In Pic :Journalist Muthi-ur-Rahman Siddiqui addressing the media along with his family at Press Club of Bangalore, after releasing from Parappana Agrahara Central Jail on 26,02,2012. Photo: V Sreenivasa Murthy “If I was the mastermind, then why are the others still in jail?” A day after his release from jail, 26-year-old journalist Muthi-ur-Rahman Siddiqui has accused the police of harbouring an “institutional bias” against the Muslim community. “If I wasn’t […]

The Indian Mujahideen , which has been suspected of carrying out the Hyderabad blasts that claimed 16 lives, was trying to set up a terror outfit to take care of its operations in southern India, according to officials in the National Investigation Agency. NIA officials have found that one of the key accused, Asadullah Akthar alias Tabrez, was constantly in touch with operatives from south India. The IM was trying […]

Indian Mujahideen operatives — Tabrez and Waqas — involved in the 13/7 Mumbai bombings could be behind the Hyderabad blasts as well, says NIA. Vicky Nanjappa reports Preliminary investigations by the National Investigation Agency into Thursday’s Hyderabad blasts suggest that the same module that carried out the 13/7 Mumbai blasts is behind the attack. The NIA has said that two operatives — Tabrez and Waqas — who were part of […]