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Incidents and Statments involving SIMI: 2015

Date

Place
Incident

Nature of incident

January 2

New Delhi

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.

Non-violent
January 2

Madhya Pradesh

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Non-violent
January 12

Bengaluru, Karnataka

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.

Non-violent
January 12

Hyderabad

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.

Non-violent
January 12

Tamil Nadu

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.

Non-violent
January 12

Meerut, Uttar Pradesh

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.

Non-violent
January 13

India

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.

Non-violent
January 13

Delhi

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.

Non-violent
January 14

India

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.

Non-violent
January 15

Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh

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.

Non-violent
January 16

Bengaluru, Karnataka

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.

Non-violent
January 18

Bhatkal, Karnataka

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.

Non-violent
January 19

Bengaluru, Karnataka

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.

Non-violent
January 19

Hyderabad, Telangana

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.

Non-violent
January 19

Karnataka

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.

Statement
January 20

India

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.

Non-violent
January 21

Bengaluru, Karnataka

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."

Non-violent
February 2

New Delhi

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.

Non-violent
February 3

Bengaluru

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.

Non-violent
February 3

Karnataka

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.

Statement
February 4

Karnataka

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.

Non-violent
February 6

Mumbai

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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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