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The National Investigation Agency (<keyword id="6360058" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="NIA">NIA</keyword>) busted a suspected ISIS terror unit in Hyderabad and took 11 people in detention for questioning. 
 
After a series of raids in Hyderabad, NIA recovered arms, explosives and Rs 15 lakh in cash, which was to be used for these terror attacks planned for different parts of India. 
 
The men that have been detained are said to have been in touch with their handlers in Syria, and were contemplating terror attacks in India, said the NIA officials. 
 
The Agency got help from Hyderabad police and Telangana Counter Intelligence sleuths, after which it raided Mirchowk, Mogulpura, Bhavani Nagar, Barkas and at a few other places in the Old City of Hyderabad, from where the men were detained and explosives were recovered. 
 
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NIA busts Islamic State’s plans to bomb India

The fourteen men arrested by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=NIA">NIA</a> on suspicion of being part of an 'online radicalization module' that owes allegiance to ISIS have revealed they were supposed to focus on ‘political targets, foreigners, vital installations and government machinery’ and not crowded public places. 
 
Counter-terror experts believe that this is a new trend among home-grown jihadis. The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Indian+Mujahideen">Indian Mujahideen</a> (IM) that successfully carried out multiple blasts across India from 2004 to 2014 targeted market places and religious establishments. 
 
Two of the 14 arrested suspects were brought to New Delhi and produced before a local court on Sunday. The Court remanded the duo for 13 days <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=NIA">NIA</a> custody. The two have been identified as Abu Ansa and Nafees Khan, both residents of Hyderabad. According to <keyword id="6360058" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="NIA">NIA</keyword>, 12 others will be produced before the court on Monday. 
 
The new strategy of these radicals is to target a political person because targeting public does not yield results. "The arrested suspects who owe their allegiance to AuT/IS believed that to shake the government, politicians should be targeted," a top NIA official told ET. 
 
"IM commanders considered that it was difficult to target a political person and would have also led to lot of backlash against their community," the official said. 
 
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Arrested Men were to target Politicians and not
crowded places: NIA

In a crackdown ahead of <keyword id="6416557" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Republic-day">Republic Day</keyword>, the <keyword id="6360058" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="NIA">NIA</keyword> has arrested 13 suspected <keyword id="174501" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="ISIS">ISIS</keyword> sympathisers for plotting attacks in different parts of the country. 

	Of the 14 suspects detained yesterday, 13 have been arrested, according to a Home Ministry spokesman. 
 

	The arrests were made following simultaneous searches and raids conducted at 12 locations in six cities--Bangalore, Tumkur, Mangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Lucknow yesterday with the support of local police forces. 
 Circuits for detonating <keyword id="44470" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="explosives">explosives</keyword> were recovered during the searches. 

	The NIA said that certain incriminating articles, including but not limited to mobile phones, laptops, unaccounted cash, jihadi literature and videos and certain material for preparation of bombs were recovered from these places. 
 

	"These individuals were planning and making efforts to establish a channel of procurement of explosives/weapons, identify locations to organize training camps including training of firearms, motivate new recruits to target police officers, foreigners in India and to carry out terrorist activities in various parts of India," it said. 
 

	The NIA said it received information that certain individuals from different cities in the country were in the process of organizing themselves to commit terrorist acts in different parts of the country. 
 

	According to sources, the arrested people were part of a group named 'Janood-ul-Khalifa-e-Hind' (Army of Caliph of India), a terror group which has almost similar ideologies that of ISIS. 
 

	They said the suspects had been under surveillance for quite sometime and the decision to arrest them was taken as the group received 'instructions' for carrying out 'some sensational' attacks in the country. 
 

	The group had started receiving money through 'hawala' route and according to Home Ministry spokesman "Sheikh also received funds to the tune of Rs 6 lakh." 
 

	All the arrested suspects were being brought to the national capital for detailed interrogation as preliminary enquiry indicated that they were working on evolving a terror outfit with ideologies similar to ISIS.

Ahead of Republic Day, NIA arrests 13 suspected ISIS sympathisers

The <keyword id="6362387" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="National-Investigation-Agency">National Investigation Agency</keyword> (NIA) has said that 90% of <keyword id="6364565" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Fake-Notes">fake notes</keyword> are pumped into India via <keyword id="48515" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Malda">Malda</keyword> border in West Bengal. It also found that most of the notes which entered into the country have been printed in <keyword id="3001" type="COUNTRY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Pakistan">Pakistan</keyword> and were routed to India through <keyword id="6354759" type="COUNTRY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</keyword>. Around Rs 1,500 crore of counterfeit notes entered India through Malda border, TOI reported, citing NIA which is interrogating a couple of people arrested by the <keyword id="109513" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Border-security-force">Border Security Force</keyword> with such notes. NIA has recently arrested Sajib-ul-Haq (20), Anwar (21), <keyword id="895440" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jamal-Sheik">Jamal Sheik</keyword> (24) and Akram (19), Habibul Rahaman (26), Abdul Mutalik (25) and Prashant Mondal (23) from Chennai and Hyderabad. 

	Investigators have found that a lot of Pakistanis have set up shops in Bangladesh. These shops are breeding ground for trading such notes which are eventually routed to India. 
 

	Malda is an easy landing point as it borders Bangladesh. This racket has been going on for the past four to five years.
 

	After taking the charge of probe on June 12, the NIA took custody of three people - Soaul, Jhonny Sheik and Shahjahan - all from Malda and brought them to Delhi on transit remand for interrogation.
 

	The probe revealed that there are several modules mainly in the bordering blocks like Kaliachawk, Chachol, Gazol and Manikchawk areas which are active in bringing fake currency notes from Bangladesh.
 

	"After the money comes to the hands of these module operatives, they pick up several youths to execute the job. They go to major cities like Mumbai or Bengaluru and start working as construction labourers. Along with their work they start circulating the notes in installments. They stay on in these cities for a couple of months and manage to circulate at least Rs 2 lakh fake currency," an investigating officer told TOI.
 

	"The commission offered them Rs 100 to Rs 200 for circulating Rs 1,000 fake notes," the officer said. 
 

	The investigators have also found that the quality of the notes was superior, making it very difficult for the common man to understand that it is a fake currency. 
 

	"Sometimes it is even difficult for the bank personnel to realise the difference without a forensic test. This is really alarming," an officer said. 
	 
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90% fake notes enters India via Bengal, says NIA

Amid the heated debate on allowing enterprises to build captive private 5G networks as <keyword id="3658" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword> prepares for 5G spectrum auction, <keyword id="6354287" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="bharti-airtel" source="Orion">Bharti Airtel</keyword> on Friday announced a successful trial of India's first 5G private network at <keyword id="58925" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="bosch" source="Orion">Bosch</keyword> Automotive Electronics India (RBAI) facility here. The on-premise 5G Captive Private Network was built over the trial 5G spectrum allocated by the <keyword id="62528" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="department-of-telecom" source="Orion">Department of Telecom</keyword> (DoT). <keyword id="15491" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="airtel" source="Orion">Airtel</keyword> said it has implemented two industrial grade use cases for quality improvement and operational efficiency at Bosch's manufacturing facility, utilising the trial spectrum. In both the cases, 5G technology such as mobile broadband and ultra reliable low latency communications drove automated operations ensuring faster scale up and reduced downtimes. "We believe that Airtel has the world-class infrastructure, partnerships and expertise to deliver Captive Private Network Solution in any part of the country and to enterprises of any size," said Ajay Chitkara, Director and CEO, Airtel Business. The Department of Telecom has released a notice inviting applications (NIA) for the auction of spectrum in 600, 700, 800, 900, 1800, 2100, 2300, 2500, 3300 MHz and 26GHz bands. The NIA provides explicit clarity on the subject of Captive Non-Public Networks (CNPN). The private network set up on trial spectrum at the Bosch facility has the capability to manage thousands of connected devices along with delivering multi- GBPS throughput, said Airtel. "The low latency and reliable connectivity provided by the Airtel Private 5G network at our facility which was experienced during the proof of concept is enabling us to enhance our efficiency and our productivity," said Subhash P., Head of <keyword id="14462387" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="technical-functions" source="Orion">Technical Functions</keyword>, Bosch Automotive Electronics India. Last year, Airtel successfully demonstrated India's first 5G experience over a live 4G network in Hyderabad. It has also demonstrated India's first rural 5G trial as well as the first cloud gaming experience on 5G. Meanwhile, the Broadband India Forum (BIF) on Friday said the choice of service provider for captive private 5G networks must lie with the enterprises. "The enterprises would have to make do with whatever is offered by the telecom service providers (TSPs), whether satisfactory or not," said BIF President T.V. Ramachandran. The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the industry's apex body representing telcos, on Thursday urged the government not to allow Big Tech companies to enter the 5G spectrum auction this month via back door channels. The COAI said in a statement that the 5G spectrum should not be provided on an administrative basis as it leads to no business case for the rollout of 5G networks in the country. SEE ALSO : <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/education/news/kids-weep-after-teacher-is-transferred-to-another-school-in-up/articleshow/92897355.cms">Kids weep after teacher is transferred to another school in UP</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/with-free-preparatory-classes-delhi-govt-schools-to-help-students-for-cuet/articleshow/92897046.cms">With free preparatory classes, Delhi govt schools to help students for CUET</a>

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On April 16th, a special anti-terrorism court in Hyderabad acquitted all five people that were accused of orchestrating a bomb blast at the city’s <keyword id="147259" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mecca-Masjid">Mecca Masjid</keyword> in May 2007 owing to a lack of evidence. All of the accused had ties to Hindu right-wing organisations, including alleged mastermind Swami Aseemanand (pictured), a former <keyword id="42498" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="RSS">RSS</keyword> member and godman who has been linked to three other terror attacks. Another one, Devendra Gupta, had been sentenced to life last year for his role in the Ajmer Sharif <keyword id="6449" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bomb-Blasts">bomb blasts</keyword> in October 2007. Nine people were killed and 58 were seriously injured in the Mecca Masjid blast, in which a improvised explosive device (IED) was triggered by a cellphone. In the ensuing frenzy after the blast, another five people were killed as a result of police firing. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had originally charged 10 people in the case. One, Sunil Joshi, a former RSS leader, was murdered, another two- Sandeep V. Dange and Ramchandra Kalsangra, also RSS activists, - are absconding while the investigation against two others, Tejram Parmar and Amith Chowhan, is ongoing. Over the course of the trial, 226 witnesses were interviewed and over 400 documents were examined, but the NIA and the prosecuting authorities were unable to prove the charges against the accused. In a questionable turn of events, the judge who pronounced the verdict, Ravinder Reddy, submitted his resignation soon after, citing personal reasons. The verdict, while unfortunate, is not surprising. The case has been plagued by misdirection, questionable decision-making and interference from the outset. Here are the reasons why it fell apart:- The police initially went after the wrong people In the aftermath of the blast, the Hyderabad police suspected that a Pakistan-based terror outfit, Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJI), was behind the attack. Why a Muslim group would target a mosque was apparently beyond them. Given that terrorists were generally assumed to be Muslims up until that point, the narrative gained traction in the media. The police rounded up and interrogated as many as 200 people with supposed links to the HuJI, and eventually charged 21 of them. They were acquitted by a criminal court in Nampally, Hyderabad at the beginning of 2009 due to the lack of any credible evidence against them. The responsibility for investigating the case was transferred not once, but twice After the Muslim men were acquitted in January 2009, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took over the case. The agency spent two years investigating the bombings, pointing out the possible participation of right-wing Hindu extremist groups like Abhinav Bharat, which were said to also be responsible for three other attacks on Muslims between 2006 and 2008 - a spate of blasts in Malegaon in September 2006 that led to 37 deaths, the bombing of the Samjhauta Express in February 2007, which killed 68 Pakistanis and the Ajmer Sharif blast that killed three people. The CBI filed charges against three people in the case - Devender Gupta, a RSS worker, Lokesh Sharma, a property dealer and right-wing activist, and Sunil Joshi, a RSS leader, who was deceased by then. In 2011, the case was transferred to the NIA, which was tasked with investigating all the attacks that were allegedly executed by Hindutva organisations. While the NIA extended the probe to include Swami Aseemanand and six others, one can’t help thinking about all the pieces of evidence that were overlooked, or communication lapses that took place as a result of the handing over of the cases. For example, a crucial piece of evidence never even reached the NIA. A <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/mecca-masjid-blast-case-mystery-red-shirt-found-with-unexploded-ied-at-site-never-reached-nia-aseemanand-5140195/">red shirt</a>, which was found at the blast site and suspected to belong to one of the coordinators of the attack, reportedly disappeared amid the handover. The repeated handover of the case brings to the mind the 2008 case on the murder of Arushi Talwar. The Noida police initiated the investigation, after which the Delhi police got involved. Following a lack of confidence in the police’s investigation, the government handed over the case to the CBI. After the CBI team was accused of extracting a confession under duress, the investigation was handed to a new unit in 2009, which suggested that the case be closed due to lack of evidence. An exhaustive confession from the main accused was rescinded After being arrested by the CBI in November 2010, Swami Aseemanand lodged<a href="http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main48.asp?filename=Ne150111Coverstory.asp"> a 42-page confession </a>in Tis Hazari Court in Delhi the following December. He confirmed the fact that he and some other Hindutva leaders like Indresh Kumar, a national executive member of the RSS, planned the aforementioned bombings as a part of a “bomb for bomb” response to attacks coordinated by Muslim terrorists. Aseemanand’s testimony, which included details of the plannings and incriminated Sunil Joshi, Sandeep Dange and Ramchandra Kalsangra, was legally admissible and threatened to have serious implications for Hindutva groups, as it was the first direct piece of evidence pointing to their involvement. However, in March 2011, Swami Aseemanand <a href="http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDExLzAzLzMxI0FyMDEzMDI=">retracted his statements</a>, explaining that they were made to investigators under duress. His counsel would also argue later that the statement was coerced by CBI officials as part of ploy to legitimise the concept of “saffron terror” and implicate the RSS. Another of key accused, Sunil Joshi, who was named as a suspect in 2010, was murdered in December 2007 in Madhya Pradesh, allegedly by his own people for <a href="http://www.rediff.com/news/report/sunil-joshi-the-rss-leader-who-knew-too-much/20131209.htm">“knowing too much</a>”. Joshi had reportedly been planning to make a confession. A lot of witnesses turned hostile Like Swami Aseemanand, a number of witnesses turned hostile and/or retracted their statements against the accused. In fact, out of the 226 witnesses in the trial, <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/hostile-witnesses-hurt-prosecution-in-mecca-masjid-blast-case/story-PDCmLR1M4OXTJvixfEYNlK.html">66 turned hostile.</a> As is expected in a trial that takes forever to conclude, a number of witnesses feared for their lives. In November 2016, for example, four key witnesses backtracked on earlier statements, which said that the accused had contacted each other <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Four-witnesses-turn-hostile-in-Mecca-Masjid-blast-case/articleshow/55447999.cms">using their mobile phones</a>. A number of important cases in India have been derailed due to witnesses turning hostile. The ongoing trial for the alleged encounter killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his wife Kausar Bi and his aide, Tulsiram Prajapati, at the hands of the Gujarat Police’s Anti-Terrorist Squad has seen 45 out of 66 witnesses change their statements or profess their inability to recollect events accurately. Possible interference in the NIA’s investigation The NIA has routinely been criticised for its protracted and shoddy investigation of cases involving Hindu extremist outfits, which was perceived to be a sign of compliance with orders from the BJP-led government. In June 2015, Rohini Salian, a prosecutor for another bomb blast case in Malegaon in September 2008, said that she had been told by the NIA to <a href="http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/since-this-new-govt-came-i-have-been-told-to-go-soft-on-accused-hindu-extremists-special-public-prosecutor/">“go soft”</a> on the accused. The case, which is still pending, was subsequently transferred to another special court. In August 2015, the NIA chose <a href="https://thewire.in/politics/nia-not-to-challenge-bail-for-aseemanand-in-supreme-court-govt">not to challenge the bail order </a>granted to Swami Aseemanand in the Samjhauta Express blast case as well as two others who were accused in the Mecca Masjid blast case- Devender Gupta and Lokesh Sharma. In April 2016, the NIA also shifted gears by deciding to probe the possible participation of <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Samjhauta-blasts-NIA-seeks-details-of-LeT-financier-Qasmani%E2%80%99s-role-from-US/article14240593.ece">a Pakistani terror outfit</a>, Lashkar-e-Taiba, in the Samjhauta case - an attack in which 68 Pakistanis were killed on Indian soil. Criminal investigations in India are regularly influenced by politics. In December 2017, a local court dismissed non-bailable warrants against a number of BJP leaders in the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case, likely at the behest of the Yogi Adityanath government. Last month, the Uttar Pradesh government moved to withdraw all 131 pending cases in the riots. What now? Following the not-guilty verdict for the accused in the Mecca Masjid case, the NIA said that it would assess the court’s decision before pursuing any further action. The verdict marks another reason to lose faith in the agency after it refused to appeal against the acquittals of seven people, including Swami Aseemanand, in the Ajmer Sharif case in March last year. However, Swami Aseemanand isn’t completely in the clear. He is still being tried in the Samjhauta Express blast case. However, the trial has much the same makings of the Mecca Masjid one. As many as 42 witnesses, out of 209 deposed, have turned hostile. The NIA is currently seeking the statements of 13 Pakistani witnesses. A guilty verdict, while welcome, is unlikely. Asaduddin Owaisi, the president of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, an Islamic party in Telangana, summed up the nation’s reaction to the acquittals in the Mecca Masjid blast. "Our fight against <keyword id="6358165" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="terrorism">terrorism</keyword> is weakened after today's acquittals," he said in a statement to media outlets.

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