The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday said it had arrested two Lashkar-e-Taiba Militants from Hyderabad in connection with the Darbhanga railway station blast case of Bihar. The accused had set off a bomb on a running passenger train resulting in huge loss of lives and property. The arrested were identified as Imran Malik alias Imran Khan and Mohd Nasir Khan alias Nasir Malik, both brothers residing at Nampally, Hyderabad. Both of them are from Uttar Pradesh. Initially the case was booked by the Railway police of Bihar relating to a parcel bomb explosion on Platform No. 1 of Darbhanga railway station on June 17. Investigation revealed that the parcel was booked at Secunderabad and had arrived on Train No. 07007 Secunderabad- Darbhanga Express. "The accused have r...

It has emerged from Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, that a Sikh woman (24) has retracted her allegations against two Muslim brothers who had been booked under the anti-conversion law based on her complaint. The woman had earlier alleged that she was forced by a man from her neighborhood to marry him and revert towards his religion, although she retracted the claims on Tuesday. According to a report in the Indian Express, while recording her statement before a magistrate, the woman denied all of the allegations. She also claimed that she had filed the complaint after coming under pressure from some Hindu organisations. The two muslim men were booked for rape and fraud. They were charged under the state's anti-conversion law on the basis of the complaint by her. The woman had ac...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court after hearing a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by filmmaker Kavitha Lankesh issued a notice to Karnataka Government and others. In the SLP, Kavitha has challenged a judgement of the Karnataka High Court quashing charges under Karnataka Control of Organized Crimes Act (KCOCA) against one of the accused, Mohan Nayak, in the Gauri Lankesh murder case, the news agency ANI reported. Justice AM Khanwilkar headed a three-judge bench of the Apex Court. Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Aniruddha Bose were the other two judges. The bench issued a notice to the government of Karnataka, on hearing the deceased journalist Gauri Lankesh's sister's SLP. Gauri Lankesh, the renowned journalist was shot dead outside her house on September 05, 2017 in Bengaluru. Hufeza A...

A Muslim youth has been booked under the National Security Act by the UP Police in connection with the video of an elderly man, Abdul Samad, in which he claimed he was attacked and forced to chant Jai Shri Ram. The Police claimed that Idris had been arrested for allegedly spreading communal hatred after he appeared in an FB live with Abdul Samad after the brutal attack against Samad. The police had claimed there was no communal angle to the assault. According to Ghaziabad police officers, the procedural report to invoke the NSA against Idris has been given due approval by the Home Department. The police have invoked section 3 (power to detain persons) of the National Security Act, 1980 against the accused. Apart from Idris, the Uttar Pradesh police have filed a case against Twi...