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2006 Mumbai blasts: MCOCA approval was based on ‘oral info’, ‘non-application of mind’

It was a decision based on oral information that may have set off a chain of convictions in a MCOCA court in the 2006 Mumbai blasts case. An order that was overturned nearly a decade later by the Bombay High Court, and now stayed by the Supreme Court.

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Acquitted in 2 cases, but a former terror suspect is a lifetime prisoner of suspicion

At 12.48 pm on May 13, 2025, Abdul Wahid Shaikh stood at the threshold of academic triumph. After years of struggle, the 47-year-old school teacher was finally submitting his PhD thesis on “prison literature” at Mahatma Gandhi Mission University in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. A man who had spent nine years…

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Absconding for 22 years, SIMI operative Hanif Sheikh arrested by Delhi Police

A member of the SIMI who also allegedly edited a magazine of the banned organisation besides indoctrinating many gullible youths has been arrested by the Delhi Police.

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Delhi Police arrest elusive SIMI member Hanif Sheikh after 22 years

Delhi Police's Southern Range Special Cell claimed on Sunday to have arrested Hanif Sheikh, one of the most elusive members of the banned organization Student's Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Read further on Dynamite News:

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Ministry of Home Affairs extends ban imposed on Students Islamic Movement of India for 5 years

The Ministry of Home Affairs extends ban on SIMI for five years due to involvement in terrorism and disturbance of peace.

The Hindu

‘Used to police action’: Muslim man picked up after Kerala blast was acquitted of sedition 17 years ago

“After the noon prayers, I was resting at home, when they rang the bell. There were many policemen outside waiting for me,” recounts Nizamuddin Panayikulam. He didn’t ask them why they were at his doorstep. He had seen the media reports of the bomb blasts at a convention centre at…

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NIA raids 20 locations in PFI case

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out searches at 20 locations allegedly linked to the banned terror outfit, the Popular Front of India (PFI).

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SIMI, PFI ideology dominates Congress and its allies: Uttarakhand CM

In a sharp reaction to Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Swami Prasad Maurya’s claim that the Badrinath temple had been built after destroying a Buddhist shrine, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday accused the Opposition alliance of holding the ideology of Islamic extremist groups.

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PM Modi says SIMI, PFI used INDIA name; Congress calls it ‘shameful retort’

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a swipe at the group of 26 opposition parties for calling itself INDIA and said even East India Company and banned organisations such as SIMI and PFI have INDIA in them and asked the people to reject them. The Congress retorted…

The Times of India

Sales of new diesel and petrol cars will be phased out across Europe by 2035

SIMI Director General, Brian Cooke, says the new legislation will be a “huge challenge” for the motor industry

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Q&A: Understanding India’s crackdown on Muslim groups

Al Jazeera speaks to Irfan Ahmad, an expert on Islamist parties and Islamophobia, to understand ban on Muslim groups.

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MHA cites 4 murders in State; accused PFI members in one case were acquitted in 2021

Notification cites killings of R. Rudresh, Praveen Pujari, Sharath Madiwala, and Praveen Nettaru

The Hindu

PFI ban: Ministry of Home Affairs cites murders of four Hindutva activists in Karnataka to make a case

State government and BJP welcome the ban; SDPI distances itself from PFI

The Hindu

The Popular Front of India, its origins, presence, and controversies

The members of the “neo-social” organisation have been at the centre of multiple controversies in the last decade, from alleged organisation of arms training camps to money laundering probes

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India arrests dozens after nationwide raids on Muslim group PFI

India’s top investigation agencies arrest 45 Popular Front of India members for alleged terror links after the raids.

The Times of India

Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad reopens probe into SIMI terrorist's 'US & political links'

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad has initiated a fresh probe into alleged 'American' and 'political' connections of Gujarat serial-blast convict Md Ali and some of his close relatives, say sources in the agency.

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