Bihar (Islamist/Other Conflicts): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2021

Six of the nine terrorists who were arrested in connection with January 19, 2018 Bodh Gaya blast case confessed to their involvement in the terror act by filing a joint petition in the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Patna, Bihar on November 22, reports The Times of India. The six accused who filed the joint petition are Ahmad Ali alias Kalu, Nur Alam Momin, Mohammad Adil Sheikh, Abdul Karim, Musfafizur Rehman and Arif Hussain. Mohammad Paigambar Sheikh, Dilawar Hossain and a Bangladeshi national, Mohammad Jehidul Islam, did not file any petition. As per NIA chargesheet, the terror plot was hatched to avenge alleged atrocities on Rohingyas in Myanmar. Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a terror organisation, had suspectedly planned the blasts. Jehidul, one of the arrested terrorists, had links with JMB which was trying to establish its roots in India. Read less...

A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Patna, Bihar on August 27, convicted 10 people in connection with the October 27, 2013 serial blasts that left six dead and scores injured at the venue here of a political rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was then the Chief Minister of Gujarat, reports Zee News. Special NIA judge Gurvinder Mehrotra, who passed the order, also acquitted one of the accused for want of evidence. Those who were pronounced guilty are Imtiaz Ansari, Mujibullah, Haider Ali, Firoz Aslam, Omar Ansari, Iftekhar, Ahmed Husain, Umair Siddiqui and Azharuddin. Read less...