Tag: NIA
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Missing arms case: NIA attaches Manipur MLA’s properties
New Delhi : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has attached immovable properties of Manipur’s Saikul constituency MLA Yamthong Haokip in a missing arms case, the agency said on Friday. The attached properties included the house of the MLA in Imphal in connection with the case, as this property constituted proceeds of “terrorism as defined in…
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NIA probing cross-border link in smuggling of fake currency
Ernakulam (Kerala) : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has launched an investigating to find cross-border links in the smuggling of fake currency notes, the central agency said while filing a chargesheet in a counterfeit currency case here on Saturday. The NIA filed the charge-sheet in a Special Court in Ernakulam against Ali Hossain, 29, a…
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Bombay HC refuses to stop framing of charges in Malegaon 2008 case
Mumbai : The Bombay High Court on Tuesday declined to stay a lower court order for framing of charges in a case against Lt. Col. Srikant P. Purohit and 13 other accused in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blast. Purohit had challenged the decision of the lower court in the high court, seeking a stay…
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NIA court convicts one more in espionage case
Chennai : A special NIA court here has pronounced Mohamed Saleem guilty in an espionage case for possessing counterfeit currency and conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks, the central agency’s official said on Tuesday. The National Investigation Agency court delivered the judgment on Monday convicting 43-year-old Saleem for hatching a criminal conspiracy in 2014 along…
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Asiya Andrabi case: NIA summons Srinagar reporter to Delhi
Srinagar : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday summoned a local reporter to Delhi in connection with a case registered against Asiya Andrabi, chief of women’s separatist group “Dukhtaran-e-Milat” (daughters of faith). Sources said Aquib Javeed, an accredited journalist working with local English daily “Kashmir Observer”, has been summoned to the NIA headquarters in…
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Asiya Andrabi, two aides sent to 10 days NIA custody
New Delhi : Asiya Andrabi, chief of the Kashmiri women’s separatist group “Dukhtaran-e-Milat” (Daughters of Faith), and two of her associates were sent to 10 day National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody on Friday. After Andrabi,Sofi Fehmeeda and Nahida Nasreen were presented before a Special NIA Judge Poonam Bamba in connection with a sedition case filed…
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Naik won’t return to India unless assured fair trial
New Delhi : Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, wanted by Indian agencies on charges of inciting youths to take up terror activities, on Wednesday said he will not return to India unless he was assured fair prosecution. “The news of my coming to India is totally baseless and false. I have no plans to come…
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All 5 convicts in Bodh Gaya blasts case get lifer
Patna : An NIA court here on Friday awarded life imprisonment to all the five persons earlier convicted in the 2013 serial blasts that rocked Bodh Gaya’s Mahabodhi temple, a lawyer said. Judge Manoj Kumar Sinha, presiding over the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court, had in May convicted Umer Siddiqui, Azharuddin Siddiqui, Hauser Ali,…
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All 5 accused in Makkah Masjid blast acquitted
Hyderabad : Eleven years after a powerful explosion killed nine people and injured over 50 during Friday prayers near the iconic Charminar here, a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here on Monday acquitted all five accused in the Makkah Masjid case. A lawyer for one of the accused told reporters outside the Nampally criminal court…
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Bihar woman sentence to 7 years in IS case
Kochi (Kerala) : An NIA court here on Saturday sentenced a woman from Bihar to seven years in jail in the first Islamic State (IS) case registered in Kerala. The case is in connection with 15 persons from Kasargode district who travelled to Afghanistan to join the terror group in 2016. Yasmin Mohammed Zahid was…