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January 1
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Police recover three powerful grenades from Jamia
Milia Islamia area, in Delhi, close to where a Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT)
terrorist was arrested in connection with the attack on the Red
Fort, on December 26, 2000.
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January 5
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Police arrest an agent of the Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's external intelligence agency, in
Badrinath, Uttar Pradesh.
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January 8
|
Bihar Police arrest two ISI agents in Manipuri
and seize fake currency.
Police arrest two persons in Kolkata, West Bengal,
linked to the ISI, for helping notorious terrorist Abdullah to
flee from a hospital in Kashmir.
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January 9
|
Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and West Bengal Police
arrest two Jamat-ul-Mujahiddin (JuM)
terrorists in Kolkata. They involvement in a shoot-out at a hospital
in Srinagar, in September 2000, suspected.
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January 13
|
Visiting Chinese leader Li Peng expresses willingness
to cooperate with India in countering international terrorism
and expresses the "hope that the international community
would take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international
legal framework".
Supreme Court upholds the life imprisonment awarded
by court in Ahmedabad to Punjab-based terrorist Lal Singh and
Mohammed Sharief, a Pakistani, for terrorist activities and smuggling
arms and ammunition from Pakistan.
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January 15
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Union government asks West Bengal to upgrade
and activate police check posts along the Nepal border to check
growing activities of ISI in north Bengal.
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January 16
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Orissa Police say Cuttack is emerging as a leading
center for manufacturing illegal firearms.
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January 17
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Delhi Police arrest a Pakistani terrorist of
the Al Badr with one kg of RDX and a detonator.
Police arrest two suspected ISI agents in Bihar’s
Maharajgang district, while attempting to cross over into India
from Nepal.
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January 18
|
A Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act
(MCOCA)
Court in Mumbai directs Karachi-based Mafia don Dawood Ibrahim,
his brother Anees and associate Noor Mohammed to appear on February
5, for circulating fake currency in India at the instance of the
ISI.
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January 19
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Police seize counterfeit currency worth Rs 50
lakh at airport in Mumbai.
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January 20
|
Reports indicate Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
terrorists could launch attacks in New Delhi during Republic Day
celebrations using car bombs, micro light aircraft, flying objects,
suicide bombs, Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) and poisonous
chemical gases.
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January 23
|
In a joint declaration Mauritius Prime Minister
Sir Anerood Jugnauth and Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee ask
the international community to "intensify … efforts to combat,
terrorism fundamentalism and drug-trafficking, and agree to reinforce
bilateral cooperation in these areas.
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January 25
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LeT threatens to attack vital installations in
Danapur Cantonment.
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January 26
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Two persons die in a bomb explosion aboard a
bus at the Rishikesh bus stand in Uttar Pradesh.
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January 30
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Security force personnel arrest six Pakistani-based
intruders at the Sir Creek region in Gujarat.
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January 31
|
A Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention)
Act (TADA)
court in Mumbai extends until February 14 the interim bail of
Mohammed Dawood Phadnse, a conspirator in the 1993- Mumbai serial
blasts.
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February 6
|
Border Security Force (BSF) personnel arrest
10 Pakistanis trying to cross the border in the Rann of Kutch
at Kaladungar after escaping from a prison in that country.
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February 7
|
Hanif Kadawala, an accused in the 1993-Mumbai
serial blasts, is killed in Mumbai. Police suspect that Mafia
don Chhota Rajan has ordered the killing.
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February 8
|
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee
admits that ISI activities in the State have risen significantly
and says some of these are engineered through Bangladeshis.
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February 10
|
Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) chief
Subhas Ghising is seriously injured in an ambush laid on his convoy
by unidentified gunmen near Kurseong, in West Bengal. An assailant
and three others are killed, while six security force personnel
sustain injuries. An AK-47 rifle, two magazines and a grenade
are recovered from the site.
BSF personnel kill a Pakistani infiltrator near
the Rattan Khurd border outpost, Wagha, Punjab.
Unidentified assailants kill four members of
the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in a remote South 24 Pargana
village in West Bengal.
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February 12
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West Bengal orders a probe into the attack on
Subash Ghising
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February 15
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Police arrest three suspected LeT terrorists
in Yaval tehsil, Jalgaon district of Maharashtra.
The Seventh Meeting of the Indo-Bangladesh Joint
Working Group (JWG) begins in New Delhi to review the progress
made in checking border crime, infiltration and other security
related issues.
Myanmar Foreign Minister U Wing Aung assures
Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh of cooperating in dealing with
insurgency.
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February 17
|
At the Indo-Bangladesh JWG meeting, India express
concern over terrorists operating from Bangladesh and demands
‘firm and demonstrable action’ against them.
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February 18
|
At the International Fleet Review in Mumbai,
Prime Minister Vajpayee says cooperation among the navies of the
world is essential to curb drug trafficking and gun-running––the
handmaidens of international terrorism.
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February 20
|
Tamil Nadu Police arrest seven Al-Umma activists
in Coimbatore for attacking a suspected police informer.
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February 21
|
Prime Minister Vajpayee convenes a meeting of
all major political parties to brief them on the situation in
J&K.
Intelligence Bureau (IB) alerts district police
chiefs in Bihar on the activities of Islamist terrorist outfits––linked
to Osama Bin Laden––along the Nepal border. The IB says they might
try to recruit youth for "jehad" in Kashmir.
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February 25
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Speaking in Patna, Union Home Minister L.K.Advani
admits Bihar is affected by ISI activities, adding concerted efforts
both by the Union and State governments are needed to curb the
same.
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February 28
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Four suspected ISI agents are arrested in Muzaffarnagar
district and fake currency worth Rs 90,000 is seized.
In a raid an illegal arms-manufacturing factory
is unearthed in Kanpur and its kingpin arrested. Police also seize
a .315 bore pistol, 12 other pistols, two country-made revolvers
and arms manufacturing equipment.
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March 1
|
Union government India welcomes the UK’s decision
to ban the LeT, JeM, HuM, Babbar Khalsa International and International
Sikh Youth Federation.
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March 4
|
Police arrest two persons in Lohagarh, Naxalbari
police station-limits, for their suspected role in the attack
on Subash Ghising
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March 8
|
Proscribed Al-Umma leader S. A. Basha and 12
others are sentenced to four years imprisonment for unauthorised
possession of explosives.
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March 12
|
Prime Minister Vajpayee says a dialogue with
all parties would be held to carry forward the peace process in
J&K.
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March 22
|
A Harkat-Ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HUJI)
terrorist is remanded to police custody till March 27, in Surat,
Gujarat.
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March 24
|
Gorkha Liberation Front (GLF) chief Chhatre Subba
is arrested for masterminding the attack on Subash Ghising.
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March 28
|
The Mumbai Police Commissioner says two fake
currency rackets have been unearthed and 10 persons, including
a woman, arrested. Rs 1.51 crore-worth counterfeit notes are seized.
BSF Director General Gurbachan Singh Jagat expresses
concern over the illegal migration of Bangladeshis and trans-border
crimes.
BSF personnel arrest a Pakistani intruder at
Mauzam checkpost, Fazilka.
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March 30
|
External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh and Nepal
Foreign Minister Chakra Prasad Bastola agree to hold home secretary
level talks on ISI activities in Nepal and of Nepal’s Maoist insurgents’
India.
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April 1
|
Police unearth an illegal arm-manufacturing unit
at Nangla Tuta village, Gautam Budh Nagar and arrest one person.
Several semi-finished arms, raw material and manufacturing equipment
are recovered.
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April 3
|
Akbarkhan Abu Sama Khan, an accused in the 1993-Mumbai
serial blasts case is killed by two unidentified assailants in
Mumbai.
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April 4
|
BSF personnel arrest a Pakistani intruder on
the border near Jaisalmer.
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April 5
|
Union government invites organisations in J&K
for talks.
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April 9
|
Al-Umma chief Basha is acquitted in the 'rice
mill' blast case.
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April 10
|
India and Iran condemn international terrorism
and criticise nations that 'aid, abet and directly support' terrorism.
SIMI leader Ilyas Gausn, also the main accused
in communal riots in Pune, surrenders to a judicial magistrate.
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April 13
|
India and Iran decide to intensify mutual cooperation
to effectively tackle the growing menace of terrorism threatening
peace and stability in the region.
A powerful crude bomb explodes at Aksa Masjid
in Bardoli. However, no casualty is reported.
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April 14
|
10 Pakistanis sailing in Indian waters are held
in the Gulf of Kutch.
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April 18
|
Three Pakistani terrorists are killed in an encounter
in Gomtinagar area, Lucknow. Nearly two kg of high quality chemical
explosives, two AK rifles, and other arms and ammunition are recovered.
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April 19
|
Police arrest three suspected supporters of the
JeM, in Allahabad, for helping the terrorists killed in Lucknow
a day earlier.
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April 21
|
Four arms-dealers and three others are held under
the Prevention of Anti-Social Activity (PASA) Act, for alleged
ISI links, in Ahmedabad.
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April 23
|
Uttar Pradesh Police recover 27 kg of explosives
and lethal weapons from a tailoring shop in Kanpur and arrest
two persons.
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April 24
|
Police in Cuttack arrest Tariq Ahmad, suspected
ISI agent and accomplice of the Pakistani terrorists killed in
Lucknow on April 18. A small amount of RDX and some incriminating
documents are recovered.
A TADA Court in Mumbai orders Mohammed Dawood
Phanse, an accused in the 1993 bomb blasts, to surrender on May
14 or face cancellation of bail.
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs I. D.
Swami says at least six Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) in
the north east have terrorist links.
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April 25
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Three persons are killed and another seriously
injured in an explosion in Memnagar area, Ahmedabad.
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April 27
|
The Special Cell of Delhi Police seize a major
haul of high explosive RDX and fake Indian currency worth Rs 2
lakhs and arrest two persons, including a terrorist of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
(HM).
Three persons are injured in a blast on the railway
track near Arnetha station, Boondi district of Rajasthan. Four
live bombs are also detected on the track.
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April 28
|
Police arrest two terrorists believed to be members
of the JeM in Muzaffarnagar.
A Court in Patiala, Punjab, frames charge against
three of the accused in the IC 814 hijacking case of December
1999.
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April 30
|
An alleged Pakistan-trained terrorist is arrested
at a madrassa (seminary) in Hapur. Believed to a Harkat-ul-Ansar
(HUA)
supporter, he is allegedly involved in the April 27, 1996-blast
inside a bus in Roorke, that claimed 16 lives.
BSF personnel arrest a Pakistani intruder near
Khavda, in Kutch district.
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May 1
|
The Military Intelligence arrests an ISI agent
in Saharanpur and recovers many documents relating to national
security.
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May 3
|
Union government bans Deendar Anjuman, an Islamist
extremist organisation accused of engineering bomb blasts in May-July
2000 in Churches in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa.
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May 4
|
Deendar
Anjuman general
secretary Syed
Basha says
they would challenge in a Court the Union government’s decision
to ban the organisation.
Delhi Police arrest a Jammu and Kashmir Islamic
Front (JKIF) terrorist for suspected role in planting an explosive
device in Connaught Place on May 2. An explosive device, a pistol
and hand grenades are recovered from the accused, Azad Ahmed Qureshi.
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May 5
|
Andhra Pradesh Government notifies the ban imposed
by Union Government on the Deendar Anjuman for its ‘unlawful activities’.
Railway Protection Force recovers a large cache
of arms and ammunition from a passenger train in Shahjanpur railway
station, North-Eastern railway.
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May 6
|
Delhi Police arrest six suspected agents of the
ISI in New Delhi. Delhi Police say that the arrested agents were
plotting to kill Tarun Tejpal, editor-in-chief of the portal tehelka.com
and his colleague Anirudha Bahl.
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May 9
|
A tribunal is being constituted to decide on
the validity of proscribing Deendar Anjuman.
Police arrest 13 SIMI
activists, including the zonal presidents of Kurla and Vikhroli.
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May 14
|
SIMI protests the arrest of its activists in
Kurla, Maharashtra on May 9.
The Uttar Pradesh government admits rise in ISI
activities in the State and says seven organisations, including
the HM, LeT and HuA, are primarily responsible for cross-border
terrorism along the Nepal border.
Delhi Police unearth a counterfeit currency racket
involving ISI agents. One person is arrested and fake currency
Rs 30 lakhs is recovered.
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May 15
|
A special Court in Coimbatore sentences to life
imprisonment nine of the 12 Al-Umma activists accused in the Udumalpet
bomb blast case. Three persons were killed and four others injured
in the blast on December 12, 1997.
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May 17
|
Police raid the hideout of a gang of arms smugglers
and seize a huge cache of arms and ammunition at Attarsuiya, Allahabad
district.
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May 18
|
An ISI agent is arrested at the international
airport in Kolkata. A blueprint of the Saharanpur air force base
in Uttar Pradesh and some classified documents are recovered from
him.
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May 21
|
Delhi Police arrest three persons and recover
a huge quantity of explosives from the parking lot of Gurudwara
Rakab Ganj, a Sikh religious place, near Parliament House.
An 18-inch IED containing about 750 grams of
gelatin and having a time mechanism and electronic detonator is
found near the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), a Hindu religious
organisation, office in Nagpur.
SIMI decides to enroll 25,000 members in 23 districts
of eastern Uttar Pradesh to expand its base across the country.
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May 22
|
Nine Deendar Anjuman cadres are arrested in Nanded,
Maharashtra for alleged involvement in subversive activities.
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May 23
|
Police arrest six Deendar Anjuman activists for
allegedly holding secret meetings and committing provocative acts
in Hyderabad.
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May 24
|
Police detect and defuse a time bomb near the
headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Nagpur.
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May 25
|
An accused in the 1993-Mumbai serial blasts,
Mohammed Dawood Phanse surrenders to a TADA court after the court
declined to extend the interim bail earlier granted to him on
medical grounds.
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May 30
|
Delhi Police commissioner Ajai Raj Sharma says
the ISI could have been behind the blast at the BSF headquarters
in New Delhi, on May 20.
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May 31
|
The Annual Report, 2000-2001, of the Ministry
of Defence, says, ‘despite India's insistence on the creation
of a conducive atmosphere, there is no indication of Pakistan
was doing so, to enable commencing a meaningful dialogue. Instead
it has stepped up sponsoring of cross-border terrorism’.
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June 1
|
The Army and Union intelligence agencies unearth
a plan of the ISI to convert north Bengal into a trouble spot
to tied down the Army in the area.
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June 5
|
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha submits
a memorandum to the Prime Minister asking for countrywide, immediate
ban on the Al-Umma, Jihad Committee, Tamil Nadu Liberation Army
(TNLA) and Tamil Nation
Retrieval Troops (TNRT), which have already been banned in her
State.
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June 9
|
Police arrest SIMI national general secretary
Safdar Nagoi in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, as a precautionary measure
on the eve of the proposed convention of the outfit on June 11.
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June 12
|
Two suspected activists of the Liberation Tigers
of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
are arrested with fake passports at Kochi international airport.
A travel agent is also arrested for aiding them.
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June 15
|
Delhi Police Special Cell foil an alleged plot
by Osama bin Laden, to be executed through his aides, to blast
the United States Embassy in New Delhi, by apprehending two suspected
terrorists. Six kg of RDX, detonators and timers are recovered
from one of the accused, a Sudanese national. His Indian accomplice
is identified as Shameem of Bihar.
Senior SIMI leader UI Haque, while speaking to
a news agency in Bhado, West Bengal, says the outfit might launch
a political party to 'safeguard the religious freedom' of minority
communities. He also says, "SIMI has no faith in any Indian political
party, as all of them are out to restrict religious freedom".
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June 17
|
Police arrest one more member of a group linked
to Osama bin Laden in Udaipur, who was allegedly plotted to bomb
the US Embassy in India.
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June 20
|
Uttar Pradesh Police raid the houses of some
12 SIMI activists in the Bajaria and Colonelganj areas in Kanpur.
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June 21
|
Delhi Police arrest six terrorists of the JKIF.
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July 5
|
Delhi Police arrest two terrorists of the HuJI
and recover nine kg RDX, a pencil timer, a detonator and a battery.
The terrorists confess HuJI chief Illiyas Kashmiri asked them
to set-off blasts.
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July 6
|
Police arrest two arms smugglers and recover
arms and ammunition from the Mumbai-bound Firozpur Janta express
in Kota, Rajasthan. The two, residents of Uttar Pradesh, were
going to Gujarat to sell the arms.
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July 9
|
A suspected ISI agent is arrested along with
three members of his family in Baran, Kota district, on charges
of smuggling drugs and fake currency.
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July 13
|
Police recover 51 AK-47 51 bayonets from a tank
in Kharida, Midnapore district of West Bengal.
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July 18
|
Delhi Police file charge sheet against two more
persons for the attack on the Red Fort on December 22, 2000.
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July 19
|
Indian intelligence agencies advise enhancing
security around Indian embassies and missions in various countries
following threats issued by Pakistan-backed terrorist outfits
like the LeT and Al-Badr.
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July 20
|
Police unearth an illegal mini-gun factory Darbhanga,
Bihar. Some arms and ammunition are also recovered and five persons
arrested.
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July 23
|
The Law Ministry rules pardoning Peter Bleach,
arrested for dropping arms in Purulia, West Bengal.
22 persons are injured in a high-intensity bomb
explosion in a bus near Balurghat stadium, North Dinajpur district
of West Bengal.
A designated TADA Court extends the interim
bail of Yusuf Abdul Razak Memon, brother of Mumbai bomb blasts
prime conspirator Tiger Memon, till September 25 on medical grounds.
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July 27
|
Union Minister of State for Home I D Swami says
in the Parliament that insurgent outfits in the North-east are
getting both financial and arms assistance from foreign sources
like-Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand. He adds that some non-government
agencies in Europe, too, were providing financial assistance.
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July 30
|
Delhi Police secure information that terrorist
outfits like the Al Badar, LeT could attack Parliament during
the ongoing session.
In a countrywide joint operation by Union and
several State police forces, 23 terrorists are arrested, in Delhi,
Hyderabad, Jalgaon in Maharashtra and Kanpur.
Gujarat Police arrest three persons and recover
43,000-kg of gelatin sticks from their possession at Walki village,
in Gujarat’s Ahmednagar district.
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August 1
|
Two activists of the outlawed Deendar Anjuman
are arrested in Hyderabad for their alleged involvement in bomb
explosions in churches.
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August 2
|
A special TADA Court in Ajmer sentences to life
imprisonment a Punjab terrorist for killing two policemen on a
running train near Bikaner, Rajasthan, in 1986.
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August 3
|
Bihar Police unearth an illegal arms factory
at Banarshighat, under Barh police station jurisdiction and arrest
one person.
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August 5
|
Uttar Pradesh Police arrest an activist of the
SIMI in Kanpur and recover arms, ammunition and some incriminating
documents.
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August 6
|
Kanpur Police register cases on charges of waging
war and sedition against 12 SIMI activists.
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August 7
|
Supreme Court allows Army personnel to retain
arms and ammunition seized during operations against terrorists
in the Northeast till the case goes to Court.
Prime Minister Vajpayee says in the Lok Sabha
that relations with Pakistan are unlikely to improve till it stopped
aiding and abetting cross-border terrorism.
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August 8
|
Uttar Pradesh Police say SIMI activists arrested
in Kanpur earlier revealed during interrogation that the ISI has
asked its agent Nazeer to supply explosive material to subversives
in northern India.
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August 9
|
In a joint operation, Maharashtra and Delhi Police
arrest SIMI office secretary Waqau-ul-Hassan in Delhi on charges
of criminal conspiracy.
Government Railway Police (GRP) recover 205 live
cartridges of .303 rifle from a woman on board a train at New
Jalpaiguri station, West Bengal.
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August 11
|
Two persons are injured in a bomb explosion in
Delhi.
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August 13
|
The Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh
Police arrests two LeT terrorists in Lucknow cantonment, the headquarters
of the Army’s Central Command. Police also recover 12kg RDX and
a large quantity of arms and ammunition from them.
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August 14
|
A LeT ‘area commander’ is killed in an encounter
near Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.
A bomb blast inside Rishikesh-Hardwar-Delhi passenger,
near Gaziabad, kills three passengers and injures 20 more.
A suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA)
terrorist is held in Bhopal.
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August 15
|
In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister
Vajpayee asks Pakistan not to harbour the illusion that it could
wrest J&K through 'jehad' or terrorism.
Uttar Pradesh Police arrest four persons for
alleged involvement in the August 14-train-blast at Muradnagar
station that claimed three lives persons and injured 17 more.
Of the 10 suspects carrying a country-made IED, two died in the
blast while four more were injured.
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August 17
|
The STF of Uttar Pradesh Police arrests a suspected
Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM)
terrorist, also a member of the SIMI, in Azamgarh. Police recover
some arms and ammunition from him.
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August 19
|
Police arrest four Al-Umma activists in Tirunelveli,
Tamil Nadu, for extorting money from businessmen.
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August 21
|
Maharashtra Police arrest SIMI Malegaon unit
president in Nasik. During interrogation he reportedly reveals
that two LeT terrorists conferred with his unit on August 6, 2001,
on committing subversion in the State.
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August 23
|
Police recover 400kg of explosives from a temple
in Uttar Pradersh’s Etawah district and arrest two persons.
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August 24
|
11 persons are injured in a crude bomb blast
in a Howrah-bound train at Kharagpur railway station, West Bengal.
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August 28
|
Police arrest a suspected ISI operative in Hyderabad.
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August 31
|
A special TADA court in Kolkata sentences six
terrorists to life for their involvement in the March 16, 1993-bomb
blast at Bowbazar, killing 69 persons.
West Bengal Police raid an illegal arms factory
in Murshidabad district and seize a large quantity of arms and
ammunition, stored to smuggle into Bangladesh ahead of polls there,
and arrest three persons.
A Delhi Court sentences a Kashmir terrorist
to 14 years rigorous imprisonment for smuggling 1.4 kg of RDX,
five detonators, and Pakistani currency to deliver to terrorists
in Delhi.
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September 1
|
Police raid an illegal arms and ammunition factory
near Jim Corbett Park, Uttar Pradesh, and arrest four persons.
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September 5
|
Union Home Minister Advani says the government
is examining constitutional and legal provisions to devise steps
to ensure that police personnel engaged in combating cross-border
terrorism are able to discharge their duty without fear.
Uttar Pradesh Police unearth an illegal bomb-manufacturing
unit in Sitapur, Fatehpur district, seize some 100-kg of explosives
and arrested one person.
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September 12
|
Delhi Police arrest two Pakistani terrorists
of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM).
Two kg of RDX, a hand grenade and two detonators are recovered
from them. In a raid that followed, six kg of explosive material
is recovered from a house.
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September 19
|
Delhi Police arrest Abdul Rahman, a suspected
Harkat-ul-Jehad (HuJ) terrorist, who reportedly confesses he was
involved in several attacks on SFs in J&K.
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September 21
|
Uttar Pradesh Police arrest three SIMI activists
in Bahraich for alleged anti-India activities. Five more SIMI
cadres were arrested in the same town a day earlier.
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|
September 24
|
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee
says 17 persons with with ISI links have been arrested in various
parts of the State.
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September 26
|
SIMI national president Shahid Badra Falahi,
is arrested in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh.
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September 27
|
A report says ISI recruitment in Andhra Pradesh,
in Hyderabad; Nalgonda, Warangal, Nizamabad and Karimnagar districts
might have commenced in 1991. Recruits were sent to Pakistan for
arms training, the report claims.
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September 28
|
A report claims the Union Home Ministry has evidence
of SIMI’s Al Qaeda links.
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September 29
|
In the continuing countrywide crackdown on SIMI,
122 cadres are arrested, taking the total number of arrests to
362.
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|
September 30
|
Maharashtra Police arrest in Mumbra, Thane district,
a suspected accomplice of the IC-814 hijackers, and recover some
incriminating documents from him.
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|
October 1
|
Nine SIMI activists are arrested in Madhya Pradesh
and one in Delhi.
India welcomes UN Security Council Resolution
No. 1373 on suppressing terrorist financing as a positive step
and expresses the hope that it would be effectively implemented,
under the Councils’ regular monitoring.
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October 2
|
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says banning
SIMI was "timely".
Navi Mumbai Police arrest Mohammad Afroz Abdul
Razak, following a drunken brawl. Later, it emerges that he is
suspected to have links with the al Qaeda.
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October 3
|
A city Court in Delhi directs police to produce
audio and video recordings of SIMI’s activities and prove it is
involved in unlawful activities.
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|
October 5
|
Addressing a conference of State chief secretaries
and police chiefs in New Delhi, Union Home Minister LK Advani
says the possibility of terrorists having access to weapons of
mass destruction could no longer be ignored.
Security forces arrest four suspected National
Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) terrorists, including a woman,
in Vellore, Tamil Nadu.
Maharashtra Police arrest three SIMI activists
in Ahmednagar.
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October 6
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Two suspected Bangladeshi terrorists are held
near the Bangladesh border in Bashirhat, 24-Parganas district,
West Bengal, and some incriminating documents are seized from
them.
A suspected Harkat-ul-Ansar (HuA)
terrorist is arrested in Bangalore.
Assam Police leave for Tamil Nadu to interrogate
and bring back four suspected NDFB terrorists held in Vellore
on October 5.
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October 8
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Delhi Police chargesheet six JKIF terrorists
for waging war against the country.
The Tamil Nadu State vice-president of SIMI,
Abdul Qudoos, is arrested in Madurai.
An Army press release says the four suspected
NDFB terrorists arrested in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on October 5,
had probably gone there enter into a deal with the ISI or the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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October 10
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Mumbai police arrest six ISI agents and aides
of underworld don Chhota Shakeel, who reportedly plotted to kill
Union Home Minister and some other VIPs, and to carry out major
terrorist acts in the country.
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October 15
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The Calcutta High Court rejects a bail petition
of Peter Bleach, serving life sentence in the Purulia arms-drop
case of 1995.
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October 16
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A Delhi Court rejects the bail application of
two terrorists standing trial in the Red Fort-shootout case.
The Union Cabinet consents to promulgating the
Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO),
2001.
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October 17
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A Calcutta Court convicts a Bangladeshi agent
of the ISI and three others in the 1999-Chandipur espionage case,
on sedition and criminal conspiracy charges.
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October 22
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A charge sheet is filed against two more terrorists
in the Red Fort attack case.
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October 23
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A Special Court in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, frames
charges against 167 accused for the 1998 serial blasts in the
city that claimed 58 lives and injured 250 more.
Mumbai police arrest four HuM terrorists in a
raid in Mumbra.
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October 24
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United Arab Emirates (UAE) Police arrest Abu
Salem, a key aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Both are accused
in the 1993-Mumbai blasts.
Maharashtra Police files chargesheet in a Jalgaon
court against 11 SIMI activists arrested for alleged terrorist
activities.
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October 25
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Uttar Pradesh Police arrest two Afghans and two
others in Muzaffarpur for alleged links with terrorist outfits.
Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA)
comes into force.
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October 27
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14kg of RDX, two AK-47 rifles, two pistols, 296 pistol cartridges,
an assortment of electronic detonators and timing devices and
other explosives are seized near the India-Pakistan border at
Santalpur, Patan district, Gujarat.
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October 29
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A tribunal upholds the Union government’s April
27-decision to ban the Deendar Anjuman as an unlawful association.
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November 2
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Deendar Anjuman leaders say they would revive
the outfit under a new name.
One person is killed and four more injured in
a country-made bomb blast in Mouda, near Nagpur, Maharashtra.
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November 3
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In a letter to the Dharmapuri railway station
chief, Tamil Nadu, Al Umma threatens to blow up tracks if People’s
Democratic Party head Abdul Nasser Madhani and Al Umma cadres
accused in the Coimbatore serial blasts are not released from
jail.
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November 6
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The Tamil Nadu government decides the TNLA ban
and TNRT.
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November 21
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A Court in Kanpur rejects the bail plea of an
accused held in August 2001 in Aligarh for terrorist activities.
Authorities claim they have evidence to prove he was supplying
explosives to hardcore terrorists.
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November 22
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Four suspected ISI agents attempting to sneak
into the Kalaikunda Air Force base, Midnapore district, West Bengal
are arrested.
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December 1
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Speaking in New Delhi, Union Home Minister Advani
voices the apprehension that Afghan terrorists hiding in Pakistan
after the fall of the Taliban might attempt to infiltrate into
India.
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December 3
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Mohammad Afroz detained on October 2, in Mumbai,
is accused of having links with the Al Qaeda and is arrested under
POTA.
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December 4
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Five persons are injured in a blast in Teghra
market, Begusarai district, Bihar.
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December 6
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Police arrest four persons near Sarbhanda, Gujarat,
and seize illegal arms.
Police arrest two suspected HM terrorists––residents
of Baramulla in J& K––from Adarsh Nagar area in Delhi. A suspected
hawala operative funding terrorists, too, is arrested. 1.8kg of
explosives, four live electronic detonators, three mobile phones,
five phone cards and INR 67,000 is seized from the alleged terrorists.
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December 7
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A JeM terrorist is killed an encounter at Sardhar
outpost, near Rajkot, Gujarat.
Speaking in New Delhi, Union Home Minister LK
Advani says that government is determined to create a new legal
infrastructure to combat terrorism.
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December 12
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Rajasthan Police arrest two Pakistanis in Jaipur
and Jodhpur and unearth an ISI spy ring.
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December 13
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Five JeM terrorists attack India’s Parliament
while in session. Reports say 11 people, including all the terrorists
are killed, and 30 injured. Among the dead are six security force
personnel, including a woman constable.
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December 15
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Delhi police say two Afghan nationals, two Kashmir
residents and a Pakistani were involved in the attack on Parliament.
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December 16
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General Officer Command-in-Chief (GOC-in-C),
33 Corps, Lt. Gen. Ashok Chaki, while speaking at Sukhna near
Siliguri, West Bengal, says different terrorist groups aided by
ISI are active in North Bengal.
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December 17
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Delhi Police arrest two more persons in connection
with the December 13-terrorist attack on Parliament.
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December 18
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Delhi Police arrest two Nepalese allegedly supplying
explosives to Maoist insurgents in Nepal, from the Old Delhi Railway
Station. Police also seize 50 kg of explosives, 389 detonators,
46 fuse fires and 28 gelatin sticks from them.
Delhi Police Commissioner Ajai Raj Sharma says,
Mohammed, the terrorist who led the attack on Parliament on December
13, was one of the hijackers of flight IC-814 in December 1999.
Mohammed Afroz, the suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist,
makes a voluntary confession, in-camera, at a court in Mumbai.
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December 20
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Chief coordinator of the JeM in Delhi and alleged
co-conspirator in the December 13-attack on Parliament Mohammad
Afzal says he harboured and assisted the terrorist in the attack.
He says all five terrorists were Pakistani nationals and JeM Ghazi
Baba was directing them.
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December 22
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Three schoolboys are killed and another seriously
injured in an explosion at a farm godown in Sitapur, Madurai district,
Tamil Nadu, while meddling with bombs. Two persons are arrested
in this connection.
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December 24
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Police recover explosives with ‘foreign markings’
from Jamiyatpura village near Adalaj, Gujarat, and defuse them.
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December 25
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Delhi Police nab an ISI agent in Daryaganj while
making a call to Pakistan.
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December 26
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The annual year-end report of the Ministry of
Home Affairs, for the year 2001, says 101 ISI modules were unearthed
countrywide. Heightened challenges posed by foreign sponsored
terrorist attacks characterised the internal security situation,
the report holds.
Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Nirupama Rao, while
speaking to the media, asserts that the steps announced by Pakistan
against the LeT and JeM are inadequate and seeks stringent action
against terror groups based there.
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December 28
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Police in Surat, Gujarat, raid a meeting venue
and arrest 123 persons for alleged links with SIMI and also seize
incriminating documents from them.
At the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) founding
day function in Delhi, Union Home Minister Advani says, "We have
already been facing a proxy war for almost two decades. But after
the December 13 attack on Parliament, we felt that terrorism has
crossed the Lakshman Rekha [rubicon]". The diplomatic offensive
against Pakistan is a part of India’s decisive war against terrorism,
he declares.
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December 30
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A LeT terrorist is arrested in Delhi and an IED
and some explosives are seized.
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