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  • Maharashtra: ATS to soon start investigation into RSS headquarter recce bid case

    By PTI

    NAGPUR: The Nagpur unit of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) will soon launch the investigation into the alleged bid to conduct reconnaissance of the RSS headquarters here in Maharashtra by a member of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a senior police officer said on Sunday.

    The Nagpur unit of the ATS had received directives from its Mumbai-based head office on the orders of former Maharashtra DGP Sanjay Pandey, he told PTI.

    ATS officials are likely to request the Nagpur police on Monday to seek documents related to this case.

    The ATS Nagpur is likely to take custody of the suspected JEM operative Raees Ahmed Sheikh Asadulla Sheikh , a resident of Jammu and Kashmir, to expedite the investigation, he said.

    Police had said that the JeM operative had made an unsuccessful attempt to carry out reconnaissance of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) headquarters in July 2021.

    He conducted a partial recce of the Hedgewar Smriti Bhavan in the Reshimbaug area of the city and managed to send a video of the Bhavan to his handler in Pakistan, a senior Nagpur police commissioner Amitesh Kumar had told reporters.

    Sheikh was arrested by the Jammu and Kashmir police after recovering a grenade from his possession in December last year.

    A case was registered against him under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act at Kotwali police station in Nagpur last month.

  • Maharashtra ATS arrest Bangladeshi man held for obtaining Indian passport fraudulently

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: The Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra has arrested a Bangladeshi national who had obtained an Indian passport by providing fraudulent documents, an official said here on Saturday.

    This was the 22nd arrest in a racket unearthed by the ATS last year, he said.

    Irshad Shahabuddin Shaikh (33), a resident of Noakhali in Bangladesh, was apprehended from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Friday, said Deputy Inspector General of Police (ATS) Shivdeep Lande.

    A racket which facilitated passports on the basis of fraudulently obtained documents was busted by the ATS last year and the agency had recently made arrests from Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai in the same case, he added.

    ATS officials had got a tip-off that Shaikh was arriving from Sharjah (UAE), so a team rushed to Delhi and nabbed him as he was leaving the airport, Lande said.

    He was brought to Mumbai on Saturday morning and produced before a court which remanded him in ATS custody till October 8.

    Shaikh had obtained Indian identification documents in West Bengal and then obtained the passport in Mumbai, the DIG said, adding that further probe was on.

  • Mansukh Hiran death case: Maharashtra ATS hands over businessman to NIA 

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad on Tuesday handed over a businessman to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with its probe into the murder of Mansukh Hiran, an ATS official said.

    Hiran, a Thane resident, was in possession of an SUV which was later found with explosives near the residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani in south Mumbai on February 25.

    The body of Hiran was found in the Mumbra creek in Thane on March 5.

    The state ATS, during its probe into the case of Hiran’s murder, had arrested suspended police constable Vinayak Shinde and cricket bookie Naresh Gor for their alleged role in procuring SIM cards from Gujarat, the official said.

    The ATS had also recorded the statement of a businessman, who is into coal trading, as a witness in the case, he said.

    The businessman was handed over to NIA on Tuesday, the ATS official said.

    Further course of action will be decided by the central probe agency, he said.

    The ATS during its investigation had found that suspended Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze, who is currently in NIA’s custody in connection with its probe into the bomb scare near Ambani’s residence and Hiran’s murder, used five SIM cards procured from Gujarat through Naresh Gor and Vinayak Shinde.

    The SIM cards were procured in the name of a company in Gujarat, according to the ATS.

    Shinde is a convict in the 2006 Lakhan Bhaiyya fake encounter case.