Tag: Nia

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: Odisha Police on Wednesday sought cooperation from National Investigation Agency (NIA) to trace the four suspected Iraqi nationals who suspiciously fled from a hotel here on intervening night of 25 and 26 January. Police sources said the central agency has been urged to take up the matter after reports from their Andhra Pradesh counterparts […]

National Investigation Agency (NIA) team will continue its simulation exercise on Monday in presence of accused Ramchandran Subhas to recreate the train arson scene at the Puri railway station on November 12

Bhubaneswar: The sub-divisional judicial magistrate (SDJM) court here on Saturday granted the police to take Puri train arson main accused Ramachandran Subhas on a two-day remand. Official sources said the Government Railway Police (GRP), Bhubaneswar will take Subhas on remand to elicit more information on his suspected involvement in the train arson case in Bhubaneswar. […]

New Delhi: A week after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Mohammad Ashar, the counter-terror probe agency on Friday said it has arrested another absconding accused in the 2006 Kerala twin blasts from the airport here. P.P. Yoosaf, who had since been absconding, was arrested on Friday from the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here […]

Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday entrusted to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) the case relating to the knife attack on YSR Congress Party President Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam Airport on October 25. The court passed the orders on petitions filed by leaders of YSR Congress, seeking a probe by a central […]

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case to probe the killing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Ravinder Gosain in Ludhiana in Punjab, an official said on Friday. The agency took over the case from Punjab Police following a Home Ministry order on Thursday, nearly a month after the state government […]

Ranchi: Jailed Maoist commander Kundan Pahan in his interrogation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has revealed that he was given Rs 5 crore to kill former Jharkhand Minister Ramesh Singh Munda in 2008. According to sources in the police, Pahan admitted to taking a contract of Rs 5 crore to kill the then Janata […]

New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the NIA will “fully choke” terrorists and separatists of foreign funding to curb terrorism that he described as a “curse for the civilized society”. The Minister said being an autonomous body, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had done its job well in its crackdown on terrorists […]

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday said it has arrested one accused for organising a terror camp in Kerala’s Kannur district in 2013. The person arrested was identified as Azharudeen aka Azhar, 24, a resident of Narath in Kerala. An NIA official told IANS that Azhar was arrested on Monday night. He […]

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested seven Kashmiri separatist leaders who have allegedly received funds from Pakistan to sponsor terror activities and stone-pelting protests in the Kashmir Valley. Those arrested included Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s son-in-law Altaf Shah and moderate Hurriyat chairman’s close aide Shahid-ul-Islam, an NIA official told […]

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has handed over the Jammu Air Force station attack case to National Investigation Agency (NIA), officials said on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Former Jharkhand minister Gopal Krishna Patar was today arrested by the NIA for allegedly conniving with Naxalites to get his political rival, MLA Ramesh Munda, killed in 2008, a spokesperson for the agency said. Patar, alias Raja Peter, was arrested in Ranchi, the spokesperson said. Patar had shot to fame after he defeated […]

New Delhi: With Railway suspecting sabotage in derailment of Hirakhand Express in Andhra Pradesh, the Home Ministry may ask the NIA to include the incident in its ongoing probe into possible role of Pakistan spy agency ISI in Indore-Patna Express mishap last year. “The Home Ministry may ask the NIA to see if the derailment […]

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday assured Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi of an NIA investigation into the killing of 65 villagers by NDFB(S) militants in three districts of the state