Internal Security Watch

[vasu raya]

Was the non inclusion in OPEC consortium was that we are not a 'green' nation?

[yvijay]

We have to have ARC do some photo reconnaissance before CRPF movement in these areas. Even satellites must be used. We cannot and should not allow our brave CRPF jawans die like this. A determination must be made that all resources will be thrown against the Maoists and it will be a fight to finish.

It looks like some mole passed on the information. They were in mufti and they were not on their usual mission. That's why they didn't had the road clearing team sweep before they went through that route.

[SagarAg]

Also adding to what yvijay ji said, they were not in jungle or deep inside some MaoNax territory. From the pictures floating around of the blast site, there was no tree around and was all barren land.

[SSridhar]

Bid to save dog cost 7 jawans their lives - Neeraj Chauhan, ToI

Very tragic.

It was a mission to save their four-legged comrade that cost seven CRPF jawans their lives in a Maoist strike in Dantewada on Wednesday.

An IED blast blew up their vehicle as the jawans were on their way to evacuate Scout, a Belgian Malinois who had proved his mettle as an expert sniffer dog, but was seriously ill due to dehydration in the jungle heat.

Adhering to deception tactics which are part of the standard operating proce-dure, the soldiers belonging to CRPF's 230 battalion were travelling in an unmarked tempo from their post in Nerli to Bhusaras Ghati camp, about 40km away, dressed in civil clothes.

They had picked up an air cooler for the dog from the Renganar camp before heading out to fetch Scout and shift him to a veterinary hospital. Along the way, at Mailavada village, the tempo was blown to pieces by Maoists, who had planted 40-50kg of explosives beneath the road.

The dog, Scout, has reportedly detected a large number of IEDs for CRPF in Dantewada over the years and is considered an expert at his job. The canine had been laid low by a 'heat wave' and was seriously ill for the past several days.

Initially, only four jawans were supposed to go to pick up Scout but six others from the same battalion joined them at a civil bus stop. Later, three alighted at Renganar camp. The preliminary probe suggests the Maoists dug a fox hole tunnel from near a culvert to plant the explosives beneath the blacktop road in Mailavada village.

The tunnel, officials say, seems to have been dug up about 7-8 days back. The IED was exploded from a safe distance with the activation device attached to a 94-metre-long wire. The explosion left a 6.5-feet-wide crater on the road and broke the vehicle into three pieces. In a further act of brutality, officials say that three jawans, who probably were badly injured but alive after the explosion, were shot at close range in the head and chest by AK-47 rifles.

"CRPF takes a cautious approach while travelling in Naxal-affected areas, using civil dress and unconventional vehicles as part of the deception plan. But the deception failed this time," said an officer.

He added that the Naxals probably planned the attack more than a week in advance as they wanted to strike at the time of 'Shaheed Saptah' (martyrs' week).

CRPF director-general K Durga Prasad said, "Although there was no leak of information about the movement of jawans but Naxals definitely knew that the vehicle was reaching Mailavada village." Officials said that extremists either saw the jawans leaving the Renganar camp and informed the attacking party, or the jawans had stopped at a market where they were identified by Maoist sympathisers.

The DG said Maoists were getting smarter at concealing deadly improvised explosive devices and were "going deeper in the countryside to plant explosives beneath normal-looking roads and travel routes".

[SSridhar]

So, the tunnel had been dug up in advance just in case some CRPF vehicle passed along that road and people were manning that IED 24X7. Now, we have to worry that many such IEDs may be in place awaiting unsuspecting vehicles. Also, lookouts are teeming at all places waiting to identify the CRPF jawans. Even if they go in mufti, their haircut, facial features, gait, even dress etc could be a giveaway. Also, I am not sure how many tempos would be plying on that road which people can afford? That could be another giveaway.

[SSridhar]

Maoists used foxhole tunnel to plant IED in Dantewada: CRPF DG Durga Prasad - Rahul Tripathi, Economic Times

The powerful IED explosion that killed seven CRPF men in Dantewada on Wednesday was planted after digging a "foxhole tunnel" near a culvert to plant 45 kilogramme of explosive beneath the concrete black top road, said CRPF DG K Durga Prasad.

The explosion was triggered from 94-metres away through wires causing the Tata 407 vehicle to split into three pieces.

Prasad, who came back to New Delhi, after a visit to the ambush spot on Thursday said: "The team of Naxals fired on the bodies of the slain jawans when they came near the site to loot the weapons. The wire used for causing the explosion seems to have been freshly laid. We have sent the electric wire used to detonate the explosives for forensic tests. There are also strong chances that some locals tipped them about the movement of the CRPF vehicle."



Prasad told ET that the convoy, which was attacked by the Naxals, was travelling to deliver a cooler for an ailing sniffer dog in Dantewada and a court of inquiry has been ordered to study any possible lapses and revise the SoPs if required. According to preliminary investigations, Naxals have now devised a new strategy where they dig a foxhole tunnel near a culvert and plant explosive beneath the black top road.

CRPF teams have detected a similar tunnel that was 9-feet deep beneath the road at Bijapur last week. Another trend that has been witnessed in Chhattisgarh is increased use of remote control IEDs, said Prasad. They have seized nine IED connected with cordtex at a forested patch in Rajpeta near Bijapur, Prasad added.

The CPRF chief also said that it is due to the paramilitary and state police's constant crackdown on the ultras that they are now targeting the security forces in new areas .

While there has been decline in Naxal activities in states like Jharkhand and Odisha, Chhattisgarh still remains a hotbed of Maoist action as the outfit recently observed Tactical Counter Offensive Campaign (TCOC) between March 23-29 where they aimed to target security forces and establishment by practising attacks and blasts strategies.

[SSridhar]

Is there an anomaly in the IED data above between 2014 & 2015?

[SSridhar]

Armed Maoists storm village, ask people to boycott polls - S.Vijay Kumar, The Hindu

About a dozen armed Maoists, including two women cadres, reportedly stormed a village along the Western Ghats close to the Kerala border in the Nilgiris district late on Friday night and addressed a gathering of about 150 tribals.

According to police sources, the Maoists came to the Nedukal Kambai village in the Kolakombai police station limits around 9 p.m.

Asking the villagers to gather at a common place, a couple of them began addressing the gathering, while others took positions to guard.

Making an appeal to the villagers to join the CPI (Maoist), they released a manifesto promising to restore land, water and forest rights to the people.

During the hour-long meeting, the Maoists distributed pamphlets and pasted posters in the village, according to sources.

Calling for strengthening the ‘People's Liberation Guerrilla Army’ to establish “people’s rule”, the Maoists urged the tribals, Dalits, students, women and educated youth to join the armed struggle.

Vowing to render justice to the Munnar tea estate workers, they appealed to the people to reject the elections which “was the path of corrupt politicians” and drive away the Special Task Force (STF) from the forest area, the sources said.

As the news of the Maoists’ visit spread early on Saturday, a huge posse of policemen, including STF personnel, conducted combining operations in the area. Inspector-General of Police (West Zone) C. Sridhar visited the area.

The incident comes months after senior Maoist leader Rupesh alias Jogi, who heads the Western Ghats Special Zonal Committee, his wife Shyna and three others were arrested near Tirupur based on intelligence shared by the Special Intelligence Branch of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh police.

The sporadic activities of Maoists along the Western Ghats are part of their agenda to establish a stronghold in the tri-junction of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala, police sources added.

When contacted, a senior police official said combing operations were on till late on Saturday and nothing could be confirmed on the movement of the Maoists. “We have some information that cannot be confirmed at this juncture,” he said.

This is a very big and alarming news for TN. For several years now, there has been proof of sporadic Maoist movements along the Kerala-TN forest border, in these very areas. The present news is an escalation that necessitates strong action. The Maoists have chosen a right time to daringly announce their presence, when everyone, including the police force, is busy with elections.

I also strongly suspect that the Communists, while vaguely condemning their Maoist terrorist comrades whenever they are pushed, are tacitly encouraging them. The Communist tactic, as spelt out by Yechury, is to cause widespread unrest in the country by involving the student community and co-opting Dalits under the guise of highlighting their genuine demands. No wonder, the posters in Nilgiris highlight this aspect.

There is now a new outfit, PLG, People's Liberation Group which must be smashed by the combined efforts of the TN & Kerala police forces.

[Singha]

a carefully targeted attack perhaps using moles from within to track his movements.

NIA officer attached to Pathankot terror attack probe shot dead in UP; wife injured
Posted on: 08:54 AM IST Apr 03, 2016 | Updated on: 9:31 am,Apr 3,2016 IST
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In a daring attack, a senior NIA officer was killed by two unidentified men in Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.
The officer has been identified as Tanzil Ahmed. He was rushed to a nearby hospital by the local people and was declared brought dead. His wife Farzana who was travelling with him was also injured in the shooting and rushed to AIIMS in New Delhi.


The incident reportedly took place around 4 am when Ahmed was returning home after attending a wedding ceremony in Bijnor.
Sources said, two men reportedly on a motorcycle, intercepted his car and fired indiscriminately aiming at him from a point blank range. In the shoot out his wife also received bullet injuries. She was kept under observation at the hospital in Delhi.
Preliminary inquiry revealed that Ahmed was part of a team who was investigating the Indian Air Force base terror attack in Pathankot.

He was involved in some of the major operations of NIA.
His body has been sent for post-mortem examination and a team of NIA officers from Delhi left for Bijnor to probe the attack. "It is a very serious case. We along with the Uttar Pradesh police are investigating the killing," NIA said.
So far, no one has been arrested in this connection.

[SSridhar]

Five CRPF jawans injured in IED blast in Dhanbad - PTI

Five CRPF personnel were on Saturday injured in a series of IED blasts carried out by Naxals in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand.

DIG (Bokaro range) Upendra Kumar Singh said the CRPF personnel were on a longrange patrol when blasts took place. "The jawans have been airlifted to Ranchi for treatment," he said.

[Shanu]

Some good news from West Bengal. The mastermind of the Shilda camp massacre is nabbed from Kolkata, along with his wife.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-we ... tf-2197393

Based on reliable source information, STF arrested Vikas, who is the leader of the state committee of the Maoists. He is also the secretary of the state military commission. Vikas was accused of many incidents at Sildar, Sankrail, Lalgarh, which resulted in death of many. Besides Vikas, we have also arrested his wife Tara. She was also an integral part of the organisation," said Vishal Garg, Joint Commissioner of Kolkata Police (STF) while addressing media persons at Kolkata Police Headquarters in Lalbazar.

He added,"We have seized 7.62 mm pistol, two magazines, nine rounds live ammunition, Maoist literature and letters written in Adivasi language."

So the Head of Maoists in West Bengal, who took over after Kishanji was killed is now taken. Now is the time to dismantle this organization in Eastern India.

[Sachin]

There is now a new outfit, PLG, People's Liberation Group which must be smashed by the combined efforts of the TN & Kerala police forces.

The "silent valley" (map) area seems to be their camp, and I am sure the police are also aware of this. This is a huge forest area, but once a person masters the territory it becomes the best hiding spot. This forest has two states as its border (Kerala and Tamil Nadu). And if they can make some discrete moves, they can move towards Karnataka as well. These naxals seems to be a very small gang, which also gives them the luxury of deciding when and where to pop up next.

If you notice the map, right through the forests one can reach the Ooty, Nilgiri hills side on one side, and also go towards Nilambur side on the other side. And if one goes southwards, he can reach the Mannarkkad side. And it is only in these areas these naxals seems be operating (and occasionally get sighted as well). And one thing to be noted is that they really do not want to confront the police. From what ever I have observed for the last couple of years, their main job is generally visiting tribal colonies, sticking posters, taking food materials (without paying) from the tribals. Once or twice they have attacked lone forest outposts (manned by "watchers" who generally are tribals only). The police always on a reactive mode, tries to go a bit into the forest area once they get the message. But there have not been any major joint operations or combing done by both T.N.P & K.P.

But I am sure that there is a good system of sharing intelligence between the two states. One naxal "leader" who is now more into writing books glorifying the "revolution" was picked up from Karumathampatti near Coimbatore. Last year there was an attack on a lone forest outpost at Mukkalli, Attappadi near Mannarkkad, KL. I was in the Nilgiris Dt. the next day, and was surprised to find a jeep of K.P in that area. A S.I (veteran, promotee) who is quite popular in the mid-lands of KL as a "thief taker" and "intelligence" man, was leading the team.

[Vipul]

NIA officer Tanzil Ahmed was shot more than two dozen times.

Tanzil's wife Farzana has told the investigators that it was a planned attack and that the shooters were professionals and used automatic weapons. Farzana was also injured in the attack; gunmen pumped four bullets into her.
"The manner in which the officer was ambushed and the count of bullets fired suggests that the assailants wanted to make sure that Tanzil does not survive the attack," said a senior STF official associated with the probe. "Though we are yet to establish the number of bullet wounds, the officer had suffered multiple bullet wounds," he said, adding that the miscreants had used the prohibited 9 mm bore firearm.

There were reports that Tanzil was nominated as the liaison officer for the recent visit of Pakistan's Joint Investigation Team (JIT), which had recently visited India to probe the Pathankot terror attack. There were unconfirmed reports that Tanzil was also associated with Pathankot attack probe and had played an important role in investigations into the Bijnor blast being presently probed by the NIA.

[member_29350]

This is right up there with Gen A S Vaidhya's assassination. There is definitely someone in NIA leaking info

[fanne]

Insider involvement, Doval sir, right up your arena, find it and do the needful.

[SSridhar]

NIA refutes that the assassinated officer was part of Pathankot investigation team.

[Vipul]

Red Earth Tales-A voluble Kanhaiya and the silent Kerala murders.

You may not have heard of Sadanandan Master. One dark night in 1994, days short of his sister’s wedding, the school-teacher in Kerala was pulled out of a bus by CPI(M) workers and pinned to the ground. His face was slammed into the mud and his legs severed from his body with an axe. Last month, in the same week that Kanhaiya Kumar became a symbol of free speech, a younger man from the RSS, Sujith, was dragged out of his home and hacked to death in front of his parents and mentally challenged brother.

As his frantic cries sliced through another dark night, Kanhaiya’s speech was being played on loop and the CPI(M) raised his right to free speech in Parliament. You may, therefore, be excused for not having heard of Sujith either—not when he lived, especially not when he died. Sujith’s death was taken away from him, much like his life.

A few days after Sujith’s murder, a young auto driver, Biju, from the RSS again, was attacked whilst ferrying schoolchildren, leaving him battling for life and the children traumatised. But these children, although scarred, will survive and reach adulthood, much like the 40 students in 1999 who watched as the gentle Jayakr­ishnan Master was hacked to death during class. Traumatised children? Yes, but not enough for a little boy to identify one of the main acc­used by his hairstyle as the killer—a CPI(M) worker.

These aren’t random acts or cases of mob fury, the way the loquacious Kanhaiya defines the 1984 Sikh “riots” while recommending that we read history. These are targeted attacks and they have a history, even if mostly documented by tongue. Remember, the RSS, as the acc­usation stands, has no “intellectuals”! But for those who liken the violence in Kannur to a Bloods vs Crips streetgang-style vendetta saga, the date to roll back to is April 28, 1969—the day of the first killing, of Vadikkal Ramakrishnan, an RSS worker, who was on his way home. His crime? He’d switched sides. This is a consistent casting call: the ones topping the hit list are those who “betray”. Betrayal has bloody consequences in this land of “party villages”—fiefdoms of enforced ideology where the mildest response to those who veer from Marxism is throwing faeces and dirt into their wells.

Every decade has a tombstone for a milestone. The name for the 1970s is Pannunda Chandran, a college student killed in an RSS shakha. The date: September 2, 1978. More names, more dates, but this one sets the context, an oft-used ruse to explain the murders of RSS workers: the 1978 context was an upswing in support for the RSS because of its resistance during the Emergency.

The bodycount mounted and history turned a corner: this sordid and bloody saga was not to remain a one-sided contact sport, and when the government refused to intervene, it became retaliatory, transforming beautiful Kannur into the Sicily of India, with vendetta as its official sport. One at which the CPI(M) still wins.

Since February, there has already been one fatality and two near-fatal attacks on RSS workers. They pass without comment because primetime is only for Kanhaiya and his contemplations. Meanwhile, Sujith is quietly cremated in a ceremony that has a “secular” turnout. The clarion call for civil rights in Delhi is amplified, the human rights violations in Kerala muted. Ghettois­ing murder helps explain it better, especially when the losing side holds an ideology that is abhorrent to the powers that control the discourse.

Amal, a pracharak and most recent victim of this violence, has just regained speech and managed to remember his name, an insignificant development, because the microphones will never reach him. But what of the all-important spurts of “free speech”? Like the one M.M. Mani, a veteran CPI(M) leader, had in 2012 when he waxed nostalgic about the 1980s and the planned killings of opponents! That’s free speech one must support, because in this time of skewed discourse, free speech only has hope of being heard when it tumbles from the lips of those who claim to stand for the oppressed and against intolerance.

[member_29350]

Armed Maoists storm village, ask people to boycott polls

About a dozen armed Maoists, including two women cadres, reportedly stormed a village along the Western Ghats close to the Kerala border in the Nilgiris district late on Friday night and addressed a gathering of about 150 tribals.

According to police sources, the Maoists came to the Nedukal Kambai village in the Kolakombai police station limits around 9 p.m.

Asking the villagers to gather at a common place, a couple of them began addressing the gathering, while others took positions to guard.

Making an appeal to the villagers to join the CPI (Maoist), they released a manifesto promising to restore land, water and forest rights to the people.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/che ... 427982.ece

[SSridhar]

TN had information on Maoist movement along its border - The Hindu

Tamil Nadu had specific intelligence on the movement of Maoists along its borders with Kerala in the recent months, according to reliable sources in the Police Department.

This was even highlighted during the monthly review meetings on Law and Order convened by the Chief Secretary. It was based on this information that the Special Task Force (STF) that maintains vigil along the forest areas bordering neighbouring States set up three new camps, police sources said on Sunday.

No big surprise

Saturday night’s visit of armed Maoists to Nedukal Kambai village in The Nilgiris district asking people to boycott elections and join the “People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army” was no big surprise as there have been frequent inputs of Naxal activity in neighbouring Kerala.

“Investigators are trying to analyse the entry and exit routes to Nedukal Kambai and the possible approach path to Kerala, which is 14 km away.

On frequent reports of Maoist sightings along the border, the STF established new camps in Upper Bhavani, Pandalur and Mangarai recently. Trap cameras have been installed at some places,” a police officer said.

The ‘Q’ Branch that exclusively focuses on banned extremist organisations, including the Maoists, has had no regular Superintendent of Police after K. Bhavaneeswari was shifted in July last year. {The 'Q' Branch has been very effective and SP Ms. Bhavaneeswari was doing a very good job} Setting up of more check-posts, deployment of manpower and vehicles along vulnerable routes was imperative to curb the recurrence of such activities, the officer requesting anonymity said.

[Singha]

NIA refutes that the assassinated officer was part of Pathankot investigation team.

No the nia DG said being a young and small org, everyone was involved in some way with every investigation.

[ramana]

So what 9mm pistols were used to shoot 24 bullets into one persons and many more into his wife and car?

Also there are multiple versions of his job description.

NIA better do a through investigation into his killing and not cover up as usual.

he deserves that much.

Please post all the investigation details in this thread.

[SSridhar]

NIA officer’s suspected killer identified from wedding video - ToI

Investigating agencies have laid their hands on a video clip of one of the assailants who gunned down National Investigating Agency officer Tanzil Ahmed Sunday in UP's Bijnor district early Sunday morning and are likely to release his photograph to the media on Tuesday.

Investigators are reasonably confident that the suspect — who appears in CCTV footage of the wedding Ahmed attended before being shot dead — was one of the killers. Another suspect, about whom the investigators are less sure, too has been identified in the videos.

"We have shown the footages to the hosts and they have not been able to identify the two men. We have sent their pictures to caterers and others to confirm if the two were known to them," said a senior officer associated with the high-level probe into the murder.

Investigators are also looking into whether Ahmed was eliminated because of the important role he had played in terrorism-related probes.

Inspector general of police (IG) ATS Asim Arun said investigators had yet to zero in on the motive behind the murder. "We are looking into the terror angle and other aspects as well," he told TOI.

Investigators have also traced the movement of the suspects from footage of another CCTV camera installed at a private property outside Ahmed's village. The two are seen on a motorcycle. The video footage, however, is not clear enough to help in identification of the suspects.

Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, meanwhile, announced an ex-gratia relief of Rs 20 lakh for Ahmed's family and directed the police to ensure proper security for them.

Investigators also recorded the statement of Tanzil's daughter Jimnish (15) and son Shahbaaz (12) who are the only eyewitnesses to the incident at the NIA headquarters in Delhi.

"After the first shot was fired, my father asked us to crouch down between the front and the rear seats and thereafter we only heard several shots being fired," Jimnish told the police.

"The sound of gunshots stopped for a few seconds and started again," she added.

After the firing stopped, the two children tried to stop a man who was passing by on a motorcycle, but in vain. Later, it was confirmed that he was a resident of Bijnor and had called up the police control room to inform them about the incident. NIA sources said Ahmed, who belonged to a family of teachers, was crucial in helping investigators make sense of the literature found with jihadis and emails they exchanged among themselves in Urdu. His language skills made him a valuable resource. He was a key member of NIA teams dealing with Islamic State, Indian Mujahideen and the Burdwan blast. He was also serving as a liaison officer in the Pathankot IAF base attack case when the Joint Investigation Team of Pakistan visited here, besides being involved with investigations into fake currency racket which allegedly enjoys the support of Pakistan's spy agency, ISI.

"There is a possibility that what made him an asset for us, also earned him the enmity of those who were on our radar", said a senior colleague of Ahmad, adding that the officer was a good 'field investigator' too.

[SSridhar]

NIA refutes that the assassinated officer was part of Pathankot investigation team.

No the nia DG said being a young and small org, everyone was involved in some way with every investigation.

Also there are multiple versions of his job description.

From the ToI post above, I conclude that DSP Tanzil Ahmed was involved mostly in IS/IM/FICN related investigations. It could therefore be AuT or ISI that eliminated him. My suspicion is with AuT.

On his involvement with Pathankot, it appears that NIA used him only during the Pakistani SIT's visit last week.

[SSridhar]

Assailants lay in wait for Ahmed, says NIA official - Vijaita Singh, The Hindu

A team of U.P. investigators visited the National Investigation Agency (NIA) headquarters on Monday to probe the murder of Inspector Mohammed Tanzil Ahmed (45), who was killed in Bijnore district on Sunday.

An NIA official said the assailants knew the area well and had waited for Ahmed through the night.

“Ahmed had gone to attend his niece’s wedding at a community hall, eight km from his house. On the night of the wedding, his car ferried relatives and guests several times but it did not come under attack,” the official said.

Only around 1 a.m. when Ahmed was returning with his wife and children did the attack take place.

“As soon as Ahmed, who was driving the vehicle, turned left from the highway and got on the kutcha road, two assailants on a motorcycle came from the direction of his house. They drove past his car initially but came back and shot him several times,” he said.

[Vipul]

A sure fire link to the ISI being responsible is when they start accusing the Indian state. In the fart show on a shitistani channel hosted by army mouthpiece Moeed Pirzada, Shahid Latif said the Indian agencies have eliminated Tanzil Ahmed as per his investigation he was on the verge of clearing pakistan of any involvement in the Pathankot case!!!!

Here is the clip of the fart show.

[chetak]

A sure fire link to the ISI being responsible is when they start accusing the Indian state. In the fart show on a shitistani channel hosted by army mouthpiece Moeed Pirzada, Shahid Latif said the Indian agencies have eliminated Tanzil Ahmed as per his investigation he was on the verge of clearing pakistan of any involvement in the Pathankot case!!!!

Here is the clip of the fart show.

why not a operation by the pakis themselves?? they certainly have sympathizers and assets in the area.

[SSridhar]

Sleuths sniff IS-IM nexus behind NIA man’s killing - ToI

As they continue to focus on the terror angle to Mohammed Tanzil's murder, intelligence agencies are especially probing whether an Indian Mujahideen sleeper cell was behind the killing of the NIA officer, highly placed sources told TOI.

Of late, Islamic State handlers, led by its India commander Shafi Armar, have been trying to get in touch with members of a particular IM cell to get them to work for them. In the process, they had tapped some youths from western UP.

"We are probing if the strike was to send out a message across to us for our action against them," a top officer said. Sources said local criminals could have been roped in by these sleeper cells to execute the killing, a ploy (Maal-e-Ghanimat) trademark of the IM.

In a meeting on Tuesday, attended by oficers of all anti-terror units based in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, all possibilities were analysed in detail but the IM-related one seemed most plausible, a source said. Tanzil, a Muslim officer at the forefront of anti-terror operations, could have irked IS handlers who have been rattled by the recent crackdown against their modules. The sleuths also feel that Tanzil would have been an easy-to-spot target, being from Bijnore, barely two hours from Sambhal and Roorkee from where recent terror modules were busted.

"They would not have spared the son and the rest of the family if it was personal or a property dispute. However, we are probing all angles," a senior investigator said. The wife came in the ambit of indiscriminate fire, cops said, while emphasising that nothing has been ruled out.

See this x-post

[Sachin]

Don't know if this is just a ruse, but two chaps have been picked up for their involvement in the NIA officer's murder. Property dispute is cited as the reason; which looks a bit silly to me.
Two detained in connection with NIA officer's murder

[SSridhar]

‘Pak terrorists moving towards Punjab in car’ - PTI

Punjab was on Wednesday put on high alert following an input from Delhi Police about entry of three heavily armed Pakistani terrorists who might be suicide bombers. They are travelling from Jammu and Kashmir in a grey Swift Dzire car along with a local resident and are expected to cross the Banihal tunnel later in the night, the alert says, adding that their target could be in Delhi, Goa and Mumbai.

I used to read about such warnings, loud sound being heard in some locality etc. in Pakistan and used to laugh. Slowly, things are coming to a similar pass here too.

[deejay]

‘Pak terrorists moving towards Punjab in car’ - PTI

Punjab was on Wednesday put on high alert following an input from Delhi Police about entry of three heavily armed Pakistani terrorists who might be suicide bombers. They are travelling from Jammu and Kashmir in a grey Swift Dzire car along with a local resident and are expected to cross the Banihal tunnel later in the night, the alert says, adding that their target could be in Delhi, Goa and Mumbai.

I used to read about such warnings, loud sound being heard in some locality etc. in Pakistan and used to laugh. Slowly, things are coming to a similar pass here too.

[Sachin]

I used to read about such warnings, loud sound being heard in some locality etc. in Pakistan and used to laugh. Slowly, things are coming to a similar pass here too.

This could be actually a "dummy alert" to test the alertness of the security staff on duty. A similar exercise happened in Bangalore two years back. Police top brass flashed a message on the city wireless network that every police man on duty should watch out for a Tata Nano vehicle with a specific number, and detain the vehicle and occupants. The mid-level officers also kept on following upon this and every one was on their toes from the evening, way beyond mid night. The ever greedy media, I guess got to know about it from their police men friends and started their rumour mongering. Only to land up with eggs on their faces the next day.

[SSridhar]

NIA officer's kin 'confesses' to murder, says was angry at humiliation - ToI

Police on Thursday said they had cracked the case of the murder of NIA officer Tanzil Ahmed, who was gunned down in Bijnor last Sunday as he was coming out from the venue of a wedding he had just attended. Top sources in the UP police told TOI that the breakthrough came after Rehan Mohammad, one of Ahmed's relatives, was nabbed a day earlier. Rehan, sources added, has "confessed to the killing, saying he was angry with the the NIA officer for bullying and humiliating his family".

Police also said Rehan has revealed that while it was he who drove the motorcycle used in the murder, it was his accomplice Munir, riding pillion, who had fired the shots that killed Ahmed. The NIA officer was shot at 24 times by his assailants with two guns, a .9mm pistol and a .32 bore revolver. While he received 21 bullets — 12 were found in his body and 9 had crashed through him — his wife Farzana was hit three times.

Rehan, who was picked up on the basis of local intelligence, is the nephew of Tanzil's sister's husband. He allegedly told interrogators that he was angry with the NIA officer "as he used his clout to get his sister's husband a disproportionate share in the family property". On top of that, Rehan is believed to have told cops, Tanzil would humiliate Rehan's father and his brothers. He particularly mentioned that the officer once accused his grandfather, a cleric, of embezzling the funds he would collect as donations from the community.

"What we gathered through human intelligence has been corroborated by electronic intelligence. Mobile data has confirmed the presence of the duo in the vicinity of the crime site," said a senior UP police source, who requested anonymity. "A manhunt is on to nab Munir and to verify the version of Rehan. We are treading with caution and may not make a public statement until we have connected all the dots, given the sensitive nature of the crime," he added.

The investigators have said they were struck by the intensity of the attack. "What made Munir fire so many times at Tanzil. What was it that drove him to pump so many bullets? That remains to be established," said the senior officer.

This came even as UP DGP Javeed Ahmed tweeted on Thursday afternoon and said, "We are making tangible progress in the case of the killing of NIA officer (sic)." SP (Bijnor) SS Baghel confirmed the detention of half a dozen men in the high profile case.

Baghel told TOI: "We have detained six men for questioning and a few more will be rounded up in due course of the investigation. We are very close to solving the case and are looking for one man at the centre of it."

All the men have been picked up from Sahaspur. In fact, five of them are from one locality — Maulviaan — and are relatives and neighbours of Tanzil. The five have been identified as Rehan, 20, his father Shahdat Ahmad, 50, Tanzeem, 25, Inam, 22 and Mehtab, 60. All of them were nabbed in the last three days. Mehtab is the father of Munir Ahmad, 35, the main suspect who remains at large. Munir, an ex-student of Aligarh Muslim University, is wanted in two murder cases, both in Aligarh, and has not returned home for over a year now.

DIG (Moradabad range) Omkar Singh said, "We have found the correct line of investigation in the case. The real motive of the murder will be clear only after one more person is taken into custody."

Meanwhile, ex-chairman of Sahaspur nagar panchayat Zaheen Akhtar said, "In the last three days the police have detained half a dozen men from Sahaspur. But we have no information about the alleged property dispute which is said to be the reason behind Tanzil Ahmed's murder."

Raj Kumar Sharma, station officer of Seohara police station, said, "Investigations are on and we are in the process of questioning hard core criminals of other districts too."

[Sachin]

Book Review - Who killed Karkare? by S.M Mushrif, (Retd.) IG of Police, Maharashtra

[Varoon Shekhar]

Related to internal security- horrendous man made tragedy at Kerala temple. What the...? Last week, a flyover collapse, and now this, and of course the international media will, rightly or wrongly, highlight it. India seems to have some of the worst, if not the worst or most frequent, disasters when it comes to things like these- temple fires/stampedes, railway accidents, bus accidents, fires in hospitals, building collapses. Sorry, but it's the truth.

[Hari Seldon]

[SSundar]

Related to internal security- horrendous man made tragedy at Kerala temple. What the...? Last week, a flyover collapse, and now this, and of course the international media will, rightly or wrongly, highlight it. India seems to have some of the worst, if not the worst or most frequent, disasters when it comes to things like these- temple fires/stampedes, railway accidents, bus accidents, fires in hospitals, building collapses. Sorry, but it's the truth.

Please tell us how the Kerala temple fire is a National Security issue. Serious question to educate myself.

[kmkraoind]

MHA readies Q&A for Ishrat file handlers to trace missing documents - TOI

NEW DELHI: The home ministry panel probing how documents went missing from the file relating to Ishrat Jahan case affidavits, is sending out a set of questionnaires to all officers, right from the level of under-secretary to secretary, who may have handled the file at some point.
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Among the queries earmarked for officers below the level of secretary are the point of time when they discovered that the documents had gone missing; how this particular anomaly was noticed; whether they brought the issue of 'missing' documents to the notice of their senior; and if they are aware of contents of the 'missing' documents that were mentioned in the notesheet, which summarises the content of the file, but were no longer part of the file.

Any strict action will send a message to babus who are bidding for Cong and Dawood-ISI mafia. If they mess up with India's security, you will be first on cross mark.

[ManSingh]

For what it's worth, from the lin k:

http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryan ... 20607.html

Rohtak lawyer’s role under IB scanner
Rohtak: The role of local lawyer Manoj Duhan in the arson witnessed during the Jat agitation is being examined by the Central and state intelligence agencies. Manoj Duhan was arrested in the wake of the stir. Based on certain inputs, he was grilled by the Central as well as state Intelligence agencies, including the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and CID, to ascertain his alleged Maoist links. DSP Siddharth Dhanda, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in charge probing the incidents of arson and violence at the local residence of Finance Minister Capt Abhimanyu, confirmed to The Tribune that Duhan's role was being studied by the Intelligence Bureau. Meanwhile, a complaint against the lawyer was sent to the Union Home Minister. The complainant alleged Duhan was trying to revive the British-era Unionist Mission propagated by Sir Chhotu Ram.

[Varoon Shekhar]

Related to internal security- horrendous man made tragedy at Kerala temple. What the...? Last week, a flyover collapse, and now this, and of course the international media will, rightly or wrongly, highlight it. India seems to have some of the worst, if not the worst or most frequent, disasters when it comes to things like these- temple fires/stampedes, railway accidents, bus accidents, fires in hospitals, building collapses. Sorry, but it's the truth.

Please tell us how the Kerala temple fire is a National Security issue. Serious question to educate myself.

I suppose I was thinking safety=security. And there are safety issues in India for certain. Also, let's say terrorists cause a fire in a multi-storey building, the absence of fire escapes or easily accessible fire fighting equipment, would be a security problem.

[Singha]

Ibn
At least 11 people were killed and 20 others were seriously injured when a high voltage wire hit by bullets fell on demonstrators as police fired in the air to disperse them at Pangeree in upper Assam on Monday.
Police said the incident took place when a large number of protestors armed with matchets and sticks pelted stones at Pangeree Police Station in Tinsukia district and tried to gherao it demanding that those arrested in connection with the killing of two persons in the area three days ago be handed over to them.
They threw stones and broke glass panes of the police station. Police then fired in the air to control the mob and the bullets hit an overhead high tension electric wire causing it to fall on the demonstrators