Police, media demonising Muslims over blast probe: MBT

The Majlis Bachao Tehreek has accused the Andhra Pradesh Police and a section of media of trying to demonise the Muslim community over the issue of Dilsukhnagar twin blast.

Referring to the missing of 22-year Syed Adnan, a B.Com final year student of Anwarul Uloom College and a resident of Amin Colony of Sayeedabad, MBT Corporator Mohammad Amjadullah Khan Khaled said that the student has been picked up by the police personnel two days ago for questioning into the blast case. He said Adnan’s father Syed Haji was not being given any information about his whereabouts by the police.

Hyderabadi held in Jammu,passport seized

The police detained one Salauddin, who belongs to the Old City of Hyderabad, here on Wednesday in connection with the bomb blasts occurred in Dilsukhnagar in Andhra Pradesh.

The police arrested him at Rambus area in the border State.

It is learnt the police also seized some SIM cards, which belonged to Andhra Pradesh from Salauddin. The police have also identified that Salauddin was absconding from January 23 from Hyderabad. The police were searching him thoroughly following Dilsukhagar bomb blasts.

Boy meets with watery grave in city

A Class X boy met with his watery grave in Jubilee Hills on Wednesday.

According to the information, Mallesh of Yusufguda village near Jubilee Hills, accompanied by three friends, went for a swim in a water pool on Road No. 25 in Jubilee Hills on Wednesday morning.

As the pit dug for a building construction purpose was very deep, Mallesh could not come out after diving into it. Despite best efforts of his friends to fish him out, the boy met with his watery grave as he did not know swimming.
Police said they would take action against those who dug the pit.

–Agencies

Shankar Rao discharged from hospital

Former minister and Secunderabad Cantonment MLA Dr P Shanker Rao, who was undergoing treatment for several days, has been discharged from the Banjara Hills Care Hospital here on Wednesday.

It may be recalled that Dr Shanker Rao has been undergoing treatment following his arrest by the Malkajgiri police in connection with the Greenfield Lands issue. He reportedly developed health problems when the police took him into custody from his home and shifted him to Malkajgiri Police Station.

Court permits CBI to file another charge-sheet against Jagan

CBI Special Judge’s Court at Nampally on Wednesday granted permission to the CBI prosecutors to file another charge-sheet with further allegations against YSRCP president and Kadapah MP YS Jaganmohan Reddy and other accused, who were allegedly involved in the illegal assets cases.

The court extended the remand of all the accused to March 13. The minister Dharmana Prasada Rao appeared before the court.

–Agencies

Hyd blasts: Production warrants issued against 2 IM operatives

A Delhi court today issued fresh production warrants for tomorrow against two suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives whose custody was sought by the NIA for interrogation in connection with the twin blasts in Hyderabad that claimed 16 lives.

District judge I S Mehta issued the fresh production warrants against Syed Maqbool and Imran Khan after they were not produced before him by the jail authorities.

–Agencies

Veena Malik kissed by 100 men in 60 seconds

Pakistani model and Bollywood actress Veena Malik (R) poses as participants kiss her hand during a record event on her birthday for her to be kissed over a hundred times in a minute, in Mumbai.

Controversial Pakistani actress Veena Malik has entered the Guinness World Records by receiving 137 kisses on her hand in one minute. She admits it is for the sake of her upcoming film The City That Never Sleeps.

“I am a celebrity anyway and if you say that it is for publicity, ok, yeah,

Veena Malik aims to break world record for maximum kisses

Hyderabad blasts: NIA seeks custody of suspected IM operatives

The NIA has moved a Delhi court seeking custody of two alleged operatives of banned terror outfit Indian Mujahideen to interrogate them in connection with the twin blasts in Hyderabad which claimed 16 lives.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) moved a plea before district judge I S Mehta, who issued production warrants for Wednesday against Syed Maqbool and Imran Khan.

The two are lodged in Tihar Jail under judicial custody after being arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police in connection with the August 2012 Pune blasts.

Mufti demands return of Guru’s mortal remains

Opposition PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed today wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that the body of Afzal Guru be returned to his family for proper burial, saying this will help “rebuild trust” between Kashmir and rest of the country.

Sayeed, a former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, also termed the hanging of the Parliament attack convict as a “negative reference point in Kashmirs painful history”.

–Agencies

Exgratia given to wife of deceased doctor

The state government has extended an ex-gratia of Rs. 6 lakhs to the family of deceased veterinary doctor Nakka Venkateshwar Rao, on Tuesday. The doctor lost his life in the Dilsukhnagar twin blasts which took place on 21st February.

The concerned officer RJD Doctor Anantham visited the house of the deceased at Asmangud in Saidabad mandal, and handed over the cheque to Sujatha, wife of the diseasd and his family members.

Injustice done to state in railways-Babu

TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu, who was in his Vastunna Meekosam padayatra, has alleged that the State was being meted out injustice in the Railway Budgets for the last several years. Reacting on the 2013 budget, Chandrababu said that nothing benefited to the State though the MP from the State was Minister of the State for Railways. He also alleged that the State didn’t get its due share in the latest budget though State had sent several ruling party MPs.

Kadapa former Mayor surrenders before court:Forgery case

Former chief minister late Dr YS Rajashekar Reddy’s brother-in-law and Kadapa former mayor Ravindranath Reddy has surrendered before the Kadapa District Court on Tuesday. The Court has imposed 14 day judicial remand on Ravindranath Reddy. Meanwhile, the police petitioned the Court asking it to hand him over for inquiry.

Two held for bid to molest women colleagues

Two workers of a spinning mill in neighbouring Tirupur district were arrested today on alleged charges of attempting to molest two teenage colleagues during night shift, police said.

The arrests were made based on a complaint by the girls, aged 17 and 18, that the accused grabbed and tried to kiss them two days ago during the night shift in the mill in Vellanchettipalayam, they said.

–Agencies

Police denies media reports on SIMI activists’ arrest

East Godavari Superintendent of Police N Siva Sankara Reddy clarified today that the district police did not arrest any activist of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) at Samalkot, as telecast by some television channels in the morning.

He also said that he did not have any knowledge about central investigation agencies operating in the area.

“I have nothing to comment on rumours in this regard,” he said.

–Agencies

Corporator held for demanding extortion

An Independent corporator of Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) was today arrested for allegedly threatening a transport operator and demanding Rs one lakh from him, police said.

The corporator Pawan Chandrakant Pawar threatened Deepak Bhatia twice and demanded money from him, they said.

Pawar, a resident of Shivaji Nagar area in the city, is a corporator from ward no 35 (A) of the NMC.

–Agencies

AP Council polls: Two TRS-backed candidates win

In a shot in the arm for TRS, two candidates supported by the party have emerged victorious in the elections held for six constituencies of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council.

TRS candidates K Swamy Goud and P Sudhakar Reddy won from the Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar Graduates’ constituency and Medak-Nizamabad-Adilabad-Karimnagar Teachers’ segment, respectively.

However, the TRS candidate was trailing in the Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda Teachers’ constituency, where counting of votes was in progress till late evening.

–Agencies

H’bad blasts: NIA’s claim baseless, says Bukhari

Delhi’s Jama Masjid chief cleric Syed Ahmed Bukhari has said investigation agencies have the tendency to name perpetrators of any bomb blasts in the country much before initiation and conclusion of their probes.

Referring to the recent Hyderabad blasts, Bukhari said the National

Investigation Agency’s claim that the evidence pointed towards involvement of the Indian Mujahideen in the bombings was baseless.

American help to be sought in Dilsukhnagar blasts probe

Police intensified their investigation into the Dilsukhnagar twin blasts case. It is learnt that the elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) leading the investigation, is thinking of seeking the help of the FBI of USA in the probe.

The investigators are examining the CC TV footage obtained from various sources in the blast area. They are also examining the routes the terrorists got funds for the operation. It is learnt that they found that funds were received through Havala transactions.

City Police Directive to cinema halls,Malls etc

In the wake of the bomb blasts at Dilsukhnagar on February 21, and the existing security environment in the City, Mr Anurag Sharma, Commissioner of Police and Addl. District Magistrate Hyderabad City, has directed all licensees of cinema theatres located in twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad and Owners Managements of the Shopping Complexes Malls, Star Hotels, Lodges, Big establishments, Entertainment places and Govt.

Botsa condemns Babu for call to kill

PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana condemned the call of the TDP chief Chandra Babu Naidu to people to take swords and sickles and kill Congress.

Talking to the media here on Monday, he said his remarks amounted to violation of the constitution as they incited violence. He said criminal action would be taken against Naidu for his call inciting people to indulge in violence.

Yasin Bhatkal planted one of the bombs in city!

An important operative of Indian Mujahideen (IM), Yasin Bhaktal, is suspected to have planted one of the bombs in the twin blasts that rocked the crowded Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad on February 21.

Disclosing this, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that the Intelligence Bureau had gathered relevant information in this regard. Yasin Bhaktal was the brain behind the terrorist attack in various cities including Delhi, Ahmedbad, Surat , Pune etc in the past.

Pak, China harming India’s interest: RSS

RSS today said that while Pakistan was abetting cross-border terrorism to harm India, China was seeking to ruin the country’s economy by flooding the markets with cheap products.

“While Pakistan adopted anti-India policies and openly challenged country’s sovereignty, China worked cunningly by launching an economic warfare in the subcontinent,” RSS chief Mohan Rao Bhagwat said.

“Pakistan Army brings terrorists to the border and they (terrorists) cut heads of Indian soldiers.

–Agencies

SP MLC’s son arrested for misbehaving with woman

Son of a Samajwadi Party MLC was today arrested for allegedly misbehaving with a woman teacher of a private university here.

Abhinav Gupta was arrested from the gate of the university in Chinhat area, police said.

Gupta allegedly misbehaved with the woman after which an FIR was registered against him.

Gupta is the son of SP MLC Pramod Gupta.

–Agencies

PDP will oppose J-K Police Bill, says Mufti

The main opposition party in Jammu and Kashmir today said it would strongly oppose the passage of the proposed Police Bill in its present form, saying many provisions in it were “undemocratic and anti-people”.

“Peoples Democratic Party would strongly oppose passage of J-K Police Bill in the present form,” party president Mehbooba Mufti said in a statement here.

Mufti said police in the state needed drastic reforms but many provisions in the Bill were “undemocratic and anti-people”.

—Agencies