Articles by Abhishek Sharan
26/11 was to take place earlier
The terror attacks on Mumbai may have taken place earlier, if four operatives of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, the terror outfit believed to be behind the attack, had not got arrested in February, say the police.Special Coverage
Updated on Dec 24, 2008 12:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, Mumbai
Butcher of Mumbai now on veg diet
Mohd Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist captured in Mumbai attacks had expressed desire for non-veg food but is being served veg food in the prison, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Dec 17, 2008 02:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, Mumbai
All 10 terrorists were runaways
The conspirators of 26/11 belonging to the LeT had allegedly selected only such attackers who had either abandoned their families or barely maintained any ties with them, Amir Kasab said, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Dec 15, 2008 11:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, Mumbai
UP attack ammo meant for Mumbai
The arms and ammunition used by a Lashkar-e-Tayyeba suicide squad to attack a CRPF camp in Rampur on Dec 31, 2007 were to be used later during a proposed terror attack in Mumbai, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Dec 11, 2008 11:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, Mumbai
IISc blast accused main plotter: cops
Abu Hamza, the LeT operative who carried out the attack at the Indian Institute of Science three years back, has been identified by the Mumbai police as one of the main plotters of the November 26 attacks, report Abhishek Sharan & Debasish Panigrahi.
Updated on Dec 11, 2008 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan & Debasish Panigrahi, Mumbai
Lashkar’s local support group a mystery
The Maharashtra police and central security agencies are yet to identify the dozen-odd local Lashkar operatives who provided them logistics back-up, a senior Intelligence Bureau officer told Hindustan Times. Abhishek Sharan reports.
Updated on Dec 10, 2008 12:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, Mumbai
IB had eye on J&K cop for a while
All the 23 sim cards sourced by Mukhtar Ahmed Sheikh, a Jammu and Kashmir police constable now arrested by the Kolkata police, were under surveillance of the Intelligence Bureau, report Stavan Desai and Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Dec 09, 2008 12:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Stavan Desai and Abhishek Sharan, Mumbai
LeT chief denies role in attack
In a departure from the past, ‘Prof.’ Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Ameer, Jama’t-ud-Da’wah Pakistan and the alleged chief of the LeT, has sought to distance himself from the group which carried out Mumbai terrror attacks last week, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Dec 04, 2008 01:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Andhra blast suspect shoots at cops
A terror suspect, believed to be a HuJI operative involved in the May 2007 Mecca mosque blast, and his three associates shot at and injured two intelligence men in Hyderabad, report Ashok Das & Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Dec 04, 2008 01:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Ashok Das & Abhishek Sharan, Hyderabad/new Delhi
Terror orders came from Nariman House
According to telephone intercepts available with the IB, instructions were being sent out by cellular phone from one of the terrorists — killed by the NSG on Friday night at the Nariman House, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Dec 02, 2008 12:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
4th class pass to deadly terrorist
It took 62 hours and India’s best commandos to subdue 10 terrorists by Saturday — but not before the killers had shot 183 people, ravaged Mumbai and shaken India, report HT Correspondents.
Updated on Nov 30, 2008 01:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Presley Thomas, Abhishek Sharan and Nandini R Iyer, Mumbai/ New Delhi
Special Cell men on poll duty
The Delhi Police’s special cell police on Saturday deployed its officers and men across voting booths to ensure incident-free elections. The special cell is trained to fight terror and organised crime 24x7, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 30, 2008 12:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
2 terrorists checked in at Taj 4 days before the siege
Two Pakistani suicide attackers, part of a group of 20-25 alleged LeT operatives, that launched attacks in Mumbai, had checked into the Taj Mahal hotel on Nov 22, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 29, 2008 12:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Police ignored warnings on threats of terror from sea
Wednesday’s deadly attack in Mumbai has demonstrated the shoddiness of the country’s existing coastal security framework despite repeated threats of terror from sea, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 28, 2008 01:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Email warns of more strikes
“Chetawani nahin, haqiqat (Not (just) a warning, but reality) — this was the title of the two-page terror e-mail that has been sent to the media by a group calling itself Deccan Mujahideen, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 28, 2008 12:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
CBI, Mumbai cops argue over Sheikh ‘arrest’
The CBI denied Mumbai Police’s claim on the detention of Rahil Ataur-Rehman Sheikh in London by Interpol, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 27, 2008 02:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
67 Pakistanis in Tihar who don’t want to return home
A group of 67 Pakistani nationals, including 12 children, lodged at Tihar jail for the past 19 months are in no mood to return home, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 27, 2008 02:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Mumbai train blasts accused held in UK
The Interpol in London has arrested Rahil Shaikh, one of the key accused in the July 11, 2006, suburban train blasts in Mumbai that killed 187 people, report Abhishek Sharan & Presley Thomas.
Updated on Nov 26, 2008 01:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan & Presley Thomas, Mumbai
Delhi doctor espoused Hindu cause
Delhi-based doctor RP Singh, who the Maharashtra Police suspect was part of a conspiracy to kill two RSS top leaders, has a history of pushing the boundaries in pursuing the “Hindutva cause", reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 23, 2008 12:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Hyderabad blast accused let off
The Hyderabad police investigating the May 18, 2007, blast at the Mecca mosque got a rap on the knuckles when a court acquitted all those accused of transporting the RDX used in the blast, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 16, 2008 01:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Hyderabad blast accused let off
The Hyderabad police investigating the May 18, 2007, blast at the Mecca mosque got a rap on the knuckles when a court acquitted all those accused of transporting the RDX used in the blast.
Updated on Nov 16, 2008 01:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
New age of terror: Hindu bombs | Islamic bombs
As probe of Hindu groups grows, new focus on 4 unsolved bombings in Muslim areas. CBI, sleuths from four states exchange clues, join the dots, report Abhishek Sharan & Presley Thomas. See graphics
Updated on Nov 16, 2008 02:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan / Presley Thomas, New Delhi/mumbai
Imposter who made it big
With the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad expected in Jammu to investigate links of Swami Amritanand Saraswati, arrested in the Malegaon blast case, details of his stay in the city have begun to emerge, report Tarun Upadhyay & Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 15, 2008 12:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tarun Upadhyay & Abhishek Sharan, Jammu/ New Delhi
CBI’s mobile campaign a hit
The CBI's initiative, requesting mobile users in Delhi and elsewhere in the country through SMSs, to lodge their complaints against officials who were accepting bribe, seems to have struck a chord with the layman, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 11, 2008 11:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Police to seek custody of top SIMI man
The Delhi Police’s Special cell will seek custody of the July 26 Ahmedabad blasts suspect, 32-year-old Qayamuddin Kapadia aka Ashfaque, to probe his links with the Delhi blasts, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 11, 2008 12:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Special Cell seeks custody of IM suspect
Delhi police's Special Cell has sought the custody of Indian Mujahideen 's suspected top controller, 33-year-old software engineer Mohammed Sadiq Sheikh, from Mumbai police, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 09, 2008 01:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Lt Col suspect in Nanded blast too?
A team of officers belonging to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday allegedly grilled the arrested suspects of the September 29 Malegaon blast, Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Purohit, to probe his links with a blast that occurred in Nanded in April 2006.
Updated on Nov 08, 2008 01:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Assam blasts: HuJI man’s role probed
Investigators probing the serial blasts in Assam suspect the involvement of one Jehangir, allegedly a top operative of the Bangladeshi HuJI, in plotting the terror attack, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Nov 03, 2008 02:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, Guwahati
Hindu outfits not behind Mehrauli blast: Police
Delhi police's anti-terror officials have ruled out involvement of right-wing Hindu outfits, for having executed blasts in Malegaon and Gujarat's Modasa, in the Mehrauli blasts, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Oct 27, 2008 01:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Sept 11 was the first date for Delhi blasts
The top controllers of IM had wanted to execute the Delhi blasts on Sept 11, two days before the blasts took place, to make the terror spectacular by associating with a date when the WTC was attacked seven years ago, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Oct 16, 2008 01:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi