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2006 Mumbai blasts: MCOCA approval was based on ‘oral info’, ‘non-application of mind’

It was a decision based on oral information that may have set off a chain of convictions in a MCOCA court in the 2006 Mumbai blasts case. An order that was overturned nearly a decade later by the Bombay High Court, and now stayed by the Supreme Court. 

Newslaundry · Jul 25, 2025

Acquitted in 2 cases, but a former terror suspect is a lifetime prisoner of suspicion

At 12.48 pm on May 13, 2025, Abdul Wahid Shaikh stood at the threshold of academic triumph. After years of struggle, the 47-year-old school teacher was finally submitting his PhD thesis on “prison literature” at Mahatma Gandhi Mission University in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar. A man who had spent nine years…

Newslaundry · Jun 11, 2025

Absconding for 22 years, SIMI operative Hanif Sheikh arrested by Delhi Police

A member of the SIMI who also allegedly edited a magazine of the banned organisation besides indoctrinating many gullible youths has been arrested by the Delhi Police.

The Hindu · Feb 25, 2024

SIMI, PFI ideology dominates Congress and its allies: Uttarakhand CM

In a sharp reaction to Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Swami Prasad Maurya’s claim that the Badrinath temple had been built after destroying a Buddhist shrine, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday accused the Opposition alliance of holding the ideology of Islamic extremist groups.

The Hindu · Jul 28, 2023

PM Modi says SIMI, PFI used INDIA name; Congress calls it ‘shameful retort’

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took a swipe at the group of 26 opposition parties for calling itself INDIA and said even East India Company and banned organisations such as SIMI and PFI have INDIA in them and asked the people to reject them. The Congress retorted…

The Times of India · Jul 27, 2023

Sales of new diesel and petrol cars will be phased out across Europe by 2035

SIMI Director General, Brian Cooke, says the new legislation will be a “huge challenge” for the motor industry

Dublin Live · Feb 14, 2023

Q&A: Understanding India’s crackdown on Muslim groups

Al Jazeera speaks to Irfan Ahmad, an expert on Islamist parties and Islamophobia, to understand ban on Muslim groups.

Al Jazeera · Oct 19, 2022

MHA cites 4 murders in State; accused PFI members in one case were acquitted in 2021

Notification cites killings of R. Rudresh, Praveen Pujari, Sharath Madiwala, and Praveen Nettaru

The Hindu · Sep 28, 2022

PFI ban: Ministry of Home Affairs cites murders of four Hindutva activists in Karnataka to make a case

State government and BJP welcome the ban; SDPI distances itself from PFI

The Hindu · Sep 28, 2022

The Popular Front of India, its origins, presence, and controversies

The members of the “neo-social” organisation have been at the centre of multiple controversies in the last decade, from alleged organisation of arms training camps to money laundering probes

The Hindu · Sep 24, 2022