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January - 2 
The National Investigating Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet in the Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) case involving a lynchpin of the Dawood Ibrahim syndicate, Oneindia reports on January 3. In the charge sheet the NIA names Ekramul Ansari as the prime accused who had attempted to smuggle in FICN wo
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The National Investigating Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet in the Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) case involving a lynchpin of the Dawood Ibrahim syndicate, Oneindia reports on January 3. In the charge sheet the NIA names Ekramul Ansari as the prime accused who had attempted to smuggle in FICN worth INR 49,00,000 from Dubai to India. The NIA states that Ansari had brought into India the FICN from Dubai and had planned on circulating it. All the notes that were found were of the INR 1000 denomination and on verification at Nashik (Maharashtra) it was found to be fake. Ansari who originally hails from East Champaran District in Bihar was allegedly working with the Dawood syndicate which is also involved in the circulation of fake currency.
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January - 3 
An investigation into the activities of Areeb Majeed, an alleged recruit of terror group Islamic State (IS) has led National Investigation Agency (NIA)to send requests to authorities in the US, Canada and Australia for cyber evidence, The Times of India reports on January 4.The NIA has approached th
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An investigation into the activities of Areeb Majeed, an alleged recruit of terror group Islamic State (IS) has led National Investigation Agency (NIA)to send requests to authorities in the US, Canada and Australia for cyber evidence, The Times of India reports on January 4.The NIA has approached the authorities in the US, Canada and Australia for providing cyber evidence under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), official sources said here.The US, which has been very cooperative in cyber-terrorism related cases, has already given preliminary evidence of the Internet Protocol address used by Majeed before allegedly joining the outfit and the mails shot off by him which includes to a person in Madhya Pradesh, who is believed to have financed his travel abroad to be part of IS, the sources said.
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January - 3 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast case, on January 2 secured the transit remand of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operative Sahanur Alam, reports New Indian Express. And it will enable NIA to take him to Kolkata (West Bengal) from Guwahati
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast case, on January 2 secured the transit remand of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operative Sahanur Alam, reports New Indian Express. And it will enable NIA to take him to Kolkata (West Bengal) from Guwahati (Assam), where he will be produced in a special court there on January 3 (today) along with Rafikul Islam and Sariful Islam, who had earlier been arrested for their alleged jihadi links.The NIA had named Sahanur as one of the suspects and announced a cash reward of `five lakh for information leading to his arrest. Subsequently, the agency will seek their custody for interrogation.A key motivator of jihadi propaganda in Assam, Sahanur was arrested from Larkuchi in Assam’s Nalbari District on December 4. Assam Director General of Police (DGP) Khagen Sarma said Sahanur’s job mainly involved motivating jihadi recruits in Assam. “He was closely connected with the JMB. He maintained a very good rapport with the JMB leaders both in West Bengal and Bangladesh,” Sarma added.
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January - 5 
Among the three Indian operatives of Islamic State (IS) one is working in an oil refinery company and another in a hospital, most likely looking after patients, Daily Mail reports on January 6. Farad Sheikh and Shaheen Tanki, have claimed that they were living layman’s lives after taking up th
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Among the three Indian operatives of Islamic State (IS) one is working in an oil refinery company and another in a hospital, most likely looking after patients, Daily Mail reports on January 6. Farad Sheikh and Shaheen Tanki, have claimed that they were living layman’s lives after taking up these jobs. It is not yet clear which company or hospital they are working for, or the nature of the work assigned to them. According to a source, Sheikh and Tanki have conveyed this to their parents and family members, whom they used to call up from Syria once or twice a week. “They had said that they were fine and are doing their jobs nicely. Sheikh claimed that he was working in an oil refinery whereas Shaheen Tanki was employed with a hospital,” the source said, adding that these details were revealed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) after tapping phone calls.
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January - 10 
A Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JUM) operative, identified as Rezaul Karim, from whose house Police recovered 39 bombs after the October 2, 2014 Burdwan blast was arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Sahebganj in Jharkhand on January 10, reports The Times of India. Karim, according to NIA,
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A Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JUM) operative, identified as Rezaul Karim, from whose house Police recovered 39 bombs after the October 2, 2014 Burdwan blast was arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Sahebganj in Jharkhand on January 10, reports The Times of India. Karim, according to NIA, is a bombmaker and explosives transporter for the outfit.
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January - 12 
According to the Police officials, four suspected operatives of Indian Mujahideen (IM) arrested recently were part of a terror module that was used to procure, fabricate and deliver deadly explosives, reports The Times of India on January 13. A top Police official said that the IM operatives transfe
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According to the Police officials, four suspected operatives of Indian Mujahideen (IM) arrested recently were part of a terror module that was used to procure, fabricate and deliver deadly explosives, reports The Times of India on January 13. A top Police official said that the IM operatives transferred money through Hawala channels for funding and at least one of them attended meetings in a foreign country, where a conspiracy was hatched to manufacture and deliver deadly explosives which were probably used for blasts in different parts of the country. Bengaluru Police commissioner M N Reddi said that "I would say that a picture is emerging based on the interrogation that we have done. This was a module that was used by the IM as well as the other terrorist organisations to procure, fabricate, supply and deliver deadly explosives." However, Reddi added that there was nothing so far to link the arrested persons with the December 28, 2014 Bengaluru blast that claimed the life of a woman. One of the arrested IM operative, Syed Ismail Afaque was the man who assembled and supplied two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) used in the Dilsukhnagar bomb blasts in February 21, 2013 (Hyderabad), reports The New Indian Express on January 13. Top sources confirmed that Afaque, during joint interrogation by the Karnataka Police and the National Investigation Agency (NIA), reportedly confessed that he had designed the IEDs and supplied them to other accused who planted them at Dilsukhnagar and executed the blasts. Sources said that “On instructions of his Pakistan-based handlers, particularly Riyaz Bhatkal, the most-wanted terrorist, Afaque purchased the material for the explosives from Manguluru, assembled them and supplied it to other accused who triggered the blasts.” Afaque will be brought to Hyderabad to be produced in the court in connection with the Dilsukhnagar blasts after which NIA is likely to seek his custody to elicit more information about the blasts.
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January - 13 
According to sources, the four suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives arrested in Karnataka last week had planned synchronized blasts in Delhi, Hyderabad and Bengaluru on January 26 as the United States (US) President Barack Obama is visiting India as the chief guest at this year’s Republic Day
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According to sources, the four suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives arrested in Karnataka last week had planned synchronized blasts in Delhi, Hyderabad and Bengaluru on January 26 as the United States (US) President Barack Obama is visiting India as the chief guest at this year’s Republic Day ceremony in Delhi, reports The New Indian Express on January 14. Timed for 7.30 am, the blasts were meant to cause massive loss of life and property. One of the accused had been in constant touch with IM handlers on social media, according to the source. The handlers, hailing from Saudi Arabia, had discussed how to spread jihad across India and had allegedly exchanged contact numbers of youth who wished to join the terror outfit. In December, Syed Ismail Afaque, a homeopathic doctor arrested in Bengaluru, had met a second rung IM handler in Sharjah and allegedly discussed plans to carry out the attacks on Republic Day. The four men have already confessed that they were receiving hawala money from the foreign countries to carry out terror attacks. Meanwhile, The Times of India on January 14 reports that the four suspected IM operatives may be grilled in the presence of the outfit's southern commander Yasin Bhatkal, currently in a Delhi jail. Sources in the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) Delhi wing said that "Yasin is a key person in many terror acts. We'll keep asking these suspects questions to get the right picture of what happened." This comes in the backdrop of reports that the four arrests were made following disclosures by Yasin.
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January - 14 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its report to the Home Ministry said that a group of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) terror suspects who have been dodging intelligence agencies since their escape from Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh in October 2013 are believed to be involved in
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its report to the Home Ministry said that a group of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) terror suspects who have been dodging intelligence agencies since their escape from Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh in October 2013 are believed to be involved in the Bengaluru Church Street bombing on December 28, 2014, reports Hindustan Times on January 15. The report said that the suspects, weeks before they struck at Bengaluru, had also planted an explosive in Roorkee in Haridwar District of Uttarakhand on December 6, 2014 to target Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Sangeet Som to allegedly take revenge for the Muzaffarnagar riots. In its report, the NIA has also pointed out that Shaikh Mehboob (25), Amjad (25), Mohammed Aslam (26), Mohammed Aijajuddin (30) and Zakir Hussain (32) were members of the banned SIMI and believed to be involved in the Pune Ganesh temple blast in July 10, 2014 and the Guwahati-Bengaluru express blast at Chennai in May 1, 2014. They had also attempt to create an explosive in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnore in September 12, 2014. The NIA has based its assessment on the similarity in the explosives and detonators analysed in context of intelligence inputs.
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January - 14 
To gather evidence against alleged Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) member Rejaul Karim, who was arrested in connection with Burdwan blast (October 2, 2014) case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is now approaching forensic imagery experts to positively identify him as one of the JMB mem
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To gather evidence against alleged Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) member Rejaul Karim, who was arrested in connection with Burdwan blast (October 2, 2014) case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is now approaching forensic imagery experts to positively identify him as one of the JMB members seen in a video clip of a training session at the Simulia madrasa in Burdwan in West Bengal, reports The Indian Express on January 15. Rejaul has allegedly confessed that he attended the session, and that he can be seen on the edges of the frame in the clip shown to him by interrogators. However, only one side of his body is visible, while his face is not seen. NIA sources said they were sending the clip for digital enhancement and forensic analysis to positively identify Rejaul from any distinguishing features on his limbs.
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January - 15 
A team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) on January 15 reached Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh to collect information about some absconding members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), reports The times of India. According to reports, a three-member NIA team headed by Radhakrishna
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A team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) on January 15 reached Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh to collect information about some absconding members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), reports The times of India. According to reports, a three-member NIA team headed by Radhakrishnan went to the Nizamabad Police station to collect information about Abu Shad and Shah Alam, the natives of Fariha village for some case lodged in 2007. The NIA sources said that despite the ban imposed on SIMI in 2001 it conducted membership campaign in Kerala in 2007. The intelligence agencies had identified 38 such persons of the district out of whom some are absconding. The NIA team wanted to go to the village, but they were advised not to go there, as it may cause tension in the locality.
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January - 24 
Nearly two years after he was branded an active Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) terror cell by Delhi Police, Liaquat Shah was given a clean chit by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), New Indian Express reports on January 25. The Delhi Police Special Cell had in March 2013 arrested Liaquat from the Ind
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Nearly two years after he was branded an active Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) terror cell by Delhi Police, Liaquat Shah was given a clean chit by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), New Indian Express reports on January 25. The Delhi Police Special Cell had in March 2013 arrested Liaquat from the Indo-Nepal border, claiming that a terror bid was foiled as he came with a plot to carry out terror strikes. While absolving Liaquat of the charges, NIA in its charge sheet and probe report named absconder Sabir Khan as the main accused. Sabir had allegedly planted weapons on Liaquat to project him as a terrorist belonging to the HM.
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January - 26 
Bangalore Crime Branch arrested B. Sibigiri alias Sanju Bordoloi, ‘organising secretary’ of IK Songbijit faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-IKS) from Electronic city in Bangalore in Karnataka on January 26, reports The Telegraph. He is wanted in connection with the December 23 k
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Bangalore Crime Branch arrested B. Sibigiri alias Sanju Bordoloi, ‘organising secretary’ of IK Songbijit faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-IKS) from Electronic city in Bangalore in Karnataka on January 26, reports The Telegraph. He is wanted in connection with the December 23 killing of Adivasis. Times of India further adds that on January 27 that National Investigation Agency (NIA)'s Guwahati unit has sought the custody of Sanju Bordoloi, alias Sibigiri, He allegedly confessed to have participated in the recent attacks in Assam, which had forced Indian Army to intensify its operations in the area.
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January - 27 
On January 27, National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested four persons in connection with the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast case after carrying out raids across three districts of Birbhum, Nadia and Murshidabad. Among the arrested is one of the main recruiters for Bangladeshi terror group Jama'a
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On January 27, National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested four persons in connection with the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast case after carrying out raids across three districts of Birbhum, Nadia and Murshidabad. Among the arrested is one of the main recruiters for Bangladeshi terror group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Dalim Sheikh alias Faijul Hoque Sheik, reports The Times of India. The other arrested are Motiur Rehman alias Noor Alam, Habibur Rehman Sheikh and Ghiyasuddin Munshi. While Dalim hails from Birbhum and Motiur from Nadia, the other two are from Murshidabad. NIA's investigation revealed that senior cadres of JMB had established terrorist training centres and bomb making units in Beldanga and Mukimnagar in Murshidabad, Birbhum's Nanur and Burdwan's Khagragarh and Simulia. According to NIA, Dalim was involved in various terror activities including setting up bases and hideouts, raising and collecting funds, radicalising Indian citizens for JMB and providing tactical and material support to senior Bangladeshi members of the agency in spreading the network in India. Motiur worked closely with Shakil Gazi (who was killed in the Khagragarh blast on October 2) at Beldanga in Mushidabad. Motiur maintained hideouts, training centres and bomb making centres at Beldanga. Habibur was a close associate of Sajid alias Sheikh Rahmatulla (a senior Bangladeshi JMB cadre). Habibur maintained and ran the terrorist training camp at Mukimnagar madrasa (Islamic Seminary) in Murshidabad. Ghiyasuddin is a JMB member along with his wife. A close associate of Talah Sheikh, one of JMB's top spiritual heads, he singlehandedly trained recruits at the Mukimnagar madrassa. All the accused were produced in court on January 28 and sent to NIA remand till February 3. The Bardhaman blast accused were not just using madrasas (Islamic Seminary) as training centre for terrorists but even assembling bombs in the garb of running burqa (veil) stitching units. The accused revealed to NIA that they had set up a burqa stitching unit as a front for assembling bombs in Beldanga, West Bengal. This unit was also being used to recruit people for terror activities and training them. "JMB had set up a tailoring unit in which its members used to stitch burqas. This, however, was a front for using the site to assemble bombs. The unit was run by Motiur Rehman, a close associate of Shakil Ghazi who was killed in the October 2 blast. Rehman was also responsible for maintenance of hideouts and recruitment," said an NIA officer. "Dalim was heading the Nanur Madarsa in Bolpur (Birbhum District). He used to spot potential recruits and then give them daawat (invitation) to JMB," said the officer. The investigations have also revealed that senior members of JMB had established terrorist training centres and bomb making units in Beldanga and Mukimnagar of Murshidabad, Nanur of Birbhum and Khagraghar and Simulia of Bardhaman District.
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January - 27 
Antony Das, an accused in the Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) case registered in Nedumbassery (Kerala) on January 2013, was arrested on January 27 at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, reports New Indian Express. He had arrived from Abu Dhabi. The arrest was effected by the National
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Antony Das, an accused in the Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) case registered in Nedumbassery (Kerala) on January 2013, was arrested on January 27 at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, reports New Indian Express. He had arrived from Abu Dhabi. The arrest was effected by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which had previously received an Interpol Red Notice issued against the absconder who was accused of smuggling FICN with face value of INR 9,75,000 to India through Kochi International airport.
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February - 1 
As part of its probe into an alleged terror plot to target the US consulate in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and the Israeli consulate in Bangalore (Karnataka), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) received details of an email account from the US, under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), providing
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As part of its probe into an alleged terror plot to target the US consulate in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and the Israeli consulate in Bangalore (Karnataka), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) received details of an email account from the US, under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), providing further evidence of the involvement of a Pakistani national, “Shahjee”, in the conspiracy, sources said, Indian Express reports on February 2. The details received by the NIA provide evidence that the email account was created and operated by one “Shahjee” who has been named by Hussain as Sri Lanka based handler Amir Zubair Siddiqui's right hand man. The email account was registered under Shahjee’s name, and the details provided allegedly show that the email account was used to communicate with Siddiqui’s personal account and with email addresses operated from Pakistan. The sources added the email account was even found to have been operated from the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the Pakistan High Commission in Colombo. The name “Shahjee” had also cropped up during the interrogation of Sri Lankan national Arun Selvarajan, who was arrested by the NIA in Chennai in September, 2014 for allegedly spying on vital installations in the city at the behest of Siddiqui.
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February - 3 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on February 3 arrested one more person, identified as Mufazzil Haque from Mokimnagar area of the Murshidabad District in West Bengal bordering Bangladesh in connection with the October 2, 2014, Burdwan blast case, reports The Hindu. NIA alleged that Haque was
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on February 3 arrested one more person, identified as Mufazzil Haque from Mokimnagar area of the Murshidabad District in West Bengal bordering Bangladesh in connection with the October 2, 2014, Burdwan blast case, reports The Hindu. NIA alleged that Haque was running a madrassa in Murshidabad where youths were recruited for Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and he was a close associate of Sheikh Rehmatullah alias Sajjid, who was arrested by the NIA in November, 2014. The new arrest came days after four JMB militants, who were running terror camps in West Bengal, were arrested in connection with the blast. The NIA has so far arrested more than 16 people, mostly Bangladeshis in connection with the blast. NIA said the investigation so far has revealed that JMB had established its network in many Districts, particularly in Murshidabad, Nadia, Malda, Birbhum and Burdwan in West Bengal, Barpeta in Assam, and Sahibganj and Pakur in Jharkhand.India NIA Mufazzil Haque Mokimnagar Murshidabad West Bengal Bangladesh Burdwan JMB Sheikh Rehmatullah Sajjid Nadia Malda Birbhum Barpeta Assam Sahibganj Pakur Jharkhand
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Suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Ajaz Shaikh, who has been named accused in the Dilsukhnagar blasts (February 21, 2014) case, has not only been a hawala (illegal money transaction) money organiser, but also the one who arranged fake identity cards for others involved in the twin blasts, Th
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Suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Ajaz Shaikh, who has been named accused in the Dilsukhnagar blasts (February 21, 2014) case, has not only been a hawala (illegal money transaction) money organiser, but also the one who arranged fake identity cards for others involved in the twin blasts, The Times of India reports on February 16. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), is likely to bring Shaikh to Hyderabad and produce him in a local court on February 16 (today). The NIA had named Shaikh as the sixth accused in the case. "Using various software tools, Shaikh created fake IDs and supplied them to IM operatives since 2010. With these fake documents, Asadullah had entered into a rental agreement with a flat owner in Mangalore in November, 2012, and subsequently came to Hyderabad to execute the twin blasts," intelligence sources said.
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February - 19 
A special NIA court in Hyderabad on February 19 convicted 15 persons in a 2012 case of circulation of huge quantity of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICNs) and sentenced them to rigorous imprisonment ranging from four to five years, reports The Times of India. The accused were allegedly running a pan-
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A special NIA court in Hyderabad on February 19 convicted 15 persons in a 2012 case of circulation of huge quantity of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICNs) and sentenced them to rigorous imprisonment ranging from four to five years, reports The Times of India. The accused were allegedly running a pan-India FICN racket out of Malda in West Bengal with a client base spread across Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, and Jharkhand and sought FICN from Pakistan. NIA had registered a case in 2012 following which teams had carried simultaneous raids in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh to bust the network. Morjen Hossain of Malda, the leader of this network, was arrested and NIA recovered FICN of INR 3.15 million in denominations of INR 1,000 and INR 500. A total of 25 persons were chargesheeted and 15 of them were convicted by the court of the First Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge-cum-NIA special court. Out of the rest, nine accused were acquitted while one accused is facing the trial in a juvenile court. The court convicted Morjen Hossain along with Mohd Rakib, Rizavul Haque, Manik Shaik, Bablu Sheikh, Mohsin Sheikh and Imran Khan under section 489 B (using as genuine forged or counterfeit currency-notes or bank-notes) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sentenced them to rigorous imprisonment of 5 years. The court also found them guilty under section 489 C of IPC (possession of forged or counterfeit currency-notes or bank-notes) and sentenced them to rigorous imprisonment for four years. Among other accused, Mohammed Hussain, Musthafa Ali Buddan, Masood Akhtar Ansari, Mohammed Shafi and Shaik Akram were convicted under section 489 B of IPC and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment of five years. Of the rest, Mohammed Anwar Sheikh, Sajibul Haque and Janab Hassan were convicted under section 489 C of IPC and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment of four years.
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February - 20 
According to National Investigating Agency (NIA), Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists had chosen Dilsukhnagar (Hyderabad) to carry out the twin bomb blasts on February 21, 2013 because they concluded that the area consisted of a large Hindu population and that most of its residents including students
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According to National Investigating Agency (NIA), Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists had chosen Dilsukhnagar (Hyderabad) to carry out the twin bomb blasts on February 21, 2013 because they concluded that the area consisted of a large Hindu population and that most of its residents including students were converging at public places in the evenings, reports The Times of India on February 21. This was the conclusion of NIA officers after interrogating four of the six accused, who are in custody in the twin blasts case. While IM operative and accused number one Riyaz Bhatkal is said to be holed up in Karachi in Pakistan, Asadullah Akhtar, Waqas, Tehseen Akhtar and Yasin Bhatkal are in judicial custody in Cherlapalli jail in Hyderabad. Aijaz Sheikh, a Pune resident, was named as the sixth accused in the case by the NIA few weeks ago and is still lodged in Delhi's Tihar jail after being arrested by Delhi Police in another case. Till date, NIA has filed two chargesheets in the twin blasts case. According to the NIA's findings, Tehseen Akhtar, Waqas and Asadullah Akhtar, on the instructions of Riyaz Bhatkal, surveyed five locations - Malakpet, Abids, Dilsukhnagar, Begum Bazar and Koti - to detonate the bomb blasts and finally zeroed in on Dilsukhnagar. "Within two days of their recce, they decided to plant the bombs (which in IM nomenclature is called Daawati work) in Dilsukhnagar in the evening around 7 pm on February 21, 2013. They decided on Dilsukhnagar as it comprised a large Hindu population, and decided to trigger the blasts at 7 pm on February 21, 2013, as they felt that the public places there were being frequented by a large number of people including students for various activities," the NIA sleuths deciphered. Sources also said, for some time prior to the blast, there was a difference of opinion between Riyaz and Yasin on the material to be used for the blast. Yasin, an expert bomb maker, was insisting on using picric acid for the blast while Riyaz was keen on ammonium nitrate. Finally, it was the latter substance that was used to trigger the Dilsukhnagar blasts that were planted by Tehseen Akhtar, Waqas and Asadullah Akhtar.
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February - 23 
According to reports there appears to be contradictory views about the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) setting up the Burdwan (West Bengal) module, as the National Investigating Agency (NIA) in its chargesheet is likely to suggest that the operation was aimed at carrying out terror strikes in
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According to reports there appears to be contradictory views about the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) setting up the Burdwan (West Bengal) module, as the National Investigating Agency (NIA) in its chargesheet is likely to suggest that the operation was aimed at carrying out terror strikes in India, while Bangladesh continues to maintain that the intention of the JMB was to hit at the Sheikh Hasina regime, reports One India on February 24. The NIA says that on interrogation of the all the accused persons it has learnt that they had been setting up modules to carry out strikes in West Bengal, Assam among other states in India. Bangladesh on the other hand says that the JMB has only one intention and that is to shake up Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina and her government. They found it hard to set up modules in Bangladesh and hence chose West Bengal where they were readying a module to strike at the Awami League (AL) led by Sheikh Hasina. The NIA says that in its chargesheet to be filed next month it would state that these people part of the Burdwan module were planning on setting up several terror cells in India. The intention was to provide aid to other terror groups and also carry out a series of attacks in India, including a major one in Kolkata. The NIA says that the JMB is in a running battle against the Sheikh Hasina government, but that does not mean they would set up modules in India for that purpose. We have investigated that angle too and have found that the intention was only to destablise India. Further the NIA points out that part of the chargesheet would also deal with how the JMB with the help of local modules raised the Burdwan module and also gathered funds locally. The NIA also states that the investigation is an ongoing one and they could file additional chargesheets in the future. We have modules in Assam and Jharkhand also to be investigated and these things take time, the NIA official also maintained. However Bangladesh is firm and says that the operatives that they have questioned in connection with the same case say that the intention was to carry out strikes in Bangladesh. Bangladesh investigators point out that the JMB was using India to build up their module. They even procured funds within India to fund the module. They wanted to prepare bombs in India and transport it to Bangladesh, investigations over there have also found. Meanwhile, Bangladesh would request India to extradite all the accused India has arrested in connection with the Burdwan blasts case, adds One India. Bangladesh contends that the entire module was being set up to commit an offence in Bangladesh and hence all of them be extradited.
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February - 27 
The National Investigating Agency (NIA) special court on February 27 remanded two Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives, Umer Siddiqui and Haider Ali alias Black Beauty, in police custody till March 7 for their interrogation in connection with the December 28, 2014 Church Street blast in Bengaluru, repo
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The National Investigating Agency (NIA) special court on February 27 remanded two Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives, Umer Siddiqui and Haider Ali alias Black Beauty, in police custody till March 7 for their interrogation in connection with the December 28, 2014 Church Street blast in Bengaluru, reports Deccan Herald. Sources said the Police intend to get information from them about IM/ Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) modules assigned to carry out blasts in South India. The special court directed the Bengaluru Police not to question the accused between 8 pm and 8 am. The court also directed the Police to produce the accused on March 7. A senior Police officer said Siddiqui and Ali will be flown back to Patna (Bihar) on March 10 for them to be present before the NIA special court in Patna for the next date of hearing on March 19.
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March - 3 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Special Court on March 3 dismissed the bail petition of Aboobacker Haji alias Masthigooda Aboobacker, the fourth accused in the Taliparamba (Kannur District of Kerala) Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) case, reports Indian Express. Aboobacker Haji is the kingpi
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Special Court on March 3 dismissed the bail petition of Aboobacker Haji alias Masthigooda Aboobacker, the fourth accused in the Taliparamba (Kannur District of Kerala) Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) case, reports Indian Express. Aboobacker Haji is the kingpin behind the Gulf-based counterfeit currency racket which has been operating with the assistance of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) and close aides of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. V.P. Pradeep Kumar, Kamal Ummer alias Kamal Haji, M.P. Ashish and Aboobacker Haji are the other accused in the case.
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March - 6 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on March 6 filed the charge sheet in a court in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) in a case of alleged espionage and attempts to carry out sabotage activities in India at the instigation of Pakistan, reports The Times of India. It was filed at a NIA court against Thameem Ansar
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on March 6 filed the charge sheet in a court in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) in a case of alleged espionage and attempts to carry out sabotage activities in India at the instigation of Pakistan, reports The Times of India. It was filed at a NIA court against Thameem Ansari, a suspected operative of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) now on bail and a Sri Lankan national, Arun Selvarajan, besides three others who are their handlers in Pakistan and suspected to be based in Sri Lanka. "The offences against the accused include those under Unlawful Activities [Prevention] Act, IPC and Official Secrets Act," Public Prosecutor for NIA cases, C S S Pillai stated. Raising funds for terrorist act, conspiracy (Sections 17,18 Unlawful Activities Act), sedition, criminal conspiracy (IPC, 121 A, 120 B), penalty for spying (Section 3, Official Secrets Act) are among the major charges.
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March - 8 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is suffering from acute staff shortage of nearly 30 per cent that in turn is telling on its performance, dnaindia.com reports on March 9. The NIA has been given sanctioned strength of 816 but has been able to get and depute only 579 personnel, leaving 237 post
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is suffering from acute staff shortage of nearly 30 per cent that in turn is telling on its performance, dnaindia.com reports on March 9. The NIA has been given sanctioned strength of 816 but has been able to get and depute only 579 personnel, leaving 237 posts vacant. The staff shortage runs maximum in Kolkata and Mumbai branch offices, where only 17 and 57 personnel are working against a sanctioned strength of 81 and 95 personnel respectively. In Guwahati the vacancy is 31 against the sanctioned strength of 87. Sources said there are two mains reasons for not getting officers – dearth of trained professionals, especially in the technical and IT streams; and officers' non-preference for NIA, as it is not considered a 'wet area' i.e. financially beneficial. "The agency has 93 cases under its investigation at present for which even the sanctioned strength barely meets the requirement. In fact, the NIA had proposed creation of 1,322 additional posts but the union home ministry has asked it to fill up the vacant posts first," a senior official said.
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March - 10 
The charge sheet in the October 2, 2014 Burdwan blast case, to be submitted by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) to the court on March 31, allegedly claims that the Burdwan module of the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was trying to bring ‘Sharia law’ in some Districts on the Indo-Bangla
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The charge sheet in the October 2, 2014 Burdwan blast case, to be submitted by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) to the court on March 31, allegedly claims that the Burdwan module of the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was trying to bring ‘Sharia law’ in some Districts on the Indo-Bangladesh border - a glaring instance of ‘re-emergence of JMB’ in India, reports The Indian Express on March 11. Sources in the NIA said the charge sheet, which will be submitted within six months of the blast, will give details about the JMB module working in Burdwan, West Bengal. The NIA, while describing JMB’s Burdwan module, has reportedly claimed in its charge sheet that the explosives were scheduled to reach the bordering areas in Assam. Sources said the agency has no evidence to prove that the explosives were smuggled to Bangladesh. All the 17 arrested in the Burdwan blast case have been charged under Unlawful Activities [Prevention] Act (UAPA). Those arrested, including a Bangladeshi and two “hardcore women Jihadis”, have been accused of carrying out “terrorist activities” and “making and dealing with explosives and arms”, the charge sheet reportedly stated. Besides those arrested, the NIA is currently looking for 10 people. They include Boma Mizan alias Kausar alias Zahidul Islam Shobhan - accused in over two dozen cases in Bangladesh. One of the most wanted criminals in Bangladesh, he had fled from the custody of Bangladeshi Police. Meanwhile, the charge-sheet also focused on Khariji madrasas in the bordering Districts. The NIA reportedly has mentioned two madrassas, Simulia in Burdwan and Mukimnagar in Murshidabad as “terror training” centres.
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March - 12 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is yet to come across any evidence to suggest that any cadre or leader of Trinamool Congress (TMC) was involved in the October 2, 2014 Bardhamna (West Bengal) blast case, Hindustan Times reports on March 13. "The NIA has completed first leg of its probe into t
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is yet to come across any evidence to suggest that any cadre or leader of Trinamool Congress (TMC) was involved in the October 2, 2014 Bardhamna (West Bengal) blast case, Hindustan Times reports on March 13. "The NIA has completed first leg of its probe into the case and sought sanction of the Union Home Ministry to charge sheet 23 alleged suspects of terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). So far, no involvement of any TMC cadre or leader has come to light,” said an unnamed Government Official.
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March - 16 
In a joint operation by National Investigation Agency (NIA), Assam Police and Indian Army, a most wanted militant leader of the IK Songbijit faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-IKS) Roshish Basumatary, alias Jama was arrested from New Alipurduar in Alipurdar District in West B
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In a joint operation by National Investigation Agency (NIA), Assam Police and Indian Army, a most wanted militant leader of the IK Songbijit faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-IKS) Roshish Basumatary, alias Jama was arrested from New Alipurduar in Alipurdar District in West Bengal on March 16, reports The Times of India. He was involved in the massacre of Adivasis on December 23, 2014. A source stated that "The operation was conducted with the help of West Bengal Police. The militant was apprehended from the densely-forested Jaldapara National Park in West Bengal," Roshish Basumatary belongs to the outfit's 35th batch of Myanmar-trained cadres. The leading citizens of Barak Valley convened a mass convention at Chuto Lal Seth Institute in Silchar District on March 15 to chalk out strategies to fight against the complexities that arise out from the process of National Register of Citizens (NRC), reports The Sentinel
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March - 18 
The special court on March 18, allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA’s) appeal for extension and granted the agency the additional time to file a charge sheet in the case against Kalyan youth Areeb Majeed, accused of joining Islamic State (IS), reports Indian Express. The agency had on Febr
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The special court on March 18, allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA’s) appeal for extension and granted the agency the additional time to file a charge sheet in the case against Kalyan youth Areeb Majeed, accused of joining Islamic State (IS), reports Indian Express. The agency had on February 26, 2015 sought the extension to file the charg esheet, which was originally to have been filed on March 20. With this extension, the agency has acquired a total of 180 days’ time to file the chargesheet, since Areeb’s arrest on November 28, 2014, when he was flown from Istanbul (Turkey) under NIA escort back to India. Areeb was booked under Sections 16, 18 and 20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for conspiring to commit a terrorist act and being a member of a banned foreign terror outfit. Areeb was also booked under Section 125 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) for waging war against the nation.
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March - 21 
Fahad Shaikh, one of the four Kalyan (Maharashtra) youths who ran away and joined the Islamic State (IS) has got in touch with his family, but rebuffed calls to return, saying "I am happy with my jihadi work, I won't come back to India", The Times of India reports on March 22. Shaikh, got in touch a
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Fahad Shaikh, one of the four Kalyan (Maharashtra) youths who ran away and joined the Islamic State (IS) has got in touch with his family, but rebuffed calls to return, saying "I am happy with my jihadi work, I won't come back to India", The Times of India reports on March 22. Shaikh, got in touch about a month ago and has since been calling his family and some friends frequently on phone or Skype and other VoIP platforms, said sources familiar with the case of the four youths, all in their twenties. He has confirmed that Saheem Tanki, one of the three youths who went with him, is dead. He reportedly sent a photograph of Tanki at the location where he died to his family. National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths managed to contact Shaikh on a phone number he had called from, and he told them he won't return as his community was not treated well here. He again claimed he was happy with jihad but refused to elaborate what he was doing in Raqqa, Syria.
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March - 24 
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on March 24 allowed an application made by the Agency seeking a 60-day extension to file the charge sheet against suspected Islamic State (IS/ also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/ISIS) operative Areeb Majeed, reports The Times of India.
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A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on March 24 allowed an application made by the Agency seeking a 60-day extension to file the charge sheet against suspected Islamic State (IS/ also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/ISIS) operative Areeb Majeed, reports The Times of India. On March 25 (today), the Court is likely to hear his bail application. Majeed's lawyer Wahab Khan, in his bail plea, had objected to the first extension and said the court that passed the order did not have the jurisdiction to do so. The bail plea states that only the Special Court constituted under the NIA has the power to pass an order. The defence said under such circumstances, Majeed could file a bail plea on the ground that the charge sheet was not filed within the mandatory 90 days. Majeed was arrested on November 28, 2014 for allegedly being associated with IS, and waging war against the Asian countries with whom India has friendly relations.
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March - 25 
A camp at Aluva in the Ernakulam District of Kerala is under the scanner of the National Investigating Agency (NIA) which is currently miffed with several State Governments for not doing enough in the cases against the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), reports One India on March 26. , Intel
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A camp at Aluva in the Ernakulam District of Kerala is under the scanner of the National Investigating Agency (NIA) which is currently miffed with several State Governments for not doing enough in the cases against the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), reports One India on March 26. , Intelligence Bureau officials said that the five SIMI operatives who have been on the run since October 2013 after they broke out from the Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh attended a camp at Aluva in Kerala which was meant to discuss terror related activities. The officials added that the SIMI is regrouping and this meeting at Aluva was held only to discuss the future course of action. With the NIA now on the hunt for the SIMI fugitives who had escaped from jail over a year back, Intelligence is trickling in which suggests that they had made several visits to Aluva. A camp at Aluva which was aimed a regrouping several members of the SIMI is being seen as a big development by the security agencies. Reports said that these kinds of camps are extremely dangerous and we have seen in the past as well how the members regrouped and became extremely dangerous. Aluva has been used in the past by members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) too. The confessional statement by Abdul Karim Tunda, a key LeT operative gives a clear indication of how Aluva had been used a training ground by several operatives. Tunda gave a perspective as to how these camps not always train for combat, but to hold meetings for a large gathering of people. It is aimed at changing the mindset of the people at large so that they carry out anti India activities, Tunda had also revealed. Intelligence Bureau officials said that these camps have mushroomed on and off in various parts of Kerala. There are preachers flown in from Saudi Arabia who give out sermons only with an intention of radicalizing the youth. A camp similar to the one held in Aluva was also conducted in Wagamon, a hill station located in Kottayam-Idukki border of Kottayam District of Kerala. The camp that was held in 2007 paved the way for the birth of the Indian Mujahideen (IM). Several members of the IM such as Yasin, Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal were part of this camp. The camp was headed by SIMI chief Safdar Nagori who swore revenge against India. These camps ensured the regrouping of various youth who went on to form the IM. Tunda during his interrogation also said about the camp at Wagamon. He had told the Police that several such camps were held in various parts of Kerala which had helped the groups flourish. These camps not only helped to change the mindset but also increased the recruitments, the Police had also found while questioning Tunda.
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March - 26 
The examination of prosecution witnesses in the August 15, 2006, Panayikulam (Ernakulam District, Kerala) Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) camp case was completed at the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in Kochi, New Indian Express reports on March 27. The court would begin procedu
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The examination of prosecution witnesses in the August 15, 2006, Panayikulam (Ernakulam District, Kerala) Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) camp case was completed at the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in Kochi, New Indian Express reports on March 27. The court would begin procedures under Section 313 of the CrPC (Code of Criminal Procedure) on April 18, 2015. NIA Court Judge K M Balachandran examined 50 witnesses, 230 documents and 10 material objects in the first phase of the trial. The accused persons in the case are P A Shaduly alias Harris, Abdul Rasik, Ansar alias Ansar Nadim, Nizamudeen alias Nizamon, Shammi alias Shammer, Shammer, Abdul Hakeem, Nizar, Mahayudheenkutty alias Taha, Muhammad Nisar, Ashkar, Nissar alias Muhammed Nissar, Salih, Hasim, Riyas, Muhammad Naizam, and Nisar. Binanipuram Sub Inspector K N Rajesh had received information on August 15, 2006, about a secret meeting of SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India) at an auditorium at Panayikulam. On visiting the spot, he found that there were 17 persons in the room and some of them were making inflammatory speeches. Seditious books and pamphlets were also seized from the spot where the meeting was being organised. Later on, Lhari Dorgee Latoo, Superintendent of Police, NIA, filed the chargesheet against a total of 17 persons in the case in 2010. According to the investigation conducted into the case by the NIA officials, Shaduly, Abdul Rasik, Ansar, Nizamudeen and Shammi, first to fifth accused in the case, had entered into a criminal conspiracy in Ernakulam and other places to advocate and abet unlawful activities in the country and to incite hatred and contempt towards the Government of India.
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March - 27 
Two Pakistani intelligence officers posted in Sri Lanka deputed two spies to get details of 'Project Varsha', India's new naval base near Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) which will be home for its new fleet of nuclear submarines, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) chargesheet dated March 6, 2015
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Two Pakistani intelligence officers posted in Sri Lanka deputed two spies to get details of 'Project Varsha', India's new naval base near Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) which will be home for its new fleet of nuclear submarines, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) chargesheet dated March 6, 2015 revealed the details, according to The Times of India. They also asked the spies to attempt befriending and luring Indian Navy and Army officers to Colombo (Sri Lanka) where "women and cash could be arranged" to get information on defence matters. The charge sheet, says one of the spies, Thameem Ansari was asked by the Pakistani officers to pose as a film-maker making a documentary titled 'Power of India' on the Indian armed forces to befriend some Army and Navy officers. The two Pakistani officers named in the chargesheet are Amir Zubair Siddiqui, counsellor (visa) posted with the High Commission of Pakistan in Sri Lanka and Vineeth alias Rana, "a Pakistan intelligence officer" also posted in Sri Lanka, the NIA has said. Siddique had specifically instructed Ansari to get details about Visakhapatnam Naval Base and concentrate on Project Varsha for which he asked him to go to Visakhapatnam and hire an accommodation near naval station," the chargesheet says. Vineeth had further asked for details on Project Varsha such as "stage and depth of the channel", the agency said. NIA has said that Ansari was told to visit places that naval officers frequent "viz. hotels, bars, cinema theatres etc" and asked to pose as a rich businessman to befriend them. "Siddique suggested that if Ansari was able to befriend ex-Army officers, naval or Army officers, they could be brought to Colombo, where he would arrange all kinds of facilities for them like women, cash, drinks etc. for getting information of the defence details," the agency said, without mentioning whether Ansari was actually successful in doing so. NIA, however, said Ansari and another spy, Arun Selvarajan arrested in India in 2012 and 2014 respectively recced and photographed numerous secret installations. The chargesheet lists these places: "Wellington Military Training Centre and Defence Service Staff College, Station Head Quarters at Wellington, Karaikkal, Nagapattinam harbours including Naval detachment at Nagapattinam, Indian Naval base at Mallipattinam, Mallipattinam Fishing Jetty and Indian Air Force station at Thanjavur."
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March - 28 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast has come across a piece of land in Shantipally near Santiniketan in Birbhum District of West Bengal which it suspects would have been used by the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to set up a colony for its opera
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast has come across a piece of land in Shantipally near Santiniketan in Birbhum District of West Bengal which it suspects would have been used by the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to set up a colony for its operators, The Telegraph reports on March 29. Senior officers of the NIA linked the possible plan to set up the colony in Shantipally to "operating a sleeper cell". They said a JMB leader in charge of the module in Birbhum had been instructed by his bosses in the neighbouring country to set up the colony. "It was a dangerous proposition. They had planned to set up a colony in the heart of Birbhum to provide training and shelter to new recruits. Talha Sheikh, a Bangladeshi leader who was the organisational in-charge of the group in Birbhum, had procured an Indian PAN card and used it to buy the plot in Shantipally," an NIA officer said. Talha is untraceable. Talha, known to be close to Sajid, the JMB's alleged pointman in Bengal, used to travel between Nadia District's Debagram and Birbhum District's Kirnahar, sources said. With an experience in training JMB recruits, especially in handling weapons and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED's), Talha was assigned the task of indoctrinating new recruits at the colony that was supposed to have come up at Shantipally. "Talha Sheikh had earlier trained youths in Bardhaman and Birbhum. He was assigned to do the same thing here," an officer said. "The piece of land is concrete proof that the JMB operators had found the location suitable to establish a base there," said an officer associated with the investigation. Birbhum came under the NIA's scanner after investigators found that a number of JMB operatives had stayed in villages in the District and used them as base to travel to and from Bardhaman.
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March - 30 
The National Investigating Agency (NIA) on March 30 filed the chargesheet in the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast case, before the NIA Special Judge at Bankshall Court (Kolkata, West Bengal) outlining a conspiracy by terror outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to use Indian territory as a rec
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The National Investigating Agency (NIA) on March 30 filed the chargesheet in the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast case, before the NIA Special Judge at Bankshall Court (Kolkata, West Bengal) outlining a conspiracy by terror outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to use Indian territory as a recruiting and training ground to overthrow the Bangladesh government and impose Sharia-based Islamic rule, reports The Times of India. NIA says JMB's mission was to create a 'Greater Bangladesh' with portions wrested from West Bengal. Over 164 pages, NIA details how JMB operators targeted West Bengal, Assam and Jharkhand to set up training camps. "Its activities in India primarily included recruitment, radicalisation and training of vulnerable youths in a systematic and organised manner. The banned Bangladeshi outfit spread its network in four Bengal Districts — Nadia, Burdwan, Murshidabad and Birbhum," says the chargesheet, adding that a similar network was found in Sahebganj district of Jharkhand. "These bases were used for organizing radicalisation programmes, meetings, fund collection drives and as hideouts for cadres and their families," an NIA officer said. The chargesheet says how terrorist training camps were conducted at some madrasas (Islamic seminary) and other hideouts where recruits, including women, were trained in firearms and explosives. "The recruitment, radicalisation and training of vulnerable Indian youths was undertaken by members of JMB to prepare a large group of Indians, based on their common religious and linguistic identity, to join JMB and help overthrow the democratic government in Bangladesh," the NIA says. It names 21 people, including four Bangladeshi nationals. Eight of the accused are absconding. They include Indian operative Mohammad Yousuf alias Bakkar (the main man behind the Simulia madrassa training centre), recruiter Kader Gazi Rehman and hardcore Bangladeshi JMB leaders like its chief, Nasirullah, bomb-maker Burhan Sheikh, Kausar and Talha Sheikh. NIA took statements from over 400 people, 250 of whom will be cited as prime witnesses in the case. During course of the investigation, 32 people were arraigned as accused of whom 16 have been arrested. They include Gulsona Bibi alias Rajiya Bibi alias Rumi, widow of Sakil Gazi who was killed in the blast, Alima Bibi alias Amina Bibi, wife of Abdul Hakim, who was injured, and Hakim himself. All three were arrested from the blast site. The others include Ziaul Haque, Amjad Ali Seikh, Mohammad Sahanur Alam alias Sahanur Alam, Shaikul Islam Khan, Mohammad Rezaul Karim alias Anwar, Habibur Rehman, Faizul Haque alias Dalim Sheikh, Giasuddin Munshi alias Gias Master and Mofajjul Ali alias Laden. Moreover, two suspects, Badre Alam Mollah and Khalid Mohammad have been released. Khalid, a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar, had created a flutter in the defence establishment when he was arrested. However, NIA says he has little link with the blast. The accused have been individually charged under the t Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for being members of a terrorist gang, committing terrorist acts, conspiracy and for recruitment, funding and training of terrorists. They have also been charged under Indian Penal Code (IPC) for fraud, forgery and cheating and the Arms Act for possession and use of firearms and explosives.
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March - 30 
The NIA is all set to coordinate between the Police of Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka to launch a manhunt for the five Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) operatives who have gone missing ever since they broke out of the Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh in October 2013.
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The NIA is all set to coordinate between the Police of Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka to launch a manhunt for the five Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) operatives who have gone missing ever since they broke out of the Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh in October 2013. As per the information available the SIMI operatives are moving in one batch of four. One of the members was injured while preparing a bomb at Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh last year and he has been out of the picture.
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April - 1 
Based on preliminary investigation, National Investigating Agency (NIA) has concluded that the three bombs, one of which exploded, found in a Patna (Bihar) house on March 30 belonging to one Kundan Kumar were meant for terror attacks, reports The Times of India. A powerful bomb packed with ammonium
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Based on preliminary investigation, National Investigating Agency (NIA) has concluded that the three bombs, one of which exploded, found in a Patna (Bihar) house on March 30 belonging to one Kundan Kumar were meant for terror attacks, reports The Times of India. A powerful bomb packed with ammonium sulphate exploded and ripped through a flat in Bahadurpur housing colony on March 30 night. Following the blast, police recovered two more bombs while the occupants of the house escaped. A security officer privy to NIA investigations said “The bombs found live were very powerful with really thick pellets packed with considerable explosives. Had the three been exploded in a crowded place, it could have led to 50-55 casualties. The bombs had used timer devices which indicate the bombers were planning a terror attack. Naxalites do not use timers." Curiously, the bombs had the same timer, Lotus brand analogue clocks, as used in 2013 Patna and Bodh Gaya blasts. According to NIA charge-sheets in the cases, the two blasts were executed by members of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). "Even the circuit is similar. But containers are different. Instead of pipes (as in Patna blasts), they have used milk cans. This, however, is no indicator of which group is behind this blast. Various groups make similar kinds of circuit and Lotus clocks are locally available timers," said the officer. Central agency sources, however, refused to indicate whether jihadi or saffron groups could be involved in the blast.
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April - 3 
A 26/11 (November 26, 2008) Mumbai Maharashtra-like attack was in the making, but this time, from the east coast, that is how National Investigation Agency (NIA) Director-General Sharad Kumar sums up the agency's exhaustive nearly two-year investigation into what it says was a massive terror plot ag
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A 26/11 (November 26, 2008) Mumbai Maharashtra-like attack was in the making, but this time, from the east coast, that is how National Investigation Agency (NIA) Director-General Sharad Kumar sums up the agency's exhaustive nearly two-year investigation into what it says was a massive terror plot against India by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Economic Times reports on April 4. The NIA says, it (attack) was coordinated from the Sri Lankan soil. The NIA says it has much more evidence to pin down the conspirators in the latest plot. The agency has even a photo of the alleged mastermind, Amir Zubair Siddique, who was a Counsellor (visa) at Pakistan's High Commission in Colombo. He directed a network of spies of Sri Lankan and Indian origin to recce nearly 20 sensitive installations in South India, including the American Consulate in Chennai and Israeli Consulate in Bengaluru, it says. Combined reading of two charge-sheets filed by the NIA, in October, 2014 and March, 2015 paint a horrifying plot. Siddique, says the agency, was planning to send explosives from Mannar in Sri Lanka to between Rameswaram and Tuticorin in India by a rowing boat. This was to be followed up by two Pakistanis being sent from Colombo to Bengaluru via Maldives on Sri Lankan passports to carry out terror attacks, specifically on the American Consulate. Hussaien was told by his Pakistani handlers that the plot of planting bombs in American Consulate, Chennai, was codenamed 'Wedding Project' and 'Wedding Hall' was the US Consulate (target). The terrorists will be "cooks" and the "bomb devices" they are carrying, "spice contents", the NIA charge-sheet says. There was a meeting between two Pakistani terrorists and one of the spies, Hussaien, in Bangkok (Thailand) in 2013, the NIA claims. The spies had specific tasks. Thameem Ansari was asked to use a cover of posing as a film-maker working on a documentary titled 'Power of India' on the Indian armed forces and befriend army and navy officers, to get details on India's nuclear-submarine base 'Project Varsha'. Selvarajan joined an event management company which works for the armed forces to get entry to sensitive installations like the Chennai Port.
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April - 6 
Investigations by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the killing of two Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) cadres in Nalgonda District of Telangana indicate that the terror module was planning a strike in Delhi, Asian Age reports on April 7. NIA sleuths are pursuing leads that show
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Investigations by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the killing of two Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) cadres in Nalgonda District of Telangana indicate that the terror module was planning a strike in Delhi, Asian Age reports on April 7. NIA sleuths are pursuing leads that show that the terror module was using Hyderabad and Vijayawada for logistics while planning a strike in the national capital. An unnnamed senior intelligence official of the Andhra Pradesh Police said, “There is a strong Delhi link emerging. According to the NIA, the SIMI operatives were planning to strike in Delhi or its surroundings.” He said that apart from the Delhi-Hyderabad train ticket recovered from the suspects, the NIA had “specific inputs” pointing to a plot to strike in the capital. It is suspected that Hyderabad, Nalgonda and Vijayawada have SIMI supporters. The official revealed that Nalgonda District has around 45 identified sympathisers of SIMI and other terror organisations.
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April - 9 
In the data on terror financing tabulated from 2006 till date, terror finances to the tune of INR 148.5 million have been recovered by National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Police of 15 states, reports The Times of India on April 10. The NIA has surpassed the states in recovery of terror finances
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In the data on terror financing tabulated from 2006 till date, terror finances to the tune of INR 148.5 million have been recovered by National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Police of 15 states, reports The Times of India on April 10. The NIA has surpassed the states in recovery of terror finances despite starting operations as late as 2009. According to the report, the agency seized INR 36.6 million in terror funds in 11 cases investigated by it since its inception. As many as 101 persons are accused in these cases. Jammu and Kashmir ranks second only to NIA in seizures. The state seized INR 29.3 million in 80 terror financing cases since 2006, in which 190 persons are accused. Manipur, despite its small size, reported terror fund seizures worth INR 21.1 million in 26 cases, followed by Delhi which seized INR 19.2 million in 21 cases. Madhya Pradesh accounted for seizure of terror finances worth INR 16.4 million, while Odisha Police seized around INR 11.2 million. Though Karnataka, Gujarat and Kerala registered 14, three and one terror financing case respectively under Unlawful Activities [Prevention] Act (UAPA), they did not report any seizure since 2006. As many as 213 terror financing cases were registered by NIA and various state Police, in which 873 persons are accused. J&K reported the highest number of cases (80), followed by Manipur (26) and Delhi (21). In terms of number of those accused of terror financing, J&K ranked first (190) followed by NIA (101) and Maharashtra (98).
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April - 9 
On April 9, a man, identified as Bin Amin Seikh, has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the October 2, 2014, Bardhaman blast case near the Indo-Bangladesh border in Baliadanga village in Kaliachak area in Malda District, reports New Indian Express. The 24-yea
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On April 9, a man, identified as Bin Amin Seikh, has been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with the October 2, 2014, Bardhaman blast case near the Indo-Bangladesh border in Baliadanga village in Kaliachak area in Malda District, reports New Indian Express. The 24-year old, who hailed from Bhagabangola in Murshidabad District, used to frequent one Mehboob Seikh's house in the Kaliachak village and was netted after the NIA questioned Mehboob on April 2, an officer said.
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April - 12 
Police feel that 10 home-grown terror suspects, holed up in Gulf countries, including Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, pose a big threat, The Times of India reports on April 13. These suspects are wanted in various terror cases booked in Hyderabad and other parts of the country. They are also on the 'wante
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Police feel that 10 home-grown terror suspects, holed up in Gulf countries, including Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, pose a big threat, The Times of India reports on April 13. These suspects are wanted in various terror cases booked in Hyderabad and other parts of the country. They are also on the 'wanted' list of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Counter Intelligence (CI) of Telangana Police and other security agencies. "Diplomatic efforts have been made to bring these conspirators back to the country, but so far it did not yield much result. The LeT [Lashkar-e-Taiba] operatives, through their strong network in Riyadh, are always a major threat to Hyderabad as they make sustained efforts, using various channels in India, to stage terror strikes,'' a senior Police Officer stated. These suspects include terror suspects like Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) operative Mohammed Abdul Majeed (brother of the late Shahid Bilal, who was involved in the Task Force blast case), LeT operatives Mohammed Bhai (wanted in the Sai Baba temple blast), Furkhan Bhai alias Abdullah, Asad Khan alias Abu Sufiyan, Siddique bin Osman and others. Similarly, Abdul Rehman alias Farhathullah Ghori, reportedly taking shelter in Karachi (Sindh, Pakistan) is wanted in various cases, including the 2002 Akshardam (Gujarat) temple attack case. Some of these suspects are also wanted in the 2012 conspiracy to target right-wing leaders across India. According to intelligence sleuths, these suspects have been funding various terror modules for the last several years and are responsible for luring local youths into terror activities. On several occasions, they had lured Hyderabadi youths to Saudi Arabia and planned meet-ups to execute terror strikes in the country. In every instance, police could nab only the local operatives. Their handlers in Riyadh remained elusive.
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April - 12 
Six years and 93 cases later, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is practically left with no new cases as states are reluctant to transfer investigations to the federal anti-terror agency, Hindustan Times reports on April 13. According to its website, the NIA has so far registered only one case
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Six years and 93 cases later, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is practically left with no new cases as states are reluctant to transfer investigations to the federal anti-terror agency, Hindustan Times reports on April 13. According to its website, the NIA has so far registered only one case across all its branches this year (2015). “States and their Police forces are unwilling to transfer probes to the NIA. We are practically left with no new work. At the moment, we are mainly managing trials in old cases," said an NIA official, requesting anonymity. More than half a dozen serious terror incidents, including Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) blasts and near misses, took place in 2014 but none — with the exception of the Bardhaman blast probe were handed to NIA. The agency had written to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) asking to probe at least three of these incidents, Karimnagar (Andhra Pradesh) bank robbery (February 2, 2014), blast at Pune (Maharashtra) Police Station’s parking lot (July 11, 2014) and the Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh) blast (September 12, 2014). In all three, the role of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) operatives, who escaped from Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa prison in 2013, was suspected. Of the 93 cases registered by the NIA in six years, it has managed to secure conviction in 10 and in around 15 cases, the probe is stuck due to various reasons. In the rest 60 odd cases, the agency has managed to fully or partially complete the probe. The agency was established in January 2009 in the wake of the November 26, 2008 (26/11) Mumbai (Maharashtra) attacks and has a staff of around 800, including more than 20 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers.
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April - 12 
The National Investigation Agency's (NIA's) probe into the October 2, 2014, Bardhaman blasts could soon uncover the role of Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and al Qaeda in helping Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) run its operations, top sources said, The Times of India r
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The National Investigation Agency's (NIA's) probe into the October 2, 2014, Bardhaman blasts could soon uncover the role of Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and al Qaeda in helping Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) run its operations, top sources said, The Times of India reports on April 13. The agency is set to receive crucial documents from Bangladesh on the funding, membership and association of JMB with other groups which it believes would shed light on the outfit's links with ISI and al-Qaida. JMB has already established a substantial base in West Bengal, Assam and Jharkhand. An official said the 39 bombs recovered from the hideouts of JMB members in Bardhaman were possibly funded by ISI and al Qaeda.
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April - 16 
According to National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has been on revival mode was planning setting up of cells in the states of South India, oneindia.com reports on April 17. They were constantly moving around the border areas as they found it easier to esc
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According to National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) has been on revival mode was planning setting up of cells in the states of South India, oneindia.com reports on April 17. They were constantly moving around the border areas as they found it easier to escape between states, an NIA official said. It has also been found that SIMI operatives after carrying out the Chennai train blast (May 1, 2014) had moved into the border area of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. Investigations by the NIA have revealed that these operatives had taken shelter in a place called Tada which is along the Andhra Pradesh (AP)-Tamil Nadu border. These members always operated along the border areas, investigations have revealed. These operatives were found taking shelter in areas along the AP-Telangana border.
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April - 20 
The arrest of a top Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant, Ibrahim Sheikh on April 18 in connection with the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast case in West Bengal has prompted the state intelligence department to begin investigation into JMB network in Jharkhand, The Times of India reports on
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The arrest of a top Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant, Ibrahim Sheikh on April 18 in connection with the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast case in West Bengal has prompted the state intelligence department to begin investigation into JMB network in Jharkhand, The Times of India reports on April 21. "The arrest of Ibrahim Sheikh in Pakur has further corroborated reports that JMB is trying to expand its network in the state. In January, a JMB terrorist was arrested from Sahebganj," Jharkhand Police Spokesperson S N Pradhan stated on April 20. Both Pakur and Sahebganj are Muslim-dominated districts in the northeastern part of Jharkhand where West Bengal's chicken neck separates them from Bangladesh. "The demography and geography work to their (the terrorist's) advantage. The culture is almost the same and they manage to brainwash the youth," a police officer said. "Ibrahim was wanted in the Bardhaman blast case and NIA (National Investigation Agency) had an arrest warrant against him. We want to interrogate him to know how deep JMB has managed to penetrate into Jharkhand," Pakur Superintendent of Police (SP) Anoop Birthary said. The arrest has also called for scrutiny of madrasas (Islamic Seminary) in Santhal Pargana, particularly Pakur and Sahebganj Districts. Ibrahim, told Police during interrogation that he recruited young men for JMB during his visits to madrasas and mosques in Sahebganj and Pakur. NIA has also zeroed in on the madrasas as evident from several visits of Sahebganj, Pakur and other Districts. "The prevailing porous international border between Bangladesh and parts of Santhal Pargana and neighboring Bengal coupled with the cultural and language similarity provide anti-national elements ample opportunity to sneak into the area and operate," said a senior Police official preferring anonymity.
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April - 22 
Government has decided that National Investigation Agency (NIA) will probe the blast at a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) rally in Roorkee (Uttarakhand) on December 6, 2014 and explosion at a house in Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh) on December 14, 2014 as Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) operatives wer
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Government has decided that National Investigation Agency (NIA) will probe the blast at a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) rally in Roorkee (Uttarakhand) on December 6, 2014 and explosion at a house in Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh) on December 14, 2014 as Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) operatives were suspected to be involved in both the incidents, The Times of India reports on April 23. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) received the requests of the governments of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh to hand over the two cases to NIA and a formal order is being issued in this regard, official sources said. UMHA suspects the SIMI members' involvement in a series of incidents in different parts of the country, including blasts at the Chennai railway station in May 2014, the explosion in Bijnor and the blast in Roorkee. It is also being suspected that the same module had carried out the blast at Bengaluru in 2014 that had left a woman dead. NIA wants all these cases shifted to the agency. Union Home Minister (UHM) Rajnath Singh had written letters to the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka last month asking them to speed up investigations into the respective terror cases in their states.
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April - 22 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), in collaboration with the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), is now trying to figure out the total volume of the Fake India Currency Notes (FICN) in the country, Hindustan Times reports on April 23. “At the moment, the data on total FICN in circulation in th
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA), in collaboration with the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), is now trying to figure out the total volume of the Fake India Currency Notes (FICN) in the country, Hindustan Times reports on April 23. “At the moment, the data on total FICN in circulation in the Indian economy varies from Rs 1,500 crore to Rs 5,000 crore depending on the agency projecting it. FICNs undermine the economic security of the country and are also a way to fund terror activities, so it was necessary to arrive at a common figure after a scientific analysis of the data collected by different agencies,” said an official of Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA). The government made the NIA the nodal agency to conduct the study in partnership with the ISI on November 3, 2014. “It was a 14-week study but took a little longer due to vast amount of data collected from all stakeholders: the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), Central Economic Intelligence Bureau, CBI and others, to complete the study. It is now in the final stages,” added the official. Every year, FICNs of value between INR 150 million and INR 25 million are recovered countrywide. The RBI too has data on FICNs as Police reports are registered only when four or more FICN are recovered. “The FICNs in circulation in India are of very high quality and only a sovereign state can have the capability to get that kind of paper, ink or printing process. Even FICNs recovered in Cambodia or Thailand or Malaysia have been found with Pakistan links as most couriers were Pakistanis,” said an NIA official. The new study now will reconcile data of all agencies to come to figure on the basis of a mathematical formula. The study will also suggest ways and means to fill gaps in data collection as well, said sources.
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April - 23 
A high level probe conducted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and State Police forces against Islamic State (IS) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) activists has not revealed any information on foreign funding to them, reports The Times of India on April 24. Union Minister of State
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A high level probe conducted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and State Police forces against Islamic State (IS) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) activists has not revealed any information on foreign funding to them, reports The Times of India on April 24. Union Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary has informed Rajya Sabha (upper house of the Parliament of India) that a total of four pro-ISIS activists, including two from Maharashtra and one each from Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh were arrested last year (2014). Earlier, Rajya Sabha Member Sanjay Raut had sought information on whether these activists have joined hands with other terror organisations and are receiving financial assistance from foreign countries and measures taken by the Government to check such nexus and to curb the activities of ISIS. Chaudhary said the centre is closely monitoring the situation and has directed the intelligence and security agencies to identify such elements and keep them under surveillance. The cyber space is also being closely scanned and in addition, the Government has declared the ISIS and all its Manifestations as terrorist organisation and banned under section 35 of Unlawful Activities [Prevention] Act (UAPA), 1967.
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April - 27 
A city court in Kolkata (West Bengal) on April 27 sent Ibrahim Sheikh alias Lal Mohammad, an alleged operative of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Indian wing, to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody till May 8, 2015 in connection with the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman (West Bengal) blas
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A city court in Kolkata (West Bengal) on April 27 sent Ibrahim Sheikh alias Lal Mohammad, an alleged operative of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Indian wing, to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody till May 8, 2015 in connection with the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman (West Bengal) blast case, reports Business Standard. The NIA counsel sought Ibrahim's custody saying he was caught with ammunition, firearms and crude bombs. Ibrahim is said to hail from Nabagram in Murshidabad District of West Bengal and a member of the Majlis-e-shura (central committee) of the JMB. Arrested from Pakur in Jharkhand on April 18, and sent to NIA custody there, Ibrahim Sheikh was brought to Kolkata on a transit remand. The investigating agencies have alleged that he was the in-charge of the Fatimatul Mukimnagar Madrasa (Islamic Seminary) in Murshidabad, which is closely linked to JMB. Police had shut and sealed off the madrasa after the October 2 blast.
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May - 3 
New Delhi: An Afghan businessman is believed to be allegedly indoctrinating youth from Maharashtra to join Islamic State (IS), claims National Investigation Agency (NIA) which has sent its first judicial requests in the case to Afghanistan seeking details of the person, Khaleej Times reports on May
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New Delhi: An Afghan businessman is believed to be allegedly indoctrinating youth from Maharashtra to join Islamic State (IS), claims National Investigation Agency (NIA) which has sent its first judicial requests in the case to Afghanistan seeking details of the person, Khaleej Times reports on May 4. The Afghan national, whose name has been withheld, was running business of dry fruits in India and allegedly approached the four young men from Kalyan area neighbouring Mumbai and incited them to join ranks of IS terror group, official sources said. However, the man had mysteriously disappeared. The port of exit of the Afghan national was found out to be from Delhi in December, 2014 sources said. The NIA request to the Afghan government includes verification of his address, his complete bank account details, associates in that country and the Gulf and call data records, they said.
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A National Intelligence Agency (NIA) team on May 4 went to Dhaka (Bangladesh) on a four-day visit as part of a joint effort by Bangladesh and India to curb trans-boundary militancy and terrorism, reports Daily Star. Monirul Islam, Joint Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said the NIA team ha
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A National Intelligence Agency (NIA) team on May 4 went to Dhaka (Bangladesh) on a four-day visit as part of a joint effort by Bangladesh and India to curb trans-boundary militancy and terrorism, reports Daily Star. Monirul Islam, Joint Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said the NIA team had been visiting to share information regarding the investigation of October 2, 2014 Bardhaman (West Bengal) blast case and about the alleged Bangladesh nationals charge-sheeted in the case. The Bangladeshi nationals named in the NIA charge sheet (of March 30, 2014) are Sheikh Rahamatullah alias Sajid alias Burhan Sekh, Talha Sheikh alias Talha Sekh, Kausar and Nasirullah alias Nasrulla alias Sahadat Seikh alias Sohail alias Hathkata. Of them, only Rahamatullah was arrested by the NIA and the other three have been absconding. The three-member NIA team, headed by Inspector General Sanjib Kumar Sinha, held a meeting with Bangladeshi Police officials on May 5. “During today’s meeting, the NIA team sought some evidence regarding fugitive accused from their Bangladesh counterparts,” said a senior un-named Police official.
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May - 5 
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on May 5 rejected the bail application of suspected Islamic State (IS) 'operative' Areeb Majeed, reports The Times of India. Majeed's lawyer Wahab Khan had moved the application in March. Earlier this year, the court had granted the NIA an extensio
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A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on May 5 rejected the bail application of suspected Islamic State (IS) 'operative' Areeb Majeed, reports The Times of India. Majeed's lawyer Wahab Khan had moved the application in March. Earlier this year, the court had granted the NIA an extension of 30 days to file a charge sheet as the 90-day period was up on February 26, 2015. Majeed was arrested on November 28, 2014 and has been in Arthur Road jail in Mumbai (Maharashtra) since December 17, 2014.
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May - 5 
A team of India's National Intelligence Agency (NIA) met senior Police officials at Dhaka (Bangladesh) on May 5 and shared information on absconding Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants charge-sheeted in the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman (West Bengal) blast case, reports Daily Star. “We also
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A team of India's National Intelligence Agency (NIA) met senior Police officials at Dhaka (Bangladesh) on May 5 and shared information on absconding Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants charge-sheeted in the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman (West Bengal) blast case, reports Daily Star. “We also shared evidence of the three fugitive JMB operatives' involvement in the blast,” said one of the Bangladeshi Police officials after the meeting. The official said the evidence was important for the NIA to prove the charges, pressed against the accused, in the court which would conduct the blast trial. The NIA officials reached Dhaka on May 2 on a four-day visit.
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May - 5 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials reached Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh on May 5 to probe the blast that occurred on September 12, 2014 at a bomb-making facility, reports The Times of India. The blast occurred by accident, exposing the unit to authorities. The men behind it are suspected to be
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials reached Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh on May 5 to probe the blast that occurred on September 12, 2014 at a bomb-making facility, reports The Times of India. The blast occurred by accident, exposing the unit to authorities. The men behind it are suspected to be six Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) terrorists who had escaped from Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh in 2013. All six have still not been traced. Superintendent of Police city Kalpana Saxena said, "Earlier, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had been investigating the case. Now, it has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The team will stay here till May 10." So far, after arriving, the team raided the house of Raisuddin Pushtiani, one of three people charged with conniving with the terrorists and sent to jail.
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May - 6 
On May 6 NIA officials held a meeting with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), at its headquarters in Dhaka's Uttara area. RAB’s Intelligence Wing Director, Lieutenant Colonel Abul Kalam Azad told that the NIA officials had discussed militant activities in both the countries. They also met with
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On May 6 NIA officials held a meeting with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), at its headquarters in Dhaka's Uttara area. RAB’s Intelligence Wing Director, Lieutenant Colonel Abul Kalam Azad told that the NIA officials had discussed militant activities in both the countries. They also met with Colonel Ziaul Ahsan, Acting Director General of RAB. Sources say the NIA members also shared their findings with the Bangladeshi law enforcers about the JMB’s plans. They said the JMB had established stronghold not only in West Bengal, but also in some parts of north-east of India and also in Jharkhand. They asked Bangladesh officials to strengthen patrol along the bordering areas.
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May - 7 
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) has written to the Madhya Pradesh government proposing a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the Islamic State (IS)-linked module arrested on April 15 in Ratlam, The Times of India reports on May 8. "We have asked Madhya Pradesh if it has a
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The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) has written to the Madhya Pradesh government proposing a probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the Islamic State (IS)-linked module arrested on April 15 in Ratlam, The Times of India reports on May 8. "We have asked Madhya Pradesh if it has any objections to handing over the case to NIA, given its international linkages. Once the state authorities give their clearance, a formal notification transferring the case to the NIA will be issued," a senior UMHA officer stated.
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May - 16 
A five-member team comprising National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials led by Superintendent of Police of NIA, Vikas Vaibhav visited the blast site at Pingla in West Midnapore District of West Bengal on May 16, reports dnaindia.com. On May 7, a blast at a firecracker factory claimed lives of 12
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A five-member team comprising National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials led by Superintendent of Police of NIA, Vikas Vaibhav visited the blast site at Pingla in West Midnapore District of West Bengal on May 16, reports dnaindia.com. On May 7, a blast at a firecracker factory claimed lives of 12 people all between the age of eight and 16 years. Two days ago, a second blast rocked the same spot while members of civil society were on their visit to the blast site. While no one was injured in the second blast that occurred at the same location but, this second such blast has put the district administration on the docks. While the Centre is yet to handover the case to NIA, officials here are collecting the samples from the blast site. Earlier a team of Central Forensic Science Laboratory officials had collected samples from the site and are likely to submit the report soon. NIA officials will be examining the CFSL report too. Currently, the District Police and the state Crime Investigation Department (CID) are probing the blast.
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May - 17 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is likely to take over the probe into December 28, 2014 Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast at a busy road in Bengaluru (Karnataka) in which a woman was killed and another two injured, reports DNA on May 18. Report said that the Centre may issue a notifica
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is likely to take over the probe into December 28, 2014 Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast at a busy road in Bengaluru (Karnataka) in which a woman was killed and another two injured, reports DNA on May 18. Report said that the Centre may issue a notification to this effect soon asking the NIA to carry out the probe into the incident in which suspected militants had wrapped the improvised explosive device in a plastic bag and placed it in a bushy plant near a restaurant in the city. Initial leads suggested the role of banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) behind the attack and NIA had provided all assistance to the state Police during the probe. However, after the blast, Karnataka Police had claimed that it had busted a terror module of banned Indian Mujahideen (IM) and their role in the Bengaluru blast was being probed.
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May - 18 
India is likely to approach the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to obtain United Nations (UN) sanctions against Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) chief Syed Salahuddin alias Mohammed Yusuf Shah to freeze his assets and a travel ban for his association with terror group like al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Toiba
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India is likely to approach the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to obtain United Nations (UN) sanctions against Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) chief Syed Salahuddin alias Mohammed Yusuf Shah to freeze his assets and a travel ban for his association with terror group like al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), reports The Asian Age on May 19. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is expected to write to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UHMA) in this regard, which in turn will take up the matter with the Ministry of External Affairs. After filing a charge sheet against Salahuddin, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) compiled a dossier and routed it to Ministry of External Affairs for submission before the UN to seek sanctions similar to those issued against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. An Interpol Red Corner Notice was also pending against Salahuddin, who hails from Soibug area of Budgam District in central Kashmir. Salahuddin, who keeps shuttling between Rawalpindi and his Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) residence and at one time headed the United Jihad Council (Muttahida Jehad Council), may be declared an international terrorist under UNSC Resolution 1267 of the Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee if New Delhi's request is acceded to by the global body.
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May - 18 
Three-member team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) that had gone to Bangladesh to hold talks with the Bangladesh Metropolitan Police (BMP) have been promised all help by the Bangladeshi counterparts in nabbing at least four accused in October 2, 2014 Burdwan blast (West Bengal) who are said to
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Three-member team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) that had gone to Bangladesh to hold talks with the Bangladesh Metropolitan Police (BMP) have been promised all help by the Bangladeshi counterparts in nabbing at least four accused in October 2, 2014 Burdwan blast (West Bengal) who are said to be hiding there, reports The Times of India on May 19. The NIA fresh impetus comes after reports that a Bangladeshi had supplied bombs at Ketugram in Burdwan District before the municipal elections in West Bengal. According to NIA sources, they have submitted details of the accused through the Memorandum of Legal Agreement Treaty (MLAT). Accordingly, the BMP is to collect details of the nationality of wanted men like Talha Sheikh and Sheikh Suman and submit it to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) through their Bangladeshi office. The NIA officials said that their arrest will not only make their subsequent Burdwan blast case stronger but also explain how the entire operations across six Districts were sponsored from Bangladesh. NIA sources also said that they are looking at greater coordination to access the rise of the international terror groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Qaeda in the region and whether they are carrying out any successful recruitment from this area.
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May - 20 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 20 filed a charge sheet before a Mumbai (Maharashtra) court against four Kalyan youths, Areeb Majeed and his accomplices, Saheem Tanki, Fahad Shaikh and Aman Tandel, who have allegedly joined Islamic State (IS), under various provisions of the Unlawful
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 20 filed a charge sheet before a Mumbai (Maharashtra) court against four Kalyan youths, Areeb Majeed and his accomplices, Saheem Tanki, Fahad Shaikh and Aman Tandel, who have allegedly joined Islamic State (IS), under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC), reports The Hindu. The NIA charge sheet revealed that prime accused Areeb Majeed (lodged in Mumbai Central Prison) and his three fugitive friends fought for the international terror outfit as “fidayeen” (suicide bombers) after they were trained in the handling of weapons and explosives. The charge sheet said that using Ziyarat (pilgrimage) visas, four youths left for Iraq on May 25, 2014, as part of a group. After joining the outfit, the four accused were rechristened as Abu Ali Al Hindi, Abu Uthman Al Hindi, Abu Bakr Al Hindi and Abu Umar Al Hindi. They then underwent training in the use of arms, explosives and battlefield tactics, following which they were inducted as suicide bombers. Subsequently, Areeb Majeed participated in several battles against the Syrian and Iraqi forces. He sustained bullet injuries on two occasions and was once seriously hurt in a United States (US)-led air bombing. He purportedly told the NIA that after he was seriously injured last October, he decided to return “for spreading jihad in India.” However, the NIA charge sheet has not made any mention of people involved in recruiting the youths in India or those who helped them reach Iraq knowing that they were going to join IS, reports The Times of India. Sources said while the agency has identified such people, it has as yet not found any evidence to link them to the case. Areeb Majeed allegedly disclosed that while in India, about two years ago he came in contact with the IS sympathisers and members through social networking websites. In desperation, he contacted people from various countries, including Australia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the United States, all of whom asked him to first reach Turkey.
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May - 20 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 20 registered a First Information Report (FIR) in the December 28, 2014 Bengaluru Churchstreet blasts case indicating a formal takeover of the probe from Bengaluru Police, reports One India on May 21. Although the Bengaluru Police probed the matter for
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 20 registered a First Information Report (FIR) in the December 28, 2014 Bengaluru Churchstreet blasts case indicating a formal takeover of the probe from Bengaluru Police, reports One India on May 21. Although the Bengaluru Police probed the matter for nearly four months, there is not any worthwhile evidence that came its way. NIA officials said that “at the moment they are looking at a blind case. There are only theories available for now, but not a single scratch of evidence which could lead to a concrete conclusion. The problem is at the roots and that is the non-availability of CCTV footage”.
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May - 20 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA), in its charge sheet filed against Islamic State (IS) recruit Kalyan (Maharashtra) youth Areeb Majeed on May 20 said that the terrorist outfit with help from some other terror organisations planned to recruit from India and among non-resident Indians (NRIs) to
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA), in its charge sheet filed against Islamic State (IS) recruit Kalyan (Maharashtra) youth Areeb Majeed on May 20 said that the terrorist outfit with help from some other terror organisations planned to recruit from India and among non-resident Indians (NRIs) to carry out attacks not just in Iraq and Syria but also in India and other countries, reports The Times of India on May 22. It has also hinted that the self-appointed Caliphate may have developed links with anti-India terror outfits. The NIA’s 8,000 page charge sheet, while detailing how the four Kalyan youths travelled to Iraq on the pretext of pilgrimage and then disappeared to join IS in Syria, said "After joining ISIS, all four persons underwent the basic training for handling of weapons and fire arms and were actively involved in terrorist acts in Iraq and Syria. The input received further indicated that ISIS, in conspiracy with certain other terrorist organisations, was keen not only on resident Indian citizens joining the outfit but was also trying to recruit non-resident Indians settled abroad for participating in the so-called holy Jihad not only in Iraq and Syria but also in India and other countries." It is for the first time an Indian security agency openly admitting that IS has plans to attack India. Until now both the Government, including Union Minister of Home Affairs Rajnath Singh and intelligence agencies played down the threat from IS saying India was not on its immediate target and that there was no traction for its ideology in the country.
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May - 24 
Suspecting Pakistan's role in the recent supply of high quality Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) printed on the same paper as the Pakistani Rupee, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) last week initiated a full blown investigation into a cross-border network of smugglers who work for Inter-Servi
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Suspecting Pakistan's role in the recent supply of high quality Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) printed on the same paper as the Pakistani Rupee, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) last week initiated a full blown investigation into a cross-border network of smugglers who work for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), reports The Times of India on May 25. Earlier this year, Delhi Police's Special Cell busted a FICN syndicate with the arrest of kingpin Shahjahan Sheikh alias Tunnu from Malda District of West Bengal along with his two associates and recovered FICN worth of INR 2 million. It is suspected that the gang worked for men sitting in Pakistan and ISI directly facilitates their operation of smuggling FICN to Bangladesh and then to Indian states via Indo-Bangla border. According to officials, Shahjahan was allegedly receiving FICNs from major Bangladesh-based suppliers of FICN, Maidul and Janarul and also had direct access to the entrenched contraband markets of Kaisar Haat in Chapai Nawabganj District in Bangladesh, where ISI agents have set up a clandestine bazaar from where FICN can be obtained in huge quantity by paying for it in original Bangladeshi currency. After obtaining FICNs from Kaiser Haat, Shahjahan used an extensive network of cross-border smugglers to get the same transported to his native village from where, it again used to pass through chains of conduits before reaching the intended buyers spread over National Capital Region (NCR), Haryana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat and other Indian territories. Sources also said that the fake currency has been printed on same paper as Pakistani Rupee. NIA has already in the past established through its probes Pakistan's complicity in printing Indian currency notes with precision, which is destabilizing the economy. NIA had found with the help of a committee of experts from the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India that the FICNs showed most of the pivotal parameters of the paper, such as GSM (paper density measured in grammes per square metre), wax pick quotient, poly vinyl alcohol, and PH value, matching with Pakistani Rupee. It had also said that the process of printing and paper making was also the same.
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June - 7 
Malaysian authorities have shared with India, the interrogation and other details pertaining to a Sri Lankan national, Mohammed Hussain, who had been arrested in Malaysia on the charge of conspiring to carry out terror strikes on the US and Israeli consulates in South India, NDTV reports on June 8.
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Malaysian authorities have shared with India, the interrogation and other details pertaining to a Sri Lankan national, Mohammed Hussain, who had been arrested in Malaysia on the charge of conspiring to carry out terror strikes on the US and Israeli consulates in South India, NDTV reports on June 8. The case was cracked with the arrest of the Sri Lankan national Sakir Hussain on April 29, 2014. The interrogation report suggests that Hussain had admitted he was part of the conspiracy and had promised Sakir Hussain, his compatriot, to help reach two suicide bombers to the southern coast from Maldives, official sources said. While Hussain, who has been convicted, is at present serving a jail term in Tamil Nadu, co-accused Sulaiman has been deported to Sri Lanka from Malaysian custody. National Investigation Agency (NIA) had requested Malaysia for details under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), signed by the two countries in 2012. In the interrogation report, he is alleged to have claimed that he had been tasked to ferry two terrorists from Maldives to a south Indian coast to carry out terror strike at US Consulate in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and Israeli Consulate in Bangalore (Karnataka). The terror plot was foiled due to effective coordination by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) with foreign countries as Malaysia tipped off the central agency about an alleged conspiracy being hatched via Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-backed groups in Sri Lanka to carry out the attacks. Malaysia had stumbled upon the case when its Special Unit was probing money laundering and human trafficking cases. Hussain was alleged to be in touch with Pakistani ISI officers. The probe was handed over to NIA by the Tamil Nadu Police so that the conspiracy hatched overseas including in Sri Lanka and Malaysia could be unravelled. Hussain has named Colombo-based Pakistan High Commission's Visa Consular Amir Zubair Siddiqui as his handler, a charge denied by Islamabad. However, facing heat from India, Pakistan shifted Siddiqui out of Colombo. Hussain had told interrogators that Pakistan's ISI was behind the terror plot, the sources claimed. The reason for ISI to pick him up, according to Hussain, was that he had expertise in human trafficking, making forged passports, and smuggling Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN).
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June - 11 
More than a year after a Bangkok court ordered extradition of Thai national and gun-runner Wuthikorn Naruenartwanich alias Willy Naru, accused of brokering arms deals between North-East insurgents and Chinese suppliers, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is hopeful of getting his custody as arg
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More than a year after a Bangkok court ordered extradition of Thai national and gun-runner Wuthikorn Naruenartwanich alias Willy Naru, accused of brokering arms deals between North-East insurgents and Chinese suppliers, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is hopeful of getting his custody as arguments against his extradition have come to a close in an appellate court in Thailand, reports The Indian Express on June 12. NIA officials, who have been tracking court proceedings in Thailand that Naru’s interrogation would help locate the chain of Chinese arms supply to North-East groups like Isak-Muivah faction of National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM) and National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB). According to the NIA charge sheet, NSCN – IM regularly procures arms in bulk from China, “mostly from the Chinese Arms Company NORINCO (North China Industries Company).
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June - 18 
The National Investigating Agency (NIA) arrested Nurul Hoque alias Naeem, 'chief trainer' of the Indian module of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), from Howrah station in Kolkata (West Bengal) on June 18, reports The Times of India. Naeem also collected funds for the terror outfit and had under
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The National Investigating Agency (NIA) arrested Nurul Hoque alias Naeem, 'chief trainer' of the Indian module of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), from Howrah station in Kolkata (West Bengal) on June 18, reports The Times of India. Naeem also collected funds for the terror outfit and had undergone arms training under NSCN-K (National Socialist Council of Nagaland - Khaplang) in Myanmar. A resident of Bakshipur near Domkal in Murshidabad, the 26-year-old is a very close associate of blast mastermind and Bangladeshi national Sajid, say sources. "Naeem had been identified as a key co-conspirator and was absconding since the Bardhaman blast of October 2, 2014. A cash reward had been declared for his arrest. Several witnesses as well as interrogation of arrested JMB cadres had revealed the name of Naeem as a very active member of JMB, who was operational in Birbhum District in close association with Dalim Sheikh (in custody) and Talha Sheikh (Bangladeshi national, absconding)," an NIA statement said. Of late, Naeem had come close to bomb-maker Haath Kata Nasirullah, which led him to become the linkman between the JMB leadership in Sylhet, Bangladesh, and the Indian module. He used to collect funds for terror activities from Bardhaman, Birbhum and Murshidabad districts. Sources said Naeem's rise in JMB was hastened by Nasirarullah, who made him the number 3 in the Indian module. According to NIA, Naeem had undergone arms training at Mukimnagar Madrasa in Murshidabad District and Simulia Madrasa in Bardhaman District between 2009 and 2011 before allegedly getting advanced training at the hands of NSCN-K in Myanmar. JMB leaders made him a trainer and he coached recruits in firearms and explosives in terrorist training camps at Shantipally in Birbhum and the Simulia and Mukimnagar madrasas, say sources. He was also a motivator in radicalization camps, showing recruits jihadi video clips on a laptop.
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June - 19 
A city court in Kolkata on June 19, remanded Bardhaman blast (October 2, 2014) accused and key Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant, Noor-ul-Haque, to 14 days' custody of National Investigation Agency (NIA) till July 3, reports IBNLive. The remand order was passed by Additional Sessions Ju
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A city court in Kolkata on June 19, remanded Bardhaman blast (October 2, 2014) accused and key Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant, Noor-ul-Haque, to 14 days' custody of National Investigation Agency (NIA) till July 3, reports IBNLive. The remand order was passed by Additional Sessions Judge Gopal Chandra Karmakar. NIA counsel sought 14-day custody citing the gravity of the incident, its international ramifications and investigation into the conspiracy angle.
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June - 19 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) is putting up posters of absconding terrorists, most of whom are Bangladeshis involved in the October 2, 2014, Bardhaman (West Bengal) blast and training youth in arms and manufacturing of explosives, New Indian Express reports on June 20. The NIA has so far arres
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) is putting up posters of absconding terrorists, most of whom are Bangladeshis involved in the October 2, 2014, Bardhaman (West Bengal) blast and training youth in arms and manufacturing of explosives, New Indian Express reports on June 20. The NIA has so far arrested 17 people in the case. But even after eight months, 12 wanted Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists are on the run. The posters of 11 militants with their photographs and the reward placed by the central agency, with some carrying as high as INR 10,00,000 on their head, are on display at bus terminus, court premises, railway stations and police stations in remote villages of Bardhaman District. Since the photograph of Rafiqul Islam from Chapainawabgunj in Bangladesh is not available, his description and built and his role in the JMB-sponsored terrorism are mentioned. “If the accused are absconders even a month after the filing of chargesheet, we can display public posters with their photographs, just like other agencies. We suspect they are hiding in the country and probably in villages with a large Bengali Muslim population,” a senior NIA official stated on June 19.
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June - 21 
Pakistani intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) which has offered PKR one million to steal laptops of Indian Army personnel, as per the investigation conducted by the National Investigating Agency (NIA), oneindia.com reports on June 22. After the honey traps laid by the ISI to g
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Pakistani intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) which has offered PKR one million to steal laptops of Indian Army personnel, as per the investigation conducted by the National Investigating Agency (NIA), oneindia.com reports on June 22. After the honey traps laid by the ISI to get information from low ranking officials of the army has been by and large controlled, the new modus operandi is now to steal laptops belonging to army officers. After a failed attempt to target South India through the Colombo (Sri Lanka) module of the ISI, the agency is looking to re-launch operations and this time instead of terrorist strikes, it proposes to gather as much information as possible from the Indian army. Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials who have been picking up alerts and the investigation being conducted by the NIA into the South Indian terror modules indicated that the ISI is on an information gathering spree at the moment. One person who goes by the name Balu has been asked to pick people within the establishment and steal laptops and other important documents.
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June - 24 
National Investigation Agency (NIA), investigation the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast case, has recovered a laptop at the instance of Nurul Hoque, alleged to be key a conspirator in many activities of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror outfit, The Times of India reports on June 25. Offici
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National Investigation Agency (NIA), investigation the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast case, has recovered a laptop at the instance of Nurul Hoque, alleged to be key a conspirator in many activities of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror outfit, The Times of India reports on June 25. Official sources said that during his custodial interrogation, Norul Hoque, who was known as 'Nayeem' to the intelligence agencies confessed that he had received a laptop from Sheikh Rahamatullah alias Sajid - the Bangla module 'head' just two months before the blast. He then guided the NIA officers to a hideout in Murshidabad District of West Bengal and handed over a laptop from where the details were gathered.
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July - 7 
Azamgarh (District) in Uttar Pradesh is on the radar of the Central intelligence agencies once again, dnaindia.com reports on July 8. The trigger is the news of Mohammad Sajid alias 'Bada Sajid', who was on the 'most wanted' list of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), being killed in Syria whil
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Azamgarh (District) in Uttar Pradesh is on the radar of the Central intelligence agencies once again, dnaindia.com reports on July 8. The trigger is the news of Mohammad Sajid alias 'Bada Sajid', who was on the 'most wanted' list of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), being killed in Syria while fighting for the Islamic State (IS) there.After the latest development, the intelligence agencies are learnt to have quickened their search for seven other suspected hardcore terrorists on NIA’s 'most wanted', all hailing from Azamgarh, four of whom carry a reward of INR 10,00,000.“We are definitely in touch with Central agencies to find out more about Sajid’s death in Syria,” says Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) IG Ram Kumar. Efforts are on to find who all he was in touch with, he adds. However, he says the ATS is looking at the entire state to ascertain these contacts and not only Azamgarh. Sources say surveillance on a large number of telephones and mobiles of Azamgarh has already been started and efforts are on to find out who all have been in contact with people in Syria and Iraq since the IS started its campaign to usurp power.Sajid had masterminded the serial blasts in Delhi, Jaipur and Ahmedabad in 2008. NIA had declared a reward of INR 10,00,000 for information on Sajid’s whereabouts. His younger brother Chhota Sajid had been killed along with another youth in a police encounter in the well-known Batla House encounter in Delhi on September 19, 2008. Two suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives, Mohammad Saif and Zeeshan were arrested while a fourth accused Ariz Khan had escaped. All these, suspected to be IM operatives, were from Azamgarh. For a long time after the Batla encounter, Azamgarh had virtually become a political battlefield.
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July - 7 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a closure report in the September 29, 2008 Modasa (Aravalli District, Gujarat) blast case, citing lack of evidence and the inability to trace the main culprits behind the blast, Indian Express reports on July 8. The special NIA court closed the case
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a closure report in the September 29, 2008 Modasa (Aravalli District, Gujarat) blast case, citing lack of evidence and the inability to trace the main culprits behind the blast, Indian Express reports on July 8. The special NIA court closed the case on April 22. The 16-page final report named no suspects but only said that “the complainant is the victim of the blast and is fortunate enough to have survived”.
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July - 7 
The NIA is taking over the May 12, 2015 Titagarh (North 24 Paraganas District) train blast in which a Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was killed and 15 passengers injured, The Times of India reports on July 8. Crime Investigation Department (CID) has been probing the case so far. Four persons ar
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The NIA is taking over the May 12, 2015 Titagarh (North 24 Paraganas District) train blast in which a Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was killed and 15 passengers injured, The Times of India reports on July 8. Crime Investigation Department (CID) has been probing the case so far. Four persons are in custody, three of whom were arrested by the Sealdah.
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July - 8 
Maharashtra government apprehends that suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal, alleged mastermind of 26/11 (November 26, 2008) Mumbai (Maharashtra) attacks, could be assassinated or kidnapped by rivals during his transit from jail to court, the NIA has told a Delhi court. In an applica
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Maharashtra government apprehends that suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal, alleged mastermind of 26/11 (November 26, 2008) Mumbai (Maharashtra) attacks, could be assassinated or kidnapped by rivals during his transit from jail to court, the NIA has told a Delhi court. In an application moved before District Judge Amar Nath, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said that Jundal alias Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, who is presently lodged in Arthur Road jail in Mumbai, could not be produced before the court here on several occasions despite issuance of production warrant against him. In the plea, the agency said the proceedings in the case lodged here was required to be expedited and the trial could be commenced through video conferencing. Referring to a resolution passed by Maharashtra government in May 2013, the NIA said it "excludes the personal appearance of the accused Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari ... after taking into consideration request of Commissioner of Police, Mumbai to exclude the above-mentioned accused person from the personal appearance before court in various cases registered against him due to possibility of assassination bid on the life of accused by rival group or a bid to kidnap." The court has issued notice to Jundal's counsel MS Khan for July 17, 2015 on NIA's plea.
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July - 9 
Bangla Bhai, 'military commander' of Jagrato Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), who was executed in 2007, visited West Bengal in 2005 and spent three months touring several Districts trying to set up a base for the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the state, investigatio
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Bangla Bhai, 'military commander' of Jagrato Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB), who was executed in 2007, visited West Bengal in 2005 and spent three months touring several Districts trying to set up a base for the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the state, investigations have revealed Daily Star reports on July 9.The National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials learnt how Siddique ul-Islam alias Bangla Bhai prepared the ground for the network that was exposed nine years later while investigating the blast in a house at Bardhaman's Khagragarh on October 2, 2014. Bangla Bhai entered India through Dhulian in Murshidabad and settled in the District. "In 2005, JMB leaders sent Bangla Bhai to Murshidabad as it served a two-fold purpose of preparing the ground for setting up a base for the organisation as well as providing him shelter from the security forces of Bangladesh who were hot on his heels," an NIA officer stated.With the discovery of the role of the JMB kingpin, it has now become clear that the efforts started at least nine years earlier. "Murshidabad was the first district in Bengal where JMB set up its organisation. Bhai worked in close association with Hatkata Nasirullah, whom we are looking for," an NIA officer stated. "With his base at Domkal in Murshidabad, Bangla Bhai started contacting other leaders in Murshidabad, Nadia and Birbhum. He told them that days were not far off when the caliphate would be established in Bangladesh and their task would be to spread the idea in the bordering districts of India too," added the NIA officer.
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July - 12 
Political parties, local gangs and terrorist organisations are among the suspects the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is tracking in its probe into the May 12, 2015 explosion in a suburban train in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas District, indiatvnews.com reports on July 13. NIA top brass have i
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Political parties, local gangs and terrorist organisations are among the suspects the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is tracking in its probe into the May 12, 2015 explosion in a suburban train in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas District, indiatvnews.com reports on July 13. NIA top brass have instructed officers investigating the blast on train number 31811 (Sealdah-Krishnanagar EMU local) at Titagarh railway station to keep political parties and local gangs on its radar."We are a specialised unit for handling terrorist cases because of which the government handed us the probe into the train blast. But we cannot avoid the West Bengal Police theory of local gangs' involvement. Political parties are also on our radar," an NIA official, stated.The NIA took over the investigation July 3, 2015 as per an Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) order dated June 26 and registering a case under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons, attempt to murder, wrongful restraint as well as of the Explosive Substances Act and the Railway Act.
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July - 24 
Four years after it registered a First Information Report (FIR) in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blasts, National Investigations Agency (NIA) has begun investigations in the case, The Times of India reports on July 25. The case had been stuck due to several litigations filed by the accused in th
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Four years after it registered a First Information Report (FIR) in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blasts, National Investigations Agency (NIA) has begun investigations in the case, The Times of India reports on July 25. The case had been stuck due to several litigations filed by the accused in the Supreme Court. "No investigation could have been carried out without the case papers being in our possession. Now that it has come back, investigations have begun. Though Maharashtra ATS has filed a chargesheet in the case, we need to look at all the facts and evidence afresh," said a senior NIA official. NIA DG Sharad Kumar will be travelling to Mumbai on July 30 to supervise the case and give direction to the investigations. The blasts, alleged to have been perpetrated by Hindutva fundamentalists, have 14 accused as listed by Maharashtra ATS which first investigated the case. These include Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya Thakur. The case was transferred to NIA in April 2011. Soon after, the accused filed several petitions in Supreme Court leading to the court calling for case papers for perusal. The petitions, filed on behalf of various accused, challenged invocation of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) in the case and NIA's right to interrogate the accused in custody. In total, there were eight litigations.
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July - 24 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on July 24 announced INR 1,000,000 reward each for four Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) suspects alleged to be involved in a series of blasts across the country, reports The Times of India. The accused are part of a group that escaped from Khandwa jail i
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on July 24 announced INR 1,000,000 reward each for four Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) suspects alleged to be involved in a series of blasts across the country, reports The Times of India. The accused are part of a group that escaped from Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh in October 2013 and then allegedly carried out several blasts in Bijnor (Uttar Pradesh), Pune (Maharashtra) and Chennai (Tamil Nadu). The accused, against whom the reward has been announced, have been identified as Zakir Hussain alias Sadiq Badrul Hussain, Mehboob alias Guddu Ismail Khan, Salik Hakim and Amzad Ramzan Khan.
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July - 31 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) sources said they have evidence that shows that the arrested Abu Talha Mohammad Fahim alias Pakhi, chief of a JMB (Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh) faction in Bangladesh, is the same Talha Sheikh accused of masterminding the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman (West Bengal)
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) sources said they have evidence that shows that the arrested Abu Talha Mohammad Fahim alias Pakhi, chief of a JMB (Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh) faction in Bangladesh, is the same Talha Sheikh accused of masterminding the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman (West Bengal) blast, The Times of India reports on August 1. NIA had earlier declared a INR 10,00,000 reward on him. "We are contacting Dhaka Metropolitan Police and we might even request for his extradition if possible," said an NIA officer in Delhi. Pakhi was arrested by Dhaka Metropolitan Police from near the Bangladesh capital on July 27 along with seven others when they were trying to contact Islamic State (IS) operatives. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) sources in Bangladesh had earlier said they might either come to Kolkata or ask for the extradition of a few of those arrested so they can be tried for the crimes they committed in Bangladesh. Pakhi is the younger son of JMB's founder Maulana Saidur Rehman. Sources said terror operators like Pakhi keep sleeper cells running by providing everything from shelter to SIM cards for leaders and new recruits, who are either not acquainted with the place or have to remain underground. NIA and Bangladesh's RAB had exchanged lists of JMB operatives and Islamist militants believed to be hiding in the two countries about five months ago. NIA had handed over a list of 11 suspects of the Bardhaman blast. RAB, on the other hand, gave a list of 51 fugitive Bangladeshis, 10 of them said to be JMB activists and several members of Harkatul Jihad al Islami (HuJI), along with some gangsters.
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August - 6 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) began its probe into an Iranian boat, which was captured by the Indian Coast Guard off the Alappuzha coast in July, webindia123.com reports on August 6. The 12 crew members of the captured Iranian boat, who are now in judicial custody, are likely to be interro
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) began its probe into an Iranian boat, which was captured by the Indian Coast Guard off the Alappuzha coast in July, webindia123.com reports on August 6. The 12 crew members of the captured Iranian boat, who are now in judicial custody, are likely to be interrogated by the NIA team. According to reports, the crew had made calls to Pakistan and Afghanistan using a satellite phone.
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August - 6 
The special court on August 6 allowed a plea by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to conduct the trial of the alleged 26/11 (November 26, 2008) Mumbai (Maharashtra) attack mastermind Abu Jundal through video conferencing, reports Indian Express. In its plea seeking trial through video conferen
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The special court on August 6 allowed a plea by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to conduct the trial of the alleged 26/11 (November 26, 2008) Mumbai (Maharashtra) attack mastermind Abu Jundal through video conferencing, reports Indian Express. In its plea seeking trial through video conferencing, the NIA stated that the Maharashtra government feared that the suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative could either be killed or abducted while being brought to the Delhi court. Jundal is currently lodged at Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail. “After applying the findings/observations of the High Court, I am of the considered view that the application of NIA deserves to be allowed. I, therefore, allow the application of NIA under Section 273 of the CrPC for commencing the trial through video conferencing,” District Judge Amar Nath said. The special court also directed the Superintendent of the Arthur Road Prison to make arrangements for the trial by video conferencing.
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August - 10 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has decided not to oppose the conditional bail granted to Swami Assemanand, chargesheeted in the 2007 Samjhauta blast case (Haryana), as it did not find any grounds for it, reports The Hindu on August 11. The Government has also declined to grant permission to
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has decided not to oppose the conditional bail granted to Swami Assemanand, chargesheeted in the 2007 Samjhauta blast case (Haryana), as it did not find any grounds for it, reports The Hindu on August 11. The Government has also declined to grant permission to challenge a bail order granted to two other accused in Mecca Masjid blasts case (Telangana) - Devender Gupta and Lokesh Sharma - on the “grounds of parity” since bail had been granted to Bharat Mohal Lal and Tejaram Parmar which had not been challenged by the prosecution. Minister of State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary said Swami Aseemanand continued to remain in jail as he “could not comply with the conditions of bail specified” in the order of Punjab and Haryana High Court last August (2014).
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September - 1 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on September 1 arrested another over-ground operative of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) identified as Showkat Ahmed Bhat, who had arranged transportation for the four Pakistani terrorists including captured Mohammad Naved Yakub within Kashmir soon after they infiltrate
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on September 1 arrested another over-ground operative of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) identified as Showkat Ahmed Bhat, who had arranged transportation for the four Pakistani terrorists including captured Mohammad Naved Yakub within Kashmir soon after they infiltrated from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), reports Times of India. During their two-month stay in the Valley, Bhat assisted the four LeT trained Pakistani terrorists in travelling from one place to another. Officials suspect that he was directed by Abu Qasim to arrange the travel, as desired by LeT bosses based in Pakistan.
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September - 6 
Four years after a low intensity bomb exploded outside Delhi High Court on May 25, 2011, raising concerns about security of courts, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has closed the probe into the case and filed a closure report in court, reports The Times of India on September 7. Intelligence
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Four years after a low intensity bomb exploded outside Delhi High Court on May 25, 2011, raising concerns about security of courts, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has closed the probe into the case and filed a closure report in court, reports The Times of India on September 7. Intelligence agencies and NIA probed the role of Indian Mujahideen (IM) members in the May 25 blast, as the bomb had the outfit's signature style. The official said several militants, members of sleeper cells in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and other places were examined but nothing came of the efforts. No terror outfit claimed responsibility for the blast. A bomb, packed with ammonium nitrate, shrapnel, fuel oil and a poorly tied electronic timer, was packed in a black bag and placed under a car on the afternoon of May 25, 2011 and it went off when advocates and litigants were thronging the High Court. The explosion came at a time when security agencies were grappling with the menace of IM, which had carried out serial blasts in several cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Varanasi, Pune, Ahmedabad and others.
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September - 9 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on September 9 opposed the bail application of Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, an accused in the 2008 Malegoan blast case, reports Zee News. The agency said in its reply, that it had sufficient evidence to prove Purohit's involvement in the blasts conspirac
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on September 9 opposed the bail application of Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, an accused in the 2008 Malegoan blast case, reports Zee News. The agency said in its reply, that it had sufficient evidence to prove Purohit's involvement in the blasts conspiracy and to justify invocation of stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against him. Purohit, pleading innocence, has also said in his bail plea that he is behind the bars without trial for the last seven years. Twelve persons, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Purohit, were arrested for the blast at Malegaon town in Maharashtra on September 29, 2008, in which six persons died and 100 were injured. Following a Supreme Court order, a special court was constituted to hear the case exclusively.
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September - 13 
According to a recent National Investigation Agency (NIA) report, 80 per cent Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) are sneaked into the country through the 172-km porous border along Malda District, and 55-60 per cent of the consignments from Bangladesh are circulated from the villages in 12 sq-km tria
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According to a recent National Investigation Agency (NIA) report, 80 per cent Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) are sneaked into the country through the 172-km porous border along Malda District, and 55-60 per cent of the consignments from Bangladesh are circulated from the villages in 12 sq-km triangle with 18 villages, The Times of India reports on September 14. The fake currency rackets has taken the magnitude of a cottage industry at Mohabbatpur, Chorianantapur, Sasani, Gopalnagar, Khoribona, Chaknanipur, Misutola and Dangipara, which are easily accessible to Bangladesh's Chapai Nababgunj Distreict, notorious for being a fake currency hub, as well as Nepal, said Malda Superintendent of Police (SP) Prasiun Banerjee. "Also, people here work as labourers in Rajasthan, Punjab, Delhi and Assam and they carry the notes with them there," he added. Most of the residents in the villages, including women and children, are part of the illegal trade, which according to a recent Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) report, is crippling the economy of India. In Mohabbatpur, there is not a single home that has not been raided. In fact, hardly any youngster can be found there as most of them have been arrested and the others have gone underground, trying to evade jail. According to the NIA, Malda has become the locus of criminal activities, with links to the Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-backed network of terrorism. According to the Malda District Police report, FICN with a face value of INR 1.43 crore were seized in 2013, the next year, it increased to INR 1.5 crore, while till July, 2015 it is INR 1.97 crore. "The steady rise shows the Police and the security agencies have been more alert and active. Origin source of most currencies is Pakistan," and the quality is so good that it can hardly be distinguished from original notes," Malda SP Banerjee said. NIA officials said this was only the tip of the iceberg. "The seized notes comprise merely just 5-7 per cent of the entire amount pumped into India" and so it is easily understandable how much fake currencies percolate into the main economy of the country," an NIA officer said. "The high-quality Pakistan notes' exchange rate is INR 60,000 for INR 1,00,000. For low-quality notes, it is INR 45,000-50,000 for INR 1,00,000," a District Police officer said. A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel pointed out modus operandi adopted by the smugglers: "People from Bangladesh supply notes to those living in Indian villages outside the border. They stash the notes in sacks and lob them over the fence into India, where the sacks usually land into their counterpart's house." There are other innovative methods too. "Smugglers use defunct irrigation pipes under agriculture fields. Two persons, one on the Indian side and the other on the Bangladesh side, sit at the two ends of the pipe and pass the notes tied to a long tape passing through the pipe," the Police said.
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September - 15 
A key person involved in Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) racket run from Pakistan was found poisoned to death by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) team in Rajasthan, Economic Times reports on September 16. NIA was following a lead on Bhojraj Singh in a case of a major seizure of INR 20, 00,000
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A key person involved in Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) racket run from Pakistan was found poisoned to death by a National Investigation Agency (NIA) team in Rajasthan, Economic Times reports on September 16. NIA was following a lead on Bhojraj Singh in a case of a major seizure of INR 20, 00,000 worth fake currency on a train in Delhi. The NIA, in a charge-sheet submitted recently in the case, has said the death of Singh has "affected the investigation as it now becomes difficult to ascertain the persons responsible for providing him funds for purchase of FICN and also to ascertain other people involved in the business". Two persons, Samir Mansuri and Kudarat Khan, were arrested from Farakka Express by the Delhi Police Special Cell on February 25, 2015 at the Old Delhi Railway station in Delhi with INR 20,00,000 worth of high-quality FICN. They were coming from Malda District of West Bengal and confessed that the consignment was to be delivered to Singh who would pay them a commission of 10 per cent and had also paid them money to 'buy' the FICN from Bangladesh. The NIA, after taking over the case, dispatched a team to Singh's residence in Barod, Madhya Pradesh, on May 27, 2015 but found him to be absconding. "The team got information that Singh had been admitted in hospital in Jhalawar, Rajasthan, for poisoning," the NIA has said in its charge sheet.
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September - 20 
Indian Express reports on September 21 that for the past few weeks, Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials in Delhi have been trying to convince a young woman, who recently graduated from Delhi University, that joining terror group of Islamic State (IS) is not a good idea. The daughter of a retired Indi
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Indian Express reports on September 21 that for the past few weeks, Intelligence Bureau (IB) officials in Delhi have been trying to convince a young woman, who recently graduated from Delhi University, that joining terror group of Islamic State (IS) is not a good idea. The daughter of a retired Indian Army Lieutenant Colonel, the woman, in her mid-20s, went to Australia for three years for post-graduate studies. Intelligence sources said it was her father who approached the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and reported her activities. He reportedly sought help from the NIA in counseling and de-radicalising her. The agency, in turn, got in touch with the IB which is now handling the matter.According to sources, a couple of months ago, the former Army officer stumbled upon some internet communication linked to the IS on his daughter’s computer. Further investigation by the officer reportedly revealed that his daughter was perhaps in touch with alleged IS recruiters and planned to travel to Syria to join the outfit. The father then reportedly sought the NIA’s help. Sources said the woman perhaps planned to convert to Islam and then make her way to Syria through Australia.
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September - 21 
A Delhi court on September 21, said it would on September 24 pass an order on framing of charges in a case in which Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) 'chief' Syed Salahuddin was charge sheeted for allegedly receiving nearly INR 800 million funds from Pakistan to carry out terror activities across India, repor
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A Delhi court on September 21, said it would on September 24 pass an order on framing of charges in a case in which Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) 'chief' Syed Salahuddin was charge sheeted for allegedly receiving nearly INR 800 million funds from Pakistan to carry out terror activities across India, reports Daily Excelsior. Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna said the order, scheduled to be passed today (September 21), would be delivered on September 24 as it was not ready yet. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had charge sheeted Salahuddin and 11 others, including eight who are based in Pakistan and declared proclaimed offenders by court earlier.
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October - 6 
The multi-crore narcotic, gold and hawala (illegal money transaction) rackets operating in Kerala, particularly in Aluva of Ernakulam District, with national and international connections will likely come under the scanner of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), New Indian Express reports on Oct
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The multi-crore narcotic, gold and hawala (illegal money transaction) rackets operating in Kerala, particularly in Aluva of Ernakulam District, with national and international connections will likely come under the scanner of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), New Indian Express reports on October 6. NIA officials on October 5 interrogated Aluva based narcotic operator Ibrahim, who was arrested by the Excise Enforcement and Anti-narcotic Squad the other day in connection with brown sugar haul. According to the Excise Enforcement and Anti-narcotic Squad, the narco racket led by Ibrahim was instrumental in smuggling brown sugar consignments to the Middle East, especially Kuwait, on several occasion. “Aluva-native Basheer, who has been in Kuwait for the last 25 years, was handling the Kerala operations of the racket. Members of the racket allegedly sourced contrabands from different parts of the country, especially Jammu and Kashmir, on Basheer’s instructions. It was Basheer who handled the financial dealings of the racket also, operating from abroad,” said Excise officials. During interrogation, Ibrahim admitted to having received payments in proxy accounts for handling the racket in the State. It was found that the INR 400,000 received in the account of Ibrahim’s wife recently was for the last consignment he had handled. The top-layer of the racket is well-knit. Ibrahim had surrendered before the officials with a cooked-up story. The gang also allegedly smuggled large quantities of gold into the State through airports in South India on several occasions, and made payments through hawala.
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October - 8 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has asked the US to examine two sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for which 26/11 (November 26, 2008) accused David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana have been charge-sheeted here but were not covered by US law during trial there. If the US Depar
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has asked the US to examine two sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for which 26/11 (November 26, 2008) accused David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana have been charge-sheeted here but were not covered by US law during trial there. If the US Department of Justice (DoJ) is convinced, it could lead to NIA getting the custody of at least Rana. During a recent videoconferencing with DoJ, NIA cited Section 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and Section 471 (using a genuine a forged document) of the IPC where there is no 'double jeopardy'. Double jeopardy is legal parlance for a law that prevents punishing of a criminal twice for the same offence. According to officials, DoJ raised the issue of double jeopardy. "We have supplied the legal opinion to the DoJ in consultation with international law experts. The same is under examination by US authorities," said a top NIA investigator said, adding that NIA was hopeful of getting at least the custody of Rana.
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October - 13 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials tracked down the origin of Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) in Dubai, being pumped into the country via Bangladesh. Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been able to set up a production unit of FICN in Dubai. The fake currency notes are being
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials tracked down the origin of Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) in Dubai, being pumped into the country via Bangladesh. Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been able to set up a production unit of FICN in Dubai. The fake currency notes are being smuggled into India via Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, NIA sources have revealed. The ISI had been running the fake currency racket from Karachi (Pakistan) previously. It changed it's strategy due to growing international pressure, and are now using citizens of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka for such activities.
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October - 14 
The special National Investigating Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai (Maharashtra), while rejecting the bail application of Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit and two other accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blasts case, observed that they could again engage in similar activities, Asian Age reports on Octobe
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The special National Investigating Agency (NIA) court in Mumbai (Maharashtra), while rejecting the bail application of Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit and two other accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blasts case, observed that they could again engage in similar activities, Asian Age reports on October 15. After hearing arguments of the applicants’ advocates, Special Public Prosecutor and Intervener, Special NIA Judge S.D. Tekale, in his order observed, “There is reasonable apprehension that after release on bail, again applicants will engage in activities for implementing their ideology (of turning India into a Hindu Rashtra called Aryavart) with the same mindset.” “Moreover, most of the witnesses are closely acquainted with applicants. It appears that some of them had participated in the meeting but as they had a different opinion on the applicants’ extreme attitude towards Muslim community and their talks about causing bomb blasts to take revenge, they left the organisation. There is some substance in the submission of special public prosecutor Avinash Rasal that if applicants are released on bail, there is every chance of tampering with prosecution witnesses,” the Judge said.
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October - 18 
A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team on October 18 arrested the kingpin of a network involved in smuggling high quality Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) in India, identified as Uttam Kumar Sinha from Dhanbad in Dhanbad District of Jharkhand. A total of five mobile phones and 13 SIMs was recov
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A National Investigation Agency (NIA) team on October 18 arrested the kingpin of a network involved in smuggling high quality Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) in India, identified as Uttam Kumar Sinha from Dhanbad in Dhanbad District of Jharkhand. A total of five mobile phones and 13 SIMs was recovered from him," said the NIA official. Taking over the investigation of a case relating to recovery of FICN of face value of INR10 lakhs from Murshidabad (West Bengal), NIA had been on the hunt for Sinha for two months after investigation revealed him to be the kingpin of the racket. According to NIA, Sinha used to procure high quality FICN through his contacts in Bangladesh.
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October - 20 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 20 arrested a suspect, identified as Purshottam Kesri, in a fake currency case from Trikampura area of Surat District, reports The Times of India. NIA sources said they had taken over the investigation of a case relating to recovery of fake Indian
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 20 arrested a suspect, identified as Purshottam Kesri, in a fake currency case from Trikampura area of Surat District, reports The Times of India. NIA sources said they had taken over the investigation of a case relating to recovery of fake Indian currency notes (FICN) bearing a face value of INR 10 lac from Murshidabad in West Bengal. "During investigations, the name of Uttam Kumar Sinha came to light after which he was arrested from Dhanbad in Jharkhand on October 18," said an NIA official. NIA sources said during Sinha's primary interrogation, it came to light that his accomplice Purshottam Kesri was hiding in Surat. NIA dispatched a team to Surat and arrested Kesri with the help of Surat Crime Branch from Trikampura in Surat. "Sinha is supposed to be the kingpin of the fake currency racket and his gang was instrumental in dispatching fake currency notes worth more than Rs 4 crore to parts of the country," said an NIA official. According to NIA sources, Kesri is an important associate of Sinha and was a key person in despatching the fake currency notes. NIA officials said the modus operandi of the gang was to dispatch fake currency by couriers disguised as laboures and masons and in turn received payments through cash deposits from states like Gujarat, Maharashtra and Jharkhand.
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October - 30 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 30 submitted a charge sheet indicting an accused, identified as Barkat Ali of conspiracy involving cross border smuggling of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), reports Business Standard. The case involves seizure of FICN of the face value of nearly
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 30 submitted a charge sheet indicting an accused, identified as Barkat Ali of conspiracy involving cross border smuggling of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), reports Business Standard. The case involves seizure of FICN of the face value of nearly INR 65,00,000 from the accused Barkat Ali near the Bangladesh border in West Bengal's Malda District on May 6, 2015. Filed before a special NIA court in Kolkata, Ali has been charged with several offences including under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). "Ali has been charged for his involvement in a terrorist conspiracy with a gang, involved in cross border smuggling of extremely high quality fake Indian currency notes (FICN) across Indo-Bangladesh border for further circulation in India, thereby damaging the monetary stability of India," the agency said.
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December - 15 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigating the October 2, 214 Bardhaman blast case has found that besides the Simulia and Lalgola madrasas (Islamic seminaries) used by the Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to train recruits in West Bengal, a third JMB recruitment and training base was
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigating the October 2, 214 Bardhaman blast case has found that besides the Simulia and Lalgola madrasas (Islamic seminaries) used by the Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to train recruits in West Bengal, a third JMB recruitment and training base was on the verge of becoming operational in Murshidabad District, Indian Express reports on December 16. The NIA has also learned that JMB operatives had paid money to buy a plot of land to set up a madrasa for similar purposes in Kenduwa village in Jharkhand’s Deoghar District in July, 2014. “Interrogation of JMB accused has revealed that the Simulia madrasa in Burdwan was set up in 2008 and was meant exclusively for girls. This was followed by the Lalgola madrasa set up in Murshidabad in 2011. In addition to these two major JMB bases in West Bengal, the JMB was also in the process of setting up a third a base at the Ghoramara boys madrasa in Domkol, Murshidabad. It was about to become fully operational before the crackdown on JMB across states,” a source said. NIA sources said that besides West Bengal, Assam, Bihar and Jharkhand, its probe into the JMB’s network had also led them to Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Hyderabad, where local networks of masons hailing from Malda and other districts of West Bengal were under the scanner. “Some of the JMB cadres who fled from West Bengal and Assam took refuge in cities like Bangalore, Mysore, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad and Chennai. Many masons hailing from West Bengal are employed in in these cities. Absconding JMB operatives have been provided shelter by some of these masons, who aided them unwittingly or were sympathisers. Even local police agencies are keeping tabs on the antecedents of such masons in these cities,” said a source.
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December - 30 
Enforcement Directorate (ED) launched a massive exercise to identify and plug the sources that fund the activities of Islamic State (IS) sympathisers, The Hindu reports on December 30. Using the funds, some of the sympathisers have already made it to Syria and Iraq to join the terror outfit. While h
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Enforcement Directorate (ED) launched a massive exercise to identify and plug the sources that fund the activities of Islamic State (IS) sympathisers, The Hindu reports on December 30. Using the funds, some of the sympathisers have already made it to Syria and Iraq to join the terror outfit. While hawala (illegal money transaction) has been the preferred route of terror funding, in the case of IS, there are specific instances of formal banking channels being used to fund its sympathisers. The funding is for initial travel requirements, and once they join the IS, they are taken care of there. The sympathisers are also promised monthly allowance if they join the battlefield and a hefty payment to their families if they are killed while fighting. Hawala routes are extremely difficult to detect and track, and it has been among the key reasons why Indian agencies have over the decades struggled to plug the loopholes that allowed terror groups to receive funding from various sources. According to sources, the ED, mandated to conduct investigations into money-laundering, is all set to take up the cases registered in different parts of the country in connection with the activities of the IS. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Delhi Police have also registered such cases. The agencies have come across specific instances where IS operatives and sympathisers pooled in funds to recruit people. The list includes 18 youths from the newly-formed State of Telangana who during interactions with the sympathisers had expressed their willingness to join the outfit. One such suspect even received INR 53,000 from a sympathiser operating through a Facebook profile to arrange passport and tourist visa for Turkey and further travel to Syria. A young girl was also motivated by his brother to take up nursing job in Syria.
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