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New Delhi, March 24 A special NIA court on Tuesday sentenced hardline separatist Aasiya Andrabi to life imprisonment for conspiring to wage war against India, observing that any leniency for the leader of Dukhtaran-e-Millat would only "revitalize" her efforts to secede Kashmir.Additional...

New Delhi, March 24 The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked 17 states, including Delhi, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, to strive to ensure that dedicated NIA courts complete trials in UAPA cases within one year.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said that the states may set...

New Delhi, March 23 – The arrest of an American mercenary, Matthew Aaron VanDyke, and six Ukrainian nationals by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has exposed a larger agenda against the northeastern states of India.While the accused have confessed to training ethnic armed groups based...

New Delhi, March 22 – A complex and controversial investigation involving foreign nationals has highlighted alleged links to covert activities in Myanmar’s ongoing conflict, even as Ukraine has strongly denied all accusations, according to a report.The development follows action by India’s...

New Delhi, March 20 – The northeastern states have always been a target of external elements. This explains why insurgency has lasted so long in the region. And now, some militant groups are trying to launch drone strikes targeting critical infrastructure in the region.Since 2014, the...

Mumbai, March 19 A special NIA court here has refused to discharge Irfan Khan, the alleged main conspirator in the 2022 murder of Umesh Kolhe, a pharmacist based in Amravati, saying there is sufficient prima facie evidence against the accused to proceed with the trial.The court said the murder...

New Delhi, March 19 An alert issued by security agencies based on information about attempts by certain "persons of interest" to flee India after illegally entering from Myanmar via the porous Mizoram border, led to the arrest of seven foreigners, including an US security analyst, officials said...

Mumbai, March 18 The Mumbai Police have sought the custody of gangster Anmol Bishnoi, as he needs to be investigated in several cases here, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Wednesday.Anmol Bishnoi, the younger brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and wanted in...

Srinagar, March 17 – While granting bail to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah, taking into account his age, eight years spent in jail, and the slow progress of the trial, the Supreme Court has imposed strict bail conditions on him.The bail order states that Shah will only use one mobile...

New Delhi, March 17 Some of the conditions imposed by the Supreme Court on Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah while granting him bail in a terror funding case included using only one mobile phone, which would always remain switched on; not leaving Delhi without the permission of the...

New Delhi, March 17 Emphasizing that if the trial was unlikely to conclude within a reasonable time, continued detention could result in the curtailment of personal liberty, the Supreme Court has granted bail to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in jail in a terror funding case.A...

New Delhi, March 16 – The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain an appeal filed by the West Bengal government challenging an order of the Calcutta High Court that had refused to stay the investigation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into the violence at Beldanga in the...

New Delhi, March 16 A Delhi court on Monday remanded two accused in the Red Fort blast conspiracy to 15 days of judicial custody.Special Judge Pitambar Dutt ordered the detention of Zameer Ahmad Ahangar and Tufail Ahmad Bhat after their five-day period in NIA custody ended.Ahangar and Bhat...

Srinagar, March 13 A court in the Bandipora district of Jammu and Kashmir has acquitted three individuals accused of harboring terrorists who killed a BJP leader and his two family members five years ago.District and sessions judge Mir Wajah, who is also the special judge designated under the...

Imphal, March 12 Two men who had gone missing in the Kamjong district of Manipur were found dead on Thursday, officials said.The deceased have been identified as Thangboimang Khongsai (35) from Shangkai in the Ukhrul district, and Thengin Baite (40) from the nearby Thawai Kuki village.A...

New Delhi, March 12 – The Supreme Court on Thursday granted bail to Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in a terror funding case. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta granted relief to the 74-year-old leader, noting his prolonged period of incarceration and the delay in the...

Kolkata, February 27 – After a prolonged dispute, the West Bengal Police agreed on Friday to hand over the case diary in the recent Beldanga violence case in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The NIA is investigating the matter following...

New Delhi, February 27 – The arrest of Sri Lanka’s former Intelligence chief, retired Major-General Suresh Sallay, is a turning point in the investigations into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 279 people.This move was a bold one taken by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who won...

Mumbai, February 25 An accused in the ISIS link case, Areeb Majeed, has claimed that he was approached by two individuals posing as Indian Army officers who offered to "drop" his trial if he joined a covert operation, prompting a special court on Wednesday to seek the response of the NIA and...

New Delhi, February 25 The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the NIA for referring to alleged inflammatory speeches from the 1990s while opposing the bail plea of Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Ahmed Shah in a terror funding case.The National Investigation Agency (NIA) told a bench of...