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Uttar Pradesh Polls 2022: Father of 2008 Ahmedabad serial blast case convict campaigning for SP, alleges Yogi Adityanath
•A special court on Friday sentenced to death 38 members of terror outfit Indian Mujahideen in the 2008 serial blasts which killed 56 people and injured over 200.
Ahmedabad serial blasts 2008: Survivors, kin hail verdict, but want death penalty for all 49 guilty persons
•A special court on Friday handed down the death penalty to 38 persons and sentenced 11 others to life imprisonment for the 21 blasts that took place in a span of 70 minutes on 26 July, 2008, killing 56 and injuring over 200
Story of Indian Mujahideen jihadist on death row casts light on lives of terrorism’s foot-soldiers
Praveen •Ariz Khan’s journey casts light on the largely unknown rank-and-file of the Indian Mujahideen, and their seduction by a cult of blood.
Batla House encounter: Delhi court convicts Indian Mujahideen operative Ariz Khan for killing Inspector MC Sharma
•The court is likely to announce the quantum of sentence for Khan on 15 March. Inspector MC Sharma of the Delhi Police Special Cell was killed during the 2008 Batla House encounter in South Delhi
Evidence put 7/11 Mumbai blasts accused on death row; now NIA, intelligence and police files are questioning that proof
Praveen •In perhaps the most bizarre story to ever emerge from India’s criminal justice system, five innocent men may be on death row — while those who carried out the 2006 Mumbai train bombings, some of them in prison, have never been prosecuted for their crime.
Hizbul chief Syed Salahuddin, IM's Bhatkal brothers among 18 designated as terrorists under UAPA
•Four close aides of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim have also been named in the list: Shaikh Shakeel alias Chhota Shakeel, Mohammad Anis Shaikh, Ibrahim Memon alias Tiger Memon and Javed Chikna
Coronavirus Outbreak: Nawayath Muslims in Karnataka's Bhatkal junk orthodoxy of Tablighi Jamaat, help authorities quarantine vulnerable, feed poor
Bhaskar Hegde •When the rest of the country was grappling with Tablighi’s googly, Muslims from Bhatkal did not wait for the community leaders from the state outside to give diktats or plead them to cooperate with the government for implementing total lockdown or social distancing.
Communal riots in India are playing into the hands of Islamic State's jihadists and realising their dystopic dreams
Praveen •There is little doubt Indian communal politics is reaching a crossroads — but there are many paths from here, and all but one leads to perdition
Islamic State ideology in vulnerable pockets of South India feeds on local grievances to further jihadist agenda
Praveen •The Islamic State in the Land of al-Shams might be dead—but the in the land of Idli-Sambar, it is giving jihad a new, distinctively southern flavour, blending local grievances and conflicts into its global ideology.
NIA anti-terror raids: Islamic State might be dead abroad, but hate politics is fuelling its resurrection in India
Praveen •In interrogations by the NIA, half the suspects said communalism — ranging from riots to compulsory yoga practice — led them to join the Islamic State. Barely half of them cited the global Islamist project that underpins the Islamic State