Internal Security Watch

Anindya · Post by **Anindya** » 10 Mar 2010 11:04

Siddarth Varadarajan, a known leftist and US citizen is influencing policies on Indian security!!

Is there actual reference-able material that says, he's an US citizen?

thanks

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 10 Mar 2010 11:08

Arindam wrote:
Siddarth Varadarajan, a known leftist and US citizen is influencing policies on Indian security!!
Is there actual reference-able material that says, he's an US citizen?

thanks

X-post..

vera_k wrote:List of journalists by affiliation and country.

http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2008/dec/namewise.pdf

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 10 Mar 2010 11:58

Lashkar, Naxals undertook recce of power plants
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 664766.cms

'Maoists may strike Kolkata before polls'
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 665449.cms
Overgaandoos...

However, police have not managed to get more information on the present leaders from Deepak. "We have identified some persons but it is not possible for us to take them in custody because we have nothing against them as yet," a CID officer said.

AjayKK · Post by **AjayKK** » 10 Mar 2010 12:14

‘Hate preacher’ Rabbani inciting people to carry out blasts, court told

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2 ... told-.html

Mumbai : The lawyer for Sunni Muslims on Tuesday submitted additional incriminating evidence to the Sessions Court against ‘hate preacher’ Maulana Sheikh Mehraj Rabbani of the radical Ahle Hadees sect.

Rabbani was booked by the Ghatkopar police in January for allegedly hurting the sentiments of Barelvi Sunni Muslims by making abusive remarks against saint Khwaja Garib Nawaaz, whose shrine at Ajmer is India’s most famous Sufi shrine.

On Tuesday, Sessions Judge R G Avchat rejected his anticipatory bail plea.

Before the order, lawyer Rizwan Merchant presented a VCD containing another inflammatory speech in which Rabbani allegedly asks his followers to carry out bomb blasts to demolish dargahs and temples.

“These VCDs are manufactured in Bangalore, but are being distributed by Rabbani’s organisation all over India and hence his custodial interrogation is essential,” Merchant told the court.

Merchant also filed a plea stating, “Rabbani’s grave provocation to demolish and bulldoze dargahs and pull off tombs, if need be by blasting them with bombs, is suggestive of his proposed subversive activities in India.”

The lawyer said, “If this is the extent of Rabbani’s views, he should also be probed for his role in the recent Ajmer Sharif blast.”

ravar · Post by **ravar** » 10 Mar 2010 17:14

Security beefed up at temples

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/201003 ... al.htm#top

Kangra, March 9
The police has beefed up security arrangements at the temples of Bajjreshwari, Chamunda Devi and Jawalamukhi for Navratras scheduled to start from March 16, in view of threat from the Khalistan Commando Force (KCF).

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 10 Mar 2010 20:50

Cleric arrested in Bareilly after communal clash

LUCKNOW: The Ulema Council on Wednesday threatened to launch a statewide agitation against the arrest of a leading cleric, nabbed for his alleged role in last week's communal clash in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district.

"If the police fail to release Maulana Tauquir Raza Khan in the next one-two days, we will hit the streets along with thousands of Muslim residents of the state," national general secretary of the Ulema Council (a body of clerics) Mohammad Tahir Madni told reporters in Azamgarh, about 300 km from here.

uh-oh. And what did his holiness do to invite such blatant communalism from the BSP sarkar in UP??

Maulana Tauquir Raza Khan, president of the Ittehad-e-Millat Council, was arrested late Monday from Bareilly, about 250 km from here. It was his "rabble rousing speech" that had led to communal tension in the district last week, officials said.

"The cleric's arrest projects the anti-minority face of the Uttar Pradesh government and police. Charges levelled against him are baseless. In fact, instead of punishing the real culprits, the Bareilly police acted against the victims of a minority community... The real culprits are still to be nabbed," added Madni.

We all know who the real culprits are, don't we? Just ask the Maha ATS for spare clues.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 10 Mar 2010 22:26

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) now also (re)looking into the burning of a TN SRTC bus in Kalamassery town, subrubs of Ernakulam City have found more clear cut evidence of the involvement of Sufiya Mahdani w/o Abdul Nassar Mahdani in the whole episode. (Asianet Portal)

While Sufiya wants her bail conditions to be reduced, the NIA has said that all her strict bail conditions needs to be upheld, so that she cannot coerce the witnesses etc. Sufiya's plea for reduction in bail conditions was to treat her old parents and dear old Mr. Mahdani of course.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 11 Mar 2010 12:15

HuJI and Jaish-e-Mohammad wiped out in Jammu, says IGP of Jammu Zone

The Jammu and Kashmir Police on March 8 claimed that militant outfits Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) have been rooted out of the Jammu region, reports Hindustan Times. The focus, they said, has now shifted to the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), who remain active. "HuJI and JeM were mostly active in Kishtwar District and have been wiped out. Out of four HuJI militants, three have been eliminated. The fourth has left the organisation and is now working as a freelance journalist," said Ashok Gupta, Inspector General of Police (IGP, Jammu Zone). Nearly 180 militants, including 21 women, are still working in Doda and Kishtwar Districts, Gupta said. "We worked on a strategy for winters and eliminated more and more militants as they came down from the hills. With the support of civilians, we were able to target militants, particularly commanders," he said. This year, 17 militants have been killed in Jammu, of whom 10 were HM commanders, the IGP claimed.

Calling the neutralising of militants a major success, the IGP said it was due to "surgical strikes" in south of Pir Panjal in the State, adds Indian Express. Gupta said under "surgical strikes", the Police used two types of planning — "Track and Target" and "Scout, Seek and Kill"— in neutralising the top leadership of the HuJI, JeM and HM outfits in Doda, Kishtwar, Poonch, Reasi and Rajouri Districts of the region. Under the strategy, a large number of Special Operation Groups (SOGs) generated critical real-time information and conducted meticulous operations in high-altitude areas, he said. "Instead of big SOG teams of 20 to 30 members, we formed small teams of five to six men," he said. He said as part of their strategy, the Police targeted militant sympathisers, including women. "We have identified 16 women symathisers of militants in Doda District and another six in Kishtwar District. Now, the process has started in Rajouri-Poonch Districts," Gupta said. While four top ‘commanders’ were killed in Kishtwar, three were in Doda District, and one each in Reasi, Rajouri and Poonch Districts. Two top ‘commanders’ of HM surrendered before the Director General of Police (DGP) Kuldeep Khoda in Doda, Gupta said. "We are focusing on Lashkar," Gupta said, adding there were nearly 100 militants still operating in Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban. Regarding the Police’s summer strategy, the IGP said, "Our concern is that infiltration will increase after snow melts. However, we will ensure the number of militants does not swell and they don’t get supply of arms and funds."

He further said that as of now 20 percent militants in Jammu and Kashmir are without guns adding, "So our strategy will be to see that they (militants) don't get these things from across the border, from normal channels... money, persons or weapons. That is our strategy we are working at." Claiming that that around 180 militants were active in the Jammu, he said, "However, they (militants) were running out of weapons due to the loss of their cadre in the last two months. We targeted OGW’s be it ladies or others. We have booked many of them to send our message loud and clear."

He described the killing of top JeM ‘commander’ Dawood as the biggest achievement of the Police, according to Kashmir Observer.

Meanwhile, Director General of Police (DGP) Kuldeep Khoda told Daily Excelsior that infiltration bids have gone up by several fold in 2010 but most of them have been foiled by Army on the Line of Control (LoC) and the BSF on the IB. However, he asserted, as the number of infiltration attempts was very high during a little over first two months of this year, a possibility of some militants having managed to sneak in can’t be ruled out. "Number of incidents have gone up this year so far as compared to similar period last year mainly because of our initiatives taken against the militants. Our operations against the militants have increased manifold," the DGP said. 39 militants, 30 of them categorised, have been killed during just over two months of 2010, Khoda said, adding that 19 militants were killed in Jammu region and 20 in Kashmir valley. In 2009, number of the militants killed in similar period was just 18. The militants are categorised by Police when they are operating in different parts of the State and not after their killing.

He further said that 25 persons have so far been booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) while action under substantive sections of law has been taken against 419 others in connection with stone pelting in the Kashmir Valley so far. "So far, we have booked 25 mentors and organisers of stone pelters under the PSA. Action under law has been taken against 419 others, mostly stone throwers. Process is on and all those who are directly or indirectly involved in stone pelting will be identified and action taken against them", the DGP said. Asserting that the stone throwing, interestingly, has many dimensions, he averred that separatists, Over Ground Workers (OGWs) of militants and certain vested interests have been lending direct and indirect support to terrorists by diverting attention of SFs and Police. "This (the stone pelting) helps militants to move from one place to another. This leaves less chance of ultras [militants] getting detected. Return of peace and developmental activities were also suffering", Khoda added. He added that the Police have identified 700 to 800 stone pelters while number of their organisers was confined to double digit.

Sangai Express reports that a hotline across India-Myanmar border connecting Tamu, Chandel and Imphal would be installed, to share intelligence information on various issues between two countries and to help in curbing incidents of crimes taking place on the Manipur side of the international border. According to a reliable source, installation of the hotline was discussed during the meeting of the border liaison officers attended by an Indian delegate led by Joint Secretary of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Naveen Verma at Tamu recently. At the meeting, Myanmar officials proposed to the Indian delegation for providing telephones, bikes and vehicles in help in communication if the hotline is to be installed. Taking consideration of the request, the MHA has started the process for providing Bolero, motor bike and telephone, the source disclosed. The report adds that Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai during his recent visit to Imphal had announced that a co-ordination operation would be launched against the Northeast militants encamping and operating from the territory of Myanmar.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 11 Mar 2010 12:26

Amid a silent build up of forces in various red bastions of the state, DGP Neyaz Ahmed has said that joint anti-Naxalite operations with Bengal were on since Sunday in the Ghatshila sub-division of East Singhbhum, the confirmation coming on a day a huge cache of deadly explosives were seized in Bokaro.

Though the operations had been launched at the beginning of the week, the police top brass chose to keep it a secret. Two choppers, one belonging to Indian Air Force (IAF) and the other to Border Security Force (BSF), have been engaged for aerial survey and ferrying personnel.

Jharkhand, dubbed the epicentre of Maoist terror by Union home minister P. Chidambaram, recorded the maximum number of Naxalite related incidents at 742 in 2009. Chhattisgarh recorded 529, Orissa 266, Bengal 255, Bihar 232 and Maharashtra 154.

http://telegraphindia.com/1100311/jsp/f ... 203226.jsp

The arrests of Maoist area commander Pandu Manjhi and his accomplice Bhuvaneshwar Singh have yielded rich dividend for the security forces who recovered a huge cache of explosives from the jungles of Nawadih’s Uparghat zone today based on information provided by the two. More than 1.2 tonne ammonium nitrate, packed in 25 polyester gunny bags, were recovered by security personnel during raids in Uparghat, Palamu, Sarubera and Manpur in the last 18 hours. The explosives had reportedly been ferried to Bokaro district from Lalgarh and Purulia in Bengal.

http://telegraphindia.com/1100311/jsp/f ... 202662.jsp

On sustained interrogation, Pandu and Bhuvneshwar revealed the places where the explosives were hidden. They said leaves and branches of trees had been placed on top of the consignments to hide them and the area surrounding the haul had been mined.

A senior IPS official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Pandu would be taken on remand soon and further interrogation was bound to lead to more seizures by the police as what he had said so far had proved fruitful enough. He added that raids were on and more recovery was expected by tomorrow.

http://telegraphindia.com/1100311/jsp/j ... 203362.jsp

Security officers of Alipore Central jail found gangster Gopal Tiwari strutting around in his cell, cellphone to his ear, during a surprise raid on Tuesday afternoon.

Aftab Ansari, the mastermind of the American Center attack and the abduction of a Khadim’s co-owner, is also lodged in Alipore Central jail. His aides are suspected to be behind the pay-up-or-face-abduction threat calls to four city businessmen a week ago that had sparked panic.

http://telegraphindia.com/1100311/jsp/c ... 202249.jsp

Muivah mulls Nagaland visit
http://telegraphindia.com/1100311/jsp/n ... 200761.jsp

In another development, the Joint Working Group of the NSCN (I-M), NSCN (Khaplang) and Naga National Council (Singnya) today agreed to cease all offensives and all Naga army commanders have been requested to abide by this decision.

Naga Peace talks raise hopes ----- Col (Retd) Anil Bhat
http://www.claws.in/index.php?action=ma ... 17&u_id=17

This round of talks is in a way unprecedented in raising hopes. Mr. Pandey is understood to have explained the concept of shared sovereignty which the Indian Constitution provides for unique cases. Under this provision, the government is prepared to accommodate certain subjects in the Union List – 1, in exclusive domain of the Centre – and Concurrent List – 3, in domain of both the Centre and the State – to be transferred to the State List- 2, in exclusive domain of the State.

The Naga leaders are also understood to have proposed that the “competencies to be exercised by Government of India and the Nagas have to be clearly identified”. If the contentious issues can be dropped by Nagas, this arrangement may actually provide greater autonomy to Nagaland in recognition of the Naga’s uniqueness.

sampat · Post by **sampat** » 11 Mar 2010 23:05

Philip wrote:Sensational item! Could the Surat "Plague" also have been an "outside job?"
The world's intel agencies must be kept in complete control in India.

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Don't remember if it was reliable source or some blog, but there was an article on surat plague that mentioned that virus strains were not Indian and more likely it was developed in a lab.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 11 Mar 2010 23:22

sampat wrote:
Philip wrote:Sensational item! Could the Surat "Plague" also have been an "outside job?"
The world's intel agencies must be kept in complete control in India.

Don't remember if it was reliable source or some blog, but there was an article on surat plague that mentioned that virus strains were not Indian and more likely it was developed in a lab.[/quote]

Google for that time period circa Sep 1994. The DRDO labs had identified the strain has having a high molecular weight and thus engineered. Most likely it was TSP acquired from collapsing FSU and used it to check the viability. Benazir Bhutto closed her border even before it was understood to be an epidemice. Surat was picked for plausible deniablity as it had poor sanitation infrastructure.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 12 Mar 2010 09:55

Indian Union Muslim League demands release of all life convicts convicted in the Coimbatore Serial Blast Case

The 62nd Community Renaissance Conference of Indian Union Muslim League has urged the Tamil Nadu Government to release the Muslim prisoners, who have served ten years of imprisonment after being sentenced to life term in the Coimbatore serial blast case.

One of the resolutions passed in the conference at Melapalayam on Wednesday said a total of 1,500 life convicts were released recently in connection with the Anna birth centenary celebration. In view of the World Classic Tamil Conference to be conducted at Coimbatore, the Tamil Nadu Government should release 51 Muslim life convicts, including 18 persons who were awarded life term in the Coimbatore serial blast case since they had already served 10 years behind the bars.

Another resolution complained that the police are not giving ‘no objection certificates' to the Muslim youths from Melapalayam, who have applied for passports with the goal of securing a job in the foreign countries. Hence the State Government should weed out the hurdles in the process and the Central Government should ensure the early dispatch of the same to the applicants.

Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers M.K. Alagiri said Muslims, who were supporting Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, ever since he entered politics, should back him in future also as he was according highest priority for their welfare.

“I've come all the way to Melapalayam to participate in the IUML conference because you always love and support the Chief Minister,” Mr. Alagiri noted.

Asking for release of 'Muslim prisoners' is how the seeds of separatism get sown. This good-for-nothing union minister, Alagiri, should have told them not to raise such demands in the name of religion. But knowing Alagiri and his antecedents, one can't expect anything like that from him.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 12 Mar 2010 12:24

Use technology to hunt down terrorists: P.Chidambaram

“The terrorists and organised criminals have developed overt and covert technologies including Information Communication Technology. This has made the job of law and order professionals far more challenging than ever before,” he said, addressing the silver jubilee function of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). India needed solutions that could offer robust, real-time and validated decision support systems for the police leadership to evolve remedial and pro-active strategies. “The sheer magnitude of crime in a federal polity of our geographical size makes this task a really challenging one,” he said.

The Home Minister said the challenges posed by criminality in general and other more serious manifestations of crime, in particular terrorism, insurgency, left-wing extremism, transnational crimes, drugs and arms trafficking, and cyber crimes tend to establish that the war against the Indian state was being fought more in the hinterland than on the borders.

“Today, we are fighting our battles on individual pitches. We need to connect, coordinate and supplement our efforts both at micro and macro levels,” Mr. Chidambaram said.

Referring to the Home Ministry's Rs. 2,000-crore Crime, Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) project, he said a conscious decision had been taken to mandate the NCRB to roll out the CCTNS through which a national databank of crime and criminals and their biometric profiles could be created.

This database would have a handshake with databases of 21 other agencies of the criminal justice system such as courts, jails, immigration and passport authorities, and subsequently, be extended to other national agencies through the NATGRID so that terror and crime could be fought more professionally.

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 12 Mar 2010 15:08

This database would have a handshake with databases of 21 other agencies of the criminal justice system such as courts, jails, immigration and passport authorities, and subsequently, be extended to other national agencies through the NATGRID so that terror and crime could be fought more professionally.

Bravo. Long overdue. Jai ho. Now let the Hon. HM walk the talk only. Chidu is turning out to be not just better than shivraj patil but much better than most other HMs we've had since sardar patel, IMVHO.

Rangudu · Post by **Rangudu** » 13 Mar 2010 00:42

In a few hours, it will be the 13th of the month. With ISI/pigLeT attacks on Feb 13 and Feb 26 and the past pattern of attacks on 13th and 26th of months, I hope there is no repeat this time.

Just to be safe, BRites in India be extra careful in markets, airports etc.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 13 Mar 2010 13:17

CNN-IBN: Firing in East Delhi

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 14 Mar 2010 12:59

Two held for plotting to attack ONGC oil tanks in Mumbai

Two persons were on Sunday arrested by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for allegedly planning to set one of the ONGC establishments here on fire, police said.

The accused, identified as Abdul Latif Rashid (29) and Riyaz Ali (23), have been arrested from the city, they said.

"The two were preparing to set one of the ONGC establishments in the city on fire following instructions from someone called 'Uncle'," an ATS officer said adding "we are probing if the directions had come from across the border".

The duo will be produced in a court in Mazagaon here later in the day.

Avinash R · Post by **Avinash R** » 14 Mar 2010 14:54

Some not so famous but credible news channels are reporting about the arrest of HM terrorists in Gujarat.

Nihat · Post by **Nihat** » 14 Mar 2010 15:13

Pakistan-linked terror plot foiled?
14 Mar 2010, 1256 hrs IST
Even as two terror suspects arrested earlier on Sunday (March 14) were produced before the Quila court and remanded to police custody for 4 days, TIMES NOW has accessed a copy of the remand document that contains key information about these two alleged terrorists.

The two alleged terrorists apprehended yesterday have been identified as Abdul Latif and Riyaaz Abu Ali and were allegedly planning to carry out attacks on ONGC installations as well as crowded places like the Mangaldas market in South Mumbai.

The ATS said they had been monitoring their phone calls for the last few weeks, tracing them to Karachi, where a certain handler known as 'uncle' is believed to be their point of contact.

The suspects' remand report mentions that 'uncle' asked the men to apply for passports so that they could be sent to Pakistan for terror training. However, before travelling to Pakistan the two had to plan and carry to fruition a terror attack in Mumbai for which plans had been afoot. The modus operandi decided on was to first create a diversion by setting a market on fire, and then follow it with an attack on an important installation.

According to the Mumbai Anti Terror Squad (ATS) the terror suspects have revealed during their police interrogation that for the above purposes they undertook reconnaissance trips to areas in Eastern Mumbai including some ONGC installations. Police suspect that the two operatives could have been planning an attack on ONGC oil storage tanks as well as other key installations in Mumbai. Maps and documents have been reportedly recovered from them pointing to these areas.

Speaking to the media, Maharashtra ATS chief K P S Raghuvanshi said the two men had been monitored for 20-25 days before it was decided enough evidence had been gathered to book them under the law for terrorist activities.

"They were picked up on the basis of telephone calls made to a handler in Karachi who is definitely a part of some terror organisation. We suspect that these men were very close to launching the terror attack," he said.

"Investigations are on. They were small time shop keepers. We are trying to establish the identity of 'uncle' via central agencies, which is expected to take some time as he is in another country. We feel that there are more people involved, and are trying to uncover the whole network," added Raghuvanshi.

http://www.timesnow.tv/Major-inter-stat ... 340578.cms

Neshant · Post by **Neshant** » 14 Mar 2010 16:01

Congrats to Indian intelligence.

They are really earning their keep by finding needles in haystacks and just in the nick of time too.

Well done.

sum · Post by **sum** » 14 Mar 2010 19:39

Neshant wrote:Congrats to Indian intelligence.

They are really earning their keep by finding needles in haystacks and just in the nick of time too.

Well done.

Channels are also reporting that 2 other pigs named during "gentle questioning" of the earlier nabbed turds are being hunted down with multiple teams scouring the city. Hope that most of the sleeper cells in Mumbai ( which is reputed to have quite a few) are ruthlessly busted.

Alos, congrats to the Guj police on nabbing a HM guy and couple of his local contacts.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 14 Mar 2010 20:44

Mobs torch shops in Bareilly

Fire tenders were rushed to the Qutubkhana sabzi mandi, one of the oldest markets, where members of a community torched shops, the police said

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 15 Mar 2010 03:56

http://www.allvoices.com/news/5402430-k ... failure-to

Painters and intellectuals staged a demonstration in Kolkata criticizing the Central Government for its failure to protect noted exiled painter Maqbool Fida Husain, who has now accepted Qatar citizenship. tists addressed locals and they signed and wrote solidarity messages on a huge screen erected

...

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 15 Mar 2010 06:06

Prem wrote:http://www.allvoices.com/news/5402430-k ... failure-to

Painters and intellectuals staged a demonstration in Kolkata criticizing the Central Government for its failure to protect noted exiled painter Maqbool Fida Husain, who has now accepted Qatar citizenship. tists addressed locals and they signed and wrote solidarity messages on a huge screen erected
...

Hmmm, wonder who's paying for that screen and for the paid non-local pimtellectuals to sign on there. Also wonder if the same worthies would dare show up in A similar solidarity exercise in favor of Taslima's rights. Eh?

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 15 Mar 2010 07:47

Big news from the little edited state...

Manipur police commandos arrested the self-styled commander-in-chief of Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), Ningthoujam Tomba alias Koireng, from Siliguri in West Bengal during a joint operation with local police this evening.

http://telegraphindia.com/1100315/jsp/n ... 216737.jsp

Imphal police only said a satellite phone was seized from Tomba. Sources in Imphal said the rebel leader may have just come out of Nepal — or else was about to enter the Himalayan country — when he was held. Siliguri is close to the Nepal border.

Could well be that the pig was shipped from nepal..

AjayKK · Post by **AjayKK** » 15 Mar 2010 17:09

The Justice B K Somasekhara Commission of Inquiry is investigating the "Church attacks" of KT in 2008.

M’lore: Cong Leaders’ Speech Incited Riots - Church Attack Witness before Commission

Mangalore, March 13: In a major twist, a police officer stated before Justice B K Somasekhara Commission of Inquiry that the speeches made by Congress leaders Oscar Fernandes, Ramanath Rai, Ivan D’Souza, U T Khader and Vinay Kumar Sorake among others fuelled communal riots in the district after the Church attack incidents on September 14, 2008.

Assistant sub-inspector Anantha Murudeshwara, deposing as a witness before commission here on Thursday March 11, made this affirmation to Bajrang Dal’s advocate Jagadish Shenava, who asked whether the speech made by those Congress leaders had provoked Christians to agitate.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 15 Mar 2010 20:19

Stan_Savljevic wrote:Big news from the little edited state...
someone took offense. It is best to keep out such descriptives when talking about things Indian.

Response: I know it is easy to take offense and stick to political correctness in a forum where PC-ness is hardly, if ever, uniformly applied. But if you look at my posts at
http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewto ... 63#p812063
http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewto ... 31#p809031
any sensible person can realize why I choose to use the "little devil state" epithet for Manipur. Not as some joke. After the maoist pigs, I have nt come across more wanton violence anywhere else in India, not by 100 billion factions as seen in Manipur. Sure I have nt read much of what the ltte or the khalistani or the pakjabi pigs did in the past. In any case, this is just my last 4-5 months of keeping track of the oiseaules that wreck the status quo in the country.

kenop · Post by **kenop** » 15 Mar 2010 22:26

Hope this puts some sense in place

Mumbai, New Delhi: The anti-terrorism squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra police has been pulled up by the Union home ministry for going public onevidence of the cross-border terror links of two Mumbai residents who were arrested on Saturday.
The ATS got a wrap on its knuckles for giving the media more details of the probe than necessary after the trail to a Pakistani handler went cold, a source said today.

The ATS had said that the phone calls received by the two terror suspects arrested on charges of planning attacks in Mumbai had been traced to Karachi in Pakistan.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 16 Mar 2010 09:34

CNN-IBN: Shootout near ISRO centre in Bangalore

shravan · Post by **shravan** » 16 Mar 2010 09:44

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/two-men-shoo ... ml?from=tn
Two men shoot at ISRO guards in Bangalore, flee

Bangalore: There has been a shootout near the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Bylalu centre in Bangalore on Tuesday morning.

Police say two men exchanged fire with security forces outside the ISRO centre. The two opened fire on guards and escaped.

The two unidentified men were spotted roaming suspiciously outside ISRO's Bylalu centre in Bangalore.

ISRO security guards went and interrogated the duo but they opened fired at the guards and the guards retaliated.

nachiket · Post by **nachiket** » 16 Mar 2010 09:47

^^ Looks like a LeT recce mission gone bad. Those men have to be found. And the security at the ISRO center doubled.

kenop · Post by **kenop** » 16 Mar 2010 15:16

Shooting outside ISRO an amateurish attempt: PC

Bangalore Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday termed the shooting incident outside the ISRO facility near Bangalore as an "amateurish attempt" and said a security review of the sensitive facility has been ordered.

"There is not threat to ISRO. It is an amateurish attack," said Chidambaram, adding that the Central Government has asked for ISRO security to be monitored properly.

Chidamabaram said he has asked CISF, which is in-charge of the security of ISRO, to do "another security review" of the area.

A team is investigating the matter, he said.

ASPuar · Post by **ASPuar** » 16 Mar 2010 16:24

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 689094.cms

Probe into presence of bees at Mayawati's rally
PTI, Mar 16, 2010, 11.21am IST

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Monday saw politics when a huge swarm of honey bees --some of them on the roof of the stage--invaded the venue of her party BSP's mega rally here.

As Mayawati was in the midst of her address at the rally to celebrate BSP's 25th anniversary here, the bees made a sudden appearance and made a hive on the stage below which she stood.

The bees did not go unnoticed by the BSP supremo who pointed to them above her head and smelt a political conspiracy. Her party said the appearance of the bees was a conspiracy.

The UP government also pointed to some "mischief" and quickly ordered an inquiry, apparently stung by the sudden appearance of the bees at Rama Bai Ambedkar maidan, the rally venue.

"Someone disturbed honey bees at the nearby central school building by lighting a fire below the hive, following which they hovered over the Rama Bai Ambedkar maidan for about an hour," an official release said here.

The inquiry will reveal the mischievous elements behind the incident, it added.

Unperturbed by the sudden appearance of the bees, Mayawati continued her address to the scores of people gathered for the rally. "It's a matter of happiness and satisfaction that none of these bees have stung any of the BSP party workers," Mayawati said, adding in a lighter vein, "These bees are felicitating us all in our honour."

The security situation is deteriorating all around. A "High Level Probe" has been ordered into the bees which dared sting BSP Supremo Mayawati. We must get to the bottom of this deadly conspiracy! All other police investigations can take a back seat, meanwhile.

sum · Post by **sum** » 16 Mar 2010 21:35

Bangalore Home Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday termed the shooting incident outside the ISRO facility near Bangalore as an "amateurish attempt" and said a security review of the sensitive facility has been ordered.

WTF does a amateurish attempt mean ( pardon my French)?

The fact that both escaped and the police are groping in the dark ( like in Pune) means the danger is still present and might become worse as the turds would have learnt their lessons.

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » 17 Mar 2010 05:48

Centre orders action against Maha ATS chief

The central Government has taken strong exception to Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief KP Raghuvanshi divulging key information to the media about terror suspects and their links in Pakistan, and asked the state government for action against him, according to an official here.

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 17 Mar 2010 08:42

sum wrote: WTF does a amateurish attempt mean ( pardon my French)?

The fact that both escaped and the police are groping in the dark ( like in Pune) means the danger is still present and might become worse as the turds would have learnt their lessons.

There is nothing puzzling here.

The incident is purely a figment of the guard's imagination.

Either he has some grouse with the organisation or he is hallucinating. Grouse is a more likely explanation.

Such incidents take place oftentimes and is generally brushed under the carpet as far as the general public is concerned. In this specific case, there were many rounds fired and this will have caused problems of accountability of the spent shells as well as the reason for the firing.

Guard duty is a stressful and unwelcome duty. After a few days / weeks, the guards become resentful and daily mundane problems start to take on a new dimension for these guys. Leave is not easily available in these cases and the guards often " manufacture " reasons to avail leave.

Over the years one has seen far too many of such cases to even think beyond the simplest of explanations. None of the "facts" as given by the guard is even remotely borne out by evidence on the ground.

sum · Post by **sum** » 17 Mar 2010 08:59

Such incidents take place oftentimes and is generally brushed under the carpet as far as the general public is concerned. In this specific case, there were many rounds fired and this will have caused problems of accountability of the spent shells as well as the reason for the firing.

If that is the case, no issues then. The poor guards do undergo lots of stress and do make mistakes.

But, why should it be called a "amateurish attempt"( meaning there was a attempt). Cant it be called a accident and closed instead of giving rise to more CTs due to poor usage of words?

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 17 Mar 2010 09:02

Gerard wrote:Centre orders action against Maha ATS chief
The central Government has taken strong exception to Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) chief KP Raghuvanshi divulging key information to the media about terror suspects and their links in Pakistan, and asked the state government for action against him, according to an official here.

And well deserved too. ATS personnel and their "chief" should not even be known to the press or to the public. These guys swagger around like movie stars and are usually as useless. Remember the last lot who went about like bulls in the proverbial china shop?

It's really high time that all such characters kept their BLOODY mouths SHUT. Glory hounds and loose talking public functionaries cause immense harm to the country. The local link to the samjautha express explosion was thoughtlessly brought in by a moronic "spokesman". This mentally retarded fellow should have been sacked immediately. There was also some equally developmentally challenged RPF female mouthing off about RDX!!!!

chetak · Post by **chetak** » 17 Mar 2010 09:04

sum wrote:
Such incidents take place oftentimes and is generally brushed under the carpet as far as the general public is concerned. In this specific case, there were many rounds fired and this will have caused problems of accountability of the spent shells as well as the reason for the firing.
If that is the case, no issues then. The poor guards do undergo lots of stress and do make mistakes.

But, why should it be called a "amateurish attempt"( meaning there was a attempt). Cant it be called a accident and closed instead of giving rise to more CTs due to poor usage of words?

PC was probably unwisely reacting on the preliminary briefing by his "Intelligence" guys.

Stan_Savljevic · Post by **Stan_Savljevic** » 17 Mar 2010 10:04

The police today announced that a Maoist arrested yesterday in Chaibasa was Marshal Topno, a close aide of Kishen, the oiseaule, in what is a major breakthrough in the ongoing operations which DGP Neyaz Ahmed said was on the verge of being expanded to other areas of Jharkhand. Considered to be the second prized catch after the arrest of Venkateswar Reddy, alias Dipak on March 2 by the Bengal police, Topno was arrested during yesterday’s operations in the Posaita area of West Singhbhum district.

http://telegraphindia.com/1100317/jsp/f ... 225509.jsp

Assam Rifles personnel, former militants in 'dangerous liaison'
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_as ... on_1359939

According to confidential reports accessed by DNA, some Assam Rifles personnel are in league with surrendered militants of the Lallumba faction of the Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council (KCP-MC), and are into extortion and other illegal activities. The reports also raise questions on whether they are involved in gun-running. What sent the alarm bells ringing among the authorities was the recent kidnapping of a joint director of the state assembly. He was let off after a hefty ransom was paid. Sources said there were clear inputs to show that personnel of the Assam Rifles were hand-in-glove with members of the KCP-MC splinter group in the entire episode.

The Lallumba faction is one of the many splinter groups of the KCP that was founded in 1980 demanding the secession of Manipur from India. The suspension of operations and negotiations are being supervised at various levels, including by a joint monitoring group under the chairmanship of a senior police officer of the state. However, the conflicting power structures and several agencies that have a stake in the north-east are all leading to the entire mess, says an army source.

For example, though a paramilitary force is under the home ministry, Assam Rifles is led by officers from the army, he adds.
For almost a year now, “nobody is taking the lead” to provide the surrendered militants financial allowance and designated camps before they are brought back to mainstream. Thus the militants continue to remain within the Assam Rifles camp in Imphal, said a senior army officer. In such close proximity, the officer said, collusions are possible.

And add to that the money funneling right under the noose of the Okram Ibobi Singh government, and one can wonder why Manipur is in such a catastrophic state today... And the disease has nothing specific about Manipur either. NEHU, NC Hills, FGN (!), AVNC, its all over the place.