Delhi
NIA Related Incidents:2011

Following the trail of the first e-mail, which was sent three hours after the blast from the email-id, [email protected], claiming that the outfit Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami (HuJI) was behind the attacks, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) detained five persons from Kishtwar Town in Jammu District, according to Indian Express. The arrestees were identified as Khwaja Mehmood Aziz, the owner of the cyber cafe, ‘Global Internet’ from where the e-mail was reportedly sent, his brother Khalid Aziz; their employee Ashwani Kumar; and two college students Imran Hussain Sheikh of Upper Malitath and Ashiq Hussain from Khandkoot in Doda, according to Daily Excelsior. Also, Uttar Pradesh Police on September 8 detained a person, identified as Shehzad, resembling one of the two sketches of the terror suspects in the Delhi high court blast, adds Times of India. However, he was let off after his credentials were verified beyond doubt. Read less...

Four e-mails claiming responsibility for the attack has been received so far. An e-mail was received on September 7, allegedly sent by the HuJI to media houses, claiming responsibility for the blast. Another email surfaced on September 8. The email was allegedly sent by one Chhotu on behalf of the IM claiming responsibility for the blast and threatening more in public places. The mail was traced to West Bengal. The Delhi Police received the third email, apparently from the Indian Mujahideen (IM), on September 9. The sender identified himself as Ali Saed El-Hoorie and sent the mail from the ID [email protected] “This is to inform you that the India Mujahideen claims the terror attack on Delhi High Court. I just want you to pass a message to the Indian Government that next blast will be so cruel that you people won’t be able to forget it for decade (sic),” the email read. The server of this email was reportedly traced to Moscow in Russia. The fourth email came from IM’s Chhotu warning of a major terror attack in Ahmedabad in Gujarat. It read: “IM has planned the attack carefully. It is impossible for the Delhi police and NIA to trace the origin of the mails.” The mail, further cautioned: “In Ahmedabad will target a crowded place and the police will find it difficult to crack it.” Read less...

In the first positive development for investigators probing the Delhi High Court blast, the National Investigating Agency (NIA) arrested two persons from Jammu and Kashmir for sending an email claiming claiming responsibility for the attacks on behalf of the militant terror outfit HuJI. The arrestees were identified as Shariq Ahmed and Abid Hussain. After sustained interrogation, the two admitted to sending the email and reportedly also identified the person who asked them to do so. The duo were arrested on the basis of a forensic report received by the NIA of the computer hard disc that was used by one of them to send the email from , stating that the blast was carried out by HuJI. Read less...

The National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing the Delhi High Court blast (September 7, 2011) case, suspects that sleeper cells of the Islamist outfits Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) and the Indian Mujahideen (IM) in Kerala could have had a hand in the terror strike, according to The Hindu. Investigators are also trying to extract details from some of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operatives including two arrested militants, Thadiyanatavide Nazir and Sarfaraz Nawaz, both of whom are lodged in the Bangalore Central Prison. Their interrogation, following their arrests, had already revealed how a transnational terror module operates in some South Asian countries linked to Gulf nations. Read less...

The National Investigating Agency (NIA) on September 21 brought all the three persons who were arrested in connection with sending an e-mail claiming responsibility for the Delhi High Court blast (September 7, 2011), to Delhi, The Times of India reported. The three arrestees were identified as Shariq Ahmed, Abid Hussain and Amir Abbas Dev. While Dev was arrested on September 16, Shariq and Hussain were arrested on September 13. The trio was arrested from Kishtwar District of Jammu and Kashmir. Read less...

An NIA court in Delhi sent Aamir Abbas Dev, one of the suspects arrested from Kishtwar District in Jammu and Kashmir for allegedly sending the e-mail which claimed responsibility for the Delhi High Court blast, to judicial custody. The NIA claimed he was one of those who carried out the attack. The three arrestees in the case, Amir Abbas Dev, Abid Hussain and Shariq Ahmed were under unlawful activities prevention act, criminal conspiracy for murder and attempt to murder and other relevant sections of IPC. Read less...

In response to a specific request made by the National Investigating Agency (NIA), a team of Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) personnel from the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Police arrived in Delhi on September 22 to help the agency in the investigation of the Delhi High Court blast case (September 7, 2011), The Indian Express reported. According to reports, NIA investigation indicated that the same module of Indian Mujahideen (IM) which had engineered the bomb explosion in Varanasi in UP on December 7, 2010, was involved in the Delhi High Court blast. Read less...

Shariq Ahmed, one of the three teenagers who was arrested from Kishtwar District in Jammu and Kashmir in connection with the bomb blast outside Delhi High Court (September 7, 2011) was released by Jammu Kashmir Police on September 23, The Indian Express reported. Earlier, the national Investigation Agency (NIA) team had taken two of the three arrested persons, Aamir Abbas Dev and Abid Hussain to Delhi while Shariq continued to remain in custody of State Police at Kishtwar .(Contrary an earlier report which had suggested that all the three arrestees were taken to Delhi) Read less...

The NIA got custody of Delhi High Court blast accused Amir Abbas Dev until October 7 from a Special Court in Delhi on September 23, The Hindu reported. Read less...

In third major arrest in Delhi High Court blast case (September 7, 2011), the National Investigating Agency (NIA) on October 7 arrested a Kashmiri youth, who was pursuing studies at Dhaka in Bangladesh from New Delhi soon after he alighted from a flight at IGI airport in the capital. The arrestee, identified as Wasim Akram Malik, a resident of Kishtwar District in Jammu and Kashmir was arrested following clues gathered during investigations by the NIA that he was a key conspirator in the blast along with his brother, Junaid Akram Malik, a ‘commander’ of the militant outfit Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, who was absconding. Read less...

Quoting Delhi Police, The Times of India reported that the explosives-laden car found at Ambala Cantonment railway station in Haryana on the night of October 12 was headed to the national capital for a terror strike. According to Delhi Police officials, the blue Indica car had five kilograms of RDX in two packets, two batteries, five detonators and two timer devices. Delhi Police said the explosives were meant for terror outfit Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), which had plans to target the national capital. "We had inputs that a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) module active in Jammu and Kashmir was planning to strike in Delhi. Investigations were done and found that the explosives were meant for Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) and to be used in Delhi," said Arun Kampani, Deputy Commissioner of Police (special cell). According to sources, the plot was orchestrated by the Pakistani intelligence agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the whole operation was being monitored from Nepal. A call was traced from Nepal 10 days ago which suggested exchange of explosives. The Policemen are investigating if the recovery of explosives has any links to the September 7 blast at Delhi High Court, where too RDX was used. A team of National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the HC blast along with bomb disposal squads and forensic experts from Madhubani FSL have rushed to Ambala. Officials said the explosive was smuggled to Jammu and Kashmir through the border and a separate module was assigned to deliver it to Delhi. Police is looking for two suspects who drove the car to Ambala from Jammu. They have recovered two toll tax slips, of Shambhu Barrier and Ladowal in Punjab, from the car, and probably have CCTV footage of the two suspects from one of the toll booths. Read less...