Jharkhand (Islamist/Other Conflicts): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2014

The Intelligence Bureau (IB) recently alerted Jharkhand Police about four suspected terrorists believed to be living in the state and keeping in touch with certain militant outfits in Pakistan, The Times of India reported on January 10. Rezi Dungdung, Additional Director General of Police, Special Branch, Jharkhand Police, said: "We have received inputs from central investigating agencies that four suspected terrorists are receiving funds from terror groups in Pakistan." "They could be anyone and they could be hiding in plain sight," he said. "The alert is based on intelligence inputs and has concrete information about the recipients of these funds," said a police officer. "Our investigation process will be hampered if the sensitive information in the alert is leaked," he said. Records available with Jharkhand's Crime Investigation Department (CID) reveal that Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives Manzar Imam and Danish Riyaz arrested in 2013 and 2011, had grown up in urban slums at Bariyatu in Ranchi. Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) operative Abu Faisal Khan arrested in 2011 by Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), was from Mango in Jamshedpur. Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) operative Ahtesham Malik who allegedly undertook training in Pakistan, and his cousin Tauseef Ahmad Pir both from Hazaribag were arrested in Delhi in 2012 for alleged plotting to launch an attack in the national capital. Read less...

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on January 13 attached properties of two accused, Numan Ansari and Taufeeq Ansari in the Patna blasts of October 27, 2013 case at Seethio in Dhurwa District of Jharkhand, reports The Times of India. B K Rajvanshi, OC at Dhurwa police station, said NIA attached the properties as per orders obtained from additional district and sessions judge (Patna) Anil Kumar Singh. "All moveable properties of the two have been attached.NIA sought our assistance and we provided it to them," said Rajvanshi. Earlier, on December 14, 2013, NIA had put up proclamation orders at the house of Numan Ansari and Taufeeq Ansari in Seethio asking them to surrender within 30 days failing which their houses would be attached. NIA put up proclamation order at the house of another suspect Mojibullah in Ormanjhi area of Ranchi District on January 12. He has been asked to surrender within 30 days or his properties would also be attached. New Indian Express reported that on January 12, NIA and Bihar Police attached the property in Khiryawa village of Aurangabad District of Bihar of another operative Haider Ali, accused in bomb blasts in Patna and Bodh Gaya after he failed to surrender. Read less...