Date
|
Place
|
Incident
|
Nature of incident
|
January 1
|
Pune in Maharastra
|
Judicial Magistrate (First Class) S.S. Bose
extended Police custody of suspected IM militants and seven
accused arrested in the Jangli Maharaj Road blasts case in Pune
till January 8, 2013.
Ten teams, set up by the State ATS, claimed
to have recovered 18 different articles from the suspects' custody.
|
Non-violent
|
January 1 |
|
ATS told the court that the conspiracy to cause
serial bomb blasts on Jangli Maharaj Road was hatched by the seven
arrested suspects in Saudi Arabia.
|
Court Proceeding |
January 1 |
|
ATS said the custodial interrogation of the suspects,
revealed that they were constantly in touch with the absconding
suspects, Fayyaz Kagzi, Riyaz Bhatkal and three others involved
in a string of terror attacks in India so far.
|
Court Proceeding |
January 9 |
Kochi, Ernakulam, Kerala
|
A case under UAPA, Section 10(4) has been registered
against the organisers of the ongoing Kochi-Muziris Biennale for
exhibiting an installation work of a Dutch artist, identified
as Jinas Staal allegedly promoting banned outfits, including Taliban,
LTTE and IM in Kochi (Ernakulam District).
|
Statement |
January 15 |
Uttar Pradesh
|
32 Districts in U.P put on high alert after intelligence
reports revealed that around 50 terrorists had infiltrated through
the Nepal border into the state for establishing contact with
IM operatives.
|
Statement |
January 16 |
New Delhi
|
Delhi Police has received a general input on possible
attacks by IM and LeT in Delhi.
|
Statement |
January 20 |
New Delhi
|
IM threatened to carry out an attack in New Delhi
in the coming days.
|
Statement |
January 21 |
Darbhanga District, Bihar
|
Alleged IM operative Danish Ansari was arrested
by the NIA.
|
Non-violent |
January 22 |
Behala in Kolkata District
|
Haryana Police arrested Nilesh Bhattacharya for
allegedly sending a threat mail to a five-star hotel chain in
Gurgaon (Haryana) Delhi in the name of terror outfit IM.
|
Non-violent |
January 23 |
Mumbai, Maharashtra
|
The newly set up branch of the NIA will continue
to investigate terrorism cases related to Pune (Pune District),
said Union MoS for Home, R P N Singh.
|
Statement |
January 28 |
New Delhi, India
|
IM terrorist Fasih Mohammed sought bail from a
trial court.
|
Non-violent |
January 29 |
India
|
Suspected IM terrorist Danish Ansari has allegedly
told his interrogators that IM 'India Chief' Yasin Bhatkal alias
Shahrukh, was in the process of creating a "library module" which
would have acted as the media wing of IM later.
|
Statement |
January 29 |
India
|
IM operative Danish Ansari revealed during custodial
interrogation that Nepal is now the biggest hub for IM operatives.
|
Statement |
February 11 |
Mumbai, Maharashtra
|
ATS declared that the two suspected 13/7 blasts
bomb planters, Waqqas and Tabrez, are Indian nationals and not
Pakistani residents, which the police suspected earlier. Moreover,
the ATS said the duo also planted bombs at two places on Pune's
Jangli Maharaj Road.
"While probing the Mumbai and Pune serial blasts,
we came across certain information. Its now clear that Ahmed Zarar
Siddibapa, alias Yasin Bhatkal, Tabrez, alias Danial, and
Ahmed, alias Waqqas, also took part in last year's Pune explosion.
While Tabrez and Waqqas planted the bombs, Bhatkal was part of
the conspiracy. The fourth person in the wanted list is Tahseen
Shaikh, a Bihar resident," said Rakesh Maria.
|
Statement |
February12 |
Mumbai, Maharashtra
|
Maharashtra ATS, announced a reward of INR 10,00,000
each to anyone giving information on elusive IM 'chief' Yasin
Bhatkal and his 3 aides allegedly involved in several terror cases.
|
Statement |
February 13 |
Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
|
The Gorakhpur Police, investigating the May 22,
2007 blasts in the city, has obtained the Allahabad High Court's
permission for attachment of property of Mirza Shadab Baig, one
of the accused belonging to IM who is absconding.
|
Statement |
February 15 |
Maharashtra, India
|
Maharashtra ATS Nagpur subunit has put up posters
of IM India 'chief' Yasin Bhatkal and three of his accomplices
across the city, seeking information on these wanted terrorists
for their alleged involvement in bomb blasts in Mumbai and Pune.
|
Statement |
February 16 |
India
|
Fasih Mahmood, IM terrorist was charge sheeted
for involvement in the September 19, 2010 Jama Masjid (Delhi)
attack.
|
Non-violent |
February 17 |
New Delhi, India
|
Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in his conversations
with IM accused, Farooq alias Aftab Alam sympathized with the
cause of IM and lamented that Kashmir did not have enough "courageous"
men to earn it "azaadi".
|
Non-violent |
February 21 |
India
|
UMHA, Sushil Kumar Shinde, seemed to reflect the
principal assumption of the agencies about IM being the chief
suspects when he said the latest attack was similar to the 2007
serial attacks in the city.
|
Statement |
February 22 |
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
|
Initial probes in twin blasts of February 21 indicated
involvement of IM.
|
Statement |
February 22 |
Pakistan occupied Kashmir
|
The conspiracy of twin blasts in Hyderabad on
February 21 was hatched in a joint meeting of terror outfits on
February 9 and February 10, which was attended by groups like
LeT, JeM and HM.
|
Statement |
February 24 |
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
|
City Police to launch manhunt beginning February
25, for two IM militants, identified as Asadullah Akhtar alias
Tabrez, and Waqas alias Ahmed who were spotted a few days
prior to the twin bomb blasts in Dilsukhnagar.
|
Statement |
February 25 |
Samalkot, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh
|
NIA picked up three SIMI cadres for questioning
regarding the February 21, 2013, Hyderabad blast.
|
Statement |
February 25 |
India
|
Riyaz Bhatkal, Iqbal Bhatkal, Amir Raza Khan and
Fayyaz Kagzi have been enjoying ISI hospitality with a quid pro
quo of carrying out attacks on India.
|
Statement |
February 26 |
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
|
NIA has found that not only are IM's Pune blast
module and LeT's Bangalore-Hubli-Nanded terror module linked to
each other, but the latter has even helped the IM accused conduct
reconnaissance of Dilsukhnagar.
|
Statement |
February 26 |
New Delhi
|
NIA has moved a Delhi court seeking custody of
two alleged IM operatives- Maqbool and Imran to interrogate them
in connection with the twin blasts in Hyderabad.
|
Statement |
February 27 |
Pakistan
|
IM has sent threat letter to Reliance Industries
Chairman Mukesh Ambani for supporting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra
Modi.
|
Violent |
March 3 |
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
|
Obaid-ur Rehman is suspected to be the man who
passed on information about the recce conducted by the IM duo
Syed Maqbool and Imran Khan to their Saudi-based handlers.
|
Statement |
March 3 |
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
|
Police said that Syed Maqbool and Imran Khan are
believed to have scouted Begum Bazaar Chatri, Gujarati lane in
Koti, the ISKCON Temple area and the GPO in Abids, besides Dilsukhnagar.
|
Statement |
March 4 |
Ranchi, Jharkhand
|
NIA confirmed the arrest of Muhammad Manzar Imam,
wanted in the Wagamon SIMI camp case, and a suspect in the February
21, 2013, Hyderabad twin blasts case.
|
Statement |
March 5 |
Hyderabad Urban District, Andhra Pradesh
|
Death toll in Dilsukhnagar bomb blast case rose
to 17.
|
Violent |
March 5 |
Ernakulam, Kerala
|
NIA Special Court remanded in judicial custody
Muhammad Manzar Imam.
|
Statement |
March 5 |
New Delhi, India
|
Non-bailable warrants were issued by a Delhi Court
against IM founder Riyaz Bhatkal and nine other operatives of
the banned outfit in connection with the Dilsukhnagar blasts.
|
Statement |
March 6 |
Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh
|
Gorakhpur Police attached the property of an alleged
IM operative, Mirza Shadab Baig, belonging to Azamgarh who is
wanted in numerous cases of serial blasts.
|
Statement |
March 9 |
Deoghar District, Jharkhand
|
Baidyanath-Dham temple figured among eight other
targets on the target list of IM, revealed Muhammad Manzar Imam
during interrogation.
|
Statement |
March 9 |
Ranchi, Jharkhand
|
Manzar Imam divulged names of six aides from Ranchi
and Ramgarh districts and confirmed the existence of IM sleeper
cells in Jharkhand.
|
Statement |
March 13 |
New Delhi |
Court remanded suspected IM operative Obaid-ur-Rehman
custody of the NIA for seven days in connection with the February
21 Hyderabad blasts.
|
Statement |
March 13 |
India |
NIA and the Delhi Police's Special Cell brought
to light IM modules operating in Hyderabad, which were never on
the radar of state intelligence.
|
Statement |
April 2 |
April 2 |
Mohammad Ashraf Ismail Nagori arrested
along with his six aides with arms and ammunition, is suspected
to be linked to sleeper cells of IM. |
Non-violent |
April 3 |
Maharashtra |
The special MCOCA Court started recording the
deposition of co-founder of IM, Mohammed Sadiq Israr Sheikh, in
the July 11, 2006, Mumbai (Maharashtra) serial train blasts case.
|
Statement |
April 4 |
New Delhi, India |
Terrorist organizations, including IM, may target
IPLmatches taking place in New Delhi at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium.
|
Statement |
April 4 |
Surat, Gujarat |
Mohammad Ashraf Ismail Nagori has connections
with IM sleeper cells, and was inspired to carry out terrorist
operations in Surat by his contacts in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)
and Uttar Pradesh. He sought the help of his contacts in the underworld
in his search for financing.
|
Statement |
April 5 |
Ahmedabad city, Gujarat
|
A team of NIA headed is in city for questioning
accused of Ahmedabad serial blasts, and to conduct an independent
investigation in the city.
|
Statement |
April 10 |
India
|
NIA announced rewards for those passing on information
about operatives of the 12 outlawed IM leaders. An amount of INR
1 million is on offer for information leading to the arrest of
each of the IM operatives.
|
Statement |
April 15 |
Pune, Maharashtra |
Mirza Himayat Inayat Baig was convicted by a Sessions
Court for criminal conspiracy, murder and other charges.
|
Statement |
April 15 |
Maharashtra |
ATS said that German Bakery blast was the first
act of terror in which the Pakistan-based LeT coordinated with
IM.
|
Statement |
April 17 |
Bangalore, Karnataka |
17 people, including 11 Policemen, were injured
in a bomb blast barely 50 metres from the BJP party office.
UMHA called the blast a terrorist attack.
|
Violent |
April 17 |
New Delhi |
A pipe bomb is believed to have been placed in
the bike. UMHA pointed to an IM signature in targeting crowds
gathered at the BJP office.
|
Statement |
April 18 |
Pune, Maharashtra |
IM operative Mirza Himayat Inayat Baig was awarded
death penalty in the German Bakery blast case of February 13,
2010, which killed 17 and wounded 64.
|
Statement |
April 19 |
Karnataka |
The device used in Bangalore (Karnataka) blast
of April 17, 2013 appeared similar to what IM had used in carrying
out blasts at Zaveri Bazar in Mumbai.
|
Statement |
April 20 |
Bihar |
NIA searched four Districts of Bihar for Tahseen
Akhtar, allegedly a member of the IM involved in terrorist strikes
in the country.
|
Statement |
April 25 |
Kerala |
Terrorist organisations like IM have agents to
source two-wheelers which are used to plant bombs and trigger
blasts in various parts of India.
|
Statement |
May 5 |
Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
|
Shahid Nagori arrested and accused in Ahmedabad
(Gujarat) blast of July 26, 2008 told Police that he had attended
several terrorist training camps and had recruited many naive
youths into the Indian Mujahideen (IM).
|
Non- violent |
May 8 |
India
|
The Government has found evidence that terrorist
camps were being run on Indian soil by banned SIMI and right wing
majoritarian groups. Minister of State for Home Affairs, R.P.N.
Singh informed Rajya Sabha that in two cases investigated by NIA,
evidence has come that training camps were organised by SIMI and
right wing majoritarian groups or their cadres.
|
Statement |
May 12 |
Maharashtra
|
Firoz alias Hamza Abdul Hameed Sayyed, arrested
in August 1, 2012, Pune's Junglee Maharaj (JM) Road blasts case,
regularly exchanged e-mails and chatted in code with fugitive
IM co-founder Riyaz Bhatkal and Fayyaz Kagzi and hatched a conspiracy,
Maharashtra ATS has said in its 3,587-page chargesheet.
|
Statement |
May 19 |
Sabarmati jail (Gujarat)
|
The conspiracy to dig a 213-feet-long tunnel in
the Sabarmati jail (Gujarat), discovered in February, 2013, was
meticulously planned, DNA reported on May 19. The details have
been highlighted in the charge sheet filed on May 18 by DCB against
24 accused in the case. The 300-page charge sheet has names of
169 witness including 22 prisoners. The 24 accused include leader
of banned SIMI Safdar Nagori, Shibli Abdul Karim, Hafeez Mulla
and others.
|
Non- violent |
May 26 |
Maharashtra |
Investigations by ATS have revealed that two days
before the August 1, 2012, serial blasts on in Pune IM operative
Riyaz Bhatkal had an Internet chat on the attack with one of the
three suspects who allegedly placed the bombs.
|
Statement |
May 26 |
Munger District, Bihar |
Weapons manufactured in illegal factories of Munger
have found their way to IM terrorists, says Delhi Police sources.
|
Statement |
June 5 |
New Delhi |
UMHA said, "Jehadi tanzeems in Pakistan with affiliation
to LeT, JeM and IM have set up channels for transfer of funds
from Pakistan to India via Gulf and Nepal, besides using Western
Union Money Transfer and Hawala channel. Moreover, ex-SIMI cadres
and similar militant elements based in Gulf have also been observed
collecting money for causing destruction in India."
|
Statement |
June 20 |
Bombay, Maharashtra |
Bombay High Court granted bail to alleged hawala
operator Kawalnayan Pathreja, accused of aiding IM operative Yasin
Bhatkal, for the 13/7 Mumbai blasts.
|
Statement |
July 6 |
Bag , Kolkata |
A suspected IM linkman, identified as Anwar Hussain
Mullick was arrested with explosives and FICN from BBD Bag area
of Kolkata by the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police.
|
Statement |
July 7 |
Bodh Gaya Gaya District Bihar
|
NIA Sources said this is the first time gas cylinders
have been used as containers for explosives a departure from the
signature style of Indian Mujahideen (IM), the outfit being suspected
to have carried out the blasts. IM is known to use tiffin boxes,
pressure cookers or boat-shaped aluminum containers to pack explosives
with large amounts of shrapnel. This method of bomb making gives
specific direction to the impact of the blasts and causes maximum
casualties.
|
Statement |
July 10 |
India |
The NIA and other security agencies are probing
the authenticity of the Twitter account purportedly belonging
to terror outfit IM in which it has claimed responsibility for
Bodh Gaya serial blasts and also warned that the next target would
be Mumbai (Maharashtra).
|
Statement |
July 15 |
Bodh Gaya, Bihar |
Two absconding operatives of the IM, who represent
two of the home-grown terror outfit's deadliest known modules,
were 'certainly' behind the Bodh Gaya blasts, claimed Delhi Police
special cell.
|
Statement |
July 17 |
India |
The National Investigation Agency filed a chargesheet
against five suspected IM operatives for allegedly conspiring
to carry out terrorist strikes in India.
|
Statement |
July 17 |
Bodh Gaya, Bihar |
The NIA has almost settled on the IM as the terror
outfit responsible for the serial explosions at Bodh Gaya (Bihar,
July 7, 2013). "Going by the modus operandi, nature of explosives
and eyewitness statements, the involvement of Naxalites, Hindu
terror outfits or even disgruntled elements within the temple
management can be safely ruled out. It is now almost certain that
the IM or a local outfit owing allegiance to it carried out the
multiple blasts," said an officer associated with the probe.
|
Statement |
July 17 |
Kolkata, West Bengal |
The arrest of a man, Anwar Mullick in Kolkata
(West Bengal) on July 7, 2013, the day of the Bodh Gaya (Bihar)
blasts, has reportedly revealed an explosives supply unit of the
IM responsible for supply of explosives for IM-linked blasts since
2010, including the German Bakery blast in Pune, Chinnaswamy Stadium
Blast in Bangalore and the 2011 Mumbai serial blasts.
|
Statement |
July 18 |
India |
NIA, probing conspiracy of IM, in its first chargesheet
filed, traces the origins of the banned outfit and details its
agenda but fails to find any exhaustive evidence. The 42-page
chargesheet was filed in a case against 12 IM operatives, including
Yasin Bhatkal, Riyaz Bhatkal and Iqbal Bhatkal registered in September
2012.
|
Statement |
July 22 |
Himachal Pradesh |
NIA alerted the Himachal Pradesh Police about
possible terrorist strikes on Buddhist population and monasteries
across the state by IM.
|
Non-Violent |
July 25 |
New Delhi |
A Delhi court convicted IM operative Shahzad Ahmad
in the September 19, 2008, Batla House encounter case for murdering
Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma and assaulting other officers.
|
Non-Violent |
August 1 |
Mumbai / Maharashtra
|
NIA has given instructions to all police commissionerates
across the country to display photos of 12 IM cadres, involved
in several blasts in the country, at road junctions and also in
all Police Stations in Mumbai city.
|
Statement |
August 6 |
Mumbai / Maharashtra |
NIA has submitted an affidavit in the Bombay High
Court saying it wants the video footage of IM leader Yasin Bhatkal,
obtained by the Maharashtra ATS from the CCTV installed in German
Bakery, for further investigation into the German Bakery blast
case.
|
Statement |
August 28 |
India-Nepal border |
Yasin Bhatkal alias Mohammad Ahmed Siddibappa
Zarrar alias Imran alias Asif alias Shahrukh, IM 'operational
chief' on Indian soil, was arrested by Indian agencies from the
India-Nepal border in the night.
|
Non-Violent |
August 30 |
India |
IM 'operational chief' in India, Yasin Bhatkal,
who was arrested on August 28, claimed during his interrogation
that it was he who assembled all Improvised Explosive Devices
(IEDs) used in attacks on Indian cities.
|
Statement |
September 3 |
India |
Yasin Bhatkal told his interrogators in Bihar
that Gujarat CM Narendra Modi is the top target of IM. "The funds
flow from our international sympathisers will increase many times
if we manage to reach him. Narendra Modi is one to 10 in the list
of targets. The rest of the targets figure much below him," Bhatkal
admitted to top NIA and Intelligence officers, who interrogated
him in Bihar. According to Bhatkal's confession, L. K. Advani
is a distant second in the list of IM targets.
|
Statement |
September 4 |
India |
IM 'operational chief' in India, Yasin Bhatkal,
who was arrested on August 28, 2013, claimed during his interrogation
that Asadullah, along with Mohammed Tahseen Akhtar alias Monu
and Waqas, both of whom are now absconding, planted the IED at
Dilsukhnagar (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh) that killed 17 people
and injured more than 100 others on February 21, 2013.
|
Statement |
September 4 |
India |
IM 'operational chief' in India, Yasin Bhatkal,
who was arrested on August 28, 2013, during his interrogation
admitted responsibility for the February 13, 2010, German Bakery
blast in Pune and named another individual as his accomplice.
Bhatkal identified Mohammed Qateel Siddiqui, a resident Darbhanga
District of Bihar as his fellow-conspirator.
|
Statement |
September 6 |
India |
IM 'operational chief' in India, Yasin Bhatkal,
who was arrested on August 28, 2013, during his interrogation
admitted that IM preparing to launch more 26/11 like terror strikes
in India, which would be more lethal in impact than previous ones.
Bhatkal told that the link between Pakistan based LeT and its
front organization in India IM was weakened since 2008 after which
Pakistan's ISI has got directly involved in handling the terror
network operating in India.
|
Statement |
September 6 |
India |
Yasin Bhatkal told his interrogators that Asadullah
Akhtar alias Haddi, who was arrested with Yasin Bhatkal, trained
by the ISI, could have carried out the IM's first suicide bombing
in India.
|
Statement |
September 9 |
India |
Yasin Bhatkal, the arrested IM 'operational chief'
in India, has told the NIA that Waqas alias Ahmed alias Javed,
suspected to be involved in the July 13, 2011, Mumbai and the
August 1, 2012, Pune blasts, is a Pakistani national.
|
Statement |
September 10 |
Mumbai (Maharashtra) |
IB has warned that terrorists could strike during
the Ganpati festival in Mumbai (Maharashtra) to avenge the arrests
of IM militants Yasin Bhatkal and LeT operative Abdul Karim Tunda.
|
Statement |
September 10 |
Saharanpur/ UP |
Darul Uloom, the internationally renowned Islamic
seminary at Deoband town in Saharanpur District of UP, is under
threat from terror outfits like the IM.
|
Statement |
September 12 |
Bihar |
IM 'operational chief' in India, Yasin Bhatkal,
who was arrested on August 28, 2013, during his interrogation
admitted that he is not involved in Bodh Gaya blasts but he is
not aware of other faction activities, which is led by Mirza Shadab
Baig.
|
Statement |
September 12 |
India |
IM 'operational chief' in India, Yasin Bhatkal,
who was arrested on August 28, 2013, during his interrogation
admitted that that IM is fully funded and managed by Pakistani
intelligence agency the ISI.
|
Statement |
September 18 |
India |
The NIA investigations have found that several
nationals of Pakistan and Nepal are "involved in recruitment,
financing, training and providing tactical support" to IM, some
of whose members are hiding in the two countries apart from the
Middle-East.
|
Statement |
September 18 |
India |
IM co-founders and terrorists Riyaz Bhatkal and
Iqbal Bhatkal are being "harboured" by Pakistan's Intelligence
agency ISI, the NIA told in a Delhi court.
|
Statement |
September 18 |
India |
IM 'operational chief' in India, Yasin Bhatkal,
who was arrested on August 28, 2013, during his interrogation
admitted that the top functionaries of the IM, Riyaz and Iqbal
Bhatkal, were hiding at Shaheen Bagh in Jamia Nagar area of Delhi
for three months even after the September 19, 2008, Batla House
encounter.
|
Statement |
September 18 |
India |
Yasin Bhatkal told his interrogators that he has
been instrumental in setting up new sleeper cells of IM in north
Kerala Districts.
|
Statement |
September 18 |
India |
Goa CM Manohar Parrikar said that the NIA recovered
bomb-making equipment last week from a house at Anjuna village
in Goa, where Yasin Bhatkal, had lived in 2011-12.
|
Statement |
September 19 |
India |
Yasin Bhatkal, during his interrogation admitted
that he had contacts in Russia and met Russian people in Goa.
The new revelations came after NIA stumbled upon emails exchange
between Bhatkal and his associates in India.
|
Statement |
September 19 |
India |
IM 'operational chief' in India, Yasin Bhatkal,
who was arrested on August 28, 2013, during his interrogation
admitted that the IM wants to join hands with the al Qaeda for
"joint operations" in India and has even held talks with a senior
leader of the dreaded terror outfit.
|
Statement |
September 20 |
India |
NIA officials have said they were probing the
connection between IM 'operational chief' in India, Yasin Bhatkal,
who was arrested on August 28, 2013, and Manzar Imam who was arrested
in the Vagamon SIMI camp case.
|
Statement |
September 20 |
India |
Yasin Bhatkal told the interrogators that Pakistan's
intelligence agency ISI has pulled the plug on IM's covert financing
after the terrorist outfit allegedly squandered INR 5 million
meant for logistical expenses to carry out terror strikes on Indian
soil.
|
Statement |
September 20 |
India |
IM operative Afzal Usmani (37), accused of involvement
in half a dozen bombings across the country, escaped from the
Mumbai sessions court.
|
Non- violent |
September 23 |
Dilsukhnagar / Hyderabad
|
NIA sleuths told a local court
in Hyderabad that IM ‘operational chief’ in India, Yasin Bhatkal,
who was arrested on August 28, 2013, had funded the Dilsukhnagar
(Hyderabad) twin blasts on February 21, 2013, in which 15 persons
were killed and 115 others were injured, through hawala network.
|
Non-violent |
September 23 |
India
|
Security around Jewish sites and
places frequented by Israelis across India has been tightened
to pre-empt a possible IM strike. Arrested IM ‘operational chief’
in India Yasin Bhatkal, has told his NIA interrogators that his
team had been working on a plot to take “foreign Jews” hostage
when he had been caught.
|
Non-violent |
September 24 |
India
|
NIA is probing al Qaeda for carrying
out serial blasts in Bodh Gaya after key IM operative Yasin Bhatkal,
who was arrested on August 28, 2013, told interrogators that Ayman
al-Zawahiri-led global terror outfit already has a group operating
in India. “
|
Non-violent |
September 25 |
India
|
NIA released recent photographs
and other identification details of IM operatives Tahseen Akhtar
and Waqas, both accused in the blasts at Mumbai (2011), Dilsukhnagar
in Hyderabad (2013) and Varanasi (2010).
|
Non-violent |
September 26 |
Hyderabad
|
NIA has alleged that the absconding
IM terror suspect Riyaz Bhatkal had supplied explosive materials
for the Dilsukhnagar (Hyderabad) bomb blasts. The explosive materials
reached Hyderabad in the third week of January 2013 before the
blasts in February 21, 2013.
|
Non-violent |
September 26 |
Mumbai / Maharashtra
|
Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi,
one of the planters, who was arrested along with IM mastermind
Yaseen Bhatkal who was arrested on August 28, 2013, told interrogators
that Yaseen and another planter Hassan had placed an explosives-filled
pressure cooker under the Dadar foot-overbridge near the flower
market on the western side of the railway station in Mumbai (Maharashtra),
But this bomb did not go off.
|
Non-violent |
September 27 |
India
|
IM ‘operational chief’ in India,
Yasin Bhatkal, who was arrested on August 28, 2013, during his
interrogation admitted that all is not well within the IM because
Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal have bought properties outside Pakistan
in Dubai and other countries, using jehadi funds.
|
Non-violent |
September 29 |
Nadakkavu / Kozhikode / Kerala
|
Kerala Police arrested Kallarimangalam
Puthenparakkal Abdurehiman (38), a former activist of the proscribed
SIMI and managing director of Nanma Books from Nadakkavu area
of Kozhikode city in Kozhikode District, on the charge of publishing
a book aimed at fomenting communal hatred.
|
Non-violent |
September 29 |
India
|
IM ‘operational chief’ in India,
Yasin Bhatkal, who was arrested on August 28, 2013, during his
interrogation admitted that the ISI gave the IM INR 24 million
in the last four years, a period in which the home-grown terror
outfit planned or executed almost a dozen operations resulting
in the death of more than 60 people.
|
Non-violent |
September 29 |
India
|
IM operatives Yasin Bhatkal and
Asadullah Akhtar during their interrogation revealed that the
attack by Maoists in Darbha area of Bastar District in Chhattisgarh,
in May 25, 2013, in which 31 persons, including several top Congress
leaders were killed, impressed the IM and it may try an assault
on similar lines.
|
Non-violent |
September 29 |
Pune / Maharashtra
|
Yasin Bhatkal, during his interrogation
said that the bombs used in German bakery blast on February 13,
2013, were assembled in Pune itself and even the timers and bags
used for carrying them were procured locally.
|
Non-violent |
October 1 |
Khandwa / MP
|
Six cadres of the Students Islamic Movement of
India (SIMI) and another under trial escaped from Khandwa jail
(Khandwa District).
|
Non-violent |
October 1 |
New Delhi
|
Arrested IM 'operational chief in India' Yasin
Bhatkal's close aide Mohammad Manzar Imam was arrested in a fresh
case by the NIA inside a Delhi court in connection with terror
strikes across the country since 2003 and remanded to 15-day police
custody.
|
Non-violent |
October 4 |
Dilsukhnagar / Hyderabad
|
A NIA special court restrained media from reporting
on investigations and interrogation details of IM 'India operation
chief' Ahmed Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal and Asadullah Akhtar
in connection with the Dilsukhnagar (Hyderabad District, Andhra
Pradesh) blast case of February 21, 2013.
|
Non-violent |
October 4 |
UP
|
UP Police sounded a high alert across the state,
with special focus on Varanasi, Faizabad and Mathura, following
intelligence advisory to guard religious places against possible
terror attacks, according to The Times of India. The advisory
is based on the confessions of IM 'India operational chief' Yasin
Bhatkal and his aide.
|
Statement |
October 7 |
New Delhi |
IM operative Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi, who
was arrested on August 28, 2013, during his interrogation admitted
that the IM was behind the October 29, 2005, Delhi serial blasts,
and not the LeT as suspected.
|
Non-violent |
October 9 |
Gujarat |
Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's Prime Ministerial
candidate Narendra Modi is the prime target of top 10 terror organization,
arrested IM 'India operation chief' Yasin Bhatkal has revealed
in the interrogation.
|
Non-violent |
October 10 |
Mumbai |
IM operative Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi, who
was arrested on August 28, 2013, has recounted chilling details
of the July 13, 2011, blasts, when he and three others bombed
Mumbai, killing 26 people.
|
Non-violent |
October 15 |
India |
IM 'operational chief' in India, Yasin Bhatkal,
who was arrested on August 28, 2013, during his interrogation
admitted that the outfit got logistic support from other radical
outfits in the country.
|
Non-violent |
October 17 |
India |
A threat analysis carried out by security agencies
on the basis of details provided by arrested 'India operation
chief' of IM Yasin Bhatkal and his aide Akhtar Asadullah revealed
that IM has become stronger and more lethal despite the arrest
of over 100 of its cadres.
|
Non-violent |
October 17 |
India |
The judicial remand of arrested IM 'India operation
chief' Yasin Bhatkal and his aide Asadullah Akhtar accused in
February 21, 2013 Dilsukhnagar (Andhra Pradesh) twin blasts case,
was extended till October 31.
|
Non-violent |
October 17 |
India |
In the investigation of February 21, 2013 Dilsukhnagar
(Andhra Pradesh) twin blast case the two alleged suspects arrested
'India operation chief' Yasin Bhatkal and his aide Asadullah Akhtar
made voluntary confessional statement under section 164 of the
CRPC before a local court in Cyberabad.
|
Non-violent |
October 17 |
India |
Yasin Bhatkal has admitted his indirect links
with terror operators in Kerala during an interrogation by the
State Police recently.
|
Non-violent |
October 18 |
India |
Delhi High Court rejected the plea of an accused,
facing trial along with other 13 IM suspects in Delhi September
13, 2008 serial blasts cases, challenging its administrative order
to transfer the trials to another court.
|
Non-violent |
October 19 |
India |
IM wanted to make international headlines through
a plan to kidnap Jews in India and use them to bargain for the
release of a Pakistani woman, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui serving an 86-year
prison sentence in the US for her involvement in the September
11, 2001 (9/11) plot, the interrogation of IM arrested 'Indian
operation chief' Yasin Bhatkal has revealed.
|
Non-violent |
October 21 |
India |
Arrested IM 'India operation chief', Yasin Bhatkal's
interrogation has revealed that more than 15 active IM modules
have taken shelter in Pakistan.
|
Non-violent |
October 23 |
India |
A three-member team of the NIA arrived in Tumkur
(Tumkur District) of Karnataka for investigation, in the light
of the statement by Yasin Bhatkal, arrested IM 'India operation
chief'. The team visited several banks and the office of the RTO?and
inspected accounts and several documents. Bhatkal also told investigators
about two people who provided shelter and financial assistance
to his accomplices. He has given sketchy details of the areas
where their houses are situated, and the probe team is keeping
a close eye on these places.
|
Non-violent |
October 24 |
India |
Israel was briefed last month about a possible
IM attack against the country's nationals visiting Rajasthan,
said Union Ministry of Home Affairs and Israeli sources.
|
Non-violent |
October 28 |
UP |
IM militants Afzal Usmani was arrested by ATS
team near Rupaidiha rail station of Bahraich District.
|
Non-violent |
October 29 |
India |
According to the NIA and Bihar Police sources,
Tehseen Akhtar alias Monu, said to be an aide of arrested IM leader
Yasin Bhatkal and suspected to be the key conspirator, was told
to get youth from places other than Bihar to broad base the module.
|
Non-violent |
October 29 |
India |
Investigations into the Patna serial blasts have
clearly revealed that the terrorist attack was a well-planned
operation carried out by at least 18 IM operatives who were divided
into three modules. Intelligence sources said, that Ranchi was
the main centre where the conspiracy to target Narendra Modi's
Patna rally was hatched. The entire operation was supervised by
key IM operative Tehseen Akhtar alias Monu, and Waqas. Intelligence
inputs and investigations reveal that IM terrorists wanted to
carry out a "human bomb" attack at the crowded rally, but failed
as this particular module lacked the expertise to put together
such a sophisticated explosive. Therefore only low-intensity crude
explosives were used in the serial bombings.
|
Non-violent |
October 30 |
India |
Jharkhand and Bihar are emerging as the new base
for IM terrorists following the serial blasts in Patna. The terror
group IM has developed strong links with some Naxalite cadres
and Jharkhand, which is believed to be a Maoist stronghold, is
emerging as its new hub.
|
Non-violent |
October 31 |
India |
Patna bomb blasts were masterminded by six IM
cadres. Further, arrested member of IM revealed during Police
interrogation that deal was finalised for INR six million of which
INR 1 million were paid in advance and rest of the amount was
to be paid after the execution of the plot.
|
Non-violent |
October 31 |
India |
IM's Ranchi module was formed to assassinate Narendra
Modi. In fact, IM operatives had given a code- 'Machhli 5'- to
the plotters for the job, initial interrogation of arrested IM
operative Imtiaz Ansari revealed.
|
Non-violent |
October 31 |
India |
Ranchi city SP Manoj Ratan Chothe, who interrogated
key suspect Imtiaz Ansari in Patna said, "Imtiaz was full of hatred
against Modi for the 2002 Gujarat riots and the recent Muzaffarnagar
riots. The IM used Muslim fundamentalists to prepare Imtiaz to
avenge the riots."
|
Non-violent |
October 31 |
India |
IM had provided high-intensity explosives to six
youths in Ranchi. "After preliminary preparations at Imtiaz's
house, they boarded a Patna-bound bus with the explosives in their
backpacks on the eve of Modi's 'Hunkar' rally.
|
Non-violent |
October 31 |
India |
Following the serial blasts, central intelligence
agencies suspect that IM can create a disturbance in the Bahraich
rally of Narendra Modi and the DGP headquarters have alerted Bahraich
Police Have been given alert. Intelligence agencies suspect IM
operative Tehsil Akhtar alias Monu will create some disturbance
in Bahraich. According to these agencies, IM has hideouts in several
Districts of Nepal and co-founder Yasin Bhatkal and Waqas Pakistani
have contacts there.
|
Non-violent |
October 31 |
Madhya Pradesh |
Khandwa District (Madhya Pradesh) Police issued
a lookout notice against the six SIMI operatives who escaped from
Khandwa District jail early on October 1.
|
Non-violent |
November 1 |
India |
Uzair made a statement during his joint interrogation
by NIA and Ranchi Police that IM operative are said to have used
funds raised in the name of charity to sponsor their newly formed
Ranchi module.
|
Non-violent |
November 2 |
India |
Three weeks before Patna blasts of October 27,
four Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives, Haider Taufiq, Tariq and
Nauman involved in the incident had come on the radar of intelligence
agencies.
|
Non-violent |
November 3 |
Bihar |
Red alert has been sounded in Motihari, headquarters
of East Champaran District, following a report that IM operatives
might target the crowded localities of Motihari town.
|
Non-violent |
November 3 |
India |
IM suspected operative, Afzal Usmani, caught on
October 27 from the Indo-Nepal border, told interrogators that
he wanted to start drug peddling from Nepal.
|
Non-violent |
November 3 |
India |
IM 'India operations chief' Yasin Bhatkal revealed
that Riyaz Bhatkal looked to tap an al Qaeda connection to access
an arms manufacturing base in a remote area of Thailand and is
closer to the Afghan Taliban.
|
Non-violent |
November 5 |
India |
Both the NIA and Central intelligence outfits
have stumbled upon crucial information during the course of investigating
Patna serial blasts revealing that IM operatives Riyaz and Iqbal
Bhatkal, have embarked on a major plan to revive the terror outfit
in India as it had suffered serious reverses following the arrest
of its India chief Yasin Bhatkal.
|
Non-violent |
November 6 |
India |
Official security sources said in the last few
months, IM terrorists from the Nepal border were given the task
to attack Israeli and American tourists visiting leading places
like Jaisalmer, Jodhpur and Jaipur.
|
Non-violent |
November 6 |
India |
IM Ranchi module was behind the blasts in Bodh
Gaya (Bihar), according to intelligence sources.
|
Non-violent |
November 6 |
India |
A local court extended the Police custody of IM
operative Afzal Usmani and his nephew Javed Khan till November
11, 2013.
|
Non-violent |
November 7 |
India |
IM operative Riyaz Bhatkal and Patna serial blast
handler Tehseen Akhtar used Internet chat messenger services of
Yahoo and Nimbuzz to plan and coordinate the serial explosions,
according to investigations. "The funding for the blasts came
through hawala.
|
Non-violent |
November 7 |
India |
Tehseen Akhtar fled to Nepal immediately after
the incident and is operating out of a "formidable base" set up
by IM in Pokhara. Intelligence sources claim Yasin Bhatkal was
also operating out of the same base in Nepal before being arrested.
|
Non-violent |
November 7 |
India |
Police said several religious places across the
country are on IM hitlist. The revelations have been made by Imtiyaz
Ansari, an alleged IM operative arrested soon after the first
blast at Patna Junction railway station on October 27.
|
Non-violent |
November 11 |
New Delhi |
A Delhi court extended till November 26, 2013
the Police custody of arrested IM 'India operations chief' Yasin
Bhatkal and close aide Asadullah Akhtar in connection with a case
lodged in 2011 over allegations involving the setting up of an
illegal arms factory in New Delhi.
|
Non-violent |
November 13 |
India |
IM operatives had plans to blow up the Vishwa
Shanti Stupa in Rajgir (Nalada District) of Bihar. They had also
planned to target foreign tourists in Nalanda and places of public
importance in Chhattisgarh. All this was part of the outfit's
larger plan to attack Buddhist sites in retaliation to alleged
atrocities on Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
|
Non-violent |
November 13 |
India |
IM militant Afzal Usmani, who was arrested by
ATS team near Rupaidiha rail station of Bahraich District (Uttar
Pradesh) on October 27, 2013, during interrogations reveal that
after escaping from a city court in September, the IM operative
travelled on more than two occasions to Nepal, where he mingled
with local IM leaders and had even got in touch with Riyaz Bhatkal.
|
Non-violent |
November 14 |
India |
Jharkhand Police arrested one person, Gopal Goyal
allegedly involved in the illegal transaction of funds to IM that
was responsible for the October 27 serial blasts in Patna.
|
Non-violent |
November 15 |
India |
Tabish, who was caught from Motihari after the
Patna Blasts confessed to the NIA that he was part of IM's Ranchi
module and was involved in Kerala and Bodh Gaya serial blasts
besides blasts near Ranchi Big Bazaar.
|
Non-violent |
November 16 |
India |
Interrogation of arrested IM 'India operations
chief' Yasin Bhatkal revealed that a former Assam Rifles jawan
(trooper) Bal Bahadur Thapa alias Abdullah, is apparently
IM's key man in Nepal.
|
Non-violent |
November 16 |
India |
Bhatkal further revealed that BJP Prime Ministerial
candidate Narendra Modi not only tops the hit-list of IM but is
also the main target.
|
Non-violent |
November 17 |
India |
Chhattisgarh Police arrested seven SIMI cadres
in connection with the Patna and Bodh Gaya blasts.
|
Non-violent |
November 17 |
India |
Police said five SIMI cadres were arrested from
the different locations of Raipur. These fresh arrests have been
made to facilitate ongoing investigations, which have established
that the five SIMI operatives provided logistics, financial and
ideological support to run the banned organisation.
|
Non-violent |
November 18 |
Raipur / Chhattisgarh |
NIA visited Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and questioned
the alleged SIMI cadres, who were arrested in connection with
Patna blasts of October 27, 2013.
|
Non-violent |
November 18 |
Raipur / Chhattisgarh |
Sources in the NIA, which is probing the blasts,
have alleged that the Raipur Police in Raipur tipped the local
media of the presence of its team in the city. Once the news of
their presence was flashed, the accused ran away. Four of the
alleged IM operatives, Haider Ali, Numan Ansari, Taufeeq Ansari
and Mojibullah suspected to be involved reportedly stayed in Raipur
for over a fortnight after the incident.
|
Non-violent |
November 18 |
India |
A notice for property attachment was put up at
the home of fugitive IM operative Tahseen Akhtar alias Monu, who
is considered mastermind of the serial blasts in Patna and Bodh
Gaya.
|
Non-violent |
November 20 |
Chhattisgarh |
Chhattisgarh Police said that the arrested SIMI
cadres had revealed during interrogation that they had plans to
attack BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
|
Non-violent |
November 20 |
India |
IB has issued a second alert warning that terrorists
could attack Narendra Modi. The IB said SIMI cadres and terrorists
associated with IM, including those who fled from Khandwa jail
in Madhya Pradesh (on October 1, 2013), may use an explosive laden
vehicle to attack Modi's convoy or rally.
|
Statement |
November 21 |
India |
Bihar Police registered a FIR against militant
outfit IM in connection with Patna blasts of October 27, 2013
and booked many of its top operatives, including Tehseen Akhtar.
|
Non-violent |
November 21 |
India |
Union Minister of Home Affairs Sushilkumar Shinde
said the IM draws its "motivation and sustenance from inimical
forces" in Pakistan and asked Security Forces to vigorously pursue
leads emerging from investigations in terror cases.
|
Statement |
November 21 |
India |
IB Chief, Asif Ibrahim also said that terror challenge
from IM remains undiminished despite the arrest of its leaders
Yasin Bhatkal and his aide Asadullah Akhtar alias Haddi.
|
statement |
November 24 |
Raipur / Chhattisgarh |
Two suspected SIMI cadres, allegedly involved
in procuring funds for the outfit, were arrested in Raipur (Raipur
District).
|
Non-violent |
December 1 |
India |
The NIA is set to seize the property of alleged
IM operative Tahseen Akhtar alias Monu, accused of involvement
in bomb blasts, after he failed to surrender within the stipulated
deadline, police said.
|
Non-violent |
December 3 |
Delhi |
There is intelligence report of suicide strikes
at sensitive poll booths in Delhi conducted by terror outfits
like IM and LeT.
|
Non-violent |
December 4 |
Bihar |
Special NIA court in Patna, gave 15-day remand
of two suspected SIMI operatives, Umer Siddiqui and Azharuddin
Quraishi in connection with the Bodh Gaya and Patna serial bomb
blasts to NIA for further questioning.
|
Non-violent |
December 4 |
India |
Two top operatives of the banned SIMI, Abdul Wahid
Khan and Uber Sidhhiqui, told intelligence agencies and the NIA
that IM is now training "human bombs" to target top political
leaders, including Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, in the
election season.
|
Non-violent |
December 4 |
Gujarat |
IM is using images and video clips of the Babri
Masjid demolition and the 2002 Gujarat riots to brainwash Ranchi
youth into carrying out bomb blasts in various parts of the country,
sources part of a National Investigation Agency (NIA) training
programme revealed.
|
Non-violent |
December 6 |
India |
Following the escape of alleged IM operative Afzal
Usmani, the prison authorities have taken a major step to ensure
no other IM operative gets an opportunity to flee.
|
Non-violent |
December 10 |
Delhi |
IM co-founder, Yasin Bhatkal and his aide Asadullah
Akhtar were sent to 10 days' Police custody by a Delhi court in
connection with the September 13, 2008 blast in Karol Bagh area
of Delhi.
|
Non-violent |
December 10 |
Mumbai |
A court in Mumbai framed charges against alleged
23 militants, of the terror outfit IM, for sending emails to media
houses and Government before 2008 bomb blasts in Delhi, Ahmedabad
and Hyderabad, a, paving way for their trial.
|
Non-violent |
December 10 |
Mumbai |
BJP leader, Syed Shahnawaz Hussain is on the hit
list of terror outfit IM, Bihar Police officials said. The Union
Home Ministry has informed Bihar Police about threat to Shahnawaz
Hussain from IM.
|
Non-violent |
December 12 |
India |
The NIA, investigating a 'larger conspiracy' involving
IM, has identified 11 associates of IM 'India operations chief'
Yasin Bhatkal who is now named for their alleged roles in terror
plots across India.
|
Non-violent |
December 21 |
India |
IM 'India operations chief' Yasin Bhatkal told
investigators that cartridges manufactured at arms factory of
Mir Vihar, Nangloi (Delhi, West District) were sold to various
anti-social elements to fund IM's own operations.
|
Non-violent |
December 22 |
India |
Indian Mujahideen's (IM) 'operational chief' in
India, Yasin Bhatkal, who was arrested on August 28, 2013, during
his interrogation admitted that IM operatives, especially Tehsin
Akhtar alias Monu, would target foreign tourists in Rajasthan,
Delhi, Maharashtra, Goa and other states.
|
Non-violent |
December 23 |
Barwani / MP |
The MP Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested three activists
of the SIMI, including Mumbai based Abu Faisal alias 'Doctor'
who had escaped from Shahid Loknayak Tantya Bhil District Jail
in Khandwa District of MP with six others on October 2, 2013,
from a house in Barwani District of MP.
|
Non-violent |
December 23 |
Ujjain / MP |
Abu Faisal is alleged to be a vital link between
IM and SIMI. Two others who were arrested along with Faisal were
identified as Khaleed Ahmed of Sholapur (Maharashtra) and Irfan
Nagori of Mahidpur in the Ujjain District of MP.
|
Non-violent |
December 25 |
Raipur |
A suspected SIMI and IM operative, who was allegedly
involved in raising funds for the banned outfits, was arrested
Chhattisgarh ATS in Raipur city (Raipur District).
|
Non-violent |
December 25 |
Maharashtra |
IM has issued a threat to blow up the ATS headquarters,
alerted Intelligence Agencies.
|
Non-violent |
December 25 |
MP |
A SIMI cadre Abu Faisal alias 'Doctor', who was
arrested by Madhya Pradesh ATS from Barwani District on December
13, 2013, allegedly revealed about his plot to eliminate UMHA
Sushilkumar Shinde and BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate and Gujarat
CM Narendra Modi during interrogation by top officers.
|
Non-violent |
December 26 |
India |
SIMI operative and terror suspect Abu Faisal alias
Doctor had travelled to Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Maharashtra
to raise money from sympathizers, in a bid to revive the operations
of SIMI.
|
Non-violent |
December 26 |
Raipur |
A SIMI cadre Umair Siddiqui, who was arrested
on November 18, 2013 from Raipur, the state capital of Chhattisgarh,
has told interrogators that IM had used a group of SIMI members
led by Abdullah alias Hyder AIi to carry out the July 27, 2013
Bodh Gaya blasts and the attack on Modi's rally on October 27,
2013.
|
Non-violent |
December 29 |
India |
IM arrested 'India operations chief' Yasin Bhatkal
alias Ahmad Zarar Siddibappa has told interrogators that his outfit
was planning to acquire and detonate a small nuclear bomb on Surat
(Gujarat).
|
Non-violent |
December 30 |
Jharkhand |
NIA officers detained the families of three IM
operatives wanted in connection with the Patna blasts from Ranchi's
Seethio village (Jharkhand), where five IM operatives hatched
a plot to bomb BJP Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's
rally on October 27.
|
Non-violent |
December 30 |
India |
Suspected IM agent Dhiraj Sao had a link with
D-company of fugitive terrorist Dawood Ibrahim and Mumbai underworld,
a probe by the Police has revealed.
|
Non-violent |
December 31 |
MP |
Madhya Pradesh ATS arrested four operatives of
SIMI from Ujjain.
|
Non-violent |