Mumbai Blasts Probe

The Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police in the early hours today received a call threatening of a possible bomb blast in Mira-Bhaydar, police said.

The Maharashtra government has ordered a probe into allegations that the grave of Mumbai blasts case convict Yakub Memon in Mumbai has been beautified and turned into a "mazaar" -- shrine.

The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that reports submitted by the Maharashtra government on its probe into the 2006 Mumbai train blasts were secret documents and cannot be provided to the man who has been sentenced to death in the case.

A special court in Mumbai on Tuesday refused to conduct an in-camera trial in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, in which BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur is one of the accused.

Painful memories of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, in which 166 people died, were revived on Friday when BJP leader Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur made a reference to late senior cop Hemant Karkare, who died in the line of duty when terror struck the city in 2008.

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, the 2008 Malegaon blasts accused contesting the national election as a BJP candidate, has boasted that 26/11 hero Hemant Karkare died because she had "cursed" him.

Senior IPS officer Subodh Kumar Jaiswal today took charge as the new police commissioner of Mumbai. Datta Padsalgikar, whom Mr Jaiswal replaced as the top city cop, took over as the Director General of Police, Maharashtra from Satish Mathur who retired today.

Hafiz Saeed, Jamaat-ud Dawa chief wanted by India for plotting the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, gives terrorists a pep talk before sending them across the border into Kashmir, a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Zaibullah arrested last month has told investigators.

The police custody of Iqbal Kaskar, brother of India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, has been extended by four days by a magistrate's court in Thane today. The police said the probe into an extortion case against him is not yet complete

Retired Indian Police Service officer Rakesh Maria, who headed the probe into the 1993 Mumbai blasts, today welcomed the conviction of six people including terrorists Mustafa Dossa and Abu Salem.

The CBI has taken over the probe into the murder of Hanif Kadawala, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case who gave an AK-56 rifle to actor Sanjay Dutt, and registered a case against gangster Chhota Rajan and his accomplices in this regard.

Parents of TV actress Pratyusha Banerjee, who allegedly committed suicide in April, today alleged that police were going "easy" on absconding accused in the case Rahul Singh and giving him multiple opportunities to "get away" as they expressed dissatisfaction over the probe.

The National Investigation Agency, which is probing the 2008 Malegaon blast case, today did not oppose in a Mumbai court the bail application filed by Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur after giving her a clean chit last month.

The traces of explosives found in the home of one of the accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case could have been "planted" by an officer of the Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) which first led the first probe, the National Investigation Agency or NIA.

Pakistan today said it was vigorously pursuing the 2008 Mumbai attacks case and described as "unfortunate" the "hype" created on the grant of bail to Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of the deadly assault.

The Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police in the early hours today received a call threatening of a possible bomb blast in Mira-Bhaydar, police said.

The Maharashtra government has ordered a probe into allegations that the grave of Mumbai blasts case convict Yakub Memon in Mumbai has been beautified and turned into a "mazaar" -- shrine.

The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that reports submitted by the Maharashtra government on its probe into the 2006 Mumbai train blasts were secret documents and cannot be provided to the man who has been sentenced to death in the case.

A special court in Mumbai on Tuesday refused to conduct an in-camera trial in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, in which BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur is one of the accused.

Painful memories of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, in which 166 people died, were revived on Friday when BJP leader Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur made a reference to late senior cop Hemant Karkare, who died in the line of duty when terror struck the city in 2008.

Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, the 2008 Malegaon blasts accused contesting the national election as a BJP candidate, has boasted that 26/11 hero Hemant Karkare died because she had "cursed" him.

Senior IPS officer Subodh Kumar Jaiswal today took charge as the new police commissioner of Mumbai. Datta Padsalgikar, whom Mr Jaiswal replaced as the top city cop, took over as the Director General of Police, Maharashtra from Satish Mathur who retired today.

Hafiz Saeed, Jamaat-ud Dawa chief wanted by India for plotting the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, gives terrorists a pep talk before sending them across the border into Kashmir, a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Zaibullah arrested last month has told investigators.

The police custody of Iqbal Kaskar, brother of India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, has been extended by four days by a magistrate's court in Thane today. The police said the probe into an extortion case against him is not yet complete

Retired Indian Police Service officer Rakesh Maria, who headed the probe into the 1993 Mumbai blasts, today welcomed the conviction of six people including terrorists Mustafa Dossa and Abu Salem.

The CBI has taken over the probe into the murder of Hanif Kadawala, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case who gave an AK-56 rifle to actor Sanjay Dutt, and registered a case against gangster Chhota Rajan and his accomplices in this regard.

Parents of TV actress Pratyusha Banerjee, who allegedly committed suicide in April, today alleged that police were going "easy" on absconding accused in the case Rahul Singh and giving him multiple opportunities to "get away" as they expressed dissatisfaction over the probe.

The National Investigation Agency, which is probing the 2008 Malegaon blast case, today did not oppose in a Mumbai court the bail application filed by Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur after giving her a clean chit last month.

The traces of explosives found in the home of one of the accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case could have been "planted" by an officer of the Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) which first led the first probe, the National Investigation Agency or NIA.

Pakistan today said it was vigorously pursuing the 2008 Mumbai attacks case and described as "unfortunate" the "hype" created on the grant of bail to Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, the mastermind of the deadly assault.