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National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed its final charge sheet in December 2007 Wagamon Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) arms training camp case against two absconding accused Wasiq Billa and Alam Jeb Afridi for alleged sedition and other
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed its final charge sheet in December 2007 Wagamon Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) arms training camp case against two absconding accused Wasiq Billa and Alam Jeb Afridi for alleged sedition and other offences, The Times of India reports on January 2.They have been charged with participation in terror activities and association with terror groups besides criminal conspiracy and violation of Arms Act among others in the charge sheet filed before the special court for trial of NIA cases in Ernakulam, Kerala. "In this case, the first charge sheet was filed by NIA before NIA Special Court, Ernakulam on January 13, 2011 against 30 accused and a supplementary charge sheet was filed subsequently against six accused u/s 120-B, 122, 124A, 153A Indian Penal Code (IPC), sections 3, 5, 10 and 13 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967 (UAPA) and sections 25 and 27 of Arms Act on July 29, 2013," a statement from NIA said.The case was investigated on the basis of complaint that a secret training camp was organized allegedly by SIMI at Thangalpara, Wagamon during December, 2007. It is alleged that in and around November 2007, office bearers and functionaries of SIMI, entered into a criminal conspiracy in Choral, Indore, Madhya Pradesh to conduct training camps for their active cadres.NIA has alleged that they conducted camps at Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat from December 10, 2007 to December 12, 2007. They organized a secret training camp at Thangalpara, Wagamon within the limits of Mundakayam Police Station, Kottayam (Kerala).The agency alleged that the SIMI cadre were involved in physical training, arms training, firing practices, manufacture of bombs/petrol bombs, motor bike racing, rope climbing practices in the camp.They also allegedly conducted "jihadi" classes in the camp with an intention to train the cadres to advocate, incite and abet unlawful, terrorist activities, disrupt communal harmony and causing threat to the sovereignty and integrity of the country, thereby waging war against Government of India.
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January - 11 
Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) PK Thakur said, the Police headquarters has initiated security audit at all important installations, Hindustan Times reports on January 11. Security has been increased at the Barh thermal plant of National Therm
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Bihar Director General of Police (DGP) PK Thakur said, the Police headquarters has initiated security audit at all important installations, Hindustan Times reports on January 11. Security has been increased at the Barh thermal plant of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Barani Oil Refinery and other important installations, religious and archaeological sites following a security alert in the wake of the Pathankot terror attack. This has happened following a letter from the Police headquarters regarding the need for security audit. Bihar Police have started the exercise of security audit at all important installations. “Terror outfits such as Lashkar-e-Taiba [LeT], Jaish-e-Mohammad [JeM], Indian Mujahideen [IM] and other such outfits have planned to target important installations of the country and they can use explosives-laden vehicles. This requires round-the-clock surveillance,” reads the letter.
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January - 13 
Delhi Police has charge sheeted three suspected operatives of Indian Mujahideen (IM) for allegedly supplying explosives used for carrying out a blast near Jama Masjid in September 19, 2010, allegedly at the behest of IM co-founder Riyaz Bhatkal, NDTV
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Delhi Police has charge sheeted three suspected operatives of Indian Mujahideen (IM) for allegedly supplying explosives used for carrying out a blast near Jama Masjid in September 19, 2010, allegedly at the behest of IM co-founder Riyaz Bhatkal, NDTV reports on January 14. Police filed the charge sheet against Syed Ismail Affaque, Abdus Saboor and Riyaz Ahmad Sayeedi for various alleged offences under Indian Penal Code (IPC), Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), Explosive Substances Act, Information Technology Act and Arms Act.he charge sheet was filed before Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh Singh who took cognisance on it and fixed the matter for February 9, 2016. In its charge sheet, the Special Cell of Delhi Police has alleged that Affaque, an Ayurvedic doctor by profession, had met IM co-founders Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal and gone to Pakistan where he was trained in making improvised explosive devices (IEDs)."Investigation has also revealed that explosive was also provided by A-1 (Affaque) on the instructions of Riyaz Bhatkal and Afeef (another IM operative) in 2011 which was used in 2011 Mumbai blast, 2012 Pune blast and 2013 Hyderabad blast," the charge sheet said.In its charge sheet filed against the three accused, the police said they had conspired with other IM members to carry out a terror strike in Delhi. "From the investigation conducted so far against the arrested accused persons, it has been established that accused number 1 (Affaque), being a member of IM, had entered into a conspiracy along with other co-conspirators for commission of terrorist act in Delhi at Jama Masjid with intent to threaten the unity, integrity and sovereignty of India....," it said.
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January - 15 
The High Court in Bengaluru on January 15, rejected the bail application of Shabeer Bhatkal, an aide of Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder, Riyaz Bhatkal, reports Deccan Herald. Shabeer has been in judicial custody since 2009 after he was arrested by
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The High Court in Bengaluru on January 15, rejected the bail application of Shabeer Bhatkal, an aide of Indian Mujahideen (IM) co-founder, Riyaz Bhatkal, reports Deccan Herald. Shabeer has been in judicial custody since 2009 after he was arrested by the Ullal Police in Dakshina Kannada District for his association with Riyaz in some of the terror-related activities. Shabeer has been booked under Sections 120(B), 121, 122, 123, 153A, 212, 420, 468, 471 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sections 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and Sections 9(B) of Explosive Act and Section 5 and 6 of Indian Explosive Substance Act and Sections 3 and 4 of the Arms Act.
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January - 20 
Suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Afzal Usmani was convicted in Mazgaon Court of Mumbai (Maharashtra) and sto five years in prison on January 20, twoandahalf years after he ran away from the City Civil and Sessions Court, escaping a heavy po
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Suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Afzal Usmani was convicted in Mazgaon Court of Mumbai (Maharashtra) and sto five years in prison on January 20, twoandahalf years after he ran away from the City Civil and Sessions Court, escaping a heavy police cordon, reports Indian Express. Judge S L Bangar of the Mazgaon court awarded Usmani two years’ sentence for obstructing arrest, forgery, and using a forged documas genuine, three years’ term for cheating for impersonation, and cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, and five years in jail for forgery for the purpose of cheating. In addition, the court slapped fines of INR 31,000 on him.Usmani, who was arrested by the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) for his role in the 2008 serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, escaped from the highsecurity Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Court on September 20, 2013, from a cordon of Navi Mumbai Police officers.
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January - 21 
Delhi Police Special Cell officials are looking for two suspected militants, belonging to the Indian Mujahideen (IM) earlier but now associated with the Islamic State (IS), who allegedly radicalised the four students from Haridwar, who were earlier a
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Delhi Police Special Cell officials are looking for two suspected militants, belonging to the Indian Mujahideen (IM) earlier but now associated with the Islamic State (IS), who allegedly radicalised the four students from Haridwar, who were earlier arrested on January 19, Hindustan Times reports on January 22. Investigators found that the four men, Akhlaq-ur-Rehman, Mohammad Azim Ushan, Mohammad Osama alias Adil and Mohammad Mehraj had more information on a module based in Pakistan than any in Syria or Iraq. Their alleged IS handler Shafi Armar was found to have been an IM man all his life who recently shifted loyalties to the Iraqi and Syrian outfit.Intelligence officials are trying to determine if various alleged IS modules being discovered in India have origins in Syria and Iraq or are being floated by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the name of the West Asian group to mislead Indian agencies.The two suspects searched by Delhi Police, were local handlers of the arrested students, Police confirmed. One belongs to south India, most probably Bhatkal in Karnataka. A special cell officer said a Police team had already been sent to Bhatkal to apprehend the man who could be part of the IM’s south India module that could not be fully neutralised in operations after a series of terror strikes between 2005 and 2009.It is suspected the handler was acting on the instructions of former IM operatives who fled to Pakistan after the 2008 Batla House encounter and later crossed over to Syria after creating their own tanzeem (branch), Ansar-ut-Tawhid-fi-Bilad-al-Hind. The key figures in that group included Sultan Armar, his brother Shafi Armar, Bada Sajid, Mirza Shadab Beig, Shahnawaz Ahmad and Afif Hassan Siddibapa. Some of them, including the Armar brothers, belonged to Bhatkal.The other local handler is said be from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh though senior special cell officers refused to comment on identities and exact locations, saying that could hamper the probe.Police teams are combing locations in Uttarakhand, Delhi and Muzaffarnagar and some places in UP to arrest militants suspected to be planning blasts at shopping malls and vital installations in the NCR, the Har ki Pauri ghat in Haridwar and trains plying between Haridwar and Roorkee.Akhlaq’s interrogation revealed that on his south Indian handler’s instructions, he visited Delhi in October 2015 and met the second handler in the walled city area. Terror strikes were allegedly planned during the meeting and the handler asked Akhlaq to meet an aide in Muzaffarnagar. Akhlaq and Mehraj met the Muzaffarnagar contact who gave them INR 50,000 to execute attacks. They were told to collect flammable material from matchsticks to be used in preparing bombs.Business Standard adds that investigators questioning the four youths are trying to ascertain the locations in Delhi where they had allegedly planned to carry terror strikes. "We are interrogating the youths and they have been confronted with certain facts but we are yet to ascertain the module or network which they are a part of," Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Arvind Deep said.
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January - 26 
The number of Indians who are believed to have joined Islamic State (IS) outfit now stands at 25, up from 17 in August, 2015, reports The Hindu. According to official sources, “Their preliminary interrogation shows that they wanted to increase
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The number of Indians who are believed to have joined Islamic State (IS) outfit now stands at 25, up from 17 in August, 2015, reports The Hindu. According to official sources, “Their preliminary interrogation shows that they wanted to increase the numbers of their followers here and organise attacks to establish a caliphate here". According to officials, the group being led by Mumbai resident Mudabbir Sheikh had at least one common handler, former member of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) Shafi Armar alias Yousuf, who now heads the AnsarulTawhid (AuT) which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.Moreover, two men from Telangana, who recently left the country to fight alongside IS in Syria, were in close contact with at least four of the 14 terror suspects arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), a senior government official said. They were also part of the Hyderabad module and are said to be absconding and had acquired visa for Japan, the probe has revealed. "It is true that the Islamic State is trying to recruit at multiple levels in India. The present module was not under the radar of the State police but the Central intelligence agencies had been keeping a watch on them,” said an official.
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January - 27 
Former Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Shafi Armar, suspected to be the chief recruiter of the 14 men recently arrested for planning terror strikes across the country, wanted a unit of Junud al Khalifa-e-Hind (Soldiers of the Indian Caliphate) to be
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Former Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Shafi Armar, suspected to be the chief recruiter of the 14 men recently arrested for planning terror strikes across the country, wanted a unit of Junud al Khalifa-e-Hind (Soldiers of the Indian Caliphate) to be raised in every state and major city, Indian Express reports on January 28. Armar, who allegedly chatted with those arrested over social media and encrypted messengers such as Trillion, Surespot and Skype, had asked Mumbai-resident Mudabbir Sheikh and Kushinagar-resident Rizwan Khalid to ensure that these units are set up, said sources, adding that the units were to be activated as and when required to launch an attack.
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January - 28 
Hyderabad Police arrested the absconding alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative, Mohamed Rafeeq, alias Alam Jeb Afridi, a native of Ahmedabad, from Bengaluru on January 28, reports The Times of India. He was handed over to the National Investigatio
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Hyderabad Police arrested the absconding alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative, Mohamed Rafeeq, alias Alam Jeb Afridi, a native of Ahmedabad, from Bengaluru on January 28, reports The Times of India. He was handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for further interrogation. Sources in Ahmedabad crime branch said Afridi had confessed to NIA about his role in the serial blasts that rocked the city on July 26, 2008. Around 56 people were killed and more than 200 were injured in the blasts, which took place at 18 places in Ahmedabad. "Afridi reportedly told NIA officials that he held a series of meetings with hardcore Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) terrorists. He was also at the terror training camps at Waghamon and Halol," said a crime branch official.The New Indian Expressadds that Rafeeq was being interrogated by the Telangana Police in connection with a blast in Ahmedabad when his alleged role in the Church Street blast on December 28, 2014 came to light. A statement from the NIA said Rafeeq had planted an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) outside Coconut Grove restaurant in Church Street on December 28, 2014. “During interrogation, Rafeeq confessed he wanted to plant a bomb inside the restaurant, but was deterred by the presence of staff, and so he planted it near the wall,” the statement said. Rafeeq was acting at the behest of a handler who had told him about the probable visit of an Israeli delegation to the restaurant for dinner that night. The explosion claimed the life of a woman from Chennai visiting Bengaluru.
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An Indian terror module pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) is a reorganized group of the virtually defunct Indian Mujahideen (IM) and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) elements, recruiting new members to carry out a string of
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An Indian terror module pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) is a reorganized group of the virtually defunct Indian Mujahideen (IM) and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) elements, recruiting new members to carry out a string of terror strikes across the country, highly placed intelligence sources said, reports The Shillong Times on January 30. This fact came out during the questioning of 14 suspected Islamic State (IS) sympathisers who were arrested last week from 12 places in six cities in a synchronized raid conducted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the sources added. Those inspired by the IS ideology were hooked by Yusuf-al-Hind who, the Indian security agencies believe, is former IM member Shafi Armar, a resident of Bhatkal in Karnataka. Armar, now believed to be in the Islamic State-held area along the border of Iraq and Syria, formed ‘Janood-ul-Khalifa-e-Hind’ and recruited Mumbai-based 33-year-old Mudabbir Mushtaq Shaikh as ‘Amir’ (chief) of the group. Official sources privy to the investigation said that Armar also recruited his brother Sultan and others who had worked for IM and the now-banned SIMI. “Apart from former IM and SIMI members, Armar chose those who are basically inspired by the IS ideology. He first recruited his close aides and then inspired them to recruit more supporters,” said an unnamed official. They used social networking sites and made calls through the internet (using VoIP – Voice over Internet Protocol) to activate the sleeper cells of IM and SIMI,” the official added.Another intelligence source declining to be identified said that the outfit members were directed to carry out strikes across multiple cities, including Hyderabad in Telangana, Bengaluru, Mangalore and Tumkur in Karnataka, Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, and Aurangabad and Mumbai in Maharashtra. “They were asked to organise training camps – like how to use fire arms – before the attack. They were also trying to establish channels for procuring explosives and weapons,” the official source said. The leadership of Janood-ul-Khalifa-e-Hind, active since April 2015, was following the IM and SIMI set-ups by choosing their organised central, state and city level core groups, the official said. The 14 men, allegedly influenced by IS and arrested by the NIA, are also said to have revealed that the 20-year-old Uttar Pradesh-based Mohammed Aleem was chosen as Naib Amir, the second-in-command of the group after Mudabbir. The sources said Karnataka resident Najmul Huda was the military commander and 24-year-old Hyderabadi Mohammed Nafees Khan was the finance chief of the outfit.
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