Students Islamic Movement of India News

The move comes almost seven days after the Ministry renewed the ban on the SIMI as an 'unlawful association' under UAPA for five more years.

Danish, 58, was nabbed by Delhi Police from Zakir Nagar in Delhi on December 5. He was one of the most elusive members of the banned organisation. As a member of SIMI, he has been continuously propagating hardcore Islamic ideology and luring gullible Muslim youths to join SIMI by radicalizing/brainwashing them.

An earlier attempt to ban SIMI was allowed to fail.

The Anti-Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra on Saturday apprehended a former SIMI member from the international airport.

New Delhi has handed over to Islamabad summonses issued by a special NIA court to 13 Pakistanis for deposing as witnesses in connection with the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case in which 68 people were killed.

Banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) operatives, who were killed in an alleged police encounter following a daring prison break in Bhopal earlier this month, have now been hailed as 'martyrs'.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday slammed the "dirty politics" being played over the killing of eight SIMI operatives by police.

A day after eight SIMI activists were killed in an alleged police encounter following a daring prison break here, their families have decided to approach the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking a CBI probe into what they dubbed as "cold-blooded murders".

Eight SIMI activists were killed in an alleged encounter with police on the outskirts of Bhopal.

Madhya Pradesh CM said if need be the government would spend more on the wedding of Ramashankar ​Yadav's daughter that was scheduled to be held on December 9.

Four of the eight SIMI activists, who were killed in an encounter near Bhopal on Monday after breaking from jail, had learned bomb-making in Bijnor and escaped from here after an accidental explosion.

Eight terrorists of the banned outfit Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who managed to escape from Bhopal Central Jail in the wee hours of Monday, were killed in an encounter on the outskirts of Bhopal.

The SIMI activists escaped from the Central Jail by killing a security guard and scaling the prison wall with the help of bed sheets.

Eight activists of the banned SIMI escaped early Monday from the Bhopal Central Jail by killing a security guard and scaling the prison wall with the help of bed sheets.

The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested an alleged SIMI operative, who was wanted in the 2008 serial bomb blasts in the city, from Belgam in Karnataka.

Further investigations led the SIT to conclude that Hindu hardliners were involved in the case.

A Special POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) Court will on Wednesday pronounce the quantum of sentence for 10 people held guilty on Tuesday in connection with the triple bomb blasts in Mumbai between December 2002 and March 2003 that killed at least 12 people and injured 139 others.

A local court on Saturday granted the Madhya Pradesh anti-terrorism squad the custody of three suspected SIMI men till March 19 in connection with the Khandwa jail-break case of October 2013.

The father of Umar Khalid, a PhD student in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) who has been named as the main organiser of a cultural evening on February 09 to mark the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, on Friday said his son was not a terrorist.

Security forces seized five firearms, including three revolvers, and some ammunition from them.