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Bennett murder: 4 accused out of jail

Sunday 9 September '07

Five days after the Bombay High Court granted them bail, and with help from 200-odd villagers of Malsai who contributed to raise the Rs 1 lakh bail amount...
Cops arrest trader in fake currency case

Thursday 6 September '07

Probe on to detect link, if any, between currency racket and August 25 blasts
Malegaon linked to 7/11: that’s all cops able to say

Monday 3 September '07

On May 10 last year, police seized 43 kg RDX, 16 AK-47s and 4,000 rounds in Malegaon.
Follow-up on arrests in Delhi could have prevented 7/11

Sunday 2 September '07

The Anti-Terrorism Squad of Mumbai Police, which is investigating last year’s July 11 blasts on local trains, has brushed under the rug a crucial piece of information...
Al-Badr sleeper cell busted in Mumbai, 3 held

Tuesday 17 July '07

The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai Police in collaboration with the Kutch police has busted a sleeper cell of Pakistan-based militant outfit
If govt fails to book Telgi’s saviours, I will do it: Sharma

Friday 29 June '07

“I destroyed Telgi. Now, if the government does not do anything to bring to book those (officers) who wanted to save Telgi by their acts of omission and commission
Rs 1-crore cocaine haul puts ATS on terror trail

Thursday 21 June '07

In what is the largest cocaine haul by the Mumbai Police, the Anti-Terrorism Squad seized contraband weighing over 1 kg and worth Rs 1 crore on Monday from two persons
Mosque blast: Jalna man carried explosives

Tuesday 19 June '07

Even as the CBI on Monday started fresh investigations into the May 18 blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, the Special Investigating Cell (SIC) of Hyderabad Police, set up to probe ..
Police bid to nail Dawood fails

Friday 15 June '07

If the Mumbai Police today find that their efforts to nail Dawood Ibrahim and his syndicate by pursuing the case of illegal construction of twin shopping malls, Sara and Sahara...
Before Sheikhs, CID questioned Vanjhara team’s killing of youth, no action taken

Monday 7 May '07

As the Gujarat police today began excavating the grounds near the Illol house of arrested DIG D G Vanjhara to look for the remains of Kausar Bi...
Malegaon blasts: CBI to quiz Pak national

Monday 2 April '07

The Central Bureau of Investigation will question 28-year-old Pakistani national Taseem Azim alias Larib Khan Gulab Khan in connection with the serial blasts at Malegaon on September 8 last year.
Another gangster ‘lords over’ Arthur Road jail

Monday 19 March '07

Arrested henchman reveals how Rajan aide D K Rao runs operations from cell No 3 and takes care of his men too
Zaheera released from jail

Thursday 15 March '07

Zaheera Sheikh, prime witness and complainant in the 2002 Best Bakery massacre case in Vadodara, was released from the Nashik Central Jail on Wednesday.
2 narcotics supply agents identified

Wednesday 7 March '07

A day after 287 youngsters, including 24 from Mumbai, were arrested in a raid by the Pune rural police at a rave party at the Sinhagad Fort the Narcotics Control Bureau identified two agents known for supplying narcotic substances at parties.
Gangster claims Shilpa spoke to him, sought help

Sunday 25 February '07

Fazlu’s statement to police gives new twist to 2003 case; Shilpa refuses to comment, says she’s answerable to court not media
Mumbai police knew of Kochar’s cricket betting links since 2005

Saturday 10 February '07

Mumbai police had learnt as early as May 2005 that Mukesh Kochar — whose phone conversation with West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels was taped by Nagpur police last week — was linked to cricket betting rings.
Flesh trade to beggar mafia: Mumbai capital for missing children

Tuesday 6 February '07

For over three years now, the Agarwals in central Mumbai have been waiting for their son Raj.
Maharashtra’s first ‘jehadi’ in Valley killed a year ago, his family still in the dark

Sunday 28 January '07

He is an expert welder and such skilled persons are in high demand in the Middle East and are paid well.
Arms haul at JNPT: ‘Chhota Rajan aide did dry run in Feb last year’

Friday 29 December '06

A couple of months before their arms consignment was seized by the Crime Branch at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in May last year...
Woh apne tarike se apun karenge: Chhota Rajan dials his men in Mumbai jail to get his work done

Wednesday 27 December '06

Non-resident gang leader Chhota Rajan is still actively running his operations in Mumbai through his men lodged in the city’s Arthur Road jail.
Malegaon: ‘SIMI hit mosque to start riots’

Friday 22 December '06

Hours before the September 8 Malegaon serial blasts case was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation...
Malegaon: Witness under watch held

Sunday 17 December '06

Thirty-three-year-old Abrar Ahmed Saiyeed Ahmed, who the police had till now been claiming is a prime witness in the September 8 Malegaon blasts case...
10,000 pages, where’s the ATS case?

Sunday 10 December '06

The Anti-Terrorism Squad’s chargesheet on the July 11 train blasts in Mumbai, filed after an extensive probe, throws up more questions than answers. And no, it isn’t something New Delhi can take on Islamabad with
13 years ago, cops came upon Sanjay link

Wednesday 29 November '06

In the 1993 serial blasts case, the arrest of actor Sanjay Dutt was an accidental windfall for Crime Branch officers who were looking for footsoldiers of main accused Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon.
Mumbai’s big catch wanted in Gujarat for terror training

Thursday 23 November '06

Forty-three-year old Arif Abu Bakar Sheikh, alias Arif Bhaijan, the only big catch among the 10 Dubai-based gangsters handed to the Mumbai police Tuesday...
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