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Comment by Yogesh Saxena on September 4, 2010 at 5:29pm

Incidents of Subversion in Uttar Pradesh
April 18, 2001 Three Pakistani terrorists of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), were killed in an encounter with the Special Task Force (STF) of the State Police in the Gomtinagar area of Lucknow. Nearly two kg of high quality chemical explosives, two AK rifles, and other arms and ammunition were recovered from the terrorists. They were shot dead while on their way to Faizabad.
April 30, 2001 A Pakistan-trained Harkat-ul-Ansar terrorist was arrested from a Madrassa (seminary) in Hapur. The terrorist was behind the April 27, 1996-explosion in a UP Roadways bus at Roorkie Depot, in which 16 people were killed.
May 1, 2001 An agent of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was arrested by the Military Intelligence with the help of local Police in Saharanpur. Documents related to the Air Force and the Army with technical and structural data was recovered.
August 13, 2001 The STF of Uttar Pradesh Police arrested two LeT terrorists from the Lucknow cantonment, which houses the headquarters of the Army’s Central Command. Police also recovered 12 kg of RDX and a large quantity of arms and ammunition from their possession.
August 14, 2001 An ‘area commander’ of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) was killed in an encounter near Ayodhya.
August 17, 2001 The STF of Uttar Pradesh Police arrested a suspected Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) terrorist, who is also a member of the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), in Azamgarh.

October 15, 2001 Three suspected Kashmiri terrorists and two Police personnel were killed while another Police personnel were injured in an encounter in the Kotwali area of Bijnore town. One terrorist was arrested while another managed to escape.
January 3, 2002 Police arrested an Al Badr terrorist in Varanasi. Identified as Azizul, a native of Miyan Wali in the Punjab province of Pakistan, he reportedly confessed during interrogation that he was an active member of Al Badr since the last three years.
January 5, 2002 Two Jordanians and a Palestinian national were arrested after they were found in possession of fake passport and other documents. Police sources said the three are said to have links with the Palestinian terrorist group, the Hamas. One of the arrested accused was reportedly in constant touch with a few embassies in New Delhi and their personal diaries and communiqués have details of the Hamas.
January 8, 2002 A suspected ISI agent is killed in an encounter with the Police near the Muradnagar ordinance factory in Ghaziabad. The Police recovered a .30 calibre Chinese pistol, several live and spent cartridges and some drawings from the incident site.
March 22, 2002 Four suspected LeT terrorists were arrested in Hapur city, 60 km from New Delhi.
March 26, 2002 The STF of Uttar Pradesh Police arrested two Pakistani terrorists of the LeT in Faizabad. An AK rifle, 72 cartridges, three magazines, 1.75 kg of RDX, a detonator, a timer and a battery circuit were recovered from them.
May 10, 2002 In a joint operation by the State Police, Military Intelligence and STF, an ISI agent was arrested in Kanpur, while he was trying to send some classified documents through a courier to Karachi.
May 19, 2002 Uttar Pradesh Police arrested an ISI agent for passing on defence-related information to Pakistan through the Internet, and recovered several classified defence documents from him. Senior Superintendent of Police, R. P. Singh, told reporters that Mohammad Anwar alias Badruddin was arrested from the Babupurwa locality of Kanpur and added that uniforms and fake identity cards of Army and Border Security Force (BSF), badges, stamps, floppies containing pictures of cantonment areas, a mobile phone and a passport were also recovered from his possession.
Delhi Police arrested an alleged ISI agent and his wife, also from the same city, Kanpur, and seized defence-related documents from them. The Police also seized uniforms of BSF officers, badges, a mobile phone and its six cash cards from the arrested persons, Noor Alam and his wife.
June 21, 2002 Security Force (SF) personnel arrested an ISI agent in the Zafalgani locality of Najibabad town, Bijor District. Official sources said the agent was responsible for transporting secret files of classified defence documents and passing on other vital information about security to the ISI in Pakistan. Many secret Army documents pertaining to Indian troop movement from their respective cantonments to the international border, maps of these cantonments and States, apart from detailed description and accounts of armament depots and ordnance factories were also recovered from him.
July 9, 2002 Five terrorists of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen were arrested from Moradabad. A huge quantity of arms and ammunition, including three AK assault rifles, ammunition and RDX, was also recovered from their possession.
July 15, 2002 The Police arrested four ISI agents from Sherpur and Jat Mujhera villages in the Muzaffarnagar District.
July 22, 2002 Two Khalistani terrorists were arrested after an encounter with the Police in Pilibhit District.
August 11, 2002 A State Home Department spokesperson said a suspected ISI agent was arrested from Bulandshahar District.
August 22, 2002 Three ISI agents, including a Pakistani national, were arrested in Aligarh. A Webley Scott pistol, a map of Bareilly sub-area, photographs of important installations, a camera, passports, fake mark sheets and degrees of the Aligarh Muslim University were among the many things recovered from their possession.
September 29, 2002 Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh Police arrested two ISI agents from the Bans Mandi area in Kanpur.
January 27, 2003 Uttar Pradesh Police arrested three activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) from Lucknow and Allahabad and recovered some incriminating documents from their possession.
February 3, 2003 The Special Task Force with the help of Rampur Police arrested a suspected ISI agent from Lucknow.
March 9, 2003 STF personnel arrested two terrorists of the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in Muzaffarnagar. They were identified as Ijaz Hussain Jaan of Baramulla and Meraj Hasan of Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir. Police also recovered a sketch of the Parliament, a map of Delhi, a telephone diary and a mobile phone from them.
March 12, 2003 STF personnel killed a top JeM cadre in an encounter at Sector 34 in Noida. An AK-47 rifle, ammunition and explosives were recovered from the incident-site.
March 14, 2003 Uttar Pradesh Police personnel arrested two cadres, Sajjad and Ittfaqul of the Jaish-e-Mohammed at Vijay Chowk, in Muzaffarnagar.
August 31, 2003 Personnel from the special cell of Delhi Police arrested two terrorists of the JeM from Sikandarabad in the Bulandshahar District.
December 31, 2003 SF personnel arrested two suspected ISI agents at Agra and recovered some sensitive defence documents from their possession.
Rubi Begum, a married Muslim woman, was arrested by the Uttaranchal Police from Meerut on charges of being an ISI agent.
August 8, 2004 Uttar Pradesh Police arrested a suspected ISI agent along with several incriminating documents from Agra. He was identified as Mohammed Fazil Chaudhary. Police seized several defence related documents, including six maps and eight photographs of prohibited areas, and a camera from him.
March 10, 2005 Police arrest an ISI agent, identified as Khalil Husain Shah at Lalkurti, Meerut.
May 21, 2005 Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police arrested two Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists, Sadat Rashid and Masood Alam, from Lucknow. Four kilograms of explosive material, one kg morphine and a revolver were recovered from their possession.
July 5, 2005 Six heavily-armed terrorists, who made an attempt to storm the makeshift Ram temple at the disputed Ayodhya complex in Uttar Pradesh, were shot dead by the Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) personnel.
July 11, 2005 Police in Uttar Pradesh arrest six persons, including four of a family, from Faizabad in connection with the July 5-attack on the disputed complex in Ayodhya. The arrested family members were associated with the banned Students Islamic Movement of India, according to official sources.
July 16, 2005 Uttar Pradesh Police arrested two ISI agents, Hanif and Yamin on the basis of a tip off from the Assam Police who had arrested another ISI agent a few days earlier. The latter was residing at Jevar in Gautambuddh Nagar. Intelligence agencies, air force officials and top Police officials were scrutinizing the details, documents and maps recovered from Hanif and Yamin. During the interrogation of the two persons, names of several retired air force personnel reportedly figured. Hanif and Yamin were involved in sending youths to Pakistan for terrorist training, Police added.
July 22, 2005 Dr Irfan Khan, a Unani doctor based in the Sangam Vihar area of Delhi, was arrested from Nakud area of Saharanpur District. Inspector General of the Special Task Force, Arun Kumar Gupta, Stated that one of the terrorists involved in the Ayodhya attack, identified as Amin alias Zuber, had visited Nakud, the native place of Dr Khan on March 20 to attend the wedding of his cousin. Dr Khan and Zuber then visited Deoband. On their way back, the duo had stayed in Muzaffarnagar with one Abdul Rehman, also of Nakud, who worked in Messay Ferguson tractor company.
July 28, 2005 12 persons were killed and 52 others sustained injuries in an explosion in one of the bogies of the Patna-Delhi Shramjeevi Express train near Harpalganj, 60 km from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh. The blast occurred near the toilet of the train's general compartment, two bogies from the engine, at around 5.15 p.m (IST).
August 7, 2005 Uttar Pradesh Police arrested two suspected ISI agents from Lucknow and recovered fake currency notes of 500 denomination with a face value of Rs 68,500 and some documents from the two identified as Mobin Ansari, a native of Nepal, and Ashfaq Ahmed of Gorakhpur.
August 10, 2005 Delhi Police arrested four persons and seized 1840 cartridges and two country-made weapons from them in the Sarai Rohilla area. The arms and ammunitions was brought from Meerut in Uttar Pradesh and was to be delivered to one person in the capital, Police said.
August 23, 2005 Abu Razak Masood, the Lashkar-e-Toiba's chief coordinator in Dubai, was arrested from Zakir Nagar area of South Delhi. Razzak had returned from Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh when he was arrested by the Delhi Police.
February 1, 2006 A plot suspected to have been hatched by the Lashkar-e-Toiba to commit acts of sabotage in Kolkata and other parts of India has been foiled with the arrest of Tariq Akhtar of the outfit from Madan Street in Kolkata. Incriminating documents, including Lashkar pamphlets, were seized from him. Following Akhtar’s disclosure, Police arrested a LeT activist Muhammed from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and seized more Lashkar literature, 16 detonators and a laptop containing details of bomb making from him. Subsequently, the Police arrested another activist, Zubeid, from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Kolkata Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee said "The trio, explosive experts and planning to blow up a crowded place, may be linked to the Delhi blasts or the Bangalore attack. Other members are spread throughout the eastern region."
The Police arrested a youth, identified as Kuer Singh Yadav, suspected to be working for the ISI from Varanasi, and recovered vital documents related to the country’s security on February 1. District Police chief, Navneet Sekera, said that the Police had recovered maps of cantonments and documents on Yadav’s links with anti-India elements in foreign countries.
March 7, 2006 At least 21 civilians were killed and 62 others injured in three serial bomb explosions at a temple and the railway station in Varanasi. The first blast occurred inside the crowded Sankat Mochan temple at around 6.30 p.m. Minutes later, another bomb exploded in the holding area of platform one of the Cantonment railway station. The third blast occurred in a crowded coach of the Shiv Ganga Express just before it was to leave for New Delhi. An official said 10 persons died at the temple and 11 at the railway station. Seven bombs were later defused, including four that had been planted on the Gowdolia-Dasashwamedh Ghat Road near the Kashi Vishwanath Temple.
Hours after the blasts in Varanasi, a suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist was shot dead in an encounter with the Police in Gosaiganj area on the outskirts of the Lucknow city. Police identified the terrorist as Salar alias Doctor and did not rule out his involvement in the Varanasi blasts. RDX and some detonators were recovered from the slain terrorist. Police said Salar, a Pakistani, was involved in the conspiracy to carry out a suicide attack at the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun, which was foiled by central security agencies.
March 25, 2006 The Police recovered 250 kilograms of explosive material and 1500 detonators from a jeep at Lalganj area in the Mirzapur District. However, no arrests were made following the seizure.
April 5, 2006 Police arrested HuJi cadre Wali Ullah, a mastermind of the March 7-serial blasts in Varanasi, and five of his accomplices, Mehbook Ali, Syed Shuaib Hussain, Farhan, Mohammad Rizwan Siddique and Mohammad Saad Ali, from different parts of Uttar Pradesh.
September 13, 2006 An alleged ISI agent, Taseem, was arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Force in connection with the September 8-bomb blasts in Malegaon.
Taseem has been staying in India for the past two years and ran a placement agency in the city.
December 28, 2006 Police arrested two alleged ISI agents, Abdul Shakoor and Adeel Anjum alias Adil, and informed that both had entered India after receiving training in Pakistan. The duo, residents of Multan in Pakistan, was arrested from Kaiserbagh in Lucknow.
Sensitive documents relating to the Army, a ration card, a PAN card and a passport made in Lucknow were recovered from their possession.
February 1, 2007 The Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh Police arrested an ISI agent when he was passing certain sensitive information to a person on telephone. The accused Javed Akhtar is reported be a resident of Allahabad and two of his brothers are living in Lahore.
Several sensitive documents, including a map of the Harish Chandra Atomic Research Centre in Allahabad, information about Indian Army bases and infrastructure in Uttar Pradesh, documents connected to India's planned purchase of T-90 tanks from Russia and Indian troop movements and counter-militancy operations in Punjab.
May 22, 2007 Six persons were injured in three serial bomb blasts at Gorakhpur. The bombs exploded at five minutes interval after 7 pm in and around the busy Golghar area of the town. The first blast occurred at Baldev Plaza, followed by the one near the Jalkal (Water Works) building in Golghar. The third bomb went off near Park Hotel. The explosives were kept in tiffin boxes attached to two cycles and a motorcycle.
May 23, 2007 Railway Police personnel, during a routine search at around 2 am, recovered about 10 kilograms of explosives and 20 kilograms of ammonium nitrate from the second class waiting room on platform number 1 of the Faizabad railway station.
May 24, 2007 The Allahabad Police recovered 50 kilograms of ammonium nitrate and 1,000 metre magnetic fuse wire brought in from the neighbouring State of Madhya Pradesh. The explosives were seized in the Shankergarh area from a jeep coming from the neighbouring State, even as the driver of the vehicle, identified as Rajesh Patel, escape from the incident site.
June 21, 2007 Uttar Pradesh Police arrested two Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) terrorists along with seven kilograms of RDX, six detonators, five watches including three improvised watches equipped with timer wire, two batteries and a switch remote. The duo was identified as Mohammed Yaqub, a resident of Tarapur under Badhapur Police station of Bijnore District and Nasir, a resident of Naumi village under Badhapur Police station of Bijnore District. Both were reportedly trained in Pakistan. Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police G. L. Sharma said the duo wanted to carry out blasts at railway stations, bus stands and religious structures in various parts of the country, including Mumbai and Delhi.
June 23, 2007 Uttar Pradesh Police neutralized a Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) module in Lucknow, with the arrest of two top HUJI militants, identified as Naushad and Babubhai. Babubhai, a native of West Bengal, is an 'area commander' of the HUJI in India and a key person in the terrorist network linked to the Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's external intelligence agency. Police recovered nine kilograms of RDX, one AK-47 and foreign made pistols from them.
July 27, 2007 The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police recovered two kilograms of RDX and two detonators from an industrial area on the Lucknow-Kanpur road, under Kotwali Police Station in the Unnao District. STF sources said that the recovery was made following information provided by the arrested Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) militant Noor Islam Mandal alias Mama. The HuJI militant, a resident of Bansghat under Bagda Police Station in West Bengal's 24 Paragana District, was arrested on July 13 and had been brought to Lucknow on transit remand.
November 16, 2007 Three suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militants were arrested by the Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh Police in Lucknow on a tip off that some terrorists were passing through the Tehripulia area. Some AK-47 rifles, Chinese pistols, RDX, detonator and hand grenades were recovered from their possession.
December 22, 2007 The Uttar Pradesh Police and central security agencies during a joint operation arrested two militants of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) from Barabanki railway station. The duo, identified as Khalid Mohammed and Tariq, alleged to be involved in the recent serial blasts in the State, were arrested along with 1.25-kg of RDX and some gelatin sticks.
Khalid, who hails from the Jaunpur area of Uttar Pradesh, received training from HuJI militants in Kashmir, while Tariq is a resident of Azamgarh District of the State.
December 23, 2007 The Special Task Force personnel of the Uttar Pradesh Police shot dead two suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants in an encounter on Dewa Road, 18 kilometers from State capital Lucknow. The duo was traveling in a car and was intercepted near the Central Food Technological Research Centre on Dewa Road. Two AK-47 rifles, a huge quantity of AK-47 cartridges, 10 hand grenades, a fuse, a detonator and a suicide belt were recovered from the car. Brij Lal, the Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order and STF), said that both the unidentified terrorists were part of a Fidayeen (suicide squad) team and had entered the State from Nepal. He further said that the slain terrorists had planned a big terrorist attack in Lucknow. A map with notings in Urdu was also recovered from them.
January 1, 2008 Seven Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and a civilian were killed in a pre-dawn terrorist attack on the para-military CRPF Group Centre at Rampur. Three more CRPF personnel, a civil Police personnel and a home guard were injured in the attack. The Uttar Pradesh Principal Secretary J.N. Chamber said that the attack was carried out around 2.45 am (IST) by two suspected fidayeen (suicide squad) dressed as CRPF constables. They breached the outer security, and started firing indiscriminately from AK-47 rifles on the security post, the guard room and the control room. The terrorists subsequently escaped under cover of darkness.
May 26, 2008 Uttar Pradesh Police arrested seven persons in the Etah District for allegedly running a fake arms licence racket that could have helped Naxalites procure guns from Uttar Pradesh. The District Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), S.K. Singh, said that arms had been purchased using the fake licenses made by the arrested persons. Police also sealed a gun dealers’ shop that allegedly sold firearms against fake licences. The SSP said, "We have sealed one arms shop, the Raj Gun House, from where at least 48 firearms were sold against fake licences in the last three years. When we got in touch with the CID of Bihar Police, we learnt that some of the weapons seized from Naxalites there were bought from shops in Etah." "We suspect some of these weapons, purchased using dubious gun licences, have gone to the Naxalites", he added.
August 12, 2008 The Anti-Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh Police arrested an ISI agent identified as Mohammad Masroor alias Manzoor Ansari and a Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen (JuM) terrorist, Fayyaz Ahmed Mir from Bahraich and Ghaziabad. The arrested persons belong to Karachi and Muzaffarabad in Pakistan. Masroor was living in the Charbagh area in Lucknow under an assumed name of Ramesh Chaudhary and was working in a showroom. Documents pertaining to Indian Army, a photograph of Ordnance Factory, Kanpur, a map of Cantonment area, tickets, pocket diary, mobile phone, driving licence and ration card were seized from him. The JuM terrorist, Fayyaz Ahmed, had entered India via Nepal on August 5, 2008 and was in touch with the commander of the outfit, General Abdullah. Interrogations revealed that he had been assigned the job of committing a terrorist act along with some other Pakistani nationals.
August 21, 2008 Two persons were arrested for alleged possession of 1100 detonators and 100 kilograms of commercial explosive Ammonium Nitrate. Police officer L.R. Bhasker said, "Jitendra Kumar alias Babloo and Amresh Patel were arrested from the Ahrohra in Mirzapur District, about 300 km from Lucknow… We cannot rule out the possibility of their involvement with Naxalites."
June 16, 2008 2,400 detonators were seized from two civilians, identified as Ravikant Kumar and Shrawan Kumar belonging to Rohtas District, at Mughalsarai railway station. The detonators were manufactured by AP Explosive Private Limited, Nalgonda in Andhra Pradesh and Haryana Explosive Private Limited. Interrogation revealed that the two persons were carriers who had been given the consignment by an unidentified person at Dehri in Rohtas District.
August 24, 2008 The Rajasthan Police with the assistance of the Anti-Terrorism Squad of the Uttar Pradesh Police arrested Shahbaz Hussain, a resident of the Maulviganj area of Lucknow, for his suspected involvement in the May 13 terrorist attack in Jaipur. A. K. Jain, the Additional Director General of Police (Crime) and chief of the Special Investigation Team in Rajasthan said, "Shahbaz was a key player in planting the bombs in Jaipur as he was instrumental in mobilising resources as well as selecting the team, which executed the blasts." Police sources said that 25-year old Shahbaz, a diploma holder in mass communications and owner of a cyber cafe in Maulviganj, was a key aide of Sajid Mansoori who reportedly masterminded the Jaipur blasts.
September 23, 2008 Simultaneous raids were conducted by a 22-member Delhi Police team in the Kotwali Police station area and Sarjanpur village in Azamgarh to arrest two Indian Mujahideen militants, Shadab Bhai and Asadullah, alleged to have been involved in the September 13 blasts in New Delhi. The raids were conducted on the basis of evidence provided by Saqib, who was arrested at Jamia Nagar in South Delhi on September 21 in connection with the Uttar Pradesh blasts. Additional Director-General (Law and Order and Special Task Force), Brij Lal, told the media that the raids yielded nothing.
September 27, 2008 A Police team carrying out a combing operation near village Ranideeh under Kon Police circle in the Sonebhadra District recovered 10 kilograms of crude bombs and gelatin sticks in a container. A First Information Report (FIR) against unnamed left-wing extremists was registered in this connection.
November 12, 2008 The Mumbai ATS with the help of Uttar Pradesh ATS has arrested one more September 2008 Malegaon blast accused, identified as Dayanand Pandey alias Mahant Amritanand, the chief of Sharda Sarvagya Peeth (monastery) in Jammu, from Rawatpur village under Kalyanpur Police station in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. He reportedly belongs to Varanasi and was currently residing in Trikutanagar locality of Jammu Tawi in Jammu and Kashmir. He had left for Jammu in 2003 and returned to Kanpur a couple of days back. He has been charged under the specific sections of the Explosives Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
November 16, 2008 Two girls were injured when a crude bomb exploded in a garbage heap in Aishbagh Idgah, the old city area of capital Lucknow. Two more crude bombs were recovered by the Police from the incident site.
November 29, 2008 At least four live crude bombs, a locally-made pistol and cartridges were recovered from a flour mill in the Kannauj District. "Acting on a tip-off, we raided the flour mill in Khanderevar village of Kannauj on Thursday late night and recovered a sack containing bombs, firearm and cartridges," said Deputy Superintendent of Police, S.P. Mishra. The owner of the flour mill was also arrested.
December 12,2008 One LeT militant, identified as Faheem Ansari, who was arrested in connection with the terrorist attack at the Central Reserve Police Force camp in Rampur in Uttar Pradesh on December 31, 2007, was sent to Mumbai Police custody in a transit remand by a Rampur court.
January 3, 2009Police arrested six persons from an unspecified location in the Mirzapur District following an encounter. About 5200 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, 41 bundles of fuse wire, 300 detonators, 157 detonator chargers, and a locally made pistol, a rifle and some cartridges were recovered from their possession.
January 10, 2009A suspected agent of Pakistan's ISI was arrested by the Police from Meerut. He was identified as Amir Ahmed alias Bhura of Nukkud in the Saharanpur District of Uttar Pradesh. Hand-drawn maps of Army units in Dehradun and Meerut, a four-page classified document containing detailed information on anti-tank guided missile, an eight-page document on radio communication brigaded mortar shoot and a four-page document containing restricted information on infantry weapons and a mobile phone were recovered from his possession. The Meerut Police said they had received intelligence that some youth in western Uttar Pradesh had contacts with the ISI. Amir had reportedly passed secret information about Army bases in Dehradun, Ambala, Meerut, Agra and Roorkee, using code words over phone. The Police also said Amir had been to Pakistan five times using a fake passport.
January 25, 2009Two suspected Pakistani terrorists on their way from Ghaziabad to New Delhi were intercepted and shot dead by a combined force of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Police and the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) during a pre-dawn encounter in Noida's sector 97. A constable of the UP ATS was also injured in the encounter. "ATS was following a terrorist module for one and half months. Yesterday, ATS received information that two suspects with AK-47s have been seen in Lal Kuan, Ghaziabad on their way to Delhi," said Brij Lall, Additional Director General of UP Police. Police recovered two AK-47s, two hand grenades and a bag from the vehicle in which two terrorists were traveling. "Two AK-47 rifles, four magazines, 120 live bullets, five hand grenades, detonators, nine RDX shells, a Maruti 800 car, Pakistani passports, some documents and Rs 18,000 were recovered from the terrorists," Brij Lall added.
March 3, 2009Two persons, including a minor girl, were injured when a grenade exploded at a scrap shop in the Allahabad District.
May 27, 2009The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested a suspected ISI agent at Bithoor in Kanpur District. He was identified as Waqas Ahmed alias Zahid alias Ibrahim alias Rajesh Kumar alias Vikki, from Lahore in Pakistan. He was in possession of a voter identity card in the name of Ibrahim and an EPR (exempted from Police reporting) visa, which is issued to those whose credentials are not in doubt. Incriminating documents and maps relating to the Army, fake driving licences, a pocket diary containing names and phone numbers and a Western Union receipt were also recovered from his possession.
July 12, 2009Three persons were arrested from different parts of Allahabad along with explosives, including detonators and ammonium nitrate.
September 21, 2009Three persons were arrested along with explosives, including 250 kilograms of ammonium nitrate and 400 detonators and 20 meter fuse wire, from Sarsedi village in the Allahabad District.
October 14, 2009 A suspected HuJI militant, identified as Chand Mohammad, was arrested from Bareilly District, about 250 kilometres from Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh. "A pistol, several cartridges and an improvised explosive device have been recovered from Mohammad’s possession," an official of the ATS said.
November 16-17, 2009 Two persons, who reportedly assisted the suspected Pakistani spy Syed Amir Ali in making fake documents, were arrested on November 16 by a team of the Delhi Police from the old city area of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. They were produced on November 17 in a court in Delhi which remanded them to seven-day Police custody.
February 1, 2010 An accused in the September 13, 2008 serial bomb blasts in Delhi was arrested by the ATS of the Uttar Pradesh Police from from Khalispur village in Azamgarh District, a senior officer said. The arrestee identified as Shahzad alias Pappu was a cadre of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) outfit and reportedly carried a cash reward of INR 500000 on his head. Additional Director General of Police (law and order) Brij Lal said that earlier a letter was received from the Delhi Police stating that Pappu was wanted in five cases related to the Delhi serial bomb blasts. He also said that during investigation it was found that Pappu was hiding in Azamgarh District and frequently shifting his locations.
February 2, 2010 The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested Hamiduddin alias Hamiruddin alias Salim, who was wanted in connection with the serial bomb blasts on running trains in different parts of the country in 1993, from Lucknow. Hamiduddin, who carried a reward of INR 50,000 on his head, was arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) after an encounter on the outskirts of Lucknow, Additional Director-General (Law and Order, STF and ATS) Brij Lal said. A .32 bore pistol, a hand grenade and a fuse were recovered from Hamiduddin, who had been absconding for the past 16 years. Hamiduddin was reportedly among the 15 terrorists who were instrumental in planting bombs aboard the Rajdhani Express, the Flying Queen Express and the A.P. Express in December 1993.
March 5, 2010 The ATS of the Uttar Pradesh Police arrested an IM cadre and accused in the September 13, 2008 Delhi serial bomb blasts identified as Salman alias Chhotu, in Siddhartnagar District in the night of. He carried a reward of INR 100000 on his head announced by the Delhi Police for his involvement in the bomb blast. He was also involved in the serial bomb blasts in Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) on May 22, 2007, bomb blasts in the Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) civil court on November 23, 2007, the May 13, 2008 bomb blasts in Jaipur (Rajasthan), as well as the serial bomb blasts in Ahmadabad (Gujarat) on July 26, 2008.
June 4, 2010 The ATS of the Uttar Pradesh Police (UPP) on arrested one Kanhaiya Lal Gupta in Siddhart Nagar District bordering Nepal after INR 100, 000 of Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) was recovered from his possession, reports Times of India. Initial investigations have revealed that Gupta was actively working for the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and looking after the FICN segment through UP-Nepal border and had pumped in no less than INR10 million in FICN during the last 5 years. Investigators quoting initial revelations said that he has turned out to be the third important link in the FICN racket involving some important criminals like Vinod Jaiswal of Bhairawan Galla Mandi in Nepal and Yunus Ansari of Kathmandu the two topmost identified controllers of FICN racket in Nepal. During interrogation, Gupta revealed that he was a native of Gagaha village in Gorakhpur and was presently residing near Barmail Toll in Bhairhwan locality in Roopandehi District of Nepal. Though initially Gupta claimed that the FICN seized from him was printed and supplied by local gangs, but the ATS after screening the seized notes closely found that the paper used and the quality of ink and printing was nothing less than the factory printed currency being supplied by the ISI. Gupta subsequently confessed to his link with the ISI based in Nepal.
August 16, 2010State STF claimed to have arrested another wanted accused from Naka area of Lucknow in the case of pilferage of ammunition from various Police weapon stores in Uttar Pradesh. The STF team recovered a .32 bore pistol and 50 live cartridges of .9mm from the possession of the arrested accused. The Inspector General (Law & Order), AP Maheshwari said the arrested accused - Akash alias Guddu, a native of Mau District of Uttar Pradesh and at present staying in Sheikhpur District of Bihar - used to supply the ammunition to Naxal [Left Wing Extremist] groups and criminals of Bihar and West Bengal

Comment by Yogesh Saxena on September 4, 2010 at 5:27pm

Terrorism-related Incidents in Delhi
Date Place Killed Injured
September 27, 2008 Flower Market, Mehrauli 3 21
September 13, 2008 Karol Bagh, Cannaught Place & Greater Kailash 25 150
April 14, 2006 Jama Mosque, Walled City, Old Delhi 0 14
October 29, 2005 Sarojini Nagar/Paharganj/Govindpuri 59 155
May 22, 2005 Liberty/Satyam Cinema 1 60
December 13, 2001 Parliament 11 30
August 11, 2001 South Extension - 2
May 20, 2001 CGO Complex - -
May 9, 2001 Army Headquarters/Dalhousie Road - 1
June 18, 2000 Red Fort 2 -
March 16, 2000 Sadar Bazaar - 7
February 27, 2000 Paharganj - 8
January 6, 2000 Old Delhi Railway Station - 20
June 3, 1999 Chandni Chowk - 27
April 16, 1999 Holambi Kalan Railway Station 2 -
December 19, 1998 Bhajanpura temple - Unspecified
August 31, 1998 Turkman Gate 1 17
July 26, 1998 Interstate Bus Terminal 2 3
January 9, 1998 ITO - 40
December 30, 1997 Punjabi Bagh 4 30
November 30, 1997 Chandni Chowk 3 73
October 26, 1997 Karol Bagh 1 34
October 18, 1997 Rani Bagh 1 23
October 10, 1997 Kingsway Camp 1 18
October 1, 1997 Sadar Bazaar - 30
October 1, 1997 Frontier Mail train 3 Unspecified
July 14, 1997 Red Fort - 18
January 4, 1997 Sonepat Road 1 11

Comment by Yogesh Saxena on September 4, 2010 at 5:26pm

Bomb Blasts in Mumbai since 1993
Date Place Killed Injured
July 11, 2006 7 blasts at 7 locations in local trains across the city 181 890
August 25, 2003 Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar 50 150
July 29, 2003 Ghatkopar 3 34
April 14, 2003 Bandra 1 0
March 13, 2003 Mulund Railway Station 11 80
January 27, 2003 Vile Parle 1 25
December 6, 2002 Mumbai Central railway station 0 25
December 2, 2002 Ghatokpar 3 31
February 27, 1998 Virar 9 0
January 24, 1998 Malad 0 1
August 28, 1997 Near Jama Masjid 0 3
March 12, 1993 13 blasts across the city 257 713

Comment by Yogesh Saxena on September 4, 2010 at 5:22pm

Caste-wise classification of civilians killed by Left-wing extremists
Year SC ST BC OC Total
1990 26 6 130 30 192
1991 14 25 116 63 218
1992 8 21 104 45 178
1993 5 14 93 22 134
1994 9 6 68 23 106
1995 17 19 51 26 113
1996 6 6 107 36 155
1997 13 23 128 42 206
1998 12 26 99 61 198
1999 3 6 82 30 121
2000 9 18 53 11 91
2001 11 31 82 26 150
2002 9 17 37 25 88
2003* 1 10 7 9 27
Total 143 228 1157 449 1977

Comment by Yogesh Saxena on September 4, 2010 at 5:21pm

Surrender of Left-wing Extremists from 1990
Year Surrender
1990 80
1991 3270
1992 8888
1993 331
1994 141
1995 219
1996 196
1997 98
1998 586
1999 377
2000 763
2001 623
2002 645
2003* 258
Total 16475

Comment by Yogesh Saxena on September 4, 2010 at 5:20pm

Incidents of violence by Left-wing extremists
Year Incidents
1968 20
1969 208
1970 93
1971 68
1972 56
1973 48
1974 30
1975 45
1976 49
1977 23
1978 92
1979 107
1980 139
1981 271
1982 370
1983 415
1984 427
1985 325
1986 303
1987 336
1988 580
1989 573
1990 1420
1991 1445
1992 923
1993 810
1994 735
1995 856
1996 1432
1997 1582
1998 1334
1999 1018
2000 867
2001 940
2002 727
2003* 211
Total 18878

Comment by Yogesh Saxena on September 4, 2010 at 5:18pm

Annual Casualties in Left-wing extremist violenceYear Civilians SF Extremist Total
1968 1 NA 2 3
1969 32 3 76 111
1970 27 0 28 55
1971 17 1 7 25
1972 26 0 27 53
1973 7 0 12 19
1974 8 1 4 13
1975 9 1 19 29
1976 13 0 19 32
1977 3 0 2 5
1978 8 0 0 8
1979 19 0 0 19
1980 21 0 7 28
1981 18 1 2 21
1982 22 0 4 26
1983 26 0 2 28
1984 42 2 0 44
1985 29 6 38 73
1986 28 5 19 52
1987 53 24 29 106
1988 59 2 55 116
1989 97 13 51 161
1990 192 4 24 220
1991 218 50 102 370
1992 178 56 249 483
1993 134 37 139 310
1994 106 21 106 233
1995 113 8 75 196
1996 155 47 157 359
1997 206 51 168 425
1998 198 35 275 508
1999 121 38 214 373
2000 91 33 219 343
2001 150 41 120 311
2002 88 16 87 191
2003 99 17 164 280
Total 2614 513 2502 5629

Comment by Yogesh Saxena on September 4, 2010 at 5:16pm

Fatalities in Left-Wing Extremist Violence 2004-2010 Civilians SFs Terrorists Total
January 1 0 0 1
February 0 0 0 0
March 1 0 4 5
April 0 0 0 0
May 3 0 0 3
June 1 0 1 2
July 0 0 4 4
August 0 0 0 0
Total* 6 0 9 15
*Data till August 29, 2010
Source: Figures are compiled from news reports and are provisional.
2009
Civilians SFs Terrorists Total
January 0 0 5 5
February 1 0 0 1
March 0 0 0 0
April 1 0 0 1
May 3 0 2 5
June 0 0 0 0
July 0 0 2 2
August 0 0 0 0
September 0 0 1 1
October 2 0 3 5
November 0 0 1 1
December 3 0 4 7
Total 10 0 18 28

2008
Month Civilian SF Terrorist Total
January 8 0 4 12
February 3 0 2 5
March 1 0 3 4
April 1 0 3 4
May 1 1 8 10
June 3 0 1 4
July 3 0 2 5
August 1 0 0 1
September 0 0 0 0
October 0 0 6 6
November 4 0 6 10
December 3 0 2 5
Total 28 1 37 66

2007
Civilians SFs Terrorists Total
January 1 1 6 8
February 1 0 2 3
March 1 1 5 7
April 0 0 1 1
May 1 0 2 3
June 2 0 5 7
July 3 0 5 8
August 0 0 1 1
September 4 0 4 8
October 2 1 4 7
November 5 1 0 6
December 4 0 10 14
Total 24 4 45 73
2006
Civilians SFs Terrorists Total
January 2 0 0 2
February 1 0 9 10
March 3 1 10 14
April 0 0 29 29
May 0 1 1 2
June 0 0 18 18
July 3 1 9 13
August 1 4 2 7
September 2 0 12 14
October 4 0 8 12
November 2 0 14 16
December 0 0 10 10
Total 18 7 122 147
2005
Civilians SFs Terrorists Total
January 14 1 20 35
February 14 0 10 24
March 22 10 25 57
April 15 0 13 28
May 10 1 7 18
June 13 2 4 19
July 3 0 19 22
August 18 0 17 35
September 3 0 8 11
October 4 0 6 10
November 9 3 18 30
December 7 4 20 31
Total 132 21 167 320
2004
Civilians SFs Terrorists Total
January 4 0 4 8
February 16 1 4 21
March 10 1 16 27
April 5 0 10 15
May 6 0 6 12
June 0 0 1 1
July 0 0 2 2
August 1 0 0 1
September 0 0 0 0
October 0 0 0 0
November 0 1 0 1
December 0 0 0 0
Total 42 3 43 88

Comment by Yogesh Saxena on September 4, 2010 at 5:14pm

Attacks against civilians (Politicians/Informants)Year Politicians Informants Total
1990 47 27 74
1991 35 56 91
1992 36 92 128
1993 47 85 132
1994 43 48 91
1995 37 51 88
1996 65 97 162
1997 57 132 189
1998 51 105 156
1999 81 109 190
2000 40 91 131
2001 41 92 133
2002 44 43 87
2003* 17 15 32
Total 641 1043 1683