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Bhopal: All the eight terrorists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) who escaped from Bhopal Central Jail were killed in a gunfight on the outskirts of the city, police said on Monday. “All eight SIMI terrorists were killed in an encounter near Manikhedi Pathar village,” a senior police officer said. “We located […]

Rourkela: The Crime Branch of Odisha police filed the charge sheet against five Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) activists arrested in February at the Rourkela SDJM court yesterday. Notably, the four SIMI ultras and a Muslim woman, Najma (mother of Sheikh Mehmood, one of the four) were arrested by the police from a rented […]

Rourkela: The anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of Madhya Pradesh police on Saturday took Mohammad Salek, one of the five Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) terrorists recently arrested from here, on a 15-day remand. While the ATS had granted the remand yesterday, he was transferred from the Rourkela Jail on Saturday and was taken to Madhya […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after a court allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to take three out of the five SIMI arrested SIMI operatives on 15 days’ remand, the national investigating agency took the trio to Bhopal on Thursday for further interrogation. According to sources, Amjad Khan, Zakir Hussain and Sheikh Mehboob, the three SIMI operatives, […]

Bhubaneswar: Out of the five SIMI operatives arrested from Rourkela, three will be taken on a 15 days’ remand by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). According to sources, Amjad Khan, Zakhir Hussain and Seikh Mehboob will be taken on remand by a team of NIA from Bhopal. NIA was granted remand permission by the court […]

Bhubaneswar/Rourkela: The five SIMI terrorists arrested from Rourkela last month were sent to jail on a 14-day judicial custody after their remand ended today. The five operatives were produced before the court of the Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM), which remanded them to a 14-day judicial custody. Moreover, the SDJM court has scheduled the hearing on […]

Bhubaneswar/Rourkela: With the 13-day remand of arrested five SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) operatives ended on Monday, national investigating agency (NIA) and police of other states have queued up for their custody. Highly placed sources said, Maharashtra police and their Madhya Pradesh and Telengana counterparts along with NIA have filed petitions before the court […]

Bhubaneswar: The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in course of its interrogation has come to know that the four terrorists of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) had sent Rs 3 lakh to Tehrik-i-Taliban, a Pakistan-based terrorist outfit. The RAW officials, during interrogation of the four SIMI ultras, who were arrested from Rourkela recently, on […]

Startling revelations, including plans to execute bomb blasts and kill police officials, were made by the four SIMI operatives arrested from Rourkela recently, during their interrogation

Bhubaneswar: The police on Thursday began investigation into the suspected links of five SIMI members with Talibans based in Afghanistan. Highly placed sources said, a special team of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) interrogated the SIMI operatives to ascertain their suspected money transactions with the Talibans. Meanwhile a team of Madhya Pradesh police, which is […]

Bhadrak: A team of Special Task Force (STF) personnel from Odisha police, accompanied by Crime Branch Special DG BK Sharma and IG Arun Bothra, today seized some incriminating documents from the rented house at Nangamahala in Bhadrak, where the SIMI operatives arrested in Rourkela on Wednesday were staying for months. The STF seized two mobile […]

Bhubaneswar: Police and intelligence agencies have gone into an overdrive to extract more information from the five SIMI terrorists arrested in Rourkela yesterday. The National Investigating Agency (NIA), Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Crime Branch and Police from other states will be interrogating the five arrested terrorists to unearth vital information on their terrorist […]

Bhubaneswar: One of the five terrorists of banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who were arrested from Rourkela yesterday, has confessed to his involvement in the blast carried out in Chennai in 2014. Zakir, one of the four terrorists arrested by police along with a woman yesterday, has reportedly confessed during interrogation to have […]

The Special Task Force (STF) of the Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Wednesday took charge of investigation into the arrest of four suspected SIMI terrorists and a woman in Rourkela earlier in the day

Rourkela: Five terrorists, including a woman, of banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) were arrested by Police in Rourkela late night yesterday after a 3-hour-long fire exchange. According to sources, the five of them were staying at a rented flat Qureshi Mohalla. A joint team of Special Operations Group (SOG), Telengana Police, Rourkela Police […]