Aftab Ansari

A special CBI court in Ahmedabad today sentenced Aftab Ansari, the mastermind of the American Center attack in Kolkata, to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment in a 17-year-old arms and ammunition smuggling case.

Two men convicted of the 2002 attack on the American Center in Kolkata won't hang, the Supreme Court ruled today. While commuting their death sentence, the court ordered one of the two convicts, Aftab Ahmed Ansari to spend his entire life in jail. The other, Mohd. Jamiluddin, has been sent to 30 years in jail without remission.

Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was today arrested by NIA Hyderabad in connection with the February 2013 Dilsukhnagar blast case after a Delhi court allowed its plea and granted the probe agency his two-day remand.

Had Ajmal Kasab - the lone Pakistani terrorist who was hanged for the 26/11 attacks on November 21 - been in Kolkata, he would have perhaps qualified to get the privileges of a 'Political Prisoner' - a status which freedom fighters like Mahatama Gandhi had when they were lodged in British Jails.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the death sentence awarded to convict Aftab Ahmed Ansari for the attack on the American Centre in Kolkata in 2002.A vacation bench comprising Justices G S Singhvi and C K Prasad asked the West Bengal government to respond within four months to a petition filed by Ansari challenging his conviction and death senten...

Justice Kalidas Mukherjee, one of the two Calcutta High Court judges who upheld the death sentence of don Aftab Ansari in the 2002 Amercian Center case, has received a threat letter.

The Calcutta High Court has upheld the death sentence of Aftab Ansari and Jalaluddin Nasir in the terrorist attack on the American Centre in Kolkata on January 2002.

A special CBI court in Ahmedabad today sentenced Aftab Ansari, the mastermind of the American Center attack in Kolkata, to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment in a 17-year-old arms and ammunition smuggling case.

Two men convicted of the 2002 attack on the American Center in Kolkata won't hang, the Supreme Court ruled today. While commuting their death sentence, the court ordered one of the two convicts, Aftab Ahmed Ansari to spend his entire life in jail. The other, Mohd. Jamiluddin, has been sent to 30 years in jail without remission.

Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal was today arrested by NIA Hyderabad in connection with the February 2013 Dilsukhnagar blast case after a Delhi court allowed its plea and granted the probe agency his two-day remand.

Had Ajmal Kasab - the lone Pakistani terrorist who was hanged for the 26/11 attacks on November 21 - been in Kolkata, he would have perhaps qualified to get the privileges of a 'Political Prisoner' - a status which freedom fighters like Mahatama Gandhi had when they were lodged in British Jails.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the death sentence awarded to convict Aftab Ahmed Ansari for the attack on the American Centre in Kolkata in 2002.A vacation bench comprising Justices G S Singhvi and C K Prasad asked the West Bengal government to respond within four months to a petition filed by Ansari challenging his conviction and death senten...

Justice Kalidas Mukherjee, one of the two Calcutta High Court judges who upheld the death sentence of don Aftab Ansari in the 2002 Amercian Center case, has received a threat letter.

The Calcutta High Court has upheld the death sentence of Aftab Ansari and Jalaluddin Nasir in the terrorist attack on the American Centre in Kolkata on January 2002.