'most wanted', all hailing
from Azamgarh, four of whom carry a reward of INR 10,00,000.
"We are definitely in touch with Central agencies
to find out more about Sajid's death in Syria," says ATS IG Ram
Kumar. Efforts are on to find who all he was in touch with, he
adds. However, he says the ATS is looking at the entire state
to ascertain these contacts and not only Azamgarh. Sources say
surveillance on a large number of telephones and mobiles of Azamgarh
has already been started and efforts are on to find out who all
have been in contact with people in Syria and Iraq since the IS
started its campaign to usurp power.
Sajid had masterminded the serial blasts in Delhi,
Jaipur and Ahmedabad in 2008. NIA had declared a reward of INR
10,00,000 for information on Sajid's whereabouts. His younger
brother Chhota Sajid had been killed along with another youth
in a police encounter in the well-known Batla House encounter
in Delhi on September 19, 2008. Two suspected Indian IM operatives,
Mohammad Saif and Zeeshan were arrested while a fourth accused
Ariz Khan had escaped. All these, suspected to be IM operatives,
were from Azamgarh. For a long time after the Batla encounter,
Azamgarh had virtually become a political battlefield.
|
Non-violent |
July 20 |
India |
Social media accounts linked to known supporters
of the Islamic State (IS) posted images of two boats carrying
armed IS fighters from the latest IS nasheed video - a video with
English subtitles accompanied by a chant released by its media
wing, Al Hayat Media, claiming that it showed "a boatful of Indians".
They claimed that one of the men was Abu Turab al Hindi, IM 'commander'
Muhammad "Bada" Sajid who was killed in Syria. The accounts also
posted a separate image from the latest nasheed video of a purported
Indian in the ranks of the IS, identifying him as Abu Qaqa al
Hindi.
|
Non-violent |
July 21 |
Bihar |
Bihar jails are on high alert after an intelligence
report in the wake of jailed IM 'India operations chief' Yasin
Bhatkal's claim that he could "soon escape". According to the
intelligence agency officials, Bhatkal could reportedly be in
touch with operatives who are in different Bihar jails. The intelligence
agencies had earlier intercepted a call made by Bhatkal from Hyderabad
jail to his wife Zahida in south Delhi's Jamia Nagar. During the
phone call, which was being tapped, Bhatkal hinted at getting
help from the Islamic State (IS).
|
Non-violent |
July 24 |
India |
NIA announced INR 1,000,000 reward each for four
SIMI suspects alleged to be involved in a series of blasts across
the country. The accused are part of a group that escaped from
Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh in October 2013 and then allegedly
carried out several blasts in Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh), Pune (Maharashtra)
and Chennai (Tamil Nadu). The accused, against whom the reward
has been announced, have been identified as Zakir Hussain alias
Sadiq Badrul Hussain, Mehboob alias Guddu Ismail Khan, Salik Hakim
and Amzad Ramzan Khan.
|
Non-violent |
July 29 |
India
|
The US has issued a worldwide travel caution for
its citizens including in India in the wake of the increased threat
particularly from the expanding global presence of the Islamic
State (IS). In its advisory, the US has mentioned that terrorist
organisations like the LeT pose a major threat to India. India,
it said, continues to experience terrorist and insurgent activities
which may affect US citizens directly or indirectly. Anti-Western
terrorist groups active in India include Islamist extremist groups
such as Harkat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami, Harakat ul-Mujahidin, IM, JeM,
and LeT, the statement said.
|
Non-violent |
August 6 |
Delhi |
Delhi Police have put up posters of 14 terrorists
across the city, especially in the Paharganj area and New Delhi
Railway Station. Keeping in view the Independence Day celebrations,
scheduled to be held on August 15, a high alert has been sounded
in the national capital. Reports say that out of 14 terrorists,
five are members of IM terror group, and 9 others are affiliated
to other organisations.
|
Non-violent |
August 9 |
Pune / Maharashtra
|
A group of men from the coastal Karnataka town
of Bhatkal, accused of supplying explosives to the IM for bomb
blasts in Pune, Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad between
2010 and 2013, may have also provided the RDX for the February
13, 2010, Germany Bakery attack in Pune in Maharashtra. The German
Bakery blast is incidentally the only instance in recent times
where the IM used RDX as an explosive. Its source has been a key
unanswered question in the probe since the IM, from forensic records
of nearly a dozen blasts linked to it, is known to use easily
available ammonium nitrate. Police suspect RDX consignment went
into the making of IEDs by key IM operative Yasin Ahmed Siddibappa
for the German Bakery blast.
|
Non-violent |
August 10 |
Kerala
|
The Centre has alerted Kerala that a dormant module
of the IM having links with the Islamic State (IS) militia may
be planning to recruit fighters for strife-torn Syria and Iraq.
Sources said the IM's links with the IS had come to light after
the death of Muhammed Sajjid aka Bada Sajjid, an IM operative.
He was killed during a shelling in Syria last month. The IM had
been dormant in the country after the arrest of some of its top
leaders such as Yasin Bhatkal, T.A. Shibili and Safdar Nagori.
There were others from Kerala as well who had links with IM and
Jam-I-yyathuk Ansurul Muslimeen. IM operatives behind bars include
Thadiyanvide Nazir aka Ummer Haji, Umar Farooq, and Ibrahim Moulavi.
However, intelligence sources said many absconders, including
Ayub and Shoaib from Kannur and Shuhaib from Parappangadi, wanted
in terror-linked cases, may have joined the IS using new names
and identities.
Sources said the case of two missing Keralites
from the UAE and Qatar a few months ago had increased suspicion
that radicalised Kerala youths were joining the IS militants.
Intelligence agencies had already traced the identity of Abu Thahir,
who had left his home at Puduppariyaram, near Palakkad in Kerala
for Qatar, two years ago. But the Indian Consulate in Qatar had
no clue if he had reached the Emirate, even as his Facebook
page remained active for long after he was reported missing. Another
is an unnamed Keralite youth hailing from Kunnummal in Kozhikode
District. He has been missing from Ras-al-Khaimah in UAE for the
past four months. Sources said that a Keralite's name figured
in the radar of intelligence agencies after the detention of IM
sympathisers in Saudi Arabia. It was unclear whether he was still
alive, sources said.
|
Non-violent |
August 11 |
Baksa District / Assam
|
Security agencies are on alert after a suspected
LeT trained militant, identified as Mohamad Rakib Ali alias
Raju from Assam was spotted near his hometown in Tamulpur in Baksa
District of Assam. "As per an intelligence input, Ali had joined
the SIMI. After SIMI was banned in 2001, he reportedly joined
a Pakistan-based outfit, most likely the LeT. He was out of Police
radar ever since. Now, he has returned," the official sources
stated. Sources said after completing his matriculation from a
madrasa (Islamic Seminary) at Rangiya in Kamrup District,
Raju had joined a madrasa in New Delhi in 1998. From there,
he got in touch with the radical forces leading to his joining
the outfit.
|
Non-violent |
August 11 |
India
|
Days ahead of the Independence Day celebrations
on August 15, the UMHA has issued a massive security alert to
all states of possible terror attacks, with special focus on Delhi,
Mumbai, and the border states of Jammu & Kashmir and Gujarat.
The UMHA warned that terror groups like SIMI, IM, JeM, TeF, LeT
and PAH are planning to target important installations in the
country. IB have intercepted several conversations where handlers
from across border were heard giving directions to attack Army
and other SF's camps and convoys. UMHA alert also said that for
the first time Pakistan's ISI has given the responsibility to
LeT to coordinate with all other terror groups. Recently, there
has been a spate of terror attacks by LeT trained militants in
Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.
|
Non-violent |
August 12 |
Hyderabad / Telangana
|
Cyberabad Police has ruled out the role of the
banned SIMI in the failed robbery bid after they got information
about the real culprits, reportedly a Maharashtra-based gang,
involved in the bid to rob Muthoot Finance at KPHB (Hyderabad,
Telangana) on May 29.
|
Non-violent |
August 18 |
Mumbai / Maharashtra
|
A Sessions Court in Mumbai recently rejected bail
application of a SIMI member Mohammed Ali Shaikh alias
Aziz, arrested for unlawful activities. The accused is also facing
trial in the Mumbai serial train blasts case.
|
Non-violent |
August 25 |
India
|
According to a list prepared by UMHA, 17 Indians
are now 'missing'. As reported by Indian and foreign intelligence
services, they are active with the IS or rival organisations like
Jabhat al-Nusra. In addition, up to a dozen IM cadres are also
believed to have joined the Islamic State, while Police have stopped
at least 22 volunteers from travelling. According to report, the
17 Indians - all young men, barring a woman who has returned home
- were educated, most hailing from middle-class or affluent families
with conventional aspirations. Few had known links to Islamist
political groups, and none to terrorism. The report said that
alarm bells have started to ring in the corridors of power as
the UMHA discussed the issue with Directors General of Police
and Home Secretaries from 12 states earlier this month. Intelligence
agencies suspect that the Indians have joined the savage IS, despite
UHM Rajnath Singh's assurance that India is safe from an IS threat.
|
Non-violent |
August 26 |
Hyderabad / Telangana
|
With the arrest of top operatives of Bangladesh-based
HuJI-B in Hyderabad on August 14 and 18 respectively, and their
role in helping the IM operatives to flee India, the Police strongly
feel that 'Sleeper Cells' in Hyderabad are active. On recovering
numerous telephone numbers from the mobiles of arrested HuJI-B
operatives, the suspicion of the SIT about the sleeper cell functioning
in Hyderabad has further strengthened. "They are sleeper cells.
Their activity of arranging shelter to the illegal immigrants,
arranging Indian identification and helping them cross the border
is just a cover. The motto of the group in performing such activities
is something that has to be extracted during interrogation," according
to an unnamed SIT officer.
|
Non-violent |
September 4 |
Kolkata / West Bengal
|
Aftab Ansari, sentenced to death for the 2002
American Center terror attack in Kolkata (West Bengal), will not
be taken to Ahmedabad (Gujarat) for trial in a abduction case.
Aftab has always been a security challenge, especially since it
was established that he had a major financial role in setting
up IM. With the security agencies saying it will be too risky
to take him out of Alipore Jail in Kolkata, an Ahmedabad court
has agreed to carry out carry out the trial through video-conferencing.
|
Non-Violent |
September 4 |
India
|
The India Government has finalized a robust policy
for flying such objects, amidst revelations by several terrorists
and investigations carried out by intelligence agencies on possible
use of UAVs/UASs for terrorist attacks. The new guidelines for
the UAVs/UASs including paragliders, hot air balloons, remote-controlled
flying devices, microlight aircrafts etc will be out soon, said
sources. The threat from paragliders is borne by the interrogation
of terrorists including LeT's Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias
Abu Jundal, IM's Syed Ismael Afaque Lanka and Khalistani militant
leader Jagtar Singh Tara. Jundal, revealed that LeT provides aerial
training to select cadres. Independent inputs confirm ISI's role
as well in training LeT cadres in parachute jumping. It is learnt
that LeT is trying to procure equipment for paragliding from companies
in China and UAE, besides falling back on in-house Pakistani companies
to purchase the technology to build drones. In December 2014,
intelligence inputs had indicated that LeT had paragliders ready
to operate at two weeks' notice.
|
Non-Violent |
September 6 |
Delhi
|
Four years after a low intensity bomb exploded
outside Delhi High Court on May 25, 2011, raising concerns about
security of courts, the NIA has closed the probe into the case
and filed a closure report in court. Intelligence agencies and
NIA probed the role of IM members in the May 25 blast, as the
bomb had the outfit's signature style. The official said several
militants, members of sleeper cells in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu
and Kashmir and other places were examined but nothing came of
the efforts. No terror outfit claimed responsibility for the blast.
|
Non-Violent |
September 7 |
Delhi
|
A special court in Delhi allowed a plea by NIA
seeking permission to conduct polygraph test on Showkat Ahmed
Bhat, a South Kashmir resident, accused of transporting LeT militants,
who on August 5 ambushed a BSF convoy in Udhampur District in
Jammu and Kashmir. The NIA in their application stated that Bhat's
statements have been found inconsistent and that a polygraph test
is essential "to expose the larger conspiracy behind the instant
terrorist attack.
|
Non-Violent |
September 9 |
Goa
|
Goa Police summoned suspected terrorist of the
IM, Syed Ismael Afaque's, paragliding instructor for an interrogation.
Goa Police contacted the paragliding institute. Police said that
the instructor would be questioned over how he was contacted by
Afaque and what kind of training he imparted to Afaque. Sleuths
of the ATS and the state's intelligence bureau have already questioned
the owners of the house rented by Afaque's paragliding instructor.
|
Non-Violent |
September 10 |
Mumbai
|
A Special MCOCA Court convicted 12 persons of
hatching a criminal conspiracy and subsequently executing a series
of bombings on Mumbai's (Maharashtra) local trains on July 11
2006 (7/11), which claimed 189 lives and injured over 800 people.
The 12 convicts, including key conspirators Faisal Shaikh and
Asif Khan Bashir Khan alias Junaid, were chiefly found
guilty of being members of terrorist organisation under section
20 of the UAPA and of being part of an organised crime syndicate
under MCOCA, among other sections. Of the total 13 accused arrested
and charge sheeted by the Maharashtra ATS, one person Abdul Wahid
Din Mohammad Shaikh was acquitted of all the charges after nine
years in jail. Five of the convicts, namely Kamal Ansari, LeT
'Mumbai chief' Faisal, SIMI cadre Ehtesham Siddiqui, Naveed and
Junaid were planters of bombs at Jogeshwari, Mira Road, Bandra
and Borivali. They were found guilty of murder, attempt to murder,
causing hurt and criminal conspiracy.
|
Non-Violent |
September 14 |
Chhattisgarh |
Chhattisgarh High Court rejected bail application
of Ayesha Bano having connections with IM and SIMI. Ayesha Bano
was arrested earlier on November 13, 2013 in Lakhisarai District
of Bihar and was brought to Raipur on transit remand. The single
bench of Justice Sanjay K Agrawal rejected her bail application.
|
Non-Violent |
September 16 |
Agra/Uttar Pradesh |
Following the indications by intelligence agencies
that the Islamic State (IS) could have joined hands with banned
organization SIMI and other terror outfits in India to recruit
jihadist fighters, the local intelligence agencies in Agra have
increased surveillance in areas like the Muslim populated areas
of the locality, including Taj Ganj where the world famous Taj
Mahal is situated. A local Police official said that SIMI activities
have been under the radar for now but they have still been detected
in all districts of Agra division including Mathura. In Aligarh,
as well as the rest of West UP including Meerut, Saharanpur, Muzaffar
Nagar, Shamli, Bijnaur, Rampur and Azamgarh, there are clear indications
that SIMI is still active, but moving in the shadows, waiting
to come out at the right time.
|
Non-Violent |
October 7 |
Saudi Arabia |
According to sources in UMHA Saudi Arabia detained
a key explosives supplier of the IM and an absconding accused
in the 2003 Haren Pandya murder case, identified as Zainul Abideen
last month. The detention was made at the request of their Indian
counterparts on the basis of supplied passport details. The verification
process is on with Riyadh signalling it will not allow any anti-Indian
activity on its soil. Abideen is accused of supplying explosives
to IM operative Riyaz Bhatkal, who used them in the February 21,
2013 Hyderabad serial blasts and July 13, 2011 Mumbai serial blasts.
|
Non-Violent |
October 8 |
Gujarat |
Security has been increased at Somnath Temple
in Gujarat following a terror threat to blow up the temple. According
to the security agencies, the letter is written in Gujarati language
and has been sent from Vadodara. The sender, claiming to be from
'Indian Mujahideen', has threatened to explode the temple with
a bomb. Following the threatening, the security agencies have
been put on high alert and an investigation is on to trace the
sender of the letter. Indian Coast Guard have also been alerted
about the threat to the temple, which is located on the sea shore.
|
Non-Violent |
October 14 |
India
|
The UMHA issued advisory to all states. "Though
there is no specific threat to Odisha, we have asked the police
in all districts to remain on toe to thwart any untoward incident.
The Commissionerate of Police in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack and SPs
in Balasore and Puri have been asked to remain extra vigilant,"
said a senior officer in home department.
Quoting the UMHA letter, the officer said: "Some
terrorists belonging to SIMI and Lashkar-e-Toiba have reportedly
entered India and are planning to disrupt peace and cause communal
tension during Navratri, Durga Puja and Muharram."
|
Non-Violent |
October 16 |
India
|
The NIA has decided to set free two persons accused
of attending a terror training camp in Kerala for launching a
series of attacks across India. NIA sought the sanction of UMHA
for dropping charges against Abu Saad and Shah Alam, residents
of Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh. They were accused of attending the
training camp organised by leaders of the banned SIMI at Wagamon
in Kerala in 2007. The two were named by multiple investigating
agencies for being part of various terror attacks in the country
from 2008 to 2011. The investigation by the NIA, however, could
not find any evidence against the two. The NIA also stated that
they found that the two persons had not attended the camp.
|
Non-Violent |
October 16 |
Gujarat
|
Two more letters in the names of SIMI, ISI and
IM threatening blasts at the department of physics of Maharaja
Sayajirao University of Baroda's Faculty of Science and Gotri-based
Shaishav School in Vadodara (Gujarat) were received. The city
Police and BDDS conducted an extensive search operation at both
these spots, but found no suspicious objects.
|
Non-Violent |
October 19 |
West Bengal |
A red alert has been sounded all over West Bengal
during Durga Puja about possible terror attacks by various Islamist
fundamentalist groups. The IM, JMB and various other Bangladeshi
outfits operating in the State might resort to subversive activities
during the festival, intelligence agencies said. While vigil along
the border is being stepped up, all police stations in border
districts have been alerted to look out for Bangladeshi infiltrators
trained by Islamist terror outfits to wreak havoc during the festive
season and organise riots.
|
Non-Violent |
October 22 |
Yavatmal District / Maharashtra |
The ATS investigating the Yavatmal case (Yavatmal
District of Maharashtra) in which a 20-year-old youth allegedly
stabbed a Police constable to "avenge beef ban" is probing if
the arrested accused was a member of the newly-floated 'electronic
warfare technology group' of the banned outfit, SIMI. Officials
claim that the group was formed to facilitate creating an Indian
wing "on the lines of al Qaeda".
|
Non-Violent |
October 30 |
Bhopal / Madhya Pradesh |
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 |
October 31 |
Bhopal / Madhya Pradesh |
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 |
November 6 |
India |
Pakistani intelligence agency ISI has reportedly
tasked terrorists belonging to IM to carry out acts of vandalism
at religious places in India, particularly Punjab, in a bid to
incite communal passions. Sources said attempts to vandalize religious
places or desecrate religious symbols could be undertaken in border
areas of Punjab or Jammu and Kashmir by IM terrorists, mainly
absconders in ongoing cases relating to past attacks by the outfit.
The two states have been advised to step up vigil in a latest
advisory. A few other states, including Haryana and Uttar Pradesh,
have been alerted and asked to take preventive steps as vandalism
at their religious places may lead to communal tension in the
neighbouring states.
|
Non-Violent |
November 15 |
Mannam Paravur / Ernakulam District
|
The Police recovered a couple of mobile phone
from the residence of Nizammuddin, an accused of Panayikulam SIMI
case, at Mannam Paravur in Ernakulam District.
|
Non-Violent |
November 20 |
Ranchi / Jharkhand
|
UMHA warned Jharkhand Police against possible
links between Islamic State (IS) and sleeper cells of IM, JMB
and LeT whose operatives have been arrested from Jharkhand in
past. At a press conference in Ranchi Police spokesperson and
ADG (operations) S N Pradhan said: "The MHA inputs have been promptly
shared with all SPs with instructions to take it with all seriousness.
A few districts which have a background of terrorist activities
have been instructed to be extra careful about the alert."
|
Non-Violent |
November 22 |
India
|
Based on leads provided by Telangana Police, a
33-year-old online recruiter of Islamic State (IS), identified
as Adnan Hasan Damudi who was trying to lure more than 20 youngsters
in Hyderabad, including techies and women to join the terror outfit,
was detained in Dubai a few days ago. Telangana Police officials
had reportedly forwarded a comprehensive report to Dubai Police
on the activities of the online recruiter, who was luring city
youth through social media.
Damudi, a native of Karnataka, who was arrested
by Dubai Police, is suspected to be a former cadre of the SIMI.
He went to Dubai in 2012 in search of a job after finishing his
graduation in commerce from Karnataka University in Dharwad. According
to Police, Damudi, who worked as assistant delivery coordinator
at the World Trade Centre in Dubai, used to maintain the Twitter
account with the handle @AdnanDamudi and actively propagated IS
ideology. According to sources, the Hyderabad Police, who detained
a youth for trying to join IS last year, had collected information
about the activities of Damudi during the counselling session.
|
Non-Violent |
November 23
|
India
|
IM operatives who carried out
the Hyderabad blasts on February 21, 2013 were in touch with each
other through email IDs created with the help of a 10-page gay
adult novel titled “Stuff My Stocking”, a media report said. Team
leader Riyaz Bhatkal had instructed his associates to communicate
with him only via email or social networking site Nimbuzz.
To ensure that their communication
is not tracked, the IM operatives created fake email IDs that
were changed every month. Bhatkal had sent his four-member IM
team a 10-page gay adult novel 'Stuff My Stocking' with the instruction
that they would create an email ID on the basis of the first word
of the page assigned to them. The email IDs were changed every
month depending on the page each member was assigned to read.
By the time the blasts were executed in February 2013, each operative
had changed his email ID at least five times.
|
Non-Violent
|
November 24
|
India
|
According to investigators, Adnan
Hasan Damudi, under detention in Dubai, native of Bhatkal in Karnataka
for allegedly being an Islamic State (IS) propaganda agent provided
funding of INR 50,000 to a youth from Hyderabad in 2014 deposited
the money in the account of the sister of a Hyderabad youth, whom
he was trying to attract to the IS. According to sources, investigations
revealed that Damudi was allegedly “attracting youth towards IS
by posing as a neo-Muslim on social media”.
Indian agencies also believe Damudi
is associated with operatives of the IM, who are suspected to
have joined the IS. He is known to have had close links on social
media with brothers Sultan and Shafi Armar from Bhatkal, allegedly
associated with IM and, more recently, the IS. Sultan alias
Maulana Abdul Khader was reported by IS websites to have died
in Syria in March this year.
|
Non-Violent
|
November 24
|
Hyderabad
|
Terror suspects are using the
website wikisend for file sharing and are using encrypted
messages to avoid surveillance. Top cyber experts of the country
say that terror organisations have their own Web browsers and
they use them to avoid detection. IS and the IM use advanced encrypted
technologies, say experts. The NIA chargesheet in the Dilsukhnagar
twin blast case (February 21, 2013) revealed how the IM accused
had operated using encrypted software and wikisend. Leading
cyber forensic expert Mr Pendyala Krishna Shastry, who had earlier
worked with the Government Examiner for Questioned Documents,
said, “Terror suspects use their own web browsers. They are using
the web to send encrypted messages.”
The NIA in its chargesheet against
the IM suspect in the Dilsukhnagar case said that accused Ajaz
Shaikh had shared files through wikisend and had sent encrypted
fake documents to Riyaz Bhatkal, another key accused in the case.
“Ajaz Shaikh prepared a fake ID with the photo of another accused,
Tehseen Akhtar, and uploaded the same through wikisend with a
password protection encrypted file” revealed investigators.
|
Non-Violent
|
November 25
|
Kochi / Kerala
|
The NIA court in Kochi found five
persons guilty in a case pertaining to the conduct of a secret
meeting of banned SIMI nine years ago. Of the total 17 persons
arraigned as accused, the court acquitted 11 for want of evidence.
The trial of one of the five accused, a minor at the time of the
incident, is being held at a juvenile court. The others found
guilty were P A Shaduli, Abdul Rasik, Ansar Nadvi, Nizamudheen
and Shameem. The court upheld the UAPA charges against the first
three accused. The quantum of punishment will be announced on
November 26.
As per the prosecution, the five
accused entered into a criminal conspiracy in Kochi and other
places to advocate, incite and abet unlawful activities for cession
of Jammu and Kashmir from India and to bring hatred and contempt
towards the government, and in pursuance therefore, organised
a secret meeting at Panayikulam near Kochi on August 15, 2006.
The NIA chargesheet said that
all the 17 accused had attended the meeting with books and pamphlets
that were anti-national, seditious and contained inflammatory
writings. They brought a publication of SIMI with an intention
to bring hatred and contempt against the government, to conduct
jihad for cession of Kashmir from India and bring back Muslim
rule in India, the chargesheet said, adding that the five accused
found guilty were sitting on the dais and the acquitted persons
were in the audience.
|
Non-Violent
|
November 26
|
India
|
A report of the UMHA clearly shows
that the number of acquittals in the SIMI related cases are extremely
high. Out of the 111 cases registered against SIMI members, 97
have resulted in acquittals. There are a variety of reasons behind
the high rate of acquittals where SIMI cases are concerned. Several
Police personnel have been blamed for being vindictive in their
approach which just does not help the cause. First and foremost
being a former member of the SIMI does not mean an arrest is mandated.
Secondly, many arrests have been carried out just on the basis
that the persons have been viewing a video or reading the Quran.
The other side of the problem is the lack of material against
persons. The acquittal rate is high especially in the case of
accused persons who are lower in the ranks. It is very difficult
to establish a case and get evidence against such persons. Moreover
there is also a delay in handing over the cases to the centralised
agency which is the NIA.
|
Non-Violent
|
November 27
|
Ernakulam District / Kerala
|
The Additional Chief Judicial
Magistrate court in Ernakulam District in Kerala, has issued a
production warrant against suspected IM operative Thadiyantavide
Nazeer in connection with a case of attempting to influence witnesses
of Bengaluru (Karnataka) blast case of 2008. The Police said the
warrant stipulated production of Nazeer before the court on December
4, 2015. Police may also record his arrest. A convict in the Kozhikode
twin blast case, Nazeer is currently lodged in a Bengaluru jail.
|
Non-Violent
|
November 30 |
Kochi / Kerala |
The NIA court in Kochi sentenced two persons to
undergo 14 years of imprisonment and three others to 12 years
after they were found guilty in a case pertaining to the conduct
of a secret meeting of banned SIMI nine years back. Of the 17
persons arraigned as the accused, the court had acquitted 11 persons
for lack of evidence. The trial of another accused, a minor at
the time of crime, is going on at the juvenile court.
The court granted jail term of 14 years to the
first accused P A Shaduli and second accused Abdul Rasik. The
three others who were sentenced to undergo 12 years of jail term
are Ansar Nadvi, Nizamudheen and Shameem. While the first two
convicted have to pay fine of INR 60,000 each, the three others
have to pay INR 50,000 each. As per the prosecution, the five
accused entered into a criminal conspiracy in Kochi and other
places to advocate, incite and abet unlawful activities for cession
of Kashmir from India and to bring hatred and contempt towards
the government, and in pursuance therefore, organised a secret
meeting at Panayikulam near Kochi on August 15, 2006.
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Non-Violent |
November 30 |
India |
India's efforts to get Abdul Wahid Siddibapa,
the alleged 'financer' of IM, deported from the UAE have come
to a nought, with the West Asian country making it clear that
Wahid will be sent to India only after extradition process is
complete. Wahid, who was caught in the UAE in 2014 on the basis
of a Red Corner Notice, is wanted in connection with the conspiracy
in a series of bomb blasts including 2006 Mumbai serial blasts,
2008 Delhi serial blasts and 2010 Chinnaswamy Stadium blasts in
Bengaluru, officials said. His name first cropped up during the
interrogations of Yasin Bhatkal, who was arrested in August 2013
near India-Nepal border.
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Non-Violent |
December 3 |
Maharashtra |
With the Islamic State (IS) threat keeping the
security establishment across India vigilant, the Maharashtra
ATS has zeroed-in on Abdus Subhan Qureshi as one of the key people
who could provide logistics support to the terror group, if they
decide to target Mumbai. Qureshi, a SIMI operative group since
1998, has worked closely with IM militants and was instrumental
in providing them ground-level support for most blasts in India
since 2005. He has emerged as a vital link especially given his
close links with SIMI. Qureshi's extensive network and knowledge
of areas in and around Mumbai poses a major threat, said ATS officials.
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Non-Violent |
December 21 |
India |
Intelligence agencies intensified their search
for three SIMI men who escaped from Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa jail
in 2013. Sources said the search for the trio, last traced to
Karnataka, has been escalated after fears that they may be tapped
by AQIS. The recent arrests of three men from Uttar Pradesh and
Odisha, who are allegedly linked to the AQIS has brought the focus
back on an outfit that has long been considered a more immediate
threat than the Islamic State (IS).
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Non-Violent |
December 21 |
Mumbai |
The Bombay High Court reserved its judgment in
the death confirmation case against the sole convict arrested
Himayat Baig of IM for his involvement in the German Bakery bomb
blast of Pune (Maharashtra) case of 2010. A division bench of
Justice Naresh Patil and Justice SB Shukhre will deliver their
judgment in due course of time against Baig who has also appealed
against the judgement.
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Non-Violent |
December 21 |
India |
Two absconding operatives of IM have joined Islamic
State (IS), Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary
said in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha. "There are intelligence
inputs of one or two members of the Indian Mujahideen, who were
absconding from India since many years, having joined the ISIS/ISIL,"
Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary stated.
"... members of the Indian Mujahideen have been known to have
hideouts in Nepal, the Gulf and in Pakistan," he added.
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Statement |
December 27 |
India |
The SIT officials who grilled the three youths
from Hyderabad have found out that the trio was indeed on their
way to join ranks of Islamic State (IS). According to them, the
trio was depressed ever since their first attempt to join IS failed
last year. It is also reported that they wanted to meet 'chief'
of HM, Sayed Salahuddin. An official stated, "The youths wanted
to meet Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin whom they knew
as their uncle was former president of the proscribed SIMI and
a friend of Syed Salahuddin," said an official. The SIMI leader
had died in a car accident in Nalgonda in October, 2014.
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Non-violent |
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