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Mumbai cops join the dots between Malegaon and 7/11

Saturday 4 November '06

With Thursday’s arrest of alleged prime conspirator of the September 8 Malegaon blasts, Shabbir Ahmed Mushirullah alias Batterywallah...
Yunus: Cops’ transfer orders may be reversed

Friday 27 October '06

Six days after DGP PS Pasricha told the Bombay High Court that 10 policemen had been transferred in connection with the disappearance of Khwaja Yunus
We need six more weeks to file 7/11 chargesheet: ATS to court

Monday 23 October '06

The anti-terrorist squad of Mumbai Police, which claims to have cracked the July 11 train blasts case, has asked the MCOCA court for six more weeks to file a chargesheet.
7/11 defence lawyer claims he got death threat from Ravi Pujari gang

Thursday 19 October '06

The advocate defending most of the accused in the July 11 train blasts case has alleged that the Ravi Pujari gang has threatened to gun him down if he doesn’t back out.
Bombers’ e-mail id still active

Monday 2 October '06

A day after The Sunday Express reported that two email addresses were used by the Mumbai-based Lashkar-e-Toiba module to keep in touch with their handlers and other operatives, it appears that one of the two IDs — ibn_chand@yahoo.com — is still active and a mail was sent from it as recently as this morning.
Kolkata’s shoe trader was an LeT sleeper

Sunday 1 October '06

Please ask anybody in Rajabazar area about Majid. They will tell you that the local policemen were his best friends.
Warship collides with SCI vessel off Mumbai coast

Thursday 28 September '06

The Indian Navy’s run with accidents continues with yet another collision of a warship with a Shipping Corporation of India...
DCP cracked the case, Mukadam was clincher

Tuesday 19 September '06

Asgar Mukadam -- found guilty of bombing Plaza cinema in the 1993 serial blasts case -- was the "crucial catch'', recalls then Deputy Commissioner of Police...
‘Crew said F-16s were escorting us, then I knew it was serious’

Saturday 26 August '06

“It was two days of nothing,’’ said Bandra resident Nitin Mishra. One of 137 passengers on board Northwest Airlines flight NW 0042 that was detained in Amsterdam for two days, he was relieved that it was all over.
’93 serial blasts: Big guns were never caught

Wednesday 9 August '06

March 12, 1993. 12 blasts. 257 dead. 713 injured. Thirteen years later, August 10 is judgement day.
ATS wants to grill Lashkar man lodged in Tihar Jail

Wednesday 2 August '06

The state Anti-Terrorist Squad is keen on questioning Firoz Ghanswala, a member of a Lashkar-e-Toiba module busted by the Delhi Police Special Cell in May.
On our list, Gujarat cops who didn’t act: terror suspect

Thursday 27 July '06

Sohail Md Sheikh, a Pune-based Lashkar-e-Toiba suspect who was arrested yesterday, has told police that his module had been instructed to draw up a list of Gujarat policemen...
Detained doctor handed over to ATS

Tuesday 25 July '06

The Mumbai Police Crime Branch today handed over one of the five it had detained for questioning last week to the Anti-Terrorist Squad after it found ‘‘substantial evidence’’ of his involvement in Terrible Tuesday’s serial train blasts.
Disquiet in Mumbra over detention of 11 Thane men

Tuesday 18 July '06

As the Thane police verify the credentials of 11 men from Mumbra detained in Tripura, residents of the area are angry and confused.
An email after Karnavati Express blast had said: ‘work has begun’

Sunday 16 July '06

Was the RDX blast in SC-1 coach of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Karnavati Express on Platform Number 2 at Kalupur railway station in Ahmedabad at 1.45 pm on February 19 a precursor to Terrible Tuesday’s serial train blasts?
Cops follow Aurangabad arms haul trail, arrest four and look for key Lashkar man on the run

Saturday 15 July '06

After combing Beed district in Maharashtra for three days hoping to find clues to Tuesday’s serial blasts in Mumbai, the Anti Terrorist Squad...
‘3 men at Churchgate spoke of leaving packets on the train’

Thursday 13 July '06

The Police are probing the involvement of local terrorist sleeper cells organised by pan-islamic terrorist outfits and involving members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India in the serial blasts that killed 183 persons and injured 714.
‘I saw 25 bodies being piled up’

Wednesday 12 July '06

Three of the eight terror blasts which rocked the city during rush hour saw the maximum casualties. At Mahim junction railway station alone, the blast left at least 30 dead and another 40 injured.
2 weeks ago, in quiet meeting, IB chief told Sudarshan: you and RSS under threat

Friday 2 June '06

On May 15, exactly a fortnight before today’s terror attack bid at the RSS headquarters in Nagpur, RSS Sarsanghchalak K S Sudarshan had an unusual visitor at the Sangh shivir in Dombivili in Mumbai’s outskirts.
Akshardham parallel points to Lashkar

Friday 2 June '06

A white Ambassador car, Pakistan-based militants, AK-56 rifles and grenades stuffed in a backpack — the parallels between today’s attack on the RSS headquarters in Nagpur...
RDX haul: Link to mastermind held

Wednesday 17 May '06

The Anti-Terrorist squad on Tuesday detained a man they believe will lead them to the mastermind—Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Zahibuddin Ansari—in the transporting and stocking of arms and explosives seized from Aurangabad and its neighbouring areas last week.
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