Ravi Kumar and Gopal Singh were arrested in August last year by NIA, which took over the case from the Haryana Police on the order of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The court was deciding a plea filed by Jasmeet Singh Hakimzada, allegedly a close associate of Harmeet Singh, the head of the Pakistan-based outfit KLF.
US-based Ghulam Nabi Shah alias Fai has been in legal trouble in both India and US, which convicted him of conspiracy & tax evasion. FBI laid bare his links with Pakistan’s ISI.
The agency has named TRF, an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba, as the organisation that carried out the attack and charged its Pakistan-based handler Sajid Jatt as a prime accused.
While Justice Rajiv Gupta ruled in favour of acquittal of the accused, Justice Harvir Singh partially affirmed 2022 order of trial court, convicting & sentencing them to death.
Days before his 11-day NIA custody was to end, Anmol Bishnoi, asked for protection from Pakistan-based gangster Shahzad Bhatti. He was recently deported from the US.
The accused, identified as Soyab, is a resident of Faridabad's Dhauj village, where Al Falah medical college is located, and is accused of ‘providing logistical support’ to the bomber.
Anmol Bishnoi, following his deportation from the US, has been put in the NIA’s custody for his involvement in his brother Lawrence Bishnoi’s terror-syndicate.
The Vishnu Deo Sai government's 2026-27 budget outlined a post-Naxal era vision for Chhattisgarh's tribal-majority belts of Bastar & Surguja. Finance Minister OP Choudhary presented it Tuesday.
Every February, headlines focus on defence budget allocation. But real question is—how much money was actually spent & why did promise-delivery gap widen in some years, narrow in others?
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