New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to 17 states, including Delhi, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, directing them to ensure the establishment of special National Investigation Agency (NIA) courts in regions where 10 or more anti-terror cases are pending trial. A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant sought responses after the Union Home Ministry submitted a detailed status report stating that it has proposed setting up exclusive courts in states with a significant number o...Read More

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted five accused in a case related to the online radicalisation of vulnerable youth by the Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) terror group in Gujarat. The accused Mohammad Fardeen, Kureshi Sefulla, Mohammad Faique, Zeeshan Ali and Shama Parveen have been charged under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Arms Act. The NIA’s investigation in case RC-02/20...Read More

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs has handed over the probe into an ISKP-linked terror plot to the National Investigation Agency, Ahmedabad, amid concerns of a wider conspiracy linking arrests in Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, and the Red Fort blast. The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested Hyderabad-based doctor Ahmed Mohiuddin Syed, along with Mohammad Suhail (23) and Azad Suleman Shaikh (20) from Banaskantha. Investigators allege the trio conducted reconnaissance of the ...Read More

Ahmedabad: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted searches at 10 locations across five states in an Al‑Qaida Gujarat terror conspiracy case involving illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, an official statement said. NIA teams carried out searches at premises linked to various suspects and their associates in West Bengal, Tripura, Meghalaya, Haryana, and Gujarat. Several digital devices and incriminating documents were seized during the searches and are being sent for forensi...Read More

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has charge-sheeted eight more accused individuals in the 2020 transnational narco-terror network case involving the smuggling of drugs from Pakistan through sea routes into India via Gujarat. The drugs were aimed at financing the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit. In the 8th supplementary chargesheet filed in the Salaya drugs case, the NIA has conclusively established the narco-terror conspiracy, masterminded by Italy-based Simranjit Singh Sa...Read More

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has recently busted an online terror module linked to Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and arrested 30-year-old Shama Parveen Ansari from Bengaluru along with four others in the case. Now, given the gravity of the case, teams from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) are likely to join the probe. Officials said that under provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), the NIA can initiate an independent investigation if r...Read More

New Delhi: Cracking down further on the Pakistan-based D-Company gang, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has attached two immovable properties belonging to accused Mohammad Yunus alias Manjro in connection with the 2015 Bharuch double murder case, the agency said today. The properties of the arrested accused have been attached under Section 33(1) of the UA(P) Act, on the orders of the NIA Special Court, Ahmedabad, in case RC-13/2015/NIA/DLI. The attached properties include his residential...Read More

Ahmedabad: The investigation into a high-profile cyberterrorism case involving 18-year-old Jasim Shahnawaz Ansari has been officially handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). As per directives from the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ahmedabad unit of the Gujarat ATS transferred the case to the NIA on Friday. Ansari, a resident of Nadiad, was arrested by Gujarat ATS for allegedly coordinating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on over 50 Indian government websites between...Read More