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Terrorism-related Incidents in Gujarat
since 2007
2018
Sl. No.
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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Nature |
1
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January 1
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NS
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During Investigation, it has been revealed that
two alleged IS operatives, Kasim Stimberwala and Ubaid Mirza,
played an important role in radicalising and further recruiting
Indian Muslims from Gujarat and other states to join IS. The
duo used to target and lure Indian Muslim youth over a social
media platform and later added them to the messaging group or
forums. After the assurance of their loyalty, the recruits were
contacted by Shafi Armar alias Zahed al-Hindi. Apart
from planning a 'lone-wolf' attack on synagogue in Khamasa area
in Ahmedabad District of Gujarat, the duo were main recruiters
for IS in India, said an unnamed senior Gujarat ATS official.
|
Non-Violent |
2 |
January 31 |
Gujarat
|
During the probe of the conversion case of an
unidentified woman from Kerala, the NIA has found that she was
forced to follow the preaching and become a disciple of an Islamic
preacher Zakir Naik. Although, the NIA has registered the case
against nine persons accused for conspiring a fraud marriage
between Mohammad Riyaz/Riyas and the woman, and forcing her
to convert to Islam. Originally, the woman is a resident of
Gujarat.
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Non-Violent |
3 |
February
20 |
Gujarat
|
The Gujarat High Court issued a notice to the
NIA over a bail plea filed by the Naeem Ramodia who was arrested
for allegedly conspiring IS-style 'lone-wolf' attack in Gujarat.
According to Ramodia's plea, the FIR and other materials filed
against him-labeled him as a 'misguided youth'. Both, Naeem
and his brother Vaseem had been charged for planning a lone-wolf
attack in Gujarat. In his petition, Naeem argued that he and
his brother were too 'fearful' to commit the crime alleged against
both of them; hence the bail shall be granted. Naeem and his
brother had no prior criminal antecedents. It is an interest
of the nation that both of them must keep away from criminals
and moved to reform house for psychological treatment for some
time, read the petition filed by Naeem's advocate M.M. Shaikh.
Whereas, the NIA stated in their Chargesheet that the Gujarat
ATS had credible information about few youths from Gujarat were
radicalized by Mufti Abdus Sami Qasmi alias Samiullah.
|
Non-Violent
(Judicial Plea) |
4 |
March 3 |
Ahmedabad
|
One of the founding member of the IM-Abdul Subhan
Qureshi, a mastermind of the 2008 serial blasts in Ahmedabad
(Gujarat), has been sent to 20 days custody of the Ahmedabad
Crime Branch. Abdul was flown to the Ahmedabad on a transfer
warrant and presented before the court on next day. He was arrested
on January 23 by the Special cell of Delhi Police.
|
Non-Violent
(Transfer of Custody) |
5 |
March 5 |
Ahmedabad |
One of the founders of IM and mastermind behind
2008 Ahmedabad blasts-Abdul Subhan Qureshi (48) has confessed
to senior officials of the Crime Branch that Riyaz Bhatkal-another
founding member of IM had visited Ahmedabad city thrice in two
months before the blasts. Riyaz stayed in Ahmedabad with Abdul
Subhan Qureshi and Kayamuddin Kapadia at a rented bungalow in
Danilimda in Ahmedabad District, Gujarat where the bombs were
assembled, said an unnamed senior Crime Branch officer. Before
his arrest, Subhan Qureshi hid his real identity and worked
at a local school as an English teacher. Later, he had travelled
to Saudi Arabia twice on a passport issued with a fake identity.
A probe on his Saudi Arabia trips is ongoing, said an unnamed
senior Crime Branch officer.
|
Non-Violent
(Confession Statement) |
6 |
March 7 |
Ahmedabad |
During the interrogation with Ahmedabad Crime
Branch, the co-founder of IM and mastermind of 2008 Gujarat
blasts-Abdul Subhan Qureshi has revealed that he was living
in Nepal for seven years under the fake identity of Abdul Rehman
and was taken to jungle of Halol in Panchmahal District in Gujarat,
to re-establish terrorist training camp which was there before
2008 Gujarat blasts. Subhan left Ahmedabad 10 days before the
blasts and hid in Bihar and Jharkhand before 'sneaking' into
Nepal in 2009 via Raxual border, said an unnamed Crime Branch
official. Subhan had travelled twice to Saudi Arabia for Hajj
pilgrimage and used the passport issued on the name of Abdul
Rehman as a fake identity. A probe about Subhan's activities
in Saudi Arabia is ongoing, said an unnamed official involved
in the case.
|
Non-Violent
(Confession of IM Operative) |
7 |
March 11 |
Surat |
The Ahmedabad Crime Branch officials took Abdul
Subhan Qureshi alias Taukeer- co-founder and key member
of IM, to Surat for re-construction of the terror plan. Abdul
Qureshi is accused of 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, and had
stayed at a rented house in Baruch with other suspects and planned
the Surat serial blasts. However, the timers placed in bombs
for Surat blasts, were malfunctioned and bombs failed to explode.
In Surat, the Crime Branch had their first lead in the 2008
Ahmedabad blasts case after the arrest of Sajid Mansoori who
was arrested from Baruch District in August 2008.
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Non-Violent
(Re-Construction of Terror Plan) |
8 |
March 28 |
Ahmedabad |
One of the founder and member of IM-Abdul Subhan
Qureshi alias Tauqeer likely to be bought to Kochi regarding
a probe in Wagamon SIMI camp case. Qureshi was in Gujarat Police's
custody regarding the Ahmedabad serial blasts case. However,
the NIA is planning to bring Qureshi to Kochi and produce him
before the Kochi NIA Court on April 3, said an unnamed NIA officer.
In December 2007, Qureshi was a treasurer of the SIMI when the
camp at Wagamon or Vagamon in Kottayam and Idukki District of
Kerala. The trial of the case is on-going at the NIA's court
in Kochi.
|
Non-Violent
(Investigation Statement) |
9 |
April 2 |
Gujarat High
court |
Naeem Ramodia-an IS sympathiser and accused
of conspiring 'lone-wolf' attack in Gujarat, withdrew his bail
application from Gujarat High Court after the Judges seemed
hesitant to release him on bail. Naeem and his brother-Wasim
were arrested by the Gujarat ATS in February 2017 on the charges
of conspiring IS-inspired attacks at various locations in Gujarat.
Ramodia brothers were misguided youths and for the communication
over the Internet, the law cannot charge them for the act of
terrorism. Instead, the accused should have been sent to rehabilitation
centre to reform, said Ramodia's advocates.
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Non-Violent
(Judicial proceeding) |
10 |
April 24 |
Ahmedabad/Surat |
According to the chargesheet filed by Delhi
Police's Special Cell, the accused of 2008 Gujarat blasts-Abdul
Subhan Qureshi aka Tauqeer, was in contact with founder leader
of Indian Mujahideen (IM)-Riyaz Bhatkal, soon after executing
the blasts. Qureshi secretly worked for the SIMI and visited
every part of India. During that period, he met Riyaz Bhatkal
and upon his instructions, Qureshi carried out the Ahmedabad
and Surat blasts in July 2008, read the chargesheet. Qureshi
was among other 38 people chargesheeted for their involvement
with SIMI and for organising a training camp at Wagamon/Vagamon
area in Kottayam and Idukki Districts of Kerala. He [Qureshi]
also carried a bounty of INR four lakhs declared by the NIA
for attending the training camp in Kerala. The Chargesheet also
narrated the arrest operation in which Qureshi was arrested
from Delhi's East Ghazipur area on January 20, 2018. During
his arrest, shots were fired from both sides [Police and Qureshi]
but the nearby residents, including residents of Khoda colony
claimed that they did not hear any gunshots and did not acknowledge
the Police presence at the location. However, the chargesheet
stated that Qureshi and his driver-Mohammad Aziz were spotted
at Ghazipur paper market and their car was intercepted by the
Police car. After the surrender warning, the accused came out
of the car and ran in different directions. Reportedly, Qureshi
fired two rounds at the Police team and a bullet hit DCP Pramod
Singh Kushwah but he was saved by the bulletproof vest that
he was wearing. The Police team fired back and finally arrested
Qureshi but Mohammad Aziz managed to escape, read the chargesheet.
|
Non-Violent
(Chargesheet) |
11 |
May 15 |
Kutch District |
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on
May 15 arrested A.R. Mansuri (30)-a driver by profession from
Kutch District in Gujarat for his alleged connection with anti-national
elements. The preliminary interrogation of arrested terrorist-Faisal
Mirza, led ATS team to Mansuri. Mansuri is in custody till May
25, said an unnamed senior officer.
|
Non-Violent
(Arrest) |
12 |
May 18 |
Ahmedabad |
The arrested terrorist of Indian Mujahideen
(IM)-Ariz Khan aka Junaid has confessed to the NIA that his
outfit's involvement in the serial blasts in Delhi in 2005 and
his role in planting the IED at Sarojini Nagar Market in Delhi.
Junaid also confessed about his role in serial blasts in Delhi
(2005), Varanasi (2006), Uttar Pradesh Court Complex (2007),
and Jaipur, Ahemdabad, and Delhi serial blasts in 2008. The
confession raised doubts over the investigation conducted by
Delhi Police which claimed that Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) was behind
those blasts. Junaid confessed that he and another IM terrorist-Mirza
Shadab Beg kept IED at Sarojni Nagar Market while Atif Ameen
kept IED in Paharganj. The third IED was kept by Mohammad Shakeel
and Saquib Nisar in a DTC bus; all terrorist were members of
IM, said an unnamed official from Union Ministry of Home Affairs
(UMHA). In 2006, Delhi Police filed chargesheet against five
suspects-Tariq Dar, Mohammad Hussain Fazli, Rafiq Shah, Farooq
Ahmad Batloo, and Ghulam Ahmad Khan, all residents of J&K, and
alleged that all five belong to LeT. Six other alleged LeT members
-- Abu Huzefa, Abu al Qama, Abu Zaid, Rashid, Mansoor and Sajjad
Salafi - were also accused for their involvement in the same
case. On October 29, 2005, first blast occurred at Paharganj
killed 17 civilians and injured 108. Second blast took place
in Sarojni Nagar Market killing 50 civilians and injured 104,
and the third blast took place at Okhla in which 13 civilians
were injured.
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Non-Violent
(Confession Statement) |
2017
Sl. No.
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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Nature |
1
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February 26
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Rajkot & Bhavnagar
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ATS arrested two suspected Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria (ISIS) operatives from Rajkot and Bhavnagar,
who had conspired to carry out terror activities in the country
and was planning to collect chemical explosives from cracker
manufacturers in Gujarat. Two brothers, Wasim and Nathin, were
arrested from Rajkot and Bhavnagar respectively, in an operation
launched by the state ATS.
|
Non-violent |
2 |
February
27 |
Rajkot &
Bhavnagar |
The two Islamic State (IS) terror group suspects
arrested from Rajkot and Bhavnagar (Gujarat) on February 26
confessed to their plans of planting bombs in the thickly populated
Trikon Baug and Gundawadi areas of Rajkot this week. The suspects
Waseem Ramodiya and his brother Naeem were remanded to the custody
of the ATS till March 10. Investigators have got names of at
least 40 other persons from across Gujarat, including Ahmedabad,
who were engaged with the brothers regarding IS activities across
the globe. "We are conducting verification of these persons
to know the extent of their indoctrination," an official said.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
March 27 |
Bhavnagar |
The SOG of Bhavnagar Police arrested two persons
from Atabhai Chowk in Rajkot city along with FICN145 of INR
1,000 denomination.The arrested accused were identified as Ashish
Agrawal, 26, a resident of Devki Nandan Apartment near Atabhai
Chowk and Abdul Rashid Khursheed Sheikh, 20, a native of Daulatabag
in West Bengal. One fake note of INR 2,000 denomination was
also seized from them. H A Jadeja, Police sub-inspector, SOG
said that the duo were probably trying to pass off the fake
notes to someone for commission as RBI is accepting the invalid
INR 500 and INR 1,000 notes till March 31, 2017. Agrawal, who
is also a native of West Bengal, is engaged in gas welding work
at the Alang ship breaking yard.
|
Non-violent |
4 |
April 2 |
NS |
IM wanted to carry out a big terror strike in
Surat (Gujarat) in 2008 to avenge the killings of Muslims in
2002 Gujarat riots and the demolition of Babri Masjid, Police
said. Sources in the Gujarat Crime Branch said IM 'India cheif'
Yasin Bhatkal had travelled to Surat with a plan to plant 29
bombs on July 26, 2008, the day 20 blasts rocked Ahmedabad.
During the second round of questioning on April 2, Bhatkal told
that IM was planning to carry out bigger attacks in Gujarat
after the July 2008 serial blasts. "Bhatkal had thought after
carrying out serial blasts in Jaipur, Bangalore and Delhi, they
would get away with Ahmedabad blasts too. But within a week
of the attack, Gujarat police caught some of the key IM operatives,"
an official said.
|
Statement |
5 |
April 24 |
Surat District
|
Yasin Bhatkal, India 'operations chief' of IM,
who is accused of carrying out a series of bomb blasts in Ahmedabad
and for planting several bombs in Surat in 2008, registered
his statement before a magistrate in closed door proceedings
held in Surat District of Gujarat and sessions court. "Bhatkal
wanted to give statement before the court hence we took him
there. Further procedures were carried out in the courtroom
and the police were not involved in them," city Police Commissioner
Satish Sharma said. Sources said Bhatkal's statement was registered
under section 164 of Criminal Procedure Code which allows an
accused to register his statement or confession in the presence
of a magistrate.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
May 12 |
Vadodara |
The SOG busted a FICN racket and arrested three
persons from the Vadodara city in Vadodara District. The accused,
identified as Babu Solanki, Jigar Pandya and Ketan Pandya, used
to dupe people by offering to double their investment within
short time and hand them fake currency notes. FICN of INR 13,000
and some Bangladeshi currency were recovered from them said
H M Vyas, SOG Police Inspector.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
May 15 |
Surat |
The Gujarat Police arrested two people and seized
FICN worth INR 72,000 in Surat. The accused have been taken
in for interrogation. Further details are awaited.
Also in an unspecified date, recently, the
Surat Police had neutralised a racket of printing FICNs using
colour printer and had recovered notes with face value of INR
4,34,000.
|
Non-violent |
8 |
May 25 |
Amreli District
|
The Crime Branch officials in Amreli District
recovered FICNs with a face value of INR 1.11 crore from two
persons, who were later arrested. The seizure was made after
Police got a tip-off that some persons were carrying suspicious
items on a scooty from Lathi town to Amreli. "Police stopped
the two-wheeler at a circle on Bhavnagar road and searched it.
They found a bag full of fake currency notes in INR 2,000 and
INR 500 denominations in the possession of two persons," an
official of Amreli Crime Branch said. The two men, identified
as Sachin Parmar and Paresh Solanki, were later arrested.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
May 31 |
Bhuj town
|
Three Bangladeshi nationals, including a woman
with a 18-month-old child, were detained from Sanjognagar in
Bhuj town by the SOG. They also recovered 20 FICNs of INR 500
denomination from the trio. Those detained were Manzura Khatun
Sadar (45), TIka Khan Mujbar Murul (45), Sagor Riz-ul Sadar
(18) residents of Jasor District of Bangladesh, SOG Police Inspector
R A Dodhiya said.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
June 2 |
Amreli District
|
Police arrested a man along with FICN with a
face value of INR 1,18,000 in Gorakhia Chowkri village in Amreli
District. The man was identified as Danuba Gohil. "Gohil was
nabbed from Gorakhia Chowkri when he was on his way from Badeli
on his two-wheeler to hand over the fake notes to some persons
in Dhasa village in Amreli district," an official said. The
seized notes were in denomination of INR 2,000.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
June 3 |
Bhavnagar
|
The SOG of Bhavnagar Police arrested one more
person in connection with FICN printing and circulation racket.
The SOG team arrested Jayesh Solanki, 25, a resident of Kumbharvada
in Bhavnagar and seized INR 90,000 FICN of INR 2,000 denomination
from his house. H A Jadeja, Police Sub Inspector, SOG, told
that Jayesh was given the bundles of notes by main accused Hardik
Vaghela in Surat to be circulated in the market.
|
Non-violent |
12 |
June 9 |
Ahmedabad
|
Suhaib Potanical, 49, a suspected IM operative,
was arrested by Surat Police in Ahmedabad. He was lodged in
jail after his arrested in May by Ahmedabad Police. Surat Police
produced him in court and he was remanded to Police custody
till June 15. Potanical is close associate of arrested 'IM India
operations chief' Yasin Bhatkal, accused in both Ahmedabad bomb
blasts and Surat bomb planting case. "We have been granted custody
of Potanical till June 15 and he will not be brought to Surat.
Police will question him in Ahmedabad and after questioning
he will be produced in court and sent to jail," said Police.
Considering the risk involved in transportation of the terror
suspects Police have decided not to bring the accused to city
for few days of questioning, sources informed.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
July 21 |
Ahmadabad
|
SOG of Ahmadabad Police registered an offence
against unidentified persons for depositing, during the past
three months, a total of 4,426 FICN in 10 different private
and nationalized banks. SOG officials said the fake notes deposited
include post-demonetization currency in the denominations of
INR 500 and 2000 and pre-demonetization notes in the denominations
of INR 500, 1000, 100, 50, 20 and 10. "Every three months, on
the complaint of banks, we register such offences in which fake
notes were deposited in banks," said ACP (SOG), BC Solanki.
However, what is significant is that though the time limit for
depositing demonetizing currency in banks expired in March 2017,
it is allowed only for those who were abroad during that period.
However, the old notes could be deposited only in branches of
RBI. It is noteworthy that though such cases are being registered
every three months with the SOG, not a single case has been
cracked.
|
Non-violent |
14 |
August 8 |
Gujarat
|
FICN of face value of over INR 2.55 crore, the
maximum being in Gujarat, have been seized along various international
borders of the country post demonetisation, Minister of State
for Home Hansraj G Ahir cited NCRB data, collected for the November
9, 2016-July 14, 2017 period, while furnishing a written reply
in Lok Sabha on the subject. A total of 23,429 FICN have
been seized during the said period and the data also includes
the fakes for the old Rs. 500 notes that were demonetised, along
with the INR 1,000 currency, after a declaration by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on November 8, 2016.
|
Non-violent |
15 |
August 13 |
Surat
|
SOG of Surat Police arrested four persons for
printing and circulating FICNs. Police also recovered INR 40.73
lakh from their possession. An SOG team raided a house at Sania
village near Surat and recovered FICN in denomination of INR
2,000, INR 500 and INR 100. Police had earlier arrested three
persons for trying to circulate fake currency. The arrested
men revealed that they had got the notes from one Ravi Gandhi.
Police raided Gandhi's row house at Sania and arrested him.
A printing machine, a cutting machine, a laptop and the paper
used to print fake notes were found at the house, apart from
INR 15.38 lakh in fake currency. Altogether, INR 40.73 lakh
in fake currency were recovered from the possession of Gandhi
and the other three.
|
Non-violent |
16 |
August 27 |
Ahmedabad
|
One individual, Vaseem Ramodia went by the alias
Ninja Fox and on his chat transcripts, the NIA found a deadly
plan to carry out lone wolf attacks in India against the kafirs
or infidels. The NIA detailed this in its charge sheet filed
against two Islamic State (IS) operatives Vaseem alias
Ninja Fox and Naseem. The NIA said that the duo had discussed
at length on how to replicate the terror of the West where lone
wolf strikes have almost become a routine affair. The charge
sheet was filed before the special NIA court at Ahmedabad.
|
Non-violent |
17 |
September
8 |
Ahmedabad |
Police recovered FICN of INR 2,000 denomination
with a face value of INR 190,000 and arrested four persons from
Ahmedabad, in this connection. They were arrested from Chiloda
circle on SP Ring Road. They were identified as Sanjay Giri,
Paresh Parmar, Narendra Parmar and Dharmendra Rathod. "One of
the four persons is an engineering diploma holder and has knowledge
of computer. Upon questioning, they revealed that they were
in financial crisis and wanted to make quick money which is
why they started printing fake currency notes," Police said.
|
Non-violent |
18 |
October 25 |
Surat / Surat District
|
Gujarat ATS arrested two suspected Islamic State
(ISIS) terrorists, identified as Mohammad Kasim Stimberwala
and Ubed Ahmed Mirza from Surat in Surat District who were planning
terror attack in the State during the upcoming Gujarat assembly
elections. The duo was in touch with ISIS through social media.
They even conducted recce at some religious places in the state.
They have been inspired by terrorist Abdul al-Fazal and were
planning to flee the country after executing their plan.
Report said that the duo claimed that they
were plotting an attack on a Jewish synagogue in Khadia area
of Ahmedabad in "very near future". While Stimberwala used to
work as a laboratory technician with a hospital in Ankleshwar
town, Mirza is a practicing lawyer with the Surat district court
and also owns a hotel there. They were booked under for criminal
conspiracy, waging or attempt to wage war against Government
of India and other charges, an official said.
|
Non-violent |
19 |
October 28 |
Morbi District / Gujarat
|
Four persons, identified as Harshad Divani,
Govind Maheshwari, Mayur Nimawat and Imran Sanghwani were arrested
with FICN with face value of INR 5,25,300 from Morbi in Morbi
District of Gujarat. "The seizure includes 138 notes of INR
2,000 denomination, 482 notes of INR 500 denomination and 83
notes of INR 100 denomination. That apart, we have also seized
four cellphones from the accused," an official from Morbi local
crime branch said. They added that all notes are colour photocopies
of original currency notes.
During their interrogation, the accused revealed
the name of their accomplice as Jaydeep Joshi following which
the Police have launched a manhunt for him. Police further said
that Maheshwari used to print the notes in Abdasa in Kutch District.
He had also delivered 38 fake notes of INR 100 denomination
to Joshi on October 28 morning.
|
Non-violent |
20 |
November
6 |
Ujjain/ Madhya Pradesh
|
Gujarat ATS picked up one person, identified
as Uruzkhan Pathan of Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh) for questioning
in connection with the firearms which were to be supplied to
alleged Islamic State (IS) operatives, Ubaid Mirza and Kasim
Stimberwala who were arrested by Gujarat ATS on October 25.
According to the FIR registered by ATS, both Mirza and Stimberwala
were planning to carry out 'lone wolf' attacks on a synagogue
in Khamasa area of Ahmedabad city to kill Jews. Senior ATS officials
said that Pathan had been picked up but not yet arrested. He
works at a bakery in Ujjain. "During Pathan's interrogation,
it came to light that Ubaid Mirza had met him in Delhi," said
a senior ATS official. Later, Ubaid had phoned Pathan and asked
him to arrange for an imported pistol and some ammunition.
|
Non-violent |
21 |
November
8 |
Gujarat
|
Alleged Islamic State (IS) operatives Kasim
Stimberwala and Ubaid Mirza were sent on Police remand for six
more days in Gujarat. Both were arrested by Gujarat ATS on October
25 on charges of planning to attack a synagogue in Khamasa area
of Ahmedabad and then flee to Jamaica. Both were to take shelter
with a radical preacher, Abdullah el Faisal of Jamaica, said
a Police officer. ATS officials said they are keeping watch
for the weapons and firearms that they had allegedly been acquired
to attack the synagogue.
|
Non-violent |
22 |
December
10 |
Gujarat
|
Intelligence agencies have gathered information
that a "lone wolf" may try to target road shows of "big political
leaders" during the campaigning for the assembly elections in
Gujarat, officials said. Based on intelligence inputs and interrogation
reports of two arrested suspected terrorists, the agencies have
alerted the Gujarat Police that a "lone wolf" may try to carry
out attacks on road shows of top political leaders and there
is a need to take maximum precaution, a senior government official
said.
One Uroz Khan, arrested in Madhya Pradesh on
November 6, had reportedly told Police that he promised to supply
arms and explosives to two suspected IS operatives for allegedly
carrying out "lone wolf" attacks on a Jewish synagogue and during
election rallies in Gujarat, the official said. IS suspect Ubaid
Mirza, who was in the custody of the NIA, also reportedly told
the agency that IS style "lone wolf" attack was planned on road
show and rallies in Gujarat.
|
Non-violent |
2016
Sl. No.
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Date
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Place
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Incident
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Nature |
1
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February 3
|
Gujarat
|
The al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)
had made plans to set up base in Gujarat and even asked its
sleeper cells in India to recruit people who could provide shelter
to its operatives in the state, claimed sources in Gujarat Police.
Sources in Gujarat ATS said a top terror operative of the AQIS,
now based in Pakistan was to sneak into India to execute their
plans. AQIS had planned several killings to disturb communal
harmony in the country, said the sources.
This was uncovered by a joint team of Gujarat
ATS and Ahmedabad city Crime Branch which cracked two email
ids used by the terror operatives to communicate among themselves.
One is cha******@safemail.net - the complete mail id has not
been revealed as security agencies are still analysing coded
messages kept in its draft folder. This mail ID was operational
till January 2015 while the other one, which reportedly contains
'deadly plans' of the AQIS, is still being analysed, said a
senior official of the crime branch.
|
Non-violent |
2 |
February 9 |
Surat District
|
Crime Branch officials unearthed a FICN printing
and distribution racket in Surat District. Six persons, identified
as, Pradeep Thakkar, Lalji Puraniya, Hitesh Mer, Vishal Puraniya,
Chetan Moradiya and Ghanshyam Sakariya, were arrested for running
the racket. Police recovered total 540 FICN each of INR 100
denomination from their possession.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
February 23 |
Kutch
|
The BSF seized a Pakistani boat from Kutch in
Gujarat. The security personnel recovered a 12 bore gun from
the boat. However, the crew managed to escape.
|
Non-violent |
4 |
March 1 |
Gujarat
|
A pilot project for installing radars, sensors
and cameras has been launched along the border with Pakistan
and Bangladesh to check incidents of infiltration, Minister
of State for Home, Kiren Rijiju informed the Lok Sabha.
The Minister said the Government has decided to deploy technological
solutions in the form of integration of radars, sensors, cameras
and communication, besides networks and command/control solutions
in various difficult terrains where fencing could not be installed.
"Initially, it has been decided to launch a pilot study in Punjab,
Gujarat (Sir Creek), North Bengal, Tripura and Jammu regions.
An amount of Rs 10 crore has been sanctioned for Jammu region
along the Indo-Pak border," he said in a written reply.
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Non-violent |
5 |
March 5 |
Gujarat
|
Two of the 14 teenagers who had gone missing
after the 2002 communal riots in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) have been
traced to Pakistan. This has been revealed by Gujarat Police
which with the help of central agencies located the teenagers.
Sources from the Gujarat Police said the duo that has been traced
to Bawahalpur, the place where LeT headquarters is located in
Pakistan, is from eastern Ahmedabad which witnessed major riots
in 2002.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
March 5 |
Gujarat
|
Intelligence provided by Pakistan's NSA Lieutenant-General
Naseer Janjua of a possible 26/11-style suicide assault on religious
sites and processions in Gujarat during Maha Shivratri celebrations
on March 7 and 8 led authorities to order a massive mobilisation
of state Police personnel and NSG units. The unprecedented intelligence
warning did not contain specific details on the jihadist group
involved, or information that could lead police to perpetrators,
the source said. However, he said "there was enough credible
sourcing for the matter to be taken very seriously". Naseer
Janjua conveyed the warning to his Indian counterpart, Ajit
Doval, following which NSG special forces were deployed to Gujarat
to back up state Police.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
March 6 |
Gujarat
|
The Indian Coast Guard has enhanced surveillance
along the West coast, more specifically in the seas off Gujarat,
following inputs that 10 suspected LeT and JeM terrorists could
have entered India from Pakistan to launch an attack.
|
Non-violent |
8 |
March 6 |
Gujarat
|
Security has been tightened across Delhi and
in several states amid fears of an impending terror attack.
Temples, key buildings, shopping malls, popular markets and
military installations all are under security radar of the Delhi
Police and other security agencies amid an intelligence input
that terrorists could carry out a strike in the city and NCR
region on March 7, on the occasion of Mahashivaratri. As per
the IB alert, 10 terrorists belonging to the LeT or JeM terror
groups are believed to have sneaked into the Indian territory
through the Gujarat border. It is suspected that the terror
operatives are planning to target Delhi, especially because
the Parliament is in session.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
March 6 |
Gujarat
|
UHM Rajnath Singh reviewed the internal security
situation in the country in the wake of inputs that 10 suspected
LeT and JeM terrorists have entered India from Pakistan through
Gujarat. At a high-level meeting, attended by top security officials
including Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and Director of IB Dineshwar
Sharma, Singh took stock of the situation and the steps taken
to prevent any possible terror attacks.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
March 8 |
Gujarat
|
Gujarat Government allotted money to home department
for technology and weapons upgrade keeping the ever-looming
terror threat in mind. Gujarat Police would get new weapons,
vehicles and technology for conventional and unconventional
crime-fighting. As per the state budget allocations, under the
head Police modernization, Gujarat Police would get INR 41 crore
in 60:40 centre-state allocation ratio, out of which INR 10.25
crore would go towards procuring AK rifles and Excalibur, the
upgraded variant of INSAS rifles made in India. Officials said
that the state armed Police have conducted trials for Excalibur
and have suggested a few design changes, after which the procurement
would be made.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
March 11 |
Gujarat
|
The NIA says FICN racket has spread into states
of Gujarat and Maharashtra. In its chargesheet filed against
five persons, the NIA says that these persons would source fake
currency from Bangladesh. Further the NIA also stated that after
completion of investigation against the arrested accused persons,
it has been found that all of them are part of an interstate
gang involved in the procurement and smuggling of fake currency
from their associates in Bangladesh. After procuring and smuggling
the same into India, the FICN was then circulated in various
part of country especially in Maharashtra and Gujarat, by the
members of the gang. Sushanta Sahu of Dhenkanal, Odisha, Uttam
Kumar Sinha, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, Purushottam Kumar Keshri, Jharia,
Jharkhand, Nishfal Mondal, Malda, West Bengal and Rameshwar
Sahu, Giridih, Jharkhand have been named as accused in the chargesheet.
The case is based on the seizure of FICN having face value of
INR 10,01,000 effected by the official of DRI.
|
Non-violent |
12 |
March 13 |
Vadodra / Gujarat
|
Nadim Mistry, once associated with Dawood Ibrahim
gang was arrested by Crime Branch detectives from Vadodra in
Gujarat. Nadim Mistry had allegedly helped slain gangster Mangesh
Pawar, and Pilu Khan, also a member of Dawood gang, in murdering
a person named Hajji in suburban Bandra (Mumbai) in 1990, Police
said.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
March 15 |
Gujarat
|
SFs have killed three of the 10 terrorists suspected
to have infiltrated into Gujarat by sea route from Pakistan,
and have also zeroed in on the hideouts of the remaining seven.
"Three of the terrorists were killed somewhere in western India
last Friday," an unnamed government official said. The official
added that the whereabouts of the remaining seven were known
and an operation was underway to arrest or neutralise them.
|
Statement |
14 |
March 16 |
Gujarat
|
Intelligence agencies and Gujarat Police have
dismissed purported UMHA official claims that three of 10 terrorists
having infiltrated from Pakistan were killed in Gujarat on the
basis of a March 5 tip-off by Pakistani NSA Naseer Janjua to
his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval. Nine men initially suspected
by investigators to be part of those infiltrators as they left
behind suspicious articles at two Gujarat guest houses later
turned out to be ATM thieves from Jharkhand. The agencies maintain
that not one of the so-called 10 terrorists has either been
traced or eliminated even as border states are on alert. There
has been no communication intercept or physical clue of any
large-scale cross-border infiltration by jihadists belonging
to either the JeM or the LeT.
|
Non-violent |
15 |
March 20 |
Gujarat
|
Tiger Hanif alias Mohammed Umer ji Patel,
an aide of Dawood Ibrahim, wanted by New Delhi for two bomb
attacks in Gujarat in 1993, has made "further representations"
to home secretary Theresa May to avoid extradition to India
after exhausting all legal avenues in Britain. Hanif was traced
to a grocery store in Bolton, Greater Manchester in Britain,
in March 2010. India and Britain signed an Extradition Treaty
in 1993. Under British extradition law, one of the grounds on
which extradition is prohibited is if the person could face
death penalty in the country requesting extradition.
|
Statement |
16 |
March 21 |
Gujarat
|
An alert was issued in Gujarat's Jamnagar District,
by Police after they received information about the suspicious
movement of an SUV in the coastal town of Sikka. The Red Alert
was issued across the District after a recent IB alert about
the entry of 10 terrorists from Pakistan through Gujarat's coastal
route, SP, Jamnagar, Pradeep Sejul said.
|
Non-violent |
17 |
March 30 |
Gujarat |
The Gujarat High Court upheld the order of a
trial court which had dropped criminal proceedings against Asgar
Ali and Mohammed Abdul Rauf in connection with the 2003 alleged
"Inter-Services Intelligence-ISI or jihadi Conspiracy" case
to avenge the 2002 riots. "Asgar Ali and Mohammed Rauf had already
been convicted in Haren Pandya murder case in which they were
later acquitted. The police had booked them in the ISI conspiracy
case, but there was no new material against them. The evidence
the police had produced in conspiracy case were identical to
what they had in Haren Pandya murder case. This amounted to
double jeopardy under section 300 of CrPC and on this ground
the session's court dropped the proceedings against them," said
lawyer Chandrashekhar Gupta, who appeared for Asgar Ali.
|
Non-Violent |
18 |
March 31 |
Gujarat |
Gujarat ATS arrested from Kheda District a man
named Narsinh Sevla of Banswada, Rajasthan, with FICN of the
face value of over INR 14.1 million. "We are looking for associates
of Narsinh who had ordered the consignment. We will nab them
very soon," said a senior Police official. "ATS officials are
bringing the accused to Ahmedabad for further interrogation,"
said a senior Police official. The sources said Gujarat ATS
had a tip-off about Narsinh ferrying counterfeit notes into
Gujarat from Rajasthan.
|
Non-violent |
19 |
April 10 |
Gujarat
|
The Centre has agreed on a five-layer elaborate
plan to completely stop infiltration on the 2,900 kilometre
western border with Pakistan. It entails round-the-clock surveillance
through sophisticated technology which in effect will totally
"lock" India's western border to prevent Pathankot-like terror
attacks and smuggling. CCTV cameras, thermal image and night-vision
devices, battlefield surveillance radar, underground monitoring
sensors and laser barriers will be placed along the border to
track all movement from the other side. The integrated set-up
will ensure that if one device doesn't work, another will alert
the control room in case of a transgression, officials said.
Laser barriers will cover 130 unfenced sections including riverine
and mountain terrain from J&K to Gujarat, often used by the
infiltrators.
|
Non-violent |
20 |
May 3 |
Amirgadh / Banas Kantha District
|
The Gujarat ATS arrested a suspected SIMI operative,
identified as Mohammad Suwale Umar in Amirgadh in Banas Kantha
District. He is wanted in a case lodged by SOG, Jaipur, Rajasthan
in 2008. He is accused of "Jihadi Conspiracy" and holding meeting
of activists of SIMI to wage war against the country.
|
Non-violent |
21 |
May 7 |
Bharuch
|
The NIA submitted charge sheet before a special
court against 10 accused in the double murder case of BJP leaders
in Bharuch (Gujarat), claiming the killings were part of a larger
conspiracy involving co-accused located in Pakistan and South
Africa. The charge sheet was filed against accused Saiyed Imran,
Zuheb Ansari, Inayat Patel, Mohmad Yunus, Haider Ali, Nissarbhai
Sheikh, Mohsin Khan Pathan, Mohmed Altaf Shaikh, Abid Patel
and Abdul Salim Ghanchi. The central agency said charge sheet
against two more arrested accused - Abdul Samad and Nasir Khan
Pathan - will be filed later.
Reportedly, the Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company had
lured people by saying that 'target Hindu leaders seen to have
had a role in the Gujarat riots and those perceived as "anti-Muslim"
and get good money and jobs in South Africa'. As per the charge
sheet submitted before the special NIA court of principal judge
P B Desai, "The case relates to murder of two persons ...as
part of a larger conspiracy in which co-accused located in foreign
countries too, were conspiring to kill and strike terror in
the minds of people belonging to a particular section of society."
It added, "During investigation, role of co-accused located
in Pakistan and South Africa has also emerged and investigation
of the case is being continued to collect more evidence against
the accused".
|
Non-violent |
22 |
May 7 |
Bharuch
|
The murder of two BJP leaders in Bharuch in
Gujarat on November 2, 2015 was part of a conspiracy by an international
terror module operated by the "D Company" to incite communal
passions, the NIA has stated in its charge sheet in the case.
"During the investigation, it was revealed that an international
terror module had been conspiring to kill selected people belonging
to a particular section of society to terrorise them and to
foment communal passions," NIA says.
The accused youths were lured with money and
promise of foreign jobs and some of them were asked to kill
Hindus in the name of Islam while others were asked to extort
money using the name of "D gang", NIA says, without mentioning
Dawood Ibrahim, head of the "D gang". Some of them were also
asked to throw alcohol bottles in churches to start fires, it
says. "The arrested accused Inayat Patel, Mohamed Yunus and
Abid Patel, along with foreign conspirators based in South Africa
and Pakistan, formed a terrorist gang and entered into a conspiracy...to
kill persons belonging to a particular section of society with
the intention to terrorise them and to create communal tension,"
it says.
|
Non-violent |
23 |
May 18 |
Bharuch
|
One of the accused in the Bharuch double murder
case, Abdul Samad was granted bail by a local court in Ahmedabad,
as the NIA failed to file a charge sheet against him within
the stipulated time of 180 days. The court granted bail to him
on a bond and condition that he will not go out of Gujarat.
Samad was arrested by police on November 17, 2015.
|
Non-violent |
24 |
May 22 |
Karanj / Surat District
|
Police arrested two persons, identified as Pankajsingh
Rajput and Hitesh Chauhan along with 29 FICN of INR 1,000 denomination
in Karanj of Surat District. According to Police, the shopkeepers
tipped them off that two youths in their late twenties were
making small purchases and were paying with INR 1,000 currency
notes. After a couple of shops, the shopkeepers smelled a pattern
and informed Police at 1.30 pm and the duo was caught from near
the BSNL office. According to Police, "The notes are of good
quality, and thus we have sent the specimens for forensic analysis
to ascertain its probable origin".
|
Non-violent |
25 |
May 28 |
Bhuj / Kutch District
|
The SOG neutralised a FICN racket and arrested
four persons, from Bhuj in Kutch District of Gujarat. On searching
them, police found 43 FICN of denomination INR 1,000 and 236
notes of INR 500 denomination, with total face value of INR
1,61,000 with the accused. Police also recovered INR 7,920 genuine
Indian currency as well. Those arrested include Siraz alias
Sonu Abhrar Ahmed Sheikh, his wife Rehnakhatun, Sakinakhatun
and Rustam Ali Sheikh. All four are native of Kulvariyakala
village in Navgadh taluka of Sidharthnagar District in Uttar
Pradesh. However, they were living in Mumbai since many years.
|
Non-violent |
26 |
May 30 |
Ahmedabad
|
Crime Branch officials arrested two more persons,
identified as Rajendra Damor and Soeb Ansari in Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
in connection with the FICN racket which was neutralised on
May 29. Crime Branch officials said Damor is the kingpin of
the racket and Ansari used to circulate the counterfeit notes
in the market. "We have seized counterfeit notes with the corresponding
value of Rs 19,500 from the two accused persons," said Inspector
Shankar Chaudhary of the Crime Branch. Crime Branch sources
said that the seized notes were not of high quality and seemed
to be scanned copies of the original ones. "The accused used
to print counterfeit notes in the denomination of INR 100, as
INR 500 and INR 1,000 notes are scrutinized," the official said.
Chaudhary said that the accused circulated the counterfeit notes
mainly in the Sunday market which is abuzz with customers most
of the time.
|
Non-violent |
27 |
June 9 |
Ahmedabad
|
SOG officials, arrested a man named Mohammed
Saeed Mohammed Ali (48) hailing from West Bengal, along with
FICN worth INR 10,000 in Ahmedabad. ACP SOG BC Solanki said
they had a specific information about the accused with details
about the clothes he wore. "The informer had tipped us that
the accused would walk through the lane near Bank Of India in
Karanj area to Bhadra Plaza to circulate the fake notes in the
market," added ACP Solanki. During his interrogation it came
to light that one person named Azizul alias Tua alias
Bablu of Bharuch had given him the fake currency notes to circulate
in the market.
|
Non-violent |
28 |
June 9 |
India
|
In Bharuch double murder case, the NIA, has
written to South Africa requesting for "provisional arrest"
of Jao alias Zahidmiyan Sheikh who is currently suspected
to be in Pretoria. The NIA has provided crucial details like
his latest photograph and phone number. Request for provisional
arrest of Jao has been sought under Article 12 of the India-South
Africa Extradition treaty. Dawood Ibrahim's aide Javed Chikna
and Zahid are accused of conspiring to kill at least four persons
- Shirish Bhai Bangali, Advocate Modi, Viral Desai and Jaykar
Maharaj as part of a larger conspiracy to target persons belonging
to a particular section of society.
|
Non-violent |
29 |
July 5 |
Ahmedabad
|
Due to lack of evidence, a city court in Ahmedabad
discharged a man, Nasir Rangrez alias Parvez from Belgaum,
Karnataka, arrested in an ostensible instance of wrong identity
for alleged involvement in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts
case. Metropolitan Magistrate accepted the discharge application
submitted by the Crime Branch, which stated that there was no
evidence against Nasir, and, therefore, should be discharged.
The court accepted the application and ordered his release.
|
Non-violent |
30 |
July 8 |
Ahmedabad
|
Alamzeb Afridi, a resident of Juhapura in Ahmedabad,
carried out the first Islamic State (IS)-sponsored terror attacks
in the country, say Gujarat Police. The first attack on the
Israel Information Centre in Bengaluru was a failure as it could
cause only a small fire. But the second attack on Coconut Restaurant
at Church Street in Bengaluru, carried out in December 2014
killed a woman. Afridi is also an accused in the 2008 serial
blasts case of Ahmedabad.
The terror accused had been absconding for
eight years when he was arrested by Andhra Pradesh Police's
'counter-intelligence cell' (CIC) in January 2016 . He was later
arrested on transfer warrant by Ahmedabad crime branch in the
July 2008 serial blasts case. According to officials of the
Ahmedabad Crime Branch, Afridi stated during interrogation that
Shafi Armar, an IS operative believed to have been killed in
Syria during a US drone strike, had later asked him to carry
out attacks on Jewish people in Bengaluru. Gujarat Police officials
said it is believed that Armar had recruited many youths, including
Afridi, to carry out terror attacks for IS as and when directed.
|
Non-violent |
31 |
July 8 |
Gujarat
|
A module of the JMB, was collecting donations
in India on the pretext of helping the victims of the 2002 Gujarat
riots, a senior official of the NIA said. "The flow of funds
to this outfit was in the form of voluntary donations collected
on the pretext of giving free education to poor Muslim girls
and help the victims of the Gujarat and Assam riots," the NIA
official said.
|
Non-violent |
32 |
July 11 |
Kutch |
Pakistan's ISI could be behind an arms consignment
likely to be smuggled across to India through the areas surrounding
the Kutch desert in Gujarat, Intelligence department sources
said this consignment could be smuggled into India in small
consignments. It is believed that the terrorists who are meant
to use these weapons and explosives have already infiltrated
into India. The state's security agencies are already on alert
and senior Police officials of Gujarat Police are camping in
Kutch to trace infiltrators if any, said a senior police official.
|
Non-violent |
33 |
July 17 |
Ahmedabad |
Two accused in the 2002 Godhra Sabarmati Express
train carnage are believed to be in Pakistan and a RCN has been
issued against them in 2006. According to Ahmedabad Crime Branch,
the duo Salim Haji Ibrahim Badam alias Salim Panwala and Shaukat
Ahmed Charkha alias Shaukat Lalu are amongst the five accused
whose complete identities are known, but are yet to be arrested.
It has come to light in 2005 that the two absconding accused
were in Pakistan.
|
Non-violent |
34 |
July 22 |
Gujarat
|
Gujarat Police officials said agencies such
as the State ATS, SOG and district and city Police agencies
have lodged 85 offences in December 2015 and the first six months
of 2016, where FICN worth INR 5.3 crore were seized. In last
three months alone, Ahmedabad Police registered five cases involving
FICN, where each case worth over INR 10,000 in face value. As
the security agencies see FICN cases as closely associated with
instances of terrorism and anti-social activities, the recent
figures show that Gujarat ranks among top five states, reporting
the biggest seizures of FICN.
A senior official said that compared to INR
1 crore in 2012, the amount has increased five times in 2016.
Moreover, earlier consignments were smaller - while 133 persons
were caught for the INR 1 crore haul, now 167 were caught for
INR 5.3 crore. "Investigation of these cases reveal that most
of these notes come from West Bengal with illegal Bangladeshi
immigrants. The town of Malda is particularly identified as
a smuggling point. While traditional routes also involve Nepal
and by sea, the porous India-Bangladesh border is exploited
where many immigrants buy notes for cheap or bring them for
sale in India," said an investigator.
|
Non-violent |
35 |
August 7 |
Bharuch
|
Dawood Ibrahim's D-company was trying to trigger
communal violence by killing Hindu-leaders and throwing alcohol
bottles at churches in India, reveals chargesheet filed by the
NIA in the murder case of two BJP leaders in Bharuch in Gujarat
in 2015. Investigation also revealed that international terror
module was trying to lure their recruits by offering handsome
money and jobs in foreign countries. NIA investigation shows
that a new terror outfit was being planned by D-company and
the conspiracy was hatched in Karachi (Pakistan) and South Africa.
They had asked its recruits in India to throw petrol bombs and
indulge in arson in churches. The entire motive to kill Hindu
leaders and attack churches was to create communal tension.
|
Non-violent |
36 |
October 12 |
Kutch
|
Two agents of Pakistan's ISI were arrested from
Kutch in Gujarat. More details about the two arrested suspects
is awaited. This comes just a few days after a Pakistani boat
with nine crew members aboard it, was apprehended by the Indian
Coast Guard, off Gujarat coast. An inquiry into the identities
of the crew members and their interrogation had revealed that
the men were all Pakistani fishermen. As the debate on surgical
strikes rages on in the country, there have been repeated warnings
from intelligence agencies that the Pakistani terror outfits
operating from PoK, might be planning a 'spectacular' attack
on major cities across India. There have been several infiltration
bid too, along the LoC, around 40 of which were intercepted
by the BSF and the CRPF, in September.
|
Non-violent |
37 |
December 14 |
Kutch West District
|
Crime Branch of Kutch West Police neutralised
a racket of FICN printing by arresting two men, identified as
Chirag Chauhan alias Dasu and Bhachubha Jadeja and seizing FICN
worth INR 59,500 of INR 500 denomination. Following a lead,
the team raided a private office on Hirani Nagar Road in Madhapar
village near Bhuj town. The sleuths also found a colour printer,
four printing ink bottles, CD of colour printer and cables,
knives and pairs of scissors for cutting papers and photocopies
of driving licences, PAN cards and Aadhar cards of a number
of persons.
|
Non-violent |
38 |
December 14 |
Surat Railway station
|
A Pakistani national, identified as Burhanuddin
Sajjad was arrested and FICN of scrapped INR 500 with a face
value of INR 50,000 were seized from him at Surat Railway station.
According to Police, the accused, had entered India on a valid
tourist visa and had obtained the fake notes from Pakistan.
|
Non-violent |
39 |
December 26 |
Rajkot District
|
The DCB of Rajkot Police cracked a racket of
printing FICN and arrested two persons who allegedly had FICN
of INR 26,10,000 face value in their possession. Following a
tip-off, a team of DCB officials stopped a Swift car at Hanuman
Madhi Chowk on Raiya Road at 7.45 am. During search of the vehicle,
Police found 1,300 counterfeit notes of INR 2,000 denomination
and 20 fake notes of INR 500 denominations. These FICN with
cumulative face value of INR 26,10,000 were hidden in the speaker
box of the car, city Police Commissioner Anupam Singh Gehlot
said.
The accused were identified as Hruday Jagani
(29), resident of Devasya Bungalow in Bopal area of Ahmedabad,
and Lakshman Chauhan (24), resident of Balasar village in Rapar
taluka of Kutch District. Police also seized a high-quality
printer from the car. Gehlot said that Jagani had knowledge
of precision printing and therefore used to print counterfeit
currency notes. "Their modus operandi to push counterfeit notes
into circulation was to insert them in wades of original notes.
For example, they used to insert fake notes worth Rs 15,000
to Rs 20,000 in bills with face value of Rs 2 lakh," the Commissioner
further said.
|
Non-violent |
40 |
December 27 |
Surat city
|
Crime Branch sleuths arrested three persons
from Limbayat area of Surat city along with FICN having face
value of INR 6,00,000 in INR 1,000 denominations. One of the
accused, who is a resident of the United Kingdom, claimed that
he had brought the counterfeit notes from London, Police said.
Accused Jakir Yakub Patel, 40, a native of Bhadkodra in Jambusar
of Bharuch district, who now lives in Slough in London, told
police he was a maulavi at a madrasa (Islamic Seminary)
in UK where he teaches Urdu and English. The other two accused
arrested were Sarfaraz Yakub Patel, 35, brother of Jakir, and
Faizal Ibrahim Patel, 26. Both are electricians by profession.
|
Non-violent |
2015
Sl. No.
|
Date
|
Place
|
Incident
|
Nature |
1
|
January 6
|
Porbandar
|
The intelligence agencies have indicated role
of LeT behind the Gujarat off coast incident near Porbandar.
Sources indicated that the LeT operative module had possible
plans to target Navy installations at Porbandar port.
|
Non-violent |
2 |
January 30 |
Gujarat |
The GFSU signed a MoU with a Finnish company,
Codenomicon Software to be able to train and raise a "cyber
army" to combat "cyber terrorism". The technology will eventually
also be used to secure critical infrastructure, industrial control
systems and other smart-city initiatives in the country. The
GFSU developed a cyber intelligence lab in August, 2014 that
has the software called "defensics" provided by Codenomicon.
The software is the only one available in the country, which
makes this lab the biggest cyber monitoring cell among the other
labs in the country. The cyber army would be then raised to
combat cyber terrorism. The intelligence lab is not just a learners'
ground for the students of the GFSU, it will also host training
sessions for the officers from central agencies like CBI, NIA,
armed units and Police officers from various states regularly.
The intelligence lab will also aid cyber crime detections and
help Police in cyber-monitoring. The GFSU and Codenomicon will
then develop SCADA in the lab for analysis.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
March 15 |
Vadodara |
Two persons, identified as Tosifkul Shekharchand
Sheikh and Rajibul Alloudin Shaikh were arrested from Sayajigunj
locality in Vadodara for allegedly circulating FICN with the
face value of INR 278,000. Both of them hail from Malda District
of West Bengal, were found in possession of fake currency in
denominations of INR 1,000 and INR 500, said H B Vora, Police
Inspector (SoG). They have confessed to having collected INR
82,000 by circulating FICN in Vadodara. It was revealed that
the duo used to target shops in crowded areas where shopkeepers
do not have time to verify the notes provided to them.
|
Non-violent |
4 |
March 23 |
Bharatnagar area / Rajkot
|
Police arrested five residents of Bhavnagar,
identified as Mahendrasinh Gohil (31), Kava Mer (42), Laxman
Gohil (45), Raju Dodiya (35) and Bhupat Zapadia (42), along
with FICN worth of INR 192500 near GIDC (Gujarat Industrial
Development Corporation) in Bharatnagar area of Rajkot. "We
got information that Mahendrasinh, Kava, Laxman and Raju are
going to meet Zapadia to get fake currency notes on Monday afternoon
near GIDC in Bharatnagar. As soon as they exchanged some material,
we detained them and found four bundles of currency notes from
their bag. There were 385 notes of Rs 500 denomination each.
Moreover, the serial number was same on all the currency notes
(7lk 455574 and 7lk 555570)'' said an unnamed official.
|
Non-violent |
5 |
March 28 |
Dhasa village / Bhavnagar District
|
The SOG of Bhavnagar Police arrested Swami Akshar
Prakashdas of the Swaminarayan sect's Gurukul in Dhasa village
of Bhavnagar District of Guajarat for his alleged connection
to a FICN racket. Police have also detained Chandu Patel an
alleged middle man in the racket. Prakashdas was booked under
various provisions of section 489 of IPC that deal with FICN.
Police sources said the Swami's name cropped up during the questioning
of the five accused held earlier in FICN racket that was busted
last week in Bhavnagar. "During their questioning, the accused
told us that they had given INR 3,00,000 in FICN to Akshar Prakashdas
in exchange for INR 1,50,000 genuine notes," said a Police official.
Sources said that the Swami told Police he had given back INR
1,50,000 FICN to the accused as he was scared of circulating
them. He had allegedly burnt the rest after he learnt of their
arrest.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
April 10 |
Juhapura / Ahmedabad District
|
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 |
7 |
April 15 |
Gujarat |
Intelligence agencies issued a terror alert
for temples in Gujarat. According to intelligence inputs, Pakistan-based
LeT terrorists might target Akshardham temple, Somnath temple,
and other famous places in Gujarat. Following the alert, Gujarat
Police also increased security at all major establishments and
also along the coastline.
|
Non-violent |
8 |
April 16 |
Gujarat |
Gujarat Police and central defence and intelligence
agencies started their two-day joint drill Sagar Kavach 2015
to check their level coordination and preparedness for protecting
the long coastline of the state. The exercise started two days
after IB issued an alert warning anti-national elements can
come through sea route and stage attack like 26/11.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
April 20 |
Near coast of Porbandar
|
A joint ICG and Indian Navy busted a Pakistan
smuggling racket in the Arabian Sea near coast of Porbandar
in Gujarat.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
April 21 |
Porbandar
|
Report said that the ICG and Navy brought in
a suspicious boat that was seized off the coast of Porbandar
in Gujarat a day before and the eight smugglers from Pakistan
are being interrogated. The three-day operation ended when the
boat was intercepted by ICGS Sangram around 150 nautical miles
off Porbandar coast, Navy officers said. The two boats, 'Fiza'
and 'Fatima', were found sailing close to each other. Coast
Guard officials found the contraband consignment from 'Fiza'
whereas nothing was found from 'Fatima'. ICG Commander Coast
Guard (North West) Kuldip Singh Sheoran said inspection showed
that the contraband was pure heroin. "A total of 232 packets
were seized from boxes stored in the boat. The international
market price of the contraband is estimated to be Rs. 600 crore,"
he added.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
April 21 |
Porbandar
|
The officials refused to comment whether the
alleged smugglers have terror links. They were using Satellite
phones and GPS devices. Indian Navy officers said that "The
men belong to a large network of drug peddlers who often use
Indian waters for smuggling and were carriers." Senior officers
from Navy, Coast Guard and Narcotics Control Bureau are in Porbandar
for the interrogation of the arrested smugglers.
|
Non-violent |
12 |
April 26-27 |
Rundh village /Jhagadia tehsil / Bharuch
District
|
The Bharuch Police in Gujarat arrested five
persons, identified as Shivkumar Mishra (45), Natwar Ravat (36),
Hajratali Saiyad (42), Nazir Chauhan (51) and Jyoti Goms (31)
along with FICNs with face value of INR 6.661 million. Local
Crime Branch officials arrested five persons from Rundh village
of Jhagadia tehsil in Bharuch District on April 26 evening
and seized FICN worth INR 6.572 million. Later on April 27 Police
recovered another FICN worth INR 89,000 from the house of the
main accused. The currency notes were mainly of the Rs 1,000
denomination. "We also seized printer, scanner, dye plates,
paper cutter and injection syringes," inspector V R Malhotra
said.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
May 9 |
Gujarat
|
To counter possible threats from smugglers and
terror outfits targeting the Gujarat coast, the Indian Navy
has integrated eight coastal radar stations in the state under
the National Command Control Communication Intelligence (NC3I)
programme. The commissioning of the INS Sardar Patel naval base,
with its advanced technology, will enhance the NC3I intelligence
network.
|
Non-violent |
14 |
May 20 |
Gujarat |
Central intelligence agencies have warned of
a terror attack possibly in Gujarat or Mumbai (Maharashtra)
in September-October this year (2015). The alert issued by the
IB apparently states that a Pakistan-based terror group is planning
to target Gujarat or Mumbai. The alert mentions that six to
nine terrorists could enter into India through the sea route
from Karachi or via the land border in J&K, said sources in
the Gujarat Police.
|
Non-violent |
15 |
July 3 |
Gujarat
|
Panigate Police arrested a man in Dahod District
of Gujarat for dispatching FICNs worth INR 33,800 to two persons
in Vadodara. Shakir Kaidawala, a resident of Dahod, couriered
FICNs to Panigate-residents Taha Dahodwala and Hasan Kotwala.
The Dahodwala and Kotwala, both residents of Madar Market in
the walled city area of Vadodara, were arrested after the Panigate
Police received a tip off regarding the transaction. Further
investigations revealed that the courier was sent by Johar Suratwala
and Sheikh Kaidawala. Following the incident the city police
were conducting investigations to track down the Dahod-based
duo
|
Non-violent |
16 |
July 3 |
Gujarat
|
In the night, Panigate Police arrested Kaidawala
from his residence near Navjivan Mills in Dahod in June 28 FICN
case.
|
Non-violent |
17 |
July 7 |
Gujarat
|
NIA has filed a closure report in the September
29, 2008 Modasa (Aravalli District, Gujarat) blast case, citing
lack of evidence and the inability to trace the main culprits
behind the blast. The special NIA court closed the case on April
22. The 16-page final report named no suspects but only said
that "the complainant is the victim of the blast and is fortunate
enough to have survived".
|
Non-violent |
18 |
July 9 |
Ahmedabad
|
ED arrested five persons and neutralised a hawala
network in Ahmedabad (Gujarat) which had allegedly laundered
more than INR 100 billion through a private bank in Surat to
Dubai and Hong Kong. The agency is on the trail of the network's
kingpin who has been evading arrest for the past eight months.
A Mumbai-based bullion trader has been identified as the kingpin
of the hawala network that had deposited INR 100 billion
in cash in two Surat branches of a private bank in December
2013 and January 2014.
|
Non-violent |
19 |
July 27 |
Gujarat
|
Security has been increased along the Indo-Pakistan
border at Kutch and Banaskantha Districts of Gujarat. In the
wake of a terrorist attack in Gurdaspur District of Punjab,
Gujarat Police has been asked to be on alert especially the
border District Police as the state shares land border with
Pakistan. "Police is the second line of defence on the border,
as BSF is already there to foil any infiltration bid. After
the alert, we have asked our men to increase vigil and remain
in live contact with BSF and Army to get inputs," IG of Border
Range A K Jadeja said.
|
Non-violent |
20 |
July 31 |
Gujarat
|
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs
(Coastal Security) expressed its "shock" over a special report
prepared by the IB which found that about 37 per cent of minor
ports in the country are defenceless. Further, a report of the
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs (Coastal Security),
tabled has said the IB report should serve as an "alarm bell"
for the government, especially at those ports which are located
along the coastline of Gujarat and Maharashtra.
|
Non-violent |
21 |
August 8 |
Kutch District |
The BSF found an abandoned Pakistani boat near
Harami Nala along the India-Pakistan border in Gujarat's Kutch
District. A BSF official said, "An unmanned Pakistani boat was
seized at BOP 1162 near Harami Nala. It was abandoned." The
boat has been seized and brought to the shore. DIG Border Range
A. K. Jadeja stated, "It is an abandoned boat which seems like
a fishing boat." He added, "Post the discovery we have alerted
local police to intensify patrolling. We have also alerted the
Coast Guard and the Navy to look for suspicious movement in
sea," Jadeja added.
|
Non-violent |
22 |
August 14 |
Vadodara
|
Three persons, identified as Mazrul Razak, Khairul
Abid Pathan and Inulhuq Hussain were arrested along with FICNs
having a face value of INR 43,000 by Police on Old Padra Road
in Vadodara in Gujarat. All the three are natives of Malda District
of West Bengal. Police said one more person identified as Laltun
Sheikh is yet to be arrested.
|
Non-violent |
23 |
September
5 |
Gujarat
|
Gujarat tops the list of five Indian states
that are considered the "safest" for circulating FICN allegedly
pushed in by Pakistan's ISI according to the latest data released
by the NCRB. Of the 30,354,604 FICN seized across the country,
87,47,820 were recovered from Gujarat in 2014. Chhattisgarh
followed close on the heels with the seizure of 7,386,900 fake
notes, while Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana saw recoveries
of 5,437,600, 3,249,000 and 1,696,850 counterfeit notes.
|
Non-violent |
24 |
September
7 |
Gandhinagar
|
In order to enhance coastal security and to
provide round-the-clock surveillance for the state's ports,
a central command and control centre is being planned at Gandhinagar
in Gujarat. This centre will be linked through an extensive
network of alarms and CCTV cameras at the ports; which will
include sea-facing thermal cameras to keep an eye on the vast
expanse of sea surrounding the ports and night vision devices
to keep a tab on all movements happening within the port.
|
Non-violent |
25 |
September
25-26 |
Gujarat |
Twelve to thirteen armed terrorists have gained
entry into Gujarat through the Arabian Sea between, an IB alert
had warned. The alert, which was sent to airports across the
country, added that these are "trained terrorists" and "they
may target vital installations and/or crowded areas".
|
Non-Violent |
26 |
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 |
27 |
October 9 |
Gundlav crossroads
/ Valsad District |
The ATS of Gujarat arrested Umesh Rathod 25,
along with FICNs with INR 52,25,000 face-value from Gundlav
crossroads on Valsad District. ATS SP Himanshu Shukla, said
while Umesh was arrested from the spot a person named Rakesh
alias Kabootar managed to give Police a slip.
|
Non-violent |
28 |
October 16 |
Vadodara
|
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 |
29 |
October 20 |
Trikampura area / Surat
|
The NIA arrested a suspect, identified as Purshottam
Kesri, in a FICN case from Trikampura area of Surat District.
NIA sources said they had taken over the investigation of a
case relating to recovery of FICN bearing a face value of INR
10 lack from Murshidabad in West Bengal.
|
Non-violent |
30 |
November 2 |
Bharuch town / Bharuch District
|
Former president of BJP's Bharuch unit, Shirish
Bangali (60) and a general secretary with the party's youth
wing, Pragnesh Mistry (32), were shot dead by unidentified masked
gunmen at Surya Printing Press, which was owned by Bangali in
Bharuch town in Bharuch District. ATS officials said that the
target was Bangali but Mistry, was killed since he happened
to be there on the spot. The ATS officials claimed that the
motive behind murdering the two leaders was "to avenge the atrocities
against minority community from 1992 to 2002." It was done at
the behest of fugitive underworld don Javed Chikna who is hiding
in South Africa, the Police claim. Chikna is an aide of fugitive
underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
|
Violent |
31 |
November 6 |
Deesa town / Banaskantha District
|
Police arrested two persons, identified as Nikunj
Kumar and Divyesh Parmar along with FICN with a face value of
INR 3,80,000 from Deesa town of Banaskantha District.
|
Non-violent |
32 |
December 2 |
Bharuch |
It costs only INR 5000 to the terrorists and
criminals to cross over to India or Pakistan through Nepal route,
a report has revealed how convenient it is for the intruders
to either slip in or out of both the countries. According to
the report, terrorists and criminals just pay INR 5000 to move
into or escape from India. From Pakistan, they would normally
first fly between Lahore and Doha (Qatar). The terrorists then
take flight to Kathmandu (Nepal) and with the help of touts
- whom they pay a nominal amount of INR 5000 - they get transported
into India on a motorbike, the report further stated.
The information was gathered after Gujarat ATS
arrested two operatives alleged to be behind the killing of
the BJP leaders in Bharuch. During the investigations it was
revealed that the loopholes in security measures let the terrorists
and criminals flee India and reach Pakistan or vice versa. The
accused have also divulged about how easy it is to flow in FICNs
in India through Nepal border.
|
Non-violent |
33 |
December 13 |
Astodia Darwaja
/ Ahmedabad |
The SOG of Ahmedabad's Crime Branch arrested
two brothers, identified as Mofizul Shaikh and Shabudding Shaikh,
residents of Murshidabad District of West Bengal, along with
FICNs worth INR 8,00,000 from Astodia Darwaja area of the city.
SOG officials said, "Mofizul has confessed that he stored fake
notes at his house in Thane near Mumbai. During interrogation
the duo claimed that they have been pumping fake notes in Maharashtra,
Gujarat and Delhi since the two years. "
|
Non-violent |
34 |
December 15 |
Bharuch District
|
NIA arrested the supplier of weapons, identified
as Nasir Khan Pathan, used in the murder of Shirish Bangali,
former Bharuch District BJP President and Pragnesh Mistry, General
Secretary of the Bharuch BJP youth wing. NIA said that Pathan
has handed over the weapons to Inayat (arrested) subsequently
used for the murder. He will be produced before an NIA court
in Ahmedabad where the agency will seek his remand. NIA will
also send a MLAT to US where the servers of service providers
like Google and Yahoo are located. Police said the accused persons
communicated through WhatsApp, Facebook and Viber,
making it difficult for the agencies to track them.
|
Non-violent |
35 |
December 18 |
Kutch
|
The three day all India Director General's and
Inspector General's conference, held at Kutch (Gujarat) in which
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi is present is discussing two key
issues: one pertains to Islamic State (IS) threat and the other
is relating to Dawood Ibrahim. The Police officials are discussing
various issues pertaining to the Dawood and some of the important
points will be used by Modi when he meets with his counterpart
in 2016 during the SAARC summit. The meeting, which is also
attended by the NSA, Ajit Doval and UHM, Rajnath Singh, is being
held at Kutch in Gujarat.
|
Non-violent |
36 |
December 20 |
Bharuch
|
The NIA has identified the main conspirator,
Zahid Miyan alias Jabo, based in South Africa who allegedly
arranged the list BJP and RSS leaders to be targeted on the
directions of Dawood Ibrahim's henchmen Chhota Shakeel and Javed
Chikna. Sources said a non-bailable warrant has been issued
against Jabo to obtain an Interpol Red Corner Notice against
him. The NIA will send a MLAT request to the US and South Africa
seeking details of emails and chats on which conspirators interacted
while planning and executing the murders of two Bharuch (Gujarat)
based right-wing leaders Shirish Bangali and Pragnesh Mistry
on November 2, 2015.
|
Non-violent |
37 |
December 21-22 |
Delhi |
A joint team of Ahmedabad CB and Gujarat ATS
questioned suspected al Qaida operatives Mohammed Asif and Abdul
Rahman in Delhi. Following their questioning, Gujarat Police,
the ATS and CB have re-opened the files of 14 teenagers who
went missing after the 2002 communal riots in the state. Sources
in the Gujarat Police said Asif and Rahman had both allegedly
confessed to al Qaida's terror plans in western India, including
Gujarat.
|
Non-violent |
38 |
December 28 |
Ahmedabad
|
A special court at Ahmedabad remanded three
men, Mohammad Altaf, Mohsin Khan and Nisar Ahmed, arrested in
connection with the murder of two BJP leaders in Bharuch on
November 2, in the custody of NIA till January 1, 2016. The
prosecution said that NIA needed to recover the bike used in
the crime and to investigate the role of Mohammad Altaf who
was believed to be one of the key conspirators. According to
the investigators, Javed Chikna, Dawod Ibrahim's aide, had given
the contract for killing the two leaders.
|
Non-violent |
2014
Sl. No.
|
Date
|
Place
|
Incident
|
Nature |
1
|
January 5
|
Gujarat
|
IM operative Asadullah Akhtar, is believed to
have claimed that a SIMI ideologue, Mufti Sufiyan accused of
masterminding the 2003 killing of former Gujarat Minister Haren
Pandya, was present at a meeting the operative attended in Karachi
(Pakistan) last year.
|
Non-violent |
2 |
January 7 |
Gujarat |
Two persons, identified as Abdul Yusuf Mandal
and Jahandaz Sheikh were arrested by the SOG for carrying FICN
from Nizampura area of Vadodara in Gujarat.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
January |
Rajkot |
Police team arrested one person, identified
as Mohammed Musharuf, accused in connection with FICN racket
in Rajkot (Rajkot District) of Gujarat.
|
Non-violent |
4 |
February 16 |
Ahmedabad |
Police arrested a 24-year-old woman, identified
as Priya Chauhan, with FICN worth INR 12,500 from Jamalpur market
area of Ahmedabad.
|
Non-violent |
5 |
February 19 |
Gujarat |
The department-related Parliamentary Standing
Committee on MHA said the Gujarat coast is highly sensitive
due to its close proximity to a very vulnerable part of International
Maritime Border Line.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
February 23 |
Gujarat |
The 272-page chargesheet filed by NIA against
IM Indian operations 'chief' Yasin Bhatkal states, he asked
Riyaz Bhatkal whether a "small nuclear bomb" could be arranged
to nuke Surat (Gujarat), to which Riyaz replied "anything can
be arranged in Pakistan.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
March 23 |
Gujarat |
Noted Muslim cleric Maulana Abdul Qavi, wanted
by Police for the last ten years, was arrested by Ahmedabad's
Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) from New Delhi airport for alleged
anti-national activities and having links with terror groups
LeT and JeM.
|
Non-violent |
8 |
April 3 |
Ahemdabad |
The accused persons in the Vagamon SIMI case
are believed to be behind the Ahmedabad bomb blast case with
some of them having links with top leadership of the IM.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
April 21 |
Delhi |
The Special Cell of the Delhi Police got custody
of SIMI cadre, Safdar Nagori from an Ahmedabad (Gujarat) court
in a 13-year-old case, but sources say central intelligence
agencies will interrogate him along with Delhi Police about
his links with top IM operatives and his plans to revive SIMI.
|
Non-violent |
10 |
May 7 |
Ahmedabad |
Terror suspect Saiyed Kirmani Abdul was remanded
to 14 days Police custody by special POTA Judge.
|
Non-violent |
11 |
May 9 |
Gujarat |
A suspect in 2003 conspiracy case of Pakistan's
ISI, Syed Kirmani arrested on May 5, is claimed to be associated
with JeM, according to Gujarat Police.
|
Non-violent |
12 |
May 16 |
Gujarat |
A bench of Justices A K Patnaik and V Gopala
Gowda of Supreme Court acquitted all six convicts (Adam Ajmeri,
Shan Miya alias Chand Khan, Mufti Abdul Qyyum Mansuri,
Mohammed Salim Shaikh, Abdulmiyan Qadri and Altaf Hussain),
three of whom were awarded death sentence and one life imprisonment,
in the 2002 terror attack on Gujarat's Akshardham temple.
|
Non-violent |
13 |
May 17 |
Gujarat |
Gujarat Police, with the help of central agencies,
have unearthed a conspiracy to free terror suspects lodged in
different jails of India, including Sabarmati Central Jail of
Gujarat. They have tracked down a website which was operated
from a server located on an island named Tokelau, south of New
Zealand.
|
Non-violent |
14 |
June 6 |
Ahmadabad |
A special POTA Court acquitted the remaining
two accused, Majid Patel alias Umarji and Shaukatullah
Ghori in the September 24, 2002 Akshardham temple terror attack
case.
|
Non-violent |
15 |
June 11 |
Gujarat |
Three alleged terrorists, identified as Mustafa
Sayyed, Bilal Ahmed and Afroz Khan were arrested by Gujarat's
ATS after they were summoned by local court from a Maharashtra
jail where they had spent eight years.
|
Non-violent |
16 |
June 12 |
Ahmadabad |
Ahmadabad metropolitan court sent three alleged
militants, Afroz Khan, Bilal Ahmed and Mustafa Sayyed associated
with banned outfit SIMI to Police remand till June 16 in connection
with the 2006 terror conspiracy case. ATS had sought 14-day
remand of the trio on the ground that they are members of the
banned SIMI.
|
Non-violent |
17 |
June 14 |
Ahmedabad |
The Ahmadabad DCB filed the charge sheet against
Maulana Abdul Qavi in connection with the 2003 ISI Conspiracy
case, implicating him under various sections of POTA and Arms
Act, among others, before a special POTA court.
|
Non-violent |
18 |
July 3 |
Gujarat |
NIA and UP ATS are concerned over six men from
Azamgarh, who are said to have links with IM and feared to be
in Pakistan now. The six have been identified as Dr Shah Nawaz,
Abu Rashid, Khalid, Mohammad Sajid alias Bada Sajid,
Mirza Sadab Beg, Azia Khan alias Zunaid. The six have
been booked in the serial blasts in Delhi as well as in Gujarat
in 2008, for hatching conspiracy and executing attacks aimed
at creating fear by causing loss of human lives and damage to
government property.
|
Non-violent |
19 |
July 11 |
Gujarat |
IB has warned the Gujarat and Maharashtra Police
that terror outfit IM is trying to re-group in the two states.
Intelligence sources said they had specific information that
IM could target SFs in these two states.
|
Non-violent |
20 |
July 17 |
Ahmedabad |
According to Police ICICI Bank in Ahmedabad
received a deposit of FICN worth INR 12,000 by a customer.
|
Non-violent |
21 |
August 8 |
Gujarat |
In a warning to all Gujarat fishermen, IG of
CG Kuldip Singh Sheoran said that no fishermen will be allowed
to venture into the sea off Gujarat coast if they fail to produce
their bio-metric ID cards.
|
Non-violent |
22 |
August 13 |
Ahmadabad |
The Gujarat Crime Branch arrested a person,
identified as Asaro alias Kurban Shaikh along with FICN
with the face value of INR 390000 near Kalupur railway station
of Ahmadabad District.
|
Non-violent |
23 |
August 16 |
Vadodara |
Two persons involved in circulation of FICN
identified as Mohammad Baharudin alias Baharu (27) a resident
of Malda District of West Bengal and Badruddin Mayudin Syed
alias Badru (55), a resident of Vadodara, Gujarat were
arrested along with FICN with a face value of INR 4,00,000 from
outside Old Delhi Railway Station.
|
Non-violent |
24 |
August 20 |
Surat |
Crime Branch arrested Afroz Fatta, the prime
accused in the INR 53.93 billion hawala racket, to investigate
his role in the INR 1.04 billion forgery case registered in
the city of Surat. Police arrested Fatta on transfer warrant
from Ahmedabad where he was lodged in Sabarmati Central Jail.
|
Non-violent |
25 |
August 28 |
Gujarat |
Gujarat High Court granted conditional bail
to Hyderabad-based cleric Mohammed Abdul Qavi who was arrested
in connection with the 2003 ISI conspiracy case. A bench headed
by Justice Anant Dave ordered Qavi's release on a bail bond
of INR 50,000.
|
Non-violent |
26 |
September
3 |
Gujarat |
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri announced
the formation of an Indian branch of his militant group, he
said would spread Islamic rule and "raise the flag of jihad"
across the subcontinent. In a 55-minute video posted online,
Zawahiri described the formation of "Al Qaeda in the Indian
Subcontinent" as a glad tiding for Muslims "in Burma, Bangladesh,
Assam, Gujarat, Ahmedabad, and Kashmir" and said the new wing
would rescue Muslims there from injustice and oppression.
|
Non-violent |
27 |
September
10 |
Gujarat |
Union Minister of Home Affairs, Rajnath Singh
is undertaking a tour to the border areas in Gujarat and reviews
security preparedness along the Pakistan frontier in this sector.
|
Non-violent |
28 |
September
10 |
Gujarat |
Union Minister of Home Affairs, Rajnath Singh
announced that the Centre would establish a Marine Police training
institute in Gujarat, to train the Police for safeguarding the
state's 1,600 km-long coastline.
|
Non-violent |
29 |
September
24 |
Gujarat |
The IB has warned that "groups and elements
supportive of extremist ideology similar to al-Qaeda" are trying
to "increase communal tension" in states like J&K, Maharashtra,
Gujarat, Rajasthan, UP, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala and Delhi.
The intelligence report (reference no-3627-60 & 3698- 3731/C&R
Cell-C-2/SII), has reiterated that al- Qaeda 'chief' Ayman-al-Zawahari,
who launched a new branch for the Indian sub-continent, also
intends to target commercial centres, tourist destinations,
religious places, aviation sector, railways infrastructure and
BJP offices in various states, including West Bengal and Assam.
The report has been dispatched to all state police agencies.
|
Non-violent |
30 |
September
28 |
Gujarat |
Gujarat is all set to deploy an elite force
of 1,000 'amphibious' marine commandos at strategic locations
for surveillance at sea and the coast against threats like infiltration
and drug trafficking. For this purpose, 50 per cent of commandos
will be recruited from the existing SRP, said Gujarat Additional
Chief Secretary (Home) S. K. Nanda.
|
Non-violent |
31 |
October 7 |
Ahmedabad |
Police produced around 20 suspected SIMI terrorists,
who were arrested in 2008 on charges of conspiring to spread
terror by blasting bombs in several parts of South India, before
the Additional District and Sessions Court in Hubli, Karnataka
to record their statement. The accused were brought from different
states. Eight of them from Ahmedabad prison (Gujarat), two from
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) and the others from Dharwad central
jail (Karnataka). Another accused who is out on bail, was also
present in court to record his statement. All the accused ruled
out having any links with arrested IM terrorist Yasin Bhatkal
and claimed that they were framed by the Police.
|
Non-violent |
32 |
October 29 |
Ahmedabad |
A NIA team met Ahmedabad city Crime Branch officials
to get details of the accused with a SIMI background arrested
in the July 26, 2008, serial blasts case. According to sources
before carrying out the serial blasts in the city, SIMI and
IM operatives had attended terror camps held in the jungles
of Wagamon in Kerala and Halol in Gujarat. Senior Police officials
said after the Bijnor blast in Uttar Pradesh (September 12,
2014), it had come to light that the explosion had occurred
when alleged IM operatives, who had earlier escaped from Khandwa
jail (Madhya Pradesh), were making explosives inside the house.
"There was an intelligence input that IM operatives, while on
the run from Khandwa, had passed through a place near Ahmedabad.
It is also believed that the IM operatives were helped by underground
sleeper cells of SIMI," said a Police official.
|
Non-violent |
33 |
November 17 |
Ahmedabad
|
A metropolitan court accepted the discharge
recommendations for three accused persons Afroz Pathan, Bilal
Ahmed and Mustufa Saiyed in connection with the February 2006
blast that took place at the Kalupur Railway Station in Ahmedabad.
Failing to find any evidence to show their involvement in the
blast case, the probe agency requested the court to discharge
all three persons and filed a report according to the provisions
of section 169 of CrPC. The court has discharged all three from
this case.
|
Non-violent |
34 |
December 14 |
Gosabara/
Porbandar |
Gujarat Police initiated the process for issuing
of a red-corner notice against Yunus alias Lota, an accused
in the 1993 Gosabara (Porbandar District, Gujarat) arms landing
case. Lota, who is originally from Porbandar, is the prime accused
in the arms landing case that was registered with the Porbandar
Police in 1993. The arms and explosives that were delivered
on the Gujarat coast were allegedly used in the 1993 Mumbai
(Maharashtra) serial blasts.
|
Non-violent |
2013
Sl. No.
|
Date
|
Place
|
Incident
|
Nature |
1
|
February 6
|
Ahmadabad
|
LeT, in a letter through regular post, threatened
to carry out militant attacks in the city
|
Violent |
2 |
February 24 |
Ranip, Ahmadabad District
|
Police arrested Angad Kashiram Yadav and seized
FICN with a face value of INR 12,000.
|
Non-violent |
3 |
March 8 |
Halol, Panchmahal District
|
FICN worth face value INR 46,500 was recovered
as four persons.
|
Non-violent |
4 |
March 29 |
Ahmedabad
|
A sessions Court convicted three persons for running
a FICN racket. However, 12 other accused were acquitted because
of lack of evidence.
|
Statement |
5 |
April 2 |
central bus depot, Surat, Surat District
|
Mohammad Ashraf Ismail Nagori was arrested along
with his six aides with arms and ammunition. He is suspected to
be linked to sleeper cells of IM.
|
Non-violent |
6 |
April 24 |
Ahmadabad city, Ahmadabad District, Gujarat
|
Iqrar Mohammed Nisar Ansari, was caught by SBI
officials along with FICN worth INR 5,000.
|
Non-violent |
7 |
April 24 |
Valsad, Valsad District, Gujarat
|
The special TADA court acquitted four persons
in the 1993 RDX landing case for want of evidence.
|
Statement |
8 |
May 5 |
Gujarat |
Shahid Nagori arrested and accused in Ahmedabad
(Gujarat) blast of July 26, 2008 told Police that he had attended
several terrorist training camps and had recruited many naive
youths into the IM.
|
Non-violent |
9 |
May 19 |
Ahmadabad |
The conspiracy to dig a 213-feet-long tunnel in
the Sabarmati jail (Gujarat), discovered in February, 2013, was
meticulously planned. The details have been highlighted in the
charge sheet filed on May 18 by Detection of Crime Branch (DCB)
against 24 accused in the case.
|
Statement |
10 |
June 19 |
Mehsana, Mehsana
District |
SBI Mehsana branch lodged a Police complaint regarding
FICN of different denominations it received during banking hours.
|
Statement |
11 |
July 3 |
Gujarat |
Gujarat has been put on high alert as eight LeT
terrorists have sneaked in from Pakistan. IB revealed that terrorist
have entered Bhuj (Kutchh District) in Gujarat through maritime
borders and all efforts are being made to trace their exact location.
|
Statement |
12 |
August 8 |
Ahmadabad |
Aiming to create awareness
among people on measures to be taken to strengthen coastal security,
the Indian Coast Guard launched a community interaction programme
in Ahmadabad (Gujarat). |
Non- Violent |
13 |
August 11 |
Valsad |
Security in south Gujarat was heightened after
reports said that 12 suspects had landed in Valsad (Valsad District)
from sea route a few days ago.
|
Statement |
14 |
August 11 |
Kutch |
As a part of ongoing efforts by Indian Coast Guard
to strengthen coastal security, a 30 metre long interceptor boat
with 90 tonne displacement and maximum speed of 45 knots was commissioned
at Mundra in Kutch District to strengthen the security umbrella
over the Gulf of Kutch.
|
Non-Violent |
15 |
August 26 |
Surat |
Three persons, identified as Rajesh Chamar, Naresh
Chamar and Santosh Rahe were arrested along with FICN with a face
value of INR 10,500 from Bhataar Road in Surat.
|
Non-Violent |
16 |
September 2 |
Ahmadabad |
Two persons, identified as Kishansinh Ratansinh
(25) and Mohanlal Chunajo (26), were arrested along with FICN
with a face value of INR 420,000 from Kalupur railway station
of Ahmadabad District.
|
Non-Violent |
17 |
September 15
|
Surat |
Police arrested three persons, identified as Gautam
(24) alias Gotu Bhikha Patel, Kirit Karshan Gajera (32) and Ramesh
Shreenivas Tatiyamula (23), who were allegedly running a racket
of printing FICN in Varachha area of Surat District.
|
Non- violent |
18 |
October 4 |
Gujarat |
Gujarat government has done little to improve
security along Gujarat's 1,600km coastline, according to the latest
Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) report that was
presented in the state assembly.
|
Non- violent |
19 |
October 9 |
Gujarat |
Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's Prime Ministerial
candidate Narendra Modi is the prime target of top 10 terror organization,
arrested IM 'India operation chief' Yasin Bhatkal has revealed
in the interrogation.
|
Non- violent |
20 |
November 1 |
Panchmahal District
|
NIA officials conducted investigations at the
factory at Halol in Panchmahal District (Gujarat) that had manufactured
a polythene bag, which was used to pack explosives for bomb blasts
of October 27, 2013 at the venue in Patna.
|
Non-violent |
21 |
November 19 |
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) |
Two persons, identified as Shivkumar Chandravanshi
and Mahendra Sharma were arrested for allegedly circulating FICN
worth INR 1, 94,000 from Ujala Circle near Sarkhej crossroads
in Ahmedabad (Gujarat).
|
Non-violent |
22 |
November 22 |
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) |
Police arrested two persons, identified as Shivkumar
Chandravanshi (33) and Mahendra Sharma (28) with FICN worth INR
1.94 Lakh from Sarkhej Ujala Circle of Ahmedabad (Gujarat).
|
Non-violent |
23 |
December 9 |
Gujarat |
Gujarat High Court denied bail to one of the 2008
serial blasts accused, identified as Hasib Raza alias Shamimbhai
Firdos Raza Mohammed Saiyed considering the seriousness of his
offence and the fact that the trial is already underway.
|
Non-violent |
24 |
December 14 |
Gosabara/ Porbandar |
Gujarat Police initiated the process for issuing
of a red-corner notice against Yunus alias Lota, an accused
in the 1993 Gosabara (Porbandar District, Gujarat) arms landing
case. Lota, who is originally from Porbandar, is the prime accused
in the arms landing case that was registered with the Porbandar
Police in 1993. The arms and explosives that were delivered on
the Gujarat coast were allegedly used in the 1993 Mumbai (Maharashtra)
serial blasts.
|
Non-violent |
25 |
December 22 |
Bhuj area /
Kutch District |
ATS arrested a weapon smuggler, identified as
Allahnoor from Bhuj area in Kutch District in Gujarat, who bought
guns from Barmer-based smugglers. These smugglers had allegedly
got the guns from Pakistan. The ATS is on the lookout for one
more Gujarat-based smuggler. During interrogation it was found
out that the consignment was smuggled near border post SKT route
under Serva Police Station area. The consignment brought to India
contained FICNs, weapons and heroin.
|
Non-violent |
26 |
December 26 |
Mahisagar District
/ Gujarat |
Police arrested one person, identified as Gorji
Baria along with FICNs of INR 406,500 in Mahisagar District. Police
said the arrest was made due to increased surveillance ahead of
the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit and Pravasi Bhartiya
Divas that will be held in Gandhinagar in January 2015, after
the ATS issued alert of possibility of fake notes being circulated
in the market to affect state economy.
|
Non-violent |
27 |
December 29 |
Surat |
IM arrested 'India operations chief' Yasin Bhatkal
alias Ahmad Zarar Siddibappa has told interrogators that his outfit
was planning to acquire and detonate a small nuclear bomb on Surat
(Gujarat).
|
Statement |
2012
-
November 8: Jundal also told Gujarat
Police that LeT used Gujarat riots (2002) as an emotional trigger
to introduce Gujarat youths to terrorism. A strong terror network
has been built in the state.
-
November 2: Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
city Crime Branch arrested an alleged agent of Pakistan's ISI, identified
as Naushad Ali from Jodhpur (Jodhpur District) on charges of espionage.
-
October 28: The Reliance Oil Refinery
in Jamnagar, Gujarat, and L&T shipyards in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat
has been put on high alert by the intelligence agencies of the country.
Top intelligence sources said there are specific inputs about a
possible terror strike on these industrial houses.
-
October 24: According Zabihuddin
Ansari alias Abu Jundal, Abu Ismail had worked as a compounder at
a Civil Hospital in Karachi, in Pakistan, before joining the terror
outfit camp.
-
October 22: Syed Zabiuddin Ansari
alias Abu Jundal is being probed by Gujarat ATS that whether did
he set up sleeper cells for terrorists in Gujarat. ATS officials
produced Jundal before a local court which granted him remand till
November 3.
-
October 18: SOG of Surendranagar
District (Gujarat) arrested one more suspect from Bihar for his
alleged involvement in the FICN racket busted recently. Police said
that an organised gang is smuggling FICN from Nepal border into
the country to be distributed in other parts.
-
October 16: Crime Branch said Pakistan's
ISI agent, Sirajuddin Fakir, arrested on October 14, in Gujarat,
has turned out to be an ISI 'zonal coordinator'. Police said Fakir
has been working to set up a network of spies in western India and
has recruited a number of youths in Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan
and Gujarat for this.
-
October 14: Two persons, identified
as Sirajuddin Ali and Mohammad Ayub were arrested in Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
for passing on confidential information related to an Army base
in Bhuj and Army Cantonment to Pakistan's ISI, Police said.
-
October 10: Surendranagar (Gujarat)
Police have arrested Bharat Mukhiya and Santosh Mukhiya and recovered
FICN amounting INR 20,000 from them. Bharat was found carrying INR
15,000 in FICN while his accomplice had INR 5,000 with him.
-
October 7: In past one month, Gujarat
Police have recovered FICN showing value of INR 2.8 million from
across the state, including INR 2.618 million counterfeit notes
seized in Jamnagar District. The cumulative figure for the last
three years is INR 5.5 million.
-
September 28: Police also arrested
four persons, including a clerk working in the office of Deputy
Superintendent of Police (Savarkundla division) in Amreli District
of Gujarat, in connection with the ongoing FICN racket.
-
September 27: Bhavnagar Police busted
a FICN racket, by arresting five people, who belong to Malda District
in West Bengal.
-
September 26: A sessions court in
Godhra sentenced seven accused in a FICN racket to 10 years' imprisonment.
The total people to be arrested
so far in connection with FICN have gone up to 25 across Gujarat
within two weeks on charges of acquiring and circulating these FICN.
Investigation has revealed that
there were 12 different FICN rackets running concurrently in Gujarat.
Different agents and sub agents are involved in the circulation
of FICN in the state.
-
September 25: Deepak Patel, an Indian
National Congress Party member of Mehsana District of Gujarat, was
arrested by the officials of Special Operation Group (SOG) in FICN
charges.
-
September 16: Gujarat Police believe
that people involved in circulating FICN could be members of terrorist
sleeper cells and could be used for terror attacks at any time.
-
September 11: The Jamnagar (Gujarat)
Police seized INR 2.61 million of FICN and arrested 14 people, including
two women.
-
August 23-24: Police arrested a
man in Ahmadabad and recovered FICN with a face value of INR 29,000.
-
August 12: According to IB sources
LeT is planning to hijack plane from Ahmadabad on August 15.
A communication between terrorist
of two terrorist organisations, LeT and IM, intercepted by the central
IB has revealed that terror operatives failed to plant a bomb-laden
car in Ahmadabad.
Mujib Shaikh told the Ahmadabad
Crime Branch officials that Abus Subhan alias Tauqeer could be behind
the August 1 Pune serial blasts and is now heading the IM.
-
August 11: LeT is planning to hijack
plane from Ahmadabad on August 15, says IB source.
-
August 5: The Ahmadabad crime branch
has taken into its custody IM suspect Mujib Sheikh in the July 26,
2008 Ahmadabad serial blasts case. Sheikh has been brought to the
city for further questioning regarding the Ahmedabad serial blasts
of 2008 and the planting of bombs in Surat.
The involvement of IM has worried
Gujarat Police, because the state has always figured high on the
terrorists' hit list.
-
August 6: The Ahmadabad crime branch
has taken into its custody IM suspect in the Ahmadabad serial blasts
case, Mujib Sheikh, for further questioning regarding the Ahmedabad
serial blasts of 2008 and the planting of bombs in Surat.
-
July 29: Bharuch SOG on July 29
arrested a five-member gang along with FICN worth INR 150,000 and
INR 386,000 from the five persons in Gujarat.
-
July 26: The Gujarat HC reduced
jail terms of 21 persons convicted in the ISI or Jehadi conspiracy
case after they decided not to challenge their conviction by POTA
court in 2010. The bench also reduced their fines to just INR 100
per offence against them.
-
July 24: Police exposed a network
of FICN and arrested six accused in Surat (Gujarat). Police recovered
57 FICNs of INR 1,000 denomination.
-
July 15: Gujarat has reported an
almost 50 per cent rise in crimes under the Information Technology
Act, 2000. Compared to 35 cases in 2010, 2011 reported 52 cases
as per the 'Crime In India' report published by NCRB.
-
May 14: UMHA has confirmed that
Mumbai (Maharashtra) and Gujarat are on the terror radar of Pakistan-based
groups.
-
May 7: NSG has decided to have a
large commando base in Gujarat after it failed to set up such a
centre in West Bengal.
-
May 6: Five LeT terrorists, who
are believed to be camping in Gujarat and may target oil refineries,
are suspected to have entered the State much before the Central
Intelligence Bureau alerted the local Police.
-
May 2: Tiger Hanif, an associate
of Dawood Ibrahim, wanted by Gujarat Police for a bomb attack on
a train in 1993, and absconding in Britain, was ordered by the Westminster
magistrates' court in London (UK) to be extradited to India.
-
April 2: Fourteen Pakistanis, seven
each aboard two fishing boats Al-Usmani and Al-Razzaq, were arrested
by the Coast Guard for intruding into Indian territorial waters
off the Okha coast in Jamnagar District of Gujarat.
-
March 30: About 20 Pakistanis were
arrested for illegally entering the Indian territorial waters and
their three boats were also seized by the Indian Coast Guard off
the Okha Coast in Jamnagar District of Gujarat.
-
March 27: 13 Illegal immigrants
from Bangladesh were arrested by Ahmadabad Police when a surprise
search operation was conducted in Chandola area of Ahmadabad city.
-
February 21: The alleged mastermind
of the 2002 attack on the American Center in Kolkata was brought
to the CBI special court in Ahmadabad where a charge sheet was filed
against him in connection with the landing of arms consignment in
Radhanpur town of Banaskantha District of Gujarat in 2001.
-
January 29: Habib alias Habibfalahi
Shaikh (25), an accused in the 2008 Ahmedabad bomb blast and Surat
bomb planting cases, was arrested by the Ahmadabad city Police.
-
January 2: The Ahmadabad city crime
branch officials believe that Habib Phalai alias Taiyab,
arrested in Uttar Pradesh on December 28 in the Ahmadabad serial
blasts case, may be connected to the other accused from Azamgarh
involved in various serial blasts across India.
2011
-
December 28: The UP ATS in coordination
with Ahmadabad Crime branch team arrested an alleged SIMI operative
wanted in 2008 Ahmadabad blast case. Habib alias Tayyab,
a native of Nizamabad area of Azamgarh District, was arrested from
Jahangirganj area of Ambedkar Nagar District.
-
December 18: Pakistani woman spy
Soofia Kanwal, who was arrested at New Delhi along with her companion
Imran on December 5, is suspected to be a suicide bomber or fidayeen.
Preliminary inputs from IB and R&AW suggest that a woman fidayeen
trained in Pakistani jihad launch pads had infiltrated into India
on a terror mission.
During interrogation, Police have
found out that senior BJP leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra
Modi was on her radar and she was giving finishing touches to her
terror plan on directions from her Pakistan. Soofia also had Gujarat's
Akshardham temple on her radar.
-
December 17: CBI registered a case
of murder against 20 Policemen in the 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter
case in Gujarat. The fresh FIR was registered by the probe agency
after the Special Investigation Team (SIT) gave its complaint to
the CBI on December 15, 2011 saying that the encounter was staged.
Besides murder, they have also been charged with destruction of
evidence.
-
December 12: Delhi Police revealed
that they had arrested two Pakistani spies, identified as Soofia
Kanwal and Imran, trained in Nepal, on December 5, from New Delhi
Railway Station.
-
September 12: The person who had
sent the third e-mail to Delhi Police claiming the responsibility
of the Delhi High Court blast (September 7, 2011) and warning of
future terrorist strike was arrested from Ahmadabad by Gujarat Police.
-
July 16: The Police arrested a person,
Shehzad Ismail Rangrezi, from new Shah Alam area in Ahmadabad after
being alerted by his live-in partner that he had assembled bombs.
-
January 18: The Special Investigation
Team (SIT) probing the Ishrat Jahan encounter case (June 15, 2004)
claimed to have found that both the alleged Pakistani militants
who were shot dead along with Ishrat and Pranesh Pillai alias Javed
Shaikh had faked their identities as Kashmiris.
2010
-
December 22: The Centre
put Mumbai (Maharashtra) and Ahmedabad (Gujrat) on high alert after
getting specific intelligence inputs that LeT militants had sneaked
into these two cities to strike at any time in coming days.
-
December 6: According
to a recent secret diplomatic cable of the United States State Department
released by WikiLeaks, Pakistan-based militant outfit LeT had made
elaborate plans in June 2009 to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi.
-
October 8: Key witnesses
of the bomb explosion cases in Ajmer dargah (October 11, 2007) and
Malegaon (September 29, 2008) disclosed that the plotting of these
two incidents was carried out at Shabri Dham Ashram (hermitage)
in Dangs region in south Gujarat. The shocking revelation was made
by 11 witnesses belonging to Jharkhand, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh
before a local court in Ajmer over the past 15 days. Rajasthan's
Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) recorded their statements under section
164 of CrPC (Criminal Procedure Code), and is likely to file a charge
sheet this month. According to the reports, three persons, Swami
Asmanand, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and Sunil Joshi, planned the execution
of the terror plot for the right-wing outfit Abhinav Bharat. While
Asmanand is on the run, Pragya Thakur is in Malegaon jail and Sunil
Joshi was killed mysteriously at Mhow in MP, almost two months after
the Ajmer blast.
-
September 6: The Supreme Court stayed
the death sentence of Adam Bhai Sulemanbhai Ajmeri and Abdul Kayum
alias Muftisaab Mohmedbhai, who were convicted by a Special POTA
court in Gujarat for causing the death of 37 persons at the Akshardham
temple in Gandhinagar in Gujarat in 2002. The judgment was affirmed
by the Gujarat High Court. A Bench, consisting of Justices B. Sudershan
Reddy and S.S. Nijjar, while staying the sentence, issued notice
to Gujarat on appeals by the two convicts challenging the High Court
judgment.
-
September 5: The convicts in the
Akshardham temple attack case moved the Supreme Court seeking fresh
probe by the CBI, saying that the Gujarat Police had botched up
the investigation. The appeal by four convicts, including Adambhai
Sulemanbhai Ajmeri and Abdul Kayum, who were given death penalty,
said they were arrested pursuant to investigation conducted by then
Deputy Superintendent of Police D. G. Vanzara, who is facing trial
for a fake encounter killing incident. In the Akshardham temple
attack case in Gandhinagar in Gujarat, 33 persons were killed due
to indiscriminate firing by two militants on September 25, 2002.
-
August 12: The Gujarat High Court (HC) transferred
the probe in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case to the Special Investigation
Team (SIT) appointed by the Supreme Court to probe Godhra riots
cases. Ishrat, a girl from Mumbra, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai
from Pune, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar from Pakistan were killed
in an encounter on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004.
The City Crime Branch that carried out the operation claimed that
all four were members of a suicide squad of the Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT) out to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The HC has also
made it clear that SIT would not take any assistance from Gujarat
officers, who are involved directly or indirectly with the encounter.
In handing over the probe to SIT, the court has observed this would
impart confidence and credibility to the investigation.
-
July 27: The Special
Operation Group of the Gujarat Police arrested a Students Islamic
Movement of India (SIMI) cadre, identified as Sayed Abid Ali Musa,
from Vadodara. Ali Musa was produced in court and sent to judicial
custody. The Police said that he was believed to have been involved
in the July 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts and in the planting
of 29 bombs in Surat at the same time. However, none of the bombs
exploded due to a technical fault with the timers.
-
July 26: A
Special Operations Group (SOG) team in Vadodra arrested a Students
Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) cadre for his involvement in three-year-old
incident when a group of protestors had displayed posters of al
Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden in Mandvi area. Abid Ali Moosa Saiyyad
was arrested by SOG Police inspector H. M. Alsika on the basis of
a tip-off. According to SOG officials, Abid had conspired with the
protestors, who displayed Osama's posters during a ruckus with Police
in May 2007. "Abid is in the business of making photo frames. The
posters flashed by SIMI activists during protests in 2007 were prepared
by Abid and he was involved in the conspiracy. I got information
of Abid's involvement through a source," Alsika told Times of India.
"Abid is a member of SIMI's sleeper cell. We demanded a remand of
Abid to interrogate him, but it was rejected by the court. Till
now, we have arrested 30 people in the case, including Abid," he
added. The protestors had displayed Osama's posters in May 2007
to protest against the derogatory sketches that were found strewn
in M.S. University campus. According to protestors, the sketches
had hurt their religious sentiments, prompting their protest. The
city police, too, were surprised as it had been for the first time
that Osama's posters were displayed in open.
-
July 21: An intelligence
report indicates that Pakistan’s ISI has renewed efforts to set
up new sleeper cells in Gujarat and elsewhere in the country. For
the last six months, the ISI has been trying to create new sleeper
cells in the State to replace those of the SIMI that were neutralised
by the Gujarat Police. Sources in the State intelligence said SIMI’s
sleeper cells had provided key support to the terrorists who had
carried out the bomb blasts in Ahmedabad in 2008. Though Simi is
now banned, investigation into the activities of its suspected members
has continued. The Detection of Crime Branch (DCB), Ahmedabad Police,
recently arrested three persons suspected of planning bomb blasts
in the city.
-
June 1: The Gujarat
High Court upheld the special the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA)
court's verdict and confirmed death sentence for three of the six
convicts in the Akshardham temple terror attack that took place
on September 24, 2002, reported Times of India. A division bench
of Justice R.M. Doshit and Justice K. M. Thaker confirmed gallows
for Chand Khan alias Shaan Miya from Bareilly, Adam Ajmeri and Mufti
Abdul Qayyum Mansuri from Dariapur area in Ahmedabad for conspiring
and providing logistics to the terrorists that stormed the temple
killing 34 and injuring 81. The HC also confirmed life imprisonment
of Mohammed Salim Shaikh, 10-year jail term for Abdullamiya Qadri
and five-year term for Altaf Hussain Malek.
-
March 14: The Gujarat
ATS has claimed to have arrested a suspected Hizb-ul-Mujahideen
(HM) militant, identified as Bashir Ahmed Baba alias "Aijaz"
from the national highway near Anand. Gujarat
ATS Chief Ajay Tomar said in Ahmadabad on March 14 that
Bashir came from Srinagar on February 20 apparently to
spot "terror talents" who would be willing to go for training
in Pakistan and establish the terror network in Jammu
and Kashmir and Gujarat. Tomar also said that the 32-year-old
Bashir was closely working with the HM’s top militants based in
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), including Bilal Shera,
as well as with General Abdulla of the PoK-based Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen
(JUM). Bashir maintained his links with Bilal and his
other Pakistan "handlers" through mobile phones
and e-mails even after he came to Gujarat. "Police have
recovered three mobile phones, four SIM cards, e-mail addresses
and objectionable documents from him," Tomar added.
-
March 2: A terror
alert has been sounded in five key cities of Gujarat following an
intelligence tip-off, an official said. Cities marked out for enhanced
vigil are Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat,Rajkot and Jamnagar. According
to Joint Commissioner of Police (Ahmedabad) Satish Sharma, this
was done following specific intelligence inputs.
-
February 23: The Maharashtra
ATS detained another suspected militant in Gujarat as
part of the ongoing probe into the February 13 Pune (Maharashtra)
bomb blast. Sources said the suspected militant, identified as Faisal,
was detained in Aane near Surat. Faisal, who is believed
to be an active cadre of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B)
which also maintains links with the LeT and IM, is being questioned
in connection with the Pune blast.
-
February 14: A huge
cache of explosives, including 200 kilograms of ammonium nitrate
and 600 detonators, were seized by Gujarat Police from Vapi area
in Valsad District. Four bags containing 50 kilograms
of explosive substance ammonium nitrate each and detonators were
recovered from four persons traveling in a car from Vapi-Silvassa road,
the report said. Four persons who were traveling in the car also
arrested.
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January 13: Seven
Pakistani nationals have been arrested from a boat which was intercepted
by the Boarder Security Force (BSF) in the Cori creek of Kutch District
in Gujarat, a top BSF official said. "Our men intercepted
a vessel which had crossed into Indian waters yesterday near the
Cori Creek mouth in the Arabian sea. There were seven
men inside the vessel who have been arrested and handed over to
the local Police," BSF inspector general A.K. Sinha said. The vessel
in which they had come has been seized and handed over to Police,
he said, adding further investigations will be carried out by the
District Police.
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January 12: The special
designated Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court convicted 22
persons while acquitting an equal number of accused in the Pakistani
Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) conspiracy case. Several cases,
including the Ahmedabad serial tiffin bomb blasts which the Gujarat
Police claimed to be part of a conspiracy of Pakistan’s ISI
to destabilize the State in 2003, were clubbed together and tried
under the ISI conspiracy case at the designated POTA court.
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January 11: Charge
sheet has been filed against the 62 accused in connection with the July
26, 2008 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts in which 57 people were
killed by a special court. Among the 95 accused, 33 are
still absconding (of whom, three are dead). The remaining 62 are
in jail and were present in court. The 62 accused belong to 11 different
States and were arrested at different times and from different places. Charges
include hatching a conspiracy, waging war against the State, murder,
attempt to murder, organising training camps for training terror
activities, encouraging youths to join terror camps, and others. However,
the charge sheet named Abu Bashar, Qyamuddin, Abdul Razeek and Zahid
Sheikh as the main conspirators and masterminds of the blasts. The
charge sheet mentioned that the conspirators had stolen a few cars
from Mumbai, which were then laden with explosives and placed at
strategic points in Ahmedabad, including the trauma centre of the
Government civil hospital to cause greater damage. The explosives,
however, were purchased in Ahmedabad. In other incidents, old bicycles
fitted with bombs were used.
2009
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December 26: BSF personnel
along the Kutch border in Gujarat have gone into high
alert after two Pakistani boats with armed occupants, made yet another
attempt to infiltrate into India from Harami Nala area
near Sir Creek at about 12.30 am IST.
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November 18: The Indian Coast Guard
arrested eight Pakistani nationals and seized their boat from Jakhau region
near the International Marine Border (IMB) in Gujarat's Kutch
District.
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November 9: A Metropolitan court
in Ahmedabad remanded two SIMI cadres to 14 days in Police custody.
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November 3: The Ahmedabad Police
submitted 66 charge-sheets filed in 20 cases lodged in connection
with the serial blasts of July 26, 2008 which killed over 59 persons
in the city, to a special court for trial.
The Surat Police has also reportedly
filed numerous charge-sheets in connection with 15 FIRs lodged after
29 unexploded bombs were recovered from various areas in Surat in
the week that followed the Ahmedabad bomb blasts.
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October 30: A Pakistani boat, which
had intruded into Indian waters near Sir Creek area of Kutch District
in Gujarat, was seized by the BSF personnel on but its occupants
managed to escape. The BSF has heightened vigil in the area after
receiving inputs of increased ISI activities in the creek area,
they said.
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October 13: The Surat Crime Branch
officials filed a chargesheet against three suspects, identified
as Mohammed Tanvir, Mohammed Yashin and Mohammed Anik, for their
involvement in the Surat bomb planting
case in July 2008.
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October 6: Seven more Pakistani
nationals, claiming to be fishermen, were arrested by the Coast
Guard off Okha in the Jamnagar District of Gujarat.
Their boat, Al-Firoze, was also seized. According to official sources,
one of the fishermen arrested on October 4 was found to be an agent
of the ISI.
October 4: Five Pakistani nationals
were arrested from creek area on the west coast of Kutch District
in Gujarat by the Border Security Force personnel. The boat in which
they were travelling was also seized.
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August 17: Nine Pakistani infiltrators,
including six Balochis, were arrested in the Kutch District. The
nine intruders were taken to the Joint Interrogation Cell in Bhuj
on August 18. The water wing of the Border Security Force had lodged
a complaint at Dayapar Police station in Lakhpat taluka (administrative
unit) after they arrested the intruders for moving suspiciously
near the 250-MW Akarimota power plant of the Gujarat Mineral Development
Corporation near Nani Chher village of Kutch District. The Kutch
Superintendent of Police, Wabang Jamir, said, ‘‘It’s too early to
say anything. Preliminary interrogation revealed that six of them
are Baloch and hence we’re concerned. We will be able to tell more
after further interrogation.’’ According to Police, the group of
men started from Buddhu port near Karachi in Pakistan. Since the
Baloch aren’t traditionally fishermen the authorities reportedly
suspect their story that they were out for fishing.
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June 13: A local court in Ahmedabad
sent four Indian Mujahideen militants to Police custody till June
25, in connection with the Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts case. The
four were reportedly brought on transit remand from the national
capital Delhi. The four IM cadres are also accused of the serial
bomb blasts in Delhi.
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June 1: One bomb and a letter of
the SIMI were recovered between the rail lines at around 50 metres
from the Anand railway station, the Police said. The bomb, defused
later, was reportedly attached to a timer device and had metal shrapnel
and glass pieces. The letter was typed in Gujarati and signed in
the name of the banned SIMI, asking the people to join ‘jihad’
and follow the SIMI. The origin of the letter was being investigated,
the Police added.
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February 11: 18 Pakistani nationals
were arrested along with two boats by the Indian Coast Guard near
the Jakhau coast in Kutch District. An official spokesman said the
fishermen were taken to Jakhau, where after preliminary investigation
they would be handed over to the Kutch Police for questioning. It
was the second time in the last few days that Pakistani boats were
found in the Indian territorial waters and seized. Three boats with
24 Pakistani nationals were reportedly seized near the Jakhau port
last week.
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January 18: Four locally-made live
bombs were recovered by the Gujarat Police from the Karanj area
of Ahmedabad.
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January 15: The Indian Coast Guard
(ICG) seized two Pakistani boats and arrested 17 Pakistani nationals
aboard the boats near the Cori creek coast in Gujarat. After seizing
the boats, the ICG ship towed it to Jakhau coast, where all the
arrested Pakistani nationals were being interrogated. "While carrying
out patrolling inside our International Maritime Boundary (IMB),
one of our fast patrolling craft P-142 apprehended two Pakistani
fishing trawlers with 17 Pakistanis on it, 12 nautical miles off
the Cori creek coast in Gujarat," a Coast Guard official said. The
official did not rule out the possibility of the two boats being
used for carrying out anti-India activities.
2008
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December 4: A Madhya Pradesh court
handed over an alleged terrorist, identified as Qayimuddin alias
Musa alias Rizwan, wanted in connection with the July
26 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts, to the Anti-Terrorism Squad of
the Gujarat Police.
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December 2: Seven Pakistani nationals,
who claimed they were fishermen, were detained and their fishing
trawler was seized by the Indian Coast Guard in the Jakhau port
in Gujarat. A Coast Guard spokesman said the boat "Al Rafiq" was
intercepted when the men were found fishing deep inside Indian territorial
waters.
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November 10: Gujrat Police has said
that the Madhya Pradesh Police have arrested the main conspirators
of the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts, identified as Qayamuddin
Kapadia, from an unspecified place in Madhya Pradesh. Qayamuddin
allegedly planted cycle bombs in the Ahmedabad as well as bombs
in different parts of Surat and was also responsible for purchase
of cycles on which the bombs were planted and kept in different
parts of the city, said Joint Commissioner of Police of Ahmedabad
city, Ashish Bhatia. He was also an expert in using explosives,
and reportedly present during various Students Islamic Movement
of India (SIMI) terror
training camps in Waghamon in Kerala and Halol near Vadodara and
was instrumental in training the participants.
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November 9: The Maharashtra ATS
has arrested one more Malegaon blast accused, identified as Ramji,
from the tribal-dominated Dangs District in Gujarat. Ramji
was a volunteer in the Shabri temple and was alleged to have used
Sadhvi Pragnya’s motorbike in Malegaon. He was reportedly connected
with the Hindu Jagran Manch activist Swami Ashimananda.
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November 1: Twenty eight SIMI cadres,
who are accused of being involved in the July 26 Ahmedabad serial
bomb blasts, were remanded to Police custody till November 6 by
Metropolitan Magistrate G. M. Patel. They included mastermind
Mufti Abu Basher and SIMI leader Safdar Nagori.
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October 23: The Anti-Terrorism Squad
(ATS) arrested three persons on charges of involvement in the September
29 bomb blast in Malegaon in Maharashtra. They were identified
as a sadhvi (female saint) Pragnya Singh Chandrapal Singh,
Shiv Narayan Gopal Singh Kalsanghra, and Shyam Bhawarlal Sahu. While
Pragnya Singh was arrested from Surat, the other two persons were
arrested from unspecified places in Madhya Pradesh. They have been
booked under various sections of the Indian Explosives Act and the
Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
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October 20: A terror suspect, Mohammad
Ali, arrested in Madhya Pradesh and brought to Ahmedabad for questioning
in connection with the serial blasts in the city, was sent in Police
custody till October 23 by a Metropolitan court. Mohammad Ali was
brought on transit warrant from Jabalpur jail in Madhya Pradesh
by the City Crime Branch for his alleged involvement in the July
26 serial blasts. He is allegedly involved in the blast at the city
civil hospital. According to Crime Branch officials, Ali was the
key financier for the SIMI and used to bring money from outside
India through Hawala channels. "Mohammad Ali was present
in the SIMI camp held in Halol (near Vadodara). His name propped
up during interrogation of those under our custody," Joint Commissioner
of Police (JCP), Crime Branch, Ashish Bhatia, said, adding, "It
is believed that he was involved in the conspiracy of conducting
serial blasts in Ahmedabad and other places in the country. He was
also the local financier for the SIMI activities."
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October 8: A crude bomb exploded
in the Hatikhana area of Vododara city without causing any loss
of life or injuries. Police later recovered three more crude bombs
and gun powder from the area. The bombs were later defused.
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September 29: Two persons were killed
and 16 others injured in a bomb blast in the minority-dominated
Tuka Bazaar at Modasa town in Sabarkantha District. Earlier in the
morning, 17 low-intensity crude bombs were recovered from the Kotnirang
area at Kalupur in the old city of Ahmedabad. The bombs with shrapnel
and other discarded materials were kept in small tins in a bucket,
which was left in a dustbin.
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September 15: Ahmedabad Police arrested
two persons in connection with the July 26 serial blasts in the
city. The arrested persons were identified as Ashok Kabira alias
Umar Kabira who used to work as a sewage cleaner with the Ahmedabad
Municipal Corporation and Salim Sipahi who is considered to be an
explosives expert. Police stated that Kabira organised meetings
of terror operatives at his Juhapura residence and participated
in the serial blasts conspiracy. Deputy Commissioner of Police,
Crime Branch, Abhay Chudasama said the second accused Salim Sipahi
"has been with the radical groups since he was 15 years old. He
has undergone extensive training in bomb making. He knows how to
manufacture various types of bombs. His role in Ahmedabad blasts
is under the scanner."
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September 4: Four suspected SIMI
cadres were arrested in connection with the July 26 Ahmedabad bomb
blasts from Ahmedabad and Bhuj towns. An Ahmedabad Police spokesman
said that while Naved Kadri, Aiyyaz Sayed and Zaved Ahmed were arrested
from Ahmedabad, Abbas Asmeja was arrested from Bhuj. The arrests
took place following confessions made by the 10 main accused SIMI
cadres. Aiyyaz was among those who had actually placed some of the
bombs. Naved Kadri was present at the final planning meeting held
in Juhapura. Zaved Ahmed had procured a gas cylinder from Kalupur
area, which was used in the car bomb placed at the trauma centre
in the civil hospital. Asmeja had secured a house, under a false
name on behalf of the SIMI, under rehabilitation projects for the
people hit by the 2001 Kutch earthquake. The house was sold recently
to part-finance the blasts.
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August 26: Gujarat Police arrested
Tanveer Pathan alias Sameer, a suspected SIMI member, from
the Mira road area in Mumbai for his alleged involvement in the
planting of bombs in Surat. Police sources said Pathan's name was
revealed during the interrogation of Sajid Mansuri, an accused arrested
in connection with the Ahmedabad serial blasts case. An unidentified
Police officer told, "Pathan was in touch with several SIMI activists
in Pune and we passed on this information to the Gujarat Police.
After Pathan's name emerged in the investigation, a team from the
Gujarat Police arrived in Mumbai. With the help of the ATS, the
Gujarat team caught Pathan."
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August 20: Following information
given by the arrested SIMI cadre Usman Agarbattiwala, the Ahmedabad
Police recovered two pistols, a pipe bomb, balloons and 19 CDs and
DVDs containing speeches of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders,
laptops and hard drives from different places in the city. Usman
was one of the 10 SIMI members arrested for their alleged involvement
in the Ahmedabad serial blasts.
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August 19: A team of the Gujarat
Police arrested dentist Mohammed Salim Honali (31) from Bijapur
in Karnataka. Honali used to work with the MA Rangoonwala College
of Dental Sciences and Research Centre at the Azam Campus in Pune
till May 2008 before he was laid off. ATS officials suspect that
Honali not only had a significant role in the recent Ahmedabad blasts
but was also brainwashing other youth to bring them into the radical
fold.
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August 17: Three persons were arrested
in Bharuch for renting a house to the SIMI activist Sajid Mansuri,
who allegedly played a key role in the July 26 Ahmedabad serial
blasts. Mansuri had taken the house on rent from Saeed Hayat at
Lukman society in Bharuch. Hayat had the power of attorney over
the house that belonged to a London-based non-resident Indian. Two
persons, Yusuf Patel and Maqbul Patel, had recommended the name
of Sajid Mansuri to Saeed Hayat.
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August 16: Gujarat Police announced
the arrest of SIMI leader Abul Bashar Qasmi, who allegedly was the
mastermind behind the July 26 Ahmedabad serial bomb blasts. Director-General
of Police P.C. Pandey said Qasmi was arrested from a village in
Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh (UP) by a joint team of the UP and Gujarat
Police. The Gujarat Police also said with this arrest they had unraveled
the conspiracy that led to the bombings. Before Qasmi’s arrest,
nine SIMI cadres were arrested from Ahmedabad and Vadodara. "We
now have the entire details of how and where the plans for the Ahmedabad
blasts were chalked out, who were the people involved and how the
entire plan was operationalised," Pandey said. He also claimed that
the same group was involved in planting bombs in Surat.
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August 14: A SIMI cadre, identified
as Mohammad Sajid Mansori, was arrested in Bharuch in connection
with the serial blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26. Mansori is suspected
to have been part of the conspiracy to carry out the nine blasts
across the Gujarat capital.
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August 3: A live bomb was found
in the Atwalines area of Surat, taking the total number of explosive
devices detected in the city to 24. The bomb was found inside a
bag near a bus-stand adjacent to the municipal garden and was defused
by the bomb disposal squad.
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July 31: The Gujarat Police arrested
four Bangladeshi nationals, including a woman, from the Gandhinagar
area of capital Ahmedabad on suspicion of their involvement in the
Ahmedabad bomb blasts. Sahel Sheikh, Rafiq Sheikh, Murad Malik and
Khatimabibi Khalija were illegal immigrants and are suspected to
have links with the Bangladesh-based HuJI-B.
With four wounded people, including
two children, succumbing to their injuries the death toll in the
Ahmedabad serial bombings reached 55.
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July 30: Two more powerful live
bombs were defused in Surat. While one live bomb was found near
the Labheswar Police post, another bomb was found near the Surat
Municipal Corporation-operated swimming pool. It was found hanging
from a mango tree. Both the bombs were found in the same labour-dominated
Varachha Road area where 10 bombs were detected on July 29.
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July 29: The death toll in the serial
bomb blasts in Ahmedabad has risen to 53, said Government officials.
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July 27: Police in Surat, the second
major commercial centre in Gujarat after Ahmedabad, seized two abandoned
cars - one with live explosives and another with ammunition - from
different parts of the city. The cars were left abandoned at Punamgaon
and Randel in the Varacha Road locality. Police said gelatine sticks,
timers, ammonium nitrate powder, tiffin boxes and other material
were found in one abandoned car which the locals said was lying
there for a couple of days. The materials were reportedly enough
to manufacture about eight to 10 powerful crude bombs, the kind
of devices believed to have been used in the serial blasts. The
Police also defused a huge bomb found in an abandoned bag near a
hospital on the City Light Road.
Two live bombs were recovered from
a garbage can near a vegetable market in the Hatkeshwar locality
in Maninagar in Ahmedabad, where the first of the 17 blasts occurred
on July 26-evening. Another live bomb was defused near a gate of
a textile mill at Santhej on the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar highway after
midnight. One bomb was found and defused in Kalol, also an industrial
town near Gandhinagar.
The Joint Police Commissioner of
Ahmedabad, Asish Bhatia, said a SIMI activist, Abdul Halim, who
was wanted in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots, was arrested
during the combing operation in the city.
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July 26: 40 people were killed and
more than 100 others injured when serial blasts struck different
parts of Ahmedabad, the capital city of Gujarat. The worst attack
occurred near the trauma centre of the Government civil hospital,
where at least 25 people, including two doctors, were killed. Police
indicated that there were 17 blasts in 10 different areas and all,
except the minority-dominated Sarkhej and Juhapura, were in the
labour-dominated eastern parts of the old city. Most of the blasts
occurred in crowded and congested points like traffic circles, near
a Hanuman temple where a large number of devotees turn out on Saturdays
or near bus stops. The first blast was reported from the Hatkeshwar
locality in the Maninagar area at 6.38 pm (IST). Thereafter bombs
went off at 7 other places - Bapunagar, Narol, Ishanpur, Saraspur,
Sarangpur, Raipur, Sarkhej, Juhaapura - all within the next five
to seven minutes. About 40 minutes after the first round of blasts,
bombs went off near the trauma centre of the civil hospital and
the main portico of the L.G. General Hospital in Maninagar, even
as the injured were being rushed to the hospitals. About an hour
later, three more blasts were reported from Maninagar and surrounding
areas. In a 14-page manifesto e-mailed to the media minutes before
the serial bombings, an organisation calling itself the "Indian
Mujahideen (IM)" claimed responsibility for the Ahmedabad attacks.
Titled "The Rise of Jihad", the manifesto said the bombings were
carried out to avenge the 2002 anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat.
2007
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July 29: The Gujarat Police, probing
the ISI-sponsored fake currency racket, arrested two more persons
suspected to be involved in the incident. While Haneef Naviwala
was arrested from Surat, Nazir Motiwala was detained at Ankleshwar.
With this, the total number of arrests has gone up to 13.
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July 17: The Kutch Police arrested
a man in Vadodara in connection with the fake currency racket allegedly
involving two ISI agents, which was neutralised last week.
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July 16: The Kutch Police arrested
three persons from Mumbai and one from Salaya village near Mandvi
in connection with the fake currency racket allegedly involving
two ISI agents, which was neutralised last week.
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July 13: Gujarat Police reportedly
neutralized an ISI module operating in the country to smuggle in
fake currency, narcotics and arms and ammunition through the Mandvi
port in the Kutch District. Six persons, including two Pakistani
nationals, were arrested in this connection and they revealed that
the module had already smuggled in INR 2.4 million in fake currency
through Mandvi and sent it to Hyderabad, capital of Andhra Pradesh.
The Pakistani nationals were identified as Abdul Gaffar Qasim Chiba
and Abdul Khalif Tayyab Chauhan, both residents of Bhabhobhit area
in Karachi. The Indians include Mumbai-based operative Sayyed Ahmed
Ali and three other Mandvi-based fishermen, Abdullah Adam Dosani,
Suleman Mohammad Chauhan and Ismail Yakub Chiba. The Kutch District
Superintendent of Police, Gyanendra Singh Malik, said that the group
used to receive the contraband in the mid-seas off the Mandvi coast.
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May 27: A cleric in Ahmedabad, the
capital of Gujarat, Tahir Maulana, was arrested and some arms and
ammunition were seized from his house in the Juhapura area in connection
with the May 18 Hyderabad blast. A raid was conducted at his house
following a tip off from an unidentified person and also a verbal
complaint by one of his wives who alleged he had kept arms and ammunition
at home and was involved in 'jihadi' activities, said a senior crime
branch official.
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February 22: Police arrested two
suspected agents of Pakistan's ISI from Bhuj. The District Superintendent
of Police Gyanendrasinh Malik said Aslam and Syed Ali were arrested
on the basis of information supplied by another ISI agent, Adil
Anjuman, who was arrested in Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh,
in December 2006.
Source: Compiled from English language media sources.
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