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NIA Court Jammu Issues Non-Bailable Warrant Against 13 Kishtwar-based Militants Operating from Across Border

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Kishtwar, Mar 2: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday issued non-bailable warrant against 13 Kishtwar-based militants operating from across the border.
“Upon request of Kishtwar Police,NIA Special Court, Jammu, issued Non Bailable Warrants (NBWs)against 13 [militants] who hail from District Kishtwar but they are settled and operating from PAK”, reads a statement issued to GNS.
The names of militants, as per the statement, include; Shahnawaz Kanth alias Munna alias Umer son of Abdul Rasheed, resident of Hullar Kishtwar; Nayeem Ahmed alias Amir/Gazi son of Gh. Nabi Gundna, resident of Near Jamia Masjid Kishtwar; Mohd Iqbal alias Bilal son of Mohd Akber Butt resident of Near Kichloo Market Kishtwar; Shahnawaz alias Nayeem son of Gh. Mohd resident of Chirool Padyarna; Javid Hussain Giri alias Muzamil son of Mohd Amin Giri resident of Kundali Pochal; Bashir Ahmed Mughal son of Gh. Qadir Mughal resident of Jugna Keshwan; Gazi-ul-Din son of Mohd Ayoub Guijer resident of Jugna Keshwan; Sattar Din alias Rajab alias Saifullah son of Mehar Din Gujjar resident of Jugna Keshwan; Imtiyaz Ahmed alias Dawood son of Aziz Mohd Sheikh, resident of Banderna Kishtwar; Shabir Ahmed son of Ghulam Mohi-Ud-Din resident of Kither Bonjwah; Mohd Rafig Keen son of Bashir Ahmed Keen resident of Patnazi Bonjwah; Muzaffer Ahmed son of Abdul Ahmed Dev resident of Semna Colony Zewar Kishtwar and Azad Hussain son of Abdul Majeed resident of Affani Padder presently residing in PAK.
“The warrants have been issued in NIA case FIR 272/2022 (J&K Terror related case), which stands charged with offences in case FIR No.272/2022 under Section120-B/121-A/IPC, 13/18/39/UAPA OF P/S Kishtwar SSP Kishtwar Khalil Poswal said that Chief Investigation Officer (CIO) of Kishtwar Police approached the Special NIA Court for issuing Non-Bailable Warrants against above accused for their active involvement in terror activities for creating unrest in the Chenab valley and other parts of Jammu and Kashmir.”
“They mobilised sleeper cells and pushed them into J&K in connivance with secessionist and separatist leaders for waging war against the Government of India with the nefarious design of seceding Jammu and Kashmir from Union of India”, the statement adding further investigation in the case is underway. (GNS)
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

March 2, 2023
NIA Attaches Al-Umar Chief Mushtaq ‘Latram’s’ House In Srinagar

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SRINAGAR: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday attached house of Al-Umar Chief Mushtaq Zargar alias ‘Latram’ in Gani Mohalla Area of Nowhatta area of Srinagar.
NIA action comes as Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has declared Zargar, “presently in Pakistan”, as designated “Terrorist” under the UAPA, a stringent act legislated to control militant activities.
According to reports reaching the news agency GNS, an NIA team, assisted by local police and paramilitary CRPF, attached the property of Latram situated in Nowhatta area of Srinagar early this morning.
According to a NIA spokesperson, Zargar’s two Marlas house (Khasra No. 182) at Ganai Mohalla, Jamia Masjid, Nowhatta, Srinagar, has been attached under the provisions of UA(P)A.
Zargar was arrested on 15 May 1992 and later released in 1999, along with Jaish chief Masood Azhar and Sheikh Omar. They were exchanged for passengers of hijacked Indian Airlines plane IC-814 in 1999. The plane, which was en route from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal to Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, was hijacked and flown to Kandahar, where negotiations for hostages had started. (GNS)

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March 2, 2023
NIA Attaches Al-Umar Chief Mushtaq ‘Latram’s’ House In Nowhatta Srinagar

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Srinagar, Mar 2(GNS): National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday attached house of Al-Umar Chief Mushtaq Zargar alias ‘Latram’ in Gani Mohalla Area of Nowhatta area of Srinagar.
NIA action comes as Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has declared Zargar, “presently in Pakistan”, as designated “Terrorist” under the UAPA, a stringent act legislated to control militant activities.
According to reports reaching GNS, an NIA team, assisted by local police and paramilitary CRPF, attached the property of Latram situated in Nowhatta area of Srinagar early this morning.
According to a NIA spokesperson, Zargar’s two Marlas house (Khasra No. 182) at Ganai Mohalla, Jamia Masjid, Nowhatta, Srinagar, has been attached under the provisions of UA(P)A.
Zargar was arrested on 15 May 1992 and later released in 1999, along with Jaish chief Masood Azhar and Sheikh Omar. They were exchanged for passengers of hijacked Indian Airlines plane IC-814 in 1999. The plane, which was en route from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal to Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, was hijacked and flown to Kandahar, where negotiations for hostages had started. (GNS)
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March 2, 2023
NIA Attaches Al-Umar Chief Mushtaq ‘Latram’s’ House In Nowhatta Srinagar

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Srinagar, Mar 2: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday attached house of Al-Umar Chief Mushtaq Zargar alias ‘Latram’ in Gani Mohalla Area of Nowhatta area of Srinagar.
NIA action comes as Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has declared Zargar, “presently in Pakistan”, as designated “Terrorist” under the UAPA, a stringent act legislated to control militant activities.
According to reports reaching GNS, an NIA team, assisted by local police and paramilitary CRPF, attached the property of Latram situated in Nowhatta area of Srinagar early this morning.
According to a NIA spokesperson, Zargar’s two Marlas house (Khasra No. 182) at Ganai Mohalla, Jamia Masjid, Nowhatta, Srinagar, has been attached under the provisions of UA(P)A.
Zargar was arrested on 15 May 1992 and later released in 1999, along with Jaish chief Masood Azhar and Sheikh Omar. They were exchanged for passengers of hijacked Indian Airlines plane IC-814 in 1999. The plane, which
was en route from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal to Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, was hijacked and flown to Kandahar, where negotiations for hostages had started. (GNS)
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( With inputs from : roshankashmir.net )

March 2, 2023
Civilian killing: NIA files supplementary charge sheet against Maoist cadre in Bihar

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New Delhi: The NIA on Saturday filed a third supplementary charge sheet against a Maoist cadre who was involved in the killing of a civilian after a “kangaroo court” dubbed him as a police informer in Bihar’s Aurangabad district in 2018, an agency official said on Saturday.
Naresh Singh Bhokta was abducted on November 2 and taken to a “jan adalat or kangaroo court” where the top leadership of the CPI(Maoist) issued instructions to their cadres to kill him after declaring him as a police informer. His body was found near Badhai Bigha village in the Madanpur police station area the same day.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) took over the investigation into the case on June 24 last year. The case was initially registered at Madanpur police station in Aurangabad district in Bihar.
Earlier, the state police filed separate charge sheets against seven accused on January 26 and December 28 in 2019 and November 30 in 2021.
A spokesperson of the NIA identified the accused charge-sheeted on Saturday as Ajay Singh Bhokta, a resident of Kanaudi village in Madanpur, and said, “investigations have revealed that he, along with other CPI(Maoist) cadres, was actively involved in the abduction and murder of the civilian”.
“Ajay is an armed cadre of CPI(Maoist) and he was arrested in the instant case on September 1 last year upon production warrant. Charge sheet has been filed against him in the NIA Court, Patna under various sections of IPC, Arms Act and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act,” the spokesperson said.
The official said the weapons used in the incident have been seized and their forensic examination has been completed.
Three vehicles used by the CPI(Maoist) cadres in the incident have also been seized, the spokesperson said.

“During its investigations, NIA has also been able to unearth the involvement of top CPI(Maoist) commanders, including a politburo member, in the conspiracy for this brutal murder, which was done to create terror in the society while propagating the false and fallacious ideology of people’s war against the State,” the spokesperson said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 25, 2023
Anti-CAA case against Akhil Gogoi reopened by Spl NIA Court

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Guwahati: The Special NIA Court on Thursday reopened an anti-CAA case against Assam MLA Akhil Gogoi and his three associates following a directive of the Gauhati High Court.
On the first day, Gogoi’s advocate presented the Supreme Court’s order giving protection from arrest till February 24 in connection with the case related to anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act stir and suspected Maoist links.
Considering the apex court ruling, Special NIA Judge Pranjal Das deferred the hearing and listed the case on February 28.
Hundreds of Gogoi’s supporters waited outside the court premises to express solidarity with the Raijor Dal chief.
On February 9, the Gauhati High Court had allowed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to frame charges against Gogoi and three others in the case. Its order had come on an appeal of the NIA challenging the order of the Special NIA Court giving clean chit to the four.
The other three accused were Dhaijya Konwar, Bittu Sonowal and Manash Konwar, all of whom had got bail in the NIA case and were released from the jail.
Gogoi was the only one whose bail was rejected by the court and he was released after spending 567 days in jail once the Special NIA Judge Pranjal Das had cleared him along with the three others of all charges.
The NIA was investigating two cases of Gogoi related to anti-CAA violence. In one of those, the Special NIA Court had granted him bail, which was upheld by the Gauhati High Court too in April 2021 after the probe agency challenged it.

The RTI activist-cum-peasant leader continued to be in judicial custody as his bail was rejected in the second case related to anti-CAA violence and was being investigated by the NIA.
Later, the Special NIA Court on July 1, 2021 released Gogoi and his three associates for their alleged role in the violent anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act stir in the state in December 2019 and observed there was nothing to indicate “talk of blockade” threatened the country’s economic security or was “a terrorist act.”
The NIA then moved the Gauhati High Court appealing to allow the agency to frame charges under various sections, including sedition, of the IPC and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
In a strongly worded judgement, the Special NIA Court had said that in the interests of justice, it found the conduct and approach of the investigating authority in the case to be “discouraging”, to say the least.
“The court has high expectations from a premier investigating agency like the NIA, entrusted with the profoundly important task of protecting our country and us, citizens from the menace of terrorism.
“The court hopes and expects that, such high standards will be upheld, for sake of the country and this one will be just an exception,” the Special NIA Judge Pranjal Das had said in his order.
Gogoi, who contested as Independent from Sibsagar in 2021, became the first Assamese to win an election remaining behind the bars without any physical campaigning.
He also became the first in Assam Assembly to take oath on May 21, 2021 as a prisoner MLA, coming from jail on a special permission by the court.
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February 23, 2023
Praveen Kumar Nettare murder case: NIA takes community hall into custody

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Dakshina Kannada: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken into custody a community hall in Idukki village near Bantwal town in connection with murder case of BJP Yuva Morcha activist Praveen Kumar Nettare, sources said on Thursday.
According to the sources, Mittur Freedom Community Hall in Idukki village was used to carry out terror activities. The probe agency has taken the entire premises of 20 guntas into custody.
Cadres attached to the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) used to get trained here to carry out anti-national and subversive activities, they said.
Besides, a plan for the murder of Hindu activists and revenge killings was also carried out here.
An order has been issued to the District Commissioner and Superintendent of Police of Dakshina Kannada district. The owner of the community hall has also been given official communication in this regard and stated that the community hall can’t be rented out or given to someone. The NIA has also prohibited the movement of any articles or carrying out any work in the hall.
NIA, which is probing Praveen Kumar Nettare murder case, has submitted a charge sheet against 20 accused persons to the NIA Special court in Bengaluru. They have arrested 14 persons and have launched a hunt for six others who are absconding.
It had submitted a 1,500-page charge sheet, including statements of 240 witnesses.
The Socialist Democratic Party of India (SDPI) has announced the ticket for Shafi Bellare, an accused in the murder case of BJP Yuva Morcha Activist Praveen Kumar Nettare, to contest in upcoming Assembly elections in Karnataka. The development has raised debate in the state.

Shafi Bellare is presently lodged in prison in connection with the murder of Praveen, which made national headlines.
Bellare had been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and in its custody.
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February 23, 2023
Special NIA court sentences ISIS terrorist to seven years in jail in Rajasthan

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New Delhi: A special NIA court in Rajasthan has sentenced an ISIS-linked terrorist to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for conspiring to carry out terrorist acts in the country, an official said on Tuesday.
The special judge of the NIA court Jaipur convicted Mohammed Sirajuddin alias “Siraj” in a case registered in 2016 under various sections of Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, a spokesperson of the federal agency said.
The case pertains to the promotion of the ISIS ideology and Siraj influencing others over social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram to become members of the proscribed terror group and to indulge in terrorist activities, the spokesperson said.
Sirajuddin, who hails from Gulbarga area in Karnataka, was found inciting the youth to carry out acts of violence and terror.
“He was living in Jaipur and was using online chats and messages advocating and spreading the ideology of the ISIS, also known as Islamic State, in various parts of the world,” the spokesperson said.
The official said he also arranged and assisted in organising online discussions and meetings among active ISIS operatives to plan and execute acts of violence and terrorism in the country.
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February 21, 2023
NIA raids over 70 locations linked to Bishnoi, Bawana, other gangsters

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New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday conducted raids across the country at more than 70 locations belonging to gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi, Neeraj Bawana and their aides.
The raids were conducted in Delhi-NCR, Rajasthan, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Chandigarh and Uttar Pradesh.
An official said that in a major crackdown on gangsters, working in tandem with terrorist groups and drug smugglers based in foreign countries including Pakistan and Canada, the NIA conducted raids at 76 locations across eight states and seized a large cache of arms and ammunition and cash of Rs 2.5 crore.
The NIA officials said that the raids were conducted on the basis of the three separate FIRs lodged by them.
“Three cases have been registered by the NIA since August 2022 and several people, including some Kabbadi players were identified and booked for their alleged involvement in terror and other criminal activities, including targeted hits and extortion from leading businessmen and professionals,” an official said.
The investigation has revealed that conspiracies for several such crimes, including the sensational killing of Maharashtra builder, Sanjay Biyani, and Sandeep Nangal Ambia, an international Kabbadi player, were being hatched in jails of different states and were being executed by an organised network of operatives based abroad, the official added.
The official said the NIA conducted raids in connection with the matter for the fifth time.
The official said that raids were focused on arms suppliers and Hawala operators working with these gangs.

“We have recovered 9 illegal weapons, including pistols, revolvers and rifles, and Rs 1.5 crore in cash. Incriminating materials, including documents, hard drives and mobile phones, were also seized,” the official said.
The official said that searches were conducted at the premises of Lakhvir Singh of Gidderbaha at Muktsar, Naresh at Abohar, Surender a.k.a. Cheeku at Narnaul in Haryana, Kaushal Choudhary and Amit Dagar at Gurugram and Sunil Rathi at Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh.
The official said that apart from them, some Hawala operators, kabaddi players, weapon suppliers, gun houses, businessmen and their alleged financers, were also raided.
“The investigation has established that many criminals, who were leading gangsters in India, had later fled to Pakistan, Canada, Malaysia and Australia. But they were in touch with criminals lodged in different jails in India. These groups were carrying out targeted killings and raising funds for their nefarious activities through smuggling of drugs and weapons, hawala and extortion,” the NIA said.
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February 21, 2023
Delhi HC seeks NIA stand on plea against PFI probe

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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought the stand of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on a plea seeking quashing of its probe against the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) in connection with an alleged criminal conspiracy to carry out terror activities in the country.
Justice Jasmeet Singh issued notice on the petition by arrested PFI leader Oma Salam and asked the agency to file its response.
While the judge remarked during the hearing that “there is no question of stay” in the matter, the counsel for the petitioner said he was “not pressing it” either.
The counsel for the petitioner argued he was assailing the NIA case on “legal grounds” as the probe was not as per the NIA Act.
He contended that the offences being probed by the NIA have to be first registered by the state government, which has not been done in the present case.
The petitioner’s counsel also said no report under section 173 Criminal Procedure Code should be filed by the NIA in the case on completion of the investigation.
The case, registered in April last year, pertains to an alleged criminal conspiracy hatched by people associated with the PFI to raise funds from within India and abroad for committing acts of terror in various parts of the country.
The NIA has alleged that the accused were conducting training camps to indoctrinate and train their cadres to carry out terrorist activities.

A large number of alleged PFI activists were detained or arrested in several states during the massive raids preceding the nationwide ban imposed on it on September 28, 2022.
In near-simultaneous raids across the country as part of a multi-agency operation spearheaded by the NIA, several PFI activists were detained or arrested in 11 states for allegedly supporting terror activities in the country.
The arrests were made in states and Union Territories, including Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Delhi and Rajasthan.
The government banned the PFI and several of its associate organisations for five years under the stringent anti-terror law UAPA, accusing them of having links with global terror groups like the ISIS.
The matter will be heard next on July 11.
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February 21, 2023