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VHP leader Praveen Togadia barred from entering Bengaluru

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Bengaluru: Senior VHP leader Praveen Togadia has been barred from entering Bengaluru from February 5 to February 10.

Bengaluru police commissioner M N Reddi has issued a notice to Togadia prohibiting him from entering the city.

The VHP leader was scheduled to attend ‘Hindu Virat Samavesha’ convention on February 8 in the city.

The ban came in the wake of provocative speeches made by Praveen Togadia in the past.

Sources said that VHP is planning to organise ‘Ghar Wapsi’ after the convention on February 8.

(Agencies)

Another Bodo militant wanted by Assam police held in Bengaluru

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Bengaluru: Another NDFB(S) militant, wanted in connection with the violence in Assam in December last year, was arrested here today, police said.

27-year old Sanju Bordoloi, the organising secretary of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit), was arrested from his hideout in the Electronic City based on specific inputs.

He is the second NDFB(S) militant to be arrested here since last week after the detention of Birkhang Basumatary, also allegedly involved in the Assam violence, on January 23.

“City Crime Branch arrested Sanju Bordoloi, son of Dim Wser Bordoloi, of Kamrup District in Assam, from Electronic City Police Station limits based on specific inputs,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Abhishek Goel said in a statement here.

Bordoloi was hiding here after participating in the recent massacre, he said, adding that the militant admitted that he was the organising secretary of NDFB(S) and trained in Bangladesh in AK-series of weapons.

The miltants had launched an attack on adivasis in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts on December 23 following which there was retaliatory violence and police firing resulting in the killing of 81 people.

Goel also said the police are coordinating with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Assam Police to hand him over to them.

“The militant is presently kept at the Electronics City police station,” he added.

Basumatary alias Bhutur, a native of Chirang in Assam, had already been handed over to Assam police.

(PTI)

Suspected Bodo militant arrested in Bengaluru

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Bengaluru: A suspected Bodo militant from Nagaland, Burling Bhutur a top leader of NDFB-Songbijit outfit, was arrested by the Bengaluru Police on Saturday, January 24.

Bengaluru Police Commissioner M N Reddi who confirmed the arrest stated that the militant was nabbed from a house located in Cottonpet, Bengaluru.

Also known as Birkhang Basumatary, Bhutur was directly involved in the killing of eight Adivasis at Lungsung on December 23 and six Hindi-speaking persons at Serfanguri in Kokrajhar district of Assam on January 16 last year, a PTI report from Guwahati quoted Assam IGP L R Bishnoi as saying. Terming the arrest as a “big catch”, Bishnoi said the arrest was made on a tip off by the Assam Police.

The NDFB(S) had launched an attack on adivasis in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts on December 23 last following which there was retaliatory violence and police firing resulting in the killing of 81 persons.

Earlier on January 16 last year six Hindi-speaking persons were shot dead after the armed insurgents pulled down around 12 passengers from a bus coming from to Shillong and opened fire on them at Athiabari under Serfanguri police station.

(Agencies)

BBMP demolishes shops in Malleswaram market

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Bengaluru: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) razed 80 shops to ground in Malleshwarm market area, to make way for market development project planned jointly by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) and BBMP.

Lakshminarasiah, Joint Commissioner, West, BBMP, said that they have got the court order and a letter from the BBMP commissioner to go ahead with the demolition. The demolition will take place in a phased manner. He said that the demolition notice was issued to shop owners to evacuate the market even before December.

N Venkataswamy, President of Malleshwarm market association said, “We don’t know what to do and we are helpless. “He further added that he was not informed in advance about the demolition.

Earlier on Dec 12, 2014, 18 shops were demolished by the BBMP under police protection, despite opposition by the vendors.

The 2.08 acre market was slated to be developed jointly by the BBMP and the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA). Though the BDA has back tracked, the BBMP has gone ahead with the demolition.

Police custody of alleged IM operatives extended till Feb 3

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Bangalore City Police Commissioner, M N Reddi.

Bangalore City Police Commissioner, M N Reddi.

Bengaluru: Police custody of four suspected operatives of the banned Indian Mujahideen, arrested recently, was extended till February 3 by a court here today.

“Court has extended the Police custody of Dr. Syed Ismail Afaq, Abdus Saboor, Riyaz Syeedi & Saddam Hussain upto February 3, 2015 in IM Explosive Seizure case,” DCP Crime (Bengaluru) Abhishek Goyal in a tweet said.

The Police custody of all the four suspects ended today.

Bengaluru Police on January 8 had claimed to have unearthed a terror module of IM with the arrest of its three alleged operatives and seizure of a huge cache of explosives during raids on their houses at Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district and here.

The fourth alleged operative was arrested on January 11 at the Mangaluru international airport before flying to Dubai.

City Police Chief M N Reddi had earlier said that the suspects were part of a terror module that was used to procure, fabricate and deliver deadly explosives.

According to them police, the alleged IM operatives transferred money through Hawala channels for funding and at least one of them attended meetings in a foreign country, where a conspiracy was hatched to manufacture and deliver deadly explosives which were probably used for blasts in different parts of the country.

Meanwhile, Dr. Afaq’s defence counsel Advocate Sultan Beary, has maintained that his client is innocent, and has alleged that he has been framed.

CCB sleuths take terror suspects to Bhatkal, search their homes

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Bhatkal: The four youths from Bhatkal, who were arrested recently on alleged terror charges, were on Monday brought to Bhatkal by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) to “collect evidence”.

The team, headed by Assistant Commissioner Omkaraiah, went to the house of arrested Dr. Syed Ismail Afaq and Abdus Saboor in the Tengengundi Cross area.

The team also reportedly visited the house of another youth Afeef Mota and questioned him. However, he was not picked up. The team is also said to have visited the Tengengundi port. The team, comprising four officials, reached the city at 4.30 pm. They did not speak to the media.

Meanwhile, Home Minister KJ George has claimed that the Bangalore city police have not framed anyone in the four terror suspects’ arrest. “The case is under investigation and we cannot reveal more details at this stage. He clarified the Bangalore city police have followed the standard proce dure while raiding the house from where the explosives were seized in Bhatkal. “Our police have arrested the people involved in terror activities. We have not framed anybody in the case. The charge sheet will reveal their role in a few days,” George said.

His statement came, after allegations of police framing the youths were made by prime accused Dr. Syed Ismail Afaq’s defense counsel Advocate Sultan Beary recently at a press conference.

Bengaluru Police Commissioner M N Reddi said that they had not zeroed in on any organisation responsible for the Church Street blast, but claimed that the investigation was on the right track.

Bengaluru police arrest another man at Mangaluru airport for alleged terror link; family says he's innocent

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Mangaluru: Bengaluru police have arrested a man from Bhatkal for alleged terror links.

The person, said to be identified as Riyaz (32), a resident of Makhdoom Colony, Bhatkal was arrested from Mangalore International Airport at around 11.30 pm on Saturday January 10.

Riyaz was about to board the Jet Airways flight to Dubai when he was apprehended by the Bengaluru police.

It is said that the Bengaluru police with the help of Mangaluru CCB police arrested Riyaz based on the alleged information provided by the three persons from Bhatkal who were arrested on January 8.

He has been taken to Bengaluru for further investigation, sources said.

‘He’s innocent’

Khaja Sayeedi, the father of Riyaz Ahmed, said that the arrest of his son has surprised him.

Riyaz was working at a hardware shop there. Sayeedi said that he had come home on December 8. Riyaz’s wife had delivered a baby girl 18 days ago. He was married 18 months ago. He had been living in Dubai for the last 10 years.

“Riyaz was supposed to return to Dubai three days ago, but as we had no money for the ticket, his journey got postponed. We came to know about his arrest only through the media,” he said.

Sayeedi claimed that his son was innocent and that he never indulged in such activities and that he had been arrested without any reason.

Muslim body wants CCB, NIA to come clean on raids 

Majlis-e-Islah wa Tanzeem, a social organisation run by Bhatkal Muslims, has sought to know why local leaders were not taken into confidence if the raid party knew that explosives were stored in a house in the town. Why were neighbours and the local media not informed during the raids, the Tanzeem wants to know.

It has sought to know what did the bag taken inside the house, with the help of the local police, contain. What was the need for the raid party to remain inside the small house for seven to eight hours by closing the door? the Tanzeem questioned.

It now plans to submit memorandum to the chief minister.

Bengaluru school 'rape': MLA Zameer Ahmed meets commissioner, urges to investigate the matter impartially

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MLA Zameer Ahmed with Nasheman editor Rizwan Asad.

L-R: N. Cheluvaraya Swamy and MLA Zameer Ahmed with Nasheman editor Rizwan Asad.

Bengaluru: Local Janata Dal (Secular) MLA Zameer Ahmed met city police commissioner M N Reddi today, alleging that a “lot of innocent individuals have been picked up,” by police in connection to the mob violence that followed the alleged sexual harassment of a 8 year old in a school here on Wednesday January 7.

Angry residents had clashed with the police, set vehicles on fire and pelted stones after an eight-year-old girl complained of sexual harassment by a physical education teacher in a school in Bengaluru.

Speaking to Nasheman, Mr. Ahmed said that more than 18 individuals have been arrested. “Many of them, I am told are innocent, and have no connection to the violence.” He urged the police to investigate the matter with impartiality, and release all innocent individuals.

8-year-old allegedly sexually harassed in Bengaluru school, accused thrashed

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Bengaluru: Angry parents clashed with the police, set vehicles on fire and pelted stones after an eight-year-old girl complained of sexual harassment by a physical education teacher in a school in Bengaluru. The accused Krishna has been taken into custody.

TV reports said she was allegedly also told to remove her hijab.

Angry parents and local residents in Bangalore burned school property and vehicles today and thrashed a teacher who was accused of molesting an 8-year-old.

The man, a physical education instructor at the private school located in West Bangalore, has been taken into police custody.

According to eyewitnesses, angry protestors set vehicles on fire when the police resisted and ransacked the school.

The situation is now under control and the area has been cordoned off, the report stated. Media channels quoted Police Commissioner M N Reddi, who rushed to the spot, as saying that “there should be no instant justice”, and that the “courts would decide on the punishment for the accused”.

“We have taken the accused into custody. We will take stringent action in the incident,” the Police Commissioner said. Reddi said “if anything unlawful takes place across the city, action will be taken.”

This is the second time this week that these areas have witnessed mass street violence.

A tense situation also prevailed during the Eid Milad celebrations over animal carcasses that were found near a place of worship. It wasn’t long before Wednesday’s episode — which started as a protest by the parents of the minor — degenerated into a riot with communal overtones.

The issue began to take on a communal colour because the alleged perpetrator and the victim are from different religious communities.

Mehdi Masroor Biswas sent to judicial custody

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Bengaluru: A special court Friday sent ISIS Twitter handler Mehdi Masroor Biswas to 14 day judicial custody after his 15-day police custody expired, a top police official said.

“Our probe team has collected sufficient evidence from him (Mehdi) on his pro-ISIS propaganda for the banned terrorist outfit (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) during his police custody over the last two weeks,” city Police Commissioner M.N. Reddi told reporters here.

The 24-year-old executive in a private firm was arrested Dec 14 and a case was registered against him under sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Information Technology (IT) Act for waging war against a friendly country.

“With the help of social media experts, we have so far analysed about 12,000 messages Mehdi tweeted/posted on his Facebook account, in which he encouraged youth to join ISIS though it is difficult to establish if recruitment took place,” Reddi said.

British News Channel 4 Dec 11 unmasked Mehdi as a radical supporter of ISIS through social media and Twitter handler @ShamiWitness where he was regularly tweeting from here on the group’s unlawful activities in Iraq and Syria.

“Investigation so far has revealed that Mehdi is a propagandist of ISIS ideology and has been instrumental in influencing minds against our friendly countries and against whom the terror group is at war,” Reddi said.

Mehdi, who hails from Gopalpur town in West Bengal’s Nadia district, is employed in the foods division of the Kolkata-based ITC Ltd here.

“We know Mehdi was in touch with one combatant in Iraq and was of some help to him, informing him of movement of forces and availability of passages. He is a highly radicalised person and has deep knowledge of what he was doing,” Reddi said.

Mehdi confessed to the investigation team that he had been operating the Twitter account after he got interested in the developments of the Levantine region comprising Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza Strip, Egypt and Libya.

He has about 17,000 Twitter followers and used to aggressively tweet by collecting information and watching developments in the desert region.

Mehdi’s Twitter handler was shut Dec 12 after the news channel revealed his identity and reported about the terror activities he was carrying in the virtual world beyond office hours.

(IANS)

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