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UP Police gets more bomb detection squads

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Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police has added seven more Bomb Detection and Disposal Squads (BDDS) and two anti-sabotage check teams to its armoury, keeping in mind the terror threat in the state.
Additional Director General (ADG), Security, Binod Kumar Singh said the teams will be deployed at the Secretariat complex in Lucknow, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, the Allahabad High Court in Prayagraj, the Varanasi Police Commissionerate and 30 battalions of the PAC in Gonda.
Besides, two BDDS and two anti-sabotage check teams have been committed to security checks on the Ram Janmabhoomi premises in Ayodhya.

The ADG said there were five BDDS teams in 1987, which gradually increased to 26 in 2010.
He said the security headquarters prepared a proposal for the creation of five new BDDS and 10 AS check teams in 2021 keeping in mind the threat perception and security challenges in the state.
He said the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment for the creation of the new teams was done, and its members trained at the National Security Guards centre in Manesar, Haryana, and CRPF training centre in Pune.
Briefing the entire team, the ADG underscored their importance for the security of any programme.
He said air-conditioned buses have been provided to all 31 BDDS teams for their movement.

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April 3, 2023
Four Muslim men acquitted from 2008 Jaipur serial bomb blast case

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Jaipur: The Rajasthan High Court on Wednesday acquitted four convicts in the Jaipur serial bomb blast case which rocked the state capital on May 13, 2008.
A division bench of Justices Pankaj Bhandari and Sameer Jain acquitted these four convicts who had presented 28 appeals in the High Court. The hearing on this entire case was going on for 48 days.
In its verdict, the bench reportedly said that the investigating officer did not have legal knowledge. Therefore, instructions have been given to the DGP to take action against the investigating officer as well. The court has also asked the Chief Secretary to conduct an inquiry into the investigating officer.
Syed Sadat Ali, the lawyer representing the accused, said that the High Court has termed the entire theory of ATS wrong, which is why the accused have been acquitted.
He said that four accused were sentenced to death by the sessions court. “We had come to the High Court against that decision. One of the accused is a minor. The court has accepted that he was 16 years old at the time of the incident. The court acquitted the accused by saying that there is no proof against the accused. ATS and Prosecution have not been able to prove the allegations. Neither planting bombs has been proved nor was it proved that the accused had bought the cycle.”
“The court made strong remarks about the Investigation Officer while giving the verdict. The court has ordered DGP Rajasthan to take action against Rajendra Singh Nayan, Jai Singh and retired IPS officer Mahendra Chaudhary, who were the investigating officers of the entire case. In the 10-page judgment, the court said that the theory of the police does not match with the entire case.”
On May 13, 2008, there were serial bomb blasts at 8 places in the walled city. In these, 71 people were killed, while 185 were injured. The court found Mohd Saif, Saifur Rahman, Sarwar Azmi and Mohd Salman guilty of murder, sedition and the Explosives Act.
A total of 13 people were made accused in this case by the police. Three accused are still absconding, while two are lodged in jails of Hyderabad and Delhi. The remaining two criminals have been killed in the Batla House encounter in Delhi. The four accused were lodged in Jaipur jail and were sentenced to death by the lower court.

Former BJP state chief Satish Poonia said: “The acquittal of all four convicted in such a big offense by the high court raises doubts on the advocacy of the Ashok Gehlot government of Rajasthan.
“The manner in which the evidence was presented by the ATS, and later it was clipped and edited and the manner in which the court said that the prosecution was not done properly and the evidence did not come in a proper manner, raises doubts on the side of the investigation.”
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March 29, 2023
Angered by power cut, man makes hoax call about bomb at Maha Dy CM’s house

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Nagpur: Angered by a power cut at his house, a man allegedly made a hoax call that a bomb was planted at Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ house in Nagpur on Tuesday, police said.
The police traced the 30-year-old caller to Kanhan town, around 30 km from the city, and have detained him, Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar said.
The Nagpur police’s control room received a call around 2 am from a man claiming that a bomb had been planted outside Fadnavis’ house. However, the caller abruptly disconnected the call, he said.
A police team with a bomb detection and disposal squad (BDDS) and dog squad were rushed to the deputy chief minister’s house near Trikoni Park in Dharampeth and a thorough check was carried out inside and outside the premises, but no explosives were found, the senior official said.
Fadnavis and his family are currently in Mumbai, he said.
The caller was allegedly facing a power cut at his house and had made the hoax call in a fit of rage to mislead the police, Kumar said.
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March 28, 2023
Sweden | Media: A policeman was stabbed in front of the police station in Norrköping, the bomb squad is investigating the stat

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The case is being investigated as attempted murder. The police bomb squad is still investigating the police station for possible explosives.
Male is suspected of having stabbed a police officer on Monday afternoon in front of the Norrköping police station in Sweden. The police stopped the suspect by shooting at him.
Among other things, the iltäpäivälehti tell about it AftonbladetSwedish public radio SVT and a local newspaper Norrköpings Tidningar (NT). According to Aftonbladet, the police shot the suspect in the leg as he tried to escape.
The police received an alert about the incident at 15:49 local time.
According to the Swedish media, both the police officer injured in the stabbing and the suspect are in the hospital. Police spokesman Sara Walthers told the NT at 9:00 p.m. that the injured police officer underwent surgery and was in a stable condition.
The police are investigating the case as attempted murder.
The police representative Johnny Gustafsson confirmed at 9:00 p.m. that the police department’s premises were still cordoned off and that the bomb squad was checking the property for possible explosives.
Gustafsson told NT that the suspect may have left something at the police station, the origin of which the police had no idea.

“We want experts to check the premises so that we don’t do something that we might regret later,” said Gustafsson.
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February 28, 2023
Bomb threat on Secundrabad-Belagavi train proved hoax

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Hyderabad: A phone call about a bomb planted on the Secunderabad-Belagavi special train proved to be a hoax, officials said on Thursday.
After receiving the call at Secunderabad railway station here Wednesday night, railway authorities swung into action.
Personnel of the Railway Police checked the entire train but found nothing suspicious.
The phone call was received at around 9.30 p.m. from one Balaraju, a resident of Devarampalli village in Rangareddy district.
He told police that he heard three men talking about the bomb being planted on the train.
The checking continued till 11.15 p.m.
The train number 07336 was scheduled to depart Secunderabad railway station at 10.20 p.m. for Belagavi in Karnataka but the bomb threat delayed the departure by about one-and-half hour.
The police would question Balaraju to check the veracity of his statement and the identify the three men.

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February 23, 2023
Passenger makes bomb threat call after reporting late for Hyderabad-Chennai flight

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Hyderabad: A passenger, who wanted to catch a flight to Chennai on Monday but crossed the boarding time, made a bomb threat call to the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), forcing the authorities to halt the plane and evacuate it for checking.
The call proved to be a hoax and meanwhile acting swiftly, the airport intelligence officials nabbed the passenger after they found that the bomb threat call was made from within RGIA premises.
The passenger identified as Ajmira Bhadraiah, a Chief Engineer in the Military Engineer Services (MES) in Chennai, was late for Hyderabad-Chennai IndiGo flight. As he was stopped from entering the airport, he made a call that a bomb had been planted in the flight.
The security officials immediately halted the flight and evacuated it. They pressed into service dog squad, bomb squad and other teams but found nothing suspicious.
Meanwhile, airport intelligence officials found that the call was made from within the airport premises. They immediately nabbed the passenger, who admitted that he made the call as he wanted to catch the flight.
The officials took him into custody and questioned him. A case has been booked against him at RGIA police station.
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February 20, 2023
Pak govt drops another inflation bomb; petrol up by Rs 22

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Islamabad: The Pakistan government under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif dropped another bomb of inflation on the masses on Thursday as it jacked up petrol price by Rs 22.20 per litre and increasing gas price by at least 124 per cent, plunging the already inflation-hit people into further stress and struggle.
As per the latest notification issued by the government effective from Thursday, the prices of petroleum products were revised as follows:
MS (petrol) revised to Rs 272.00 a litre, high-speed Diesel (HSD) price revised to 280.00 litre, kerosene oil (SKO) price revised from Rs 189.93 to Rs 202.73 and light diesel oil revised from Rs 187.00 to Rs 196.68, all effective from Thursday.
The decision came weeks after the government increased prices of petroleum products by Rs 35, a decision undertaken two days before the scheduled revision of prices.
Sources in the Finance Ministry said that the decision has been taken to manage the depreciation of Pakistani rupee against the US dollar, since an artificial cap on the local currency was removed and the rupee value was allowed to decide its value as per the market-based currency exchange rate.
Moreover, the government has also jacked up sale prices of gas on the advice of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA), increasing the gas sale price from 16.6 per cent to at least 124 per cent for categories of consumers of the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) and the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC).
To add more to the misery of the locals, the revised prices of gas have been put to effect from January 1, 2023, leaving the masses shell-shocked and clueless as to how the latest inflation bomb will further damage their lives.
The Pakistan government is forced to take these decisions as it continues to engage with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a desperate effort to get its ninth review of the IMF EFF (Extended Funding Facility) approved and release of $1.1 billion, for which IMF has demanded implementation of tough pre-conditions if Islamabad wants to revive the IMF programme.

Pakistan is currently at the lowest level in terms of its foreign exchange reserves, which stand at just over $2 billion, enough to meet only three weeks of imports.
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had earlier expressed his anger at the IMF for not approving Pakistan’s ninth review and had stated that if the IMF team does not visit Pakistan, he doesn’t not care, adding that Pakistan would handle the situation from elsewhere.
However, with all other countries, including China, linking their financial support to Pakistan with the revival of the IMF programme, Pakistan is left with no other option but to nod to all the tough demands of the IMF, which include multi-decade high inflation of at least 27 per cent and rising.
As virtual talks with the IMF team continue, Pakistan government has also laid a supplementary finance bill aka ‘mini-budget’ before the Parliament for debate and approval, proposing to raise the goods and services taxes (GST) from 17 per cent to 18 per cent, which Dar said would help raise at least Rs 170 billion in extra revenues during the current fiscal year ending July.
The finance bill also proposes increase in taxes on luxury items to at least 25 per cent. Moreover, it also proposes price hike for air travel, cigarettes and sugary drinks etc., which has been widely questioned and criticised by the coalition partners of the government and the opposition benches.
But analysts say that Pakistan has no other option but to accept all the demands of the IMF and revive the funding programme to save the country from bankruptcy, which under the current situation seems eminent.
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February 16, 2023
Hoax bomb call at Google office in Pune; caller held in Hyderabad

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Pune: Google company’s office in Maharashtra’s Pune city was briefly put on alert after it received a call about a bomb in the premises which later turned out to be a hoax, police said on Monday.
A man, who allegedly made the call in an inebriated state, has been traced to Hyderabad and apprehended from there, they said.
“The office, located on the 11th floor of a multi-storey commercial building in Pune’s Mundhwa area, received a call late Sunday night that a bomb was kept in the office premises,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone V) Vikrant Deshmukh said.
After being alerted, Pune police and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad reached the spot and carried out extensive searches, he said.
“The call later turned out to be a hoax. The caller has been traced to Hyderabad and apprehended. He allegedly made the call in an inebriated condition,” the official said.
Further investigation is on into the incident, he added.
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February 13, 2023
US threatened to bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age after 9/11 terror attack, Musharraf in his memoir

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Islamabad: The US threatened to bomb Pakistan “back to the Stone Age” after the 9/11 terror attacks if then President General Pervez Musharraf did not cooperate with America’s war on Afghanistan.
In his memoir ‘In the Line of Fire’, Musharraf wrote that the threat was delivered by the tough-talking assistant secretary of state, Richard Armitage, in conversations with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief who was in Washington on a visit at the time of the 9/11 attack.
“In what has to be most undiplomatic statement ever made, Armitage added to what Colin Powell had said to me and told the (ISI) director general not only that we had to decide whether we were with America or with the terrorists, but that if we chose the terrorists, then we should be prepared to be bombed back to the Stone Age,” Musharraf wrote, explaining the situation he faced after the twin tower attack.
He said this was a shockingly barefaced threat, but it was obvious that the United States had decided to hit back, and hit back hard.
Defending his move to join the US-led War on Terror in Afghanistan, Musharraf said that his “decision was based on the well-being of my people and the best interest of my country.” “I war-gamed the United States as an adversary. There would be violent and angry reactions if we didn’t support the United States. Thus the question was: if we do not join them, can we confront them and withstand the onslaught? The answer was no, we could not…” he wrote.
He said, however, the benefits of supporting the United States were many.
Armitage later disputed the language used, but he did not deny that Pakistan was put on notice to help America’s war effort.
Gen Musharraf wrote in his book that on September 13, 2001, the US ambassador to Pakistan, Wendy Chamberlain, brought him a set of seven demands, including blanket overflight and landing rights.

Musharraf said that he balked at some of the US demands such as turning over border posts and bases to US forces.
“How could we allow the United States blanket overflight and landing rights without jeopardizing our strategic assets? I offered only a narrow flight corridor that was far from any sensitive areas,” he wrote.
Pakistan abandoned its support for the Taliban government in Kabul and allowed US overflights of Pakistan.
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February 5, 2023
Bomb blast near Sunny Leone’s fashion show venue in Imphal

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Imphal: A powerful explosion took place on Saturday near the venue of a fashion show event in Imphal which actress Sunny Leone is scheduled to attend on Sunday, an official said.
However, no injuries were reported in the incident that took place in Hatta Kangjeibung area of Manipur’s capital.
The blast took place only 100 metres from the venue around 6.30 am on Saturday.
It is not yet clear whether the explosion was caused due to an Improvised Explosive Device or a grenade, he said.
No militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the explosion so far.
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February 4, 2023