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Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 19 (ANI): The Uttar Pradesh Police, under Mission Asmita, have arrested 10 individuals across six states in a crackdown on an unlawful religious conversion syndicate. The UP Police held a press conference to provide information about the syndicate. The operation, led by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and Special Task Force (STF), uncovered foreign funding from Canada, the US, London, and Dubai, with links to radicalisation and terror groups, including alleg ...Read More >
Lucknow, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a big disclosure that highlights the nexus between global terror ideologies and domestic criminals, the Uttar Pradesh Police have exposed a network of illegal religious conversions. These activities have been backed by foreign funding, radical indoctrination, and tactics inspired by ISIS. The state's law enforcement agencies - backed by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the Special Task Force (STF) - have uncovered a well-orchestrated syndicate that not onl ...Read More >
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 19 (ANI): The Uttar Pradesh Police, under Mission Asmita, have arrested 10 individuals across six states in a crackdown on an unlawful religious conversion syndicate. The UP Police held a press conference to provide information about the syndicate. The operation, led by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and Special Task Force (STF), uncovered foreign funding from Canada, the US, London, and Dubai, with links to radicalisation and terror groups, including alleg ...Read More >
Lucknow, Jul 19 (PTI) The Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday said they have busted a large-scale illegal religious conversion racket and arrested 10 people from six states. The probe began in Agra in March after two sisters -- aged 33 and 18 -- were reported missing. Investigations revealed that they were allegedly coerced into religious conversion and were undergoing radicalization, the police said. One of the sisters had also put a picture of a girl holding an AK 47 rifle as her profile pictur ...Read More >
Jaipur: Rajasthan Police Friday released a fresh list of 25 most wanted fugitives in the state, with 12 new names added and rewards running into lakhs announced for their capture.ADG (Crime) Dinesh MN said the arrests of these suspects are now a top priority, with clear instructions sent to police commissioners in Jaipur and Jodhpur, range IGs, district SPs, and units of GRP, ATS, and SOG. The updated list features criminals wanted for serious crimes ranging from murder and dacoity to arms traff ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: In a renewed effort to put economic pressure on Russia, the European Union on Friday unveiled a fresh package of sanctions, which includes lowering the price cap on Russian crude oil and sanctioning Nayara Energy Ltd, an India-based refinery linked to Russian energy giant Rosneft. This marks the first time the EU has imposed sanctions involving India, a country that has heavily relied on discounted Russian crude since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. Nayara Energy Ltd, fo ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has uncovered immovable assets acquired by Jalaluddin Shah alias Chhangur Baba that were allegedly registered in the names of his close associates in a bid to conceal his direct involvement in money laundering activities. The close associates were Naveen Rohra alias Jamaluddin and Neetu Rohra alias Nasreen, whose details came to the fore after the ED carried out raids on July 17 at 15 locations related to Chhangur Baba, his clos ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 18 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it has found that Chhangur Baba, being investigated in a money-laundering case linked to an alleged illegal religious conversion racket in Uttar Pradesh, had received funds worth Rs 60 crore in 22 bank accounts, including "large amounts" from abroad. The federal probe agency said this in a statement after it concluded searches at more than a dozen locations in Chhangur Baba's native Balrampur district and two places in Mumb ...Read More >
Lucknow: Two women from Bengaluru and UP's Auraiya have come forward with testimonies, alleging they were trapped, exploited, and forcibly converted to Islam as part of a religious conversion syndicate allegedly run by Jamaluddin alias Chhangur Baba.Both women, in their mid-20s, were rescued with help from Vishwa Hindu Raksha Parishad national president Gopal Rai. Rai has claimed getting threats. Speaking at a press conference in Lucknow on Monday, the women accused Baba's network of using fake ...Read More >
Lucknow, Jul 17 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh's capital city has secured the third position in the category of urban spaces with population exceeding 10 lakh, while Prayagraj was adjudged the Cleanest Ganga City in the ninth edition of the Swachh Survekshan. Lucknow also became the first city in the state to achieve a 7-star Garbage Free City rating in the 2024-25 survey. Gorakhpur achieved double success, ranking third in the Safai Mitra Surakshit Sheher category and fourth among cities with a population ...Read More >
Balrampur/Lucknow, July 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a major breakthrough, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Thursday arrested Rashid, a key associate of self-styled spiritual leader Chhangur Baba, for his alleged role in a large-scale religious conversion racket. The arrest was made from Balrampur's Utraula area, where the racket is believed to have originated. According to information, Chhangur Baba had entrusted Rashid with handling the 'love jihad' wing of the conversion syndicate. ...Read More >
NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday carried out raids at multiple locations in Uttar Pradesh as well as in Bandra and Mahim in Mumbai as part of an ongoing money-laundering investigation into an alleged religious conversion racket linked to Jalaluddin, also known as "Chhangur Baba." According to sources, at least 14 premises were searched under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), including 12 in Balrampur district and two in Mumbai. The raids began around ...Read More >
Lucknow, Jul 17 (PTI) To curb illegal mining and transportation, the Uttar Pradesh government is deploying advanced technologies under the Integrated Mining Surveillance System (IMSS), a release said on Thursday. Mining activities are already being monitored through drones, geo-fencing, RFID tags, and AI-powered check gates. Now, the state is set to introduce 'Weigh-In-Motion' (WIM) technology to accurately track vehicle overloading. Also Read | 'Arvind Kejriwal Used Government Funds to Buy Mo ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Lucknow Zonal Unit on Thursday conducted searches at 14 locations, 12 in Uttar Pradesh's Balrampur district and two in Mumbai, in connection with an alleged religious conversion racket linked to self-styled godman Jamaluddin Shah, also known as Chhangur Baba. According to officials, the operations began early in the day and continued for over 13 hours. In Mumbai, the ED searched two premises: a 20th-floor flat in Kanakia Paris (F Wing), Bandra East, and ...Read More >
LUCKNOW: Seven days after registering a money laundering case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Thursday, launched searches at 14 locations connected to Jalaluddin alias Chhangur Baba, the alleged mastermind of a massive illegal religious conversion syndicate in Uttar Pradesh. According to official sources, the ED carried out searches at 12 premises in Utraula area of Balrampur district in central UP and at two locations in Mumbai. The searches began as early as 5 am on Thursday. The prob ...Read More >
Mumbai: ED raids Bandra, Mahim properties of Chhangur Baba's aide Mumbai: The ED investigators on Thursday scanned and seized bank accounts, property documents and digital records at Bandra and Mahim properties of Chhangur Baba's financial associate Shahzad Sheikh in Mumbai. The operation was a part of a probe into money laundering through shell companies linked to members of an alleged multi-state religious conversion racket headed by spiritual leader Jamaluddin Shah, also known as Chhangur B ...Read More >
Lucknow, Jul 14 (PTI) A few women, who were converted to Islam by Chhangur Baba, on Monday claimed that they were getting threats after returning to Hinduism. "Abu Ansari introduced himself as Amit to me, and his family met me as a Hindu. I met Chhangur Baba for the first time in 2019. The atmosphere was very strange, and only women were there. They were brainwashed. Chhangur had carried out around 5,000 religious conversions," one of them told reporters. Uttar Pradesh Police's Anti-Terrorism ...Read More >
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 13 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP Brij Lal on Sunday alleged that Chhangur Baba, running a massive religious conversion racket, was funded by Pakistan and other Islamic countries to make India an Islamic country. Speaking in Lucknow, Lal claimed that the India-Nepal border has been a sensitive area, with madrasas near the border serving as refugee camps. The India Nepal border has been a very sensitive area. These madrasas near the bord ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: In a blunt warning that has confirmed the worst fears of Indian security establishment, a senior Nepalese govt advisor has cautioned that Pakistan-based terrorist organisations were likely to exploit Nepal's geography to launch attacks on India.During a seminar on challenges to regional peace and security in South Asia in Kathmandu, Sunil Bahadur Thapa, principal political advisor to the president of Nepal and former minister of industry, said Pakistan-based UN-designated terrorist gr ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan received a death threat on social media, his party spokesperson Rajesh Bhatt said on Friday. Bhatt also filed a complaint at the Cyber Police Station in Patna in the matter. As per the written complaint, the death threat was issued by an Instagram user under the name 'Tiger Meraj Idisi'. 'The threat was issued due to Paswan's growing popularity. T ...Read More >
Chennai: Attempts to re-establish contact with their prospective aides in Tamil Nadu proved to be the undoing of three fugitives who were linked to multiple terror-related cases across TN, Karnataka and Kerala, and were on the run for almost three decades.And the state police's continued intel gathering paid off when the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) in two carefully coordinated operations in Kartnataka and Andhra Pradesh between June 30 and July 10, finally nabbed the trio. For nearly 30 years, they ...Read More >
Mumbai: A Mumbai court on Friday remanded a man held in the Pune ISIS arms and explosives seizure case in National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody till July 18 after the agency obtained his custody from a Lucknow court. Rizwan Ali was in judicial custody in UP in an Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) being probed by the Anti Terrorism Squad there. He is also facing trial in a National Investigation Agency case in Delhi. It was submitted before the court that Ali was primarily arres ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 11 (PTI) A court here on Friday remanded a man held in the Pune ISIS arms and explosives seizure case in National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody till July 18. The NIA claimed Rizwan Ali was a suspected member of terror outfit ISIS and was part of a larger conspiracy to promote its terror activities. Ali was brought from a Lucknow jail during the day and produced before a special NIA court, after which he was formally placed under arrest by the central agency in the ISIS module ...Read More >
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 11 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Director General of Police (DGP) Shankar Jiwal on Friday addressed the media at the DGP office, announcing the arrest of, Tailor Raja, a suspect in the 1995 Coimbatore blast case after nearly 29 years of evading the law and highlighted that soon Tamil Nadu will be free of terrorism. The press conference focused on the recent success of the Tamil Nadu Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), which was established in November 2023. DGP Jiwal said, "ATS w ...Read More >
Tamil Nadu's Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) arrested three terror suspects, Abubacker Siddique, Mohammed Ali, and Sadiq alias Tailor Raja, after extensive operations with police from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. The suspects are involved in past major bombings. Confirmed identities quickly, ATS investigates further connections and possible foreign links. In a significant breakthrough, Tamil Nadu's Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) has apprehended three terror suspects following extensive operations conducted i ...Read More >
COIMBATORE: Nearly 27 years after the 1998 Coimbatore serial bomb blast, which claimed 58 lives and injured 250 people, the Coimbatore city police and the Coimbatore unit of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Wednesday arrested one of the key accused in the case in Karnataka. The suspect, 'Tailor' Raja (48), has been on the run since 1996 after he was booked in a petrol bomb attack case against a jail warden in Coimbatore. Raja, who was from Bilal Estate at Ukkadam in Coimbatore, has multiple al ...Read More >
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Police's Anti Terrorism Squad on Thursday said it has arrested Sadiq, a key accused in the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blast case, in which 58 people were killed and 250 others were injured. Also, a key accused in communal murder cases across Tamil Nadu, he has been absconding for 29 years and never been arrested since 1996. Acting on "specific and credible intelligence," a special team of AntiTerrorism Squad and Coimbatore City Police arrested the accused at Vijayapura district of ...Read More >
Lucknow: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday registered a money laundering case against Jamaluddin alias Chhangur Baba, the alleged mastermind of an illegal religious conversion syndicate in the state. ED is now preparing to take him into custody.The probe stems from suspected foreign remittances exceeding Rs 100 crore into around 40 bank accounts linked to the accused and his associates.ED has sought the details of income tax returns of all 40 entities of Chhangur Baba in the last 10 y ...Read More >
CHENNAI: For 29 years, A Raja alias 'Tailor' Raja managed to live under the radar despite being wanted by both the CB-CID and the Tamil Nadu anti-terrorism squad for his alleged role in the 1998 bomb blast that claimed 58 lives and left over 250 people injured and the 1996 petrol bomb attack in Coimbatore, and several other cases. Raja, now 47, finally ran out of luck on Wednesday when a special team of ATS and the Coimbatore city police caught up with him in Karnataka. Raja, a member of the ba ...Read More >
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 10 (ANI): The Uttar Pradesh administration on Wednesday continued its crackdown on the properties of Chhangur Baba in the Balrampur district for the third consecutive day. He is the alleged mastermind of a religious conversion gang and was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). Additional Director General of Police (ADG) Law and Order Amitabh Yash on Thursday informed that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has asked the ATS for the FIR in ...Read More >
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