By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: People from various walks of life on November 7 condemned the response of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to a request of an 83-year-Jesuit with Parkinson’s disease now languishing in a jail in Mumbai, western India. Father Stan Swamy November 7 moved the NIAContinue Reading
New Delhi: An advocacy group for Catholic religious has “strongly and unequivocally” condemned the arrest of a Jesuit priest for his alleged links with Maoists and other terror groups. The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which deals with terror related crimes across India, October 8 arrested Jesuit Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy fromContinue Reading
New Delhi: The People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) has condemned the “malicious and spiteful” arrest and detention of Jesuit Father Stanislaus Lourduswamy. The National Investigation Agency on October 8 arrested the 83-year-old social activist from his residence at the Bagaicha campus, a Jesuit center, near Ranchi, the capital ofContinue Reading
Patna: A special National Investigation Agency court in Patna on June 1 awarded life term to five convicts in the Bodh Gaya serial bomb blasts case. On May 25, the court convicted Imtiyaz Ansari, Haider Ali, Mujib Ullah, Omair Siddiqui and Azharuddin Qureishi under various sections of the Indian PenalContinue Reading
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is going raw on the Islamic preacher Zakir Naik. The NIA has filed a chargesheet against Zakir Naik on Thursday. He has been booked on the issue of manifesting the terror activities and mongering the hate speeches among the youth. In July, the NIA hadContinue Reading
Kolkata: India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has revealed that an Islamic State sympathizer it arrested six months ago had planned to attack the Mother House, the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata. Managed by the order started by Saint Mother Teresa of Kolkata, the house attracts a largeContinue Reading
The visits cannot be termed as rece’s but during his interrogation the accused admitted that he had visited the two locations and selected them as possible target area’s,” said a NIA official.Continue Reading
Eight Muslim men arrested for the 2006 Malegaon blasts that killed 35 people discharged by a Mumbai courtContinue Reading
Joseph’s right palm was chopped off by suspected Islamist militants in 2010 for allegedly making derogatory references to Prophet MuhammadContinue Reading
