Articles by Abhishek Sharan
'IM executed 2005 Delhi blasts'
Thirty three-year-old software engineer Mohammed Sadiq Sheikh , the alleged co-founder and top controller of IM, told his interrogators that the 2005(October 29) Delhi serial blasts were executed by his group, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Oct 12, 2008 12:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
‘I knew police would get us’
Sheikh, arrested along with four other key IM members by the Mumbai police two weeks ago, is allegedly involved in the planning of September 13 Delhi blasts and July 26 Ahmedabad blasts, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Jun 29, 2012 12:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
IM behind Hyderabad twin blasts, say police
In what seems to be another breakthrough, the police claim that the IM was responsible for the twin blasts in Hyderabad on August 25 last year, which left 44 persons dead.
Updated on Oct 08, 2008 12:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Who killed Aarushi? No answers yet
Around five months after Noida’s 14-year-old schoolgirl Aarushi Talwar and her family’s domestic help Hemraj were found brutally murdered at the Jal Vayu Vihar building, there is no chargesheet in the case, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Oct 06, 2008 11:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Key IM men may have fled abroad
Suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives Riyaz Bhatkal and his Karnataka-based explosives expert Shahrukh might have fled the country, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Oct 06, 2008 01:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Aarushi murder accused leave India
Krishna and Rajkumar, prime accused in the Noida double murder case, have left for Nepal following their release on bail, raising questions over the fate of the case, report HT Correspondents.
Updated on Oct 02, 2008 11:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Peeyush Khandelwal / Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Why Saturday?
The low-intensity blast in Mehrauli shared an uncanny similarity with the September 13 blasts, and the July 26 Ahmedabad blasts two months ago –– all of them occurred on Saturdays, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 28, 2008 12:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Indian Mujahideen was behind 2006 Mumbai blasts
Indian Mujahideen suspected operations chief Atif Ameen and two of his absconding associates, were involved in the Mumbai serial train blasts in July 2006 that claimed 187 lives.
Updated on Sep 25, 2008 11:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Police trace IM links with Dawood, Lashkar
Delhi Police’s Special Cell claims that it has found the power-centre that controlled both the pro-jihad faction of the SIMI and the Indian Mujahideen, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 25, 2008 12:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
4 accused attended SIMI camp
It was earlier suspected by security agencies that only Atif, among the members of the IM module, was linked to the SIMI, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 23, 2008 12:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Money came from the Gulf, claim police
Although the police did not divulge the name of the country, they said the money was sent through Western Union, a money transfer agency, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 22, 2008 12:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Key bomb-maker on the run
Delhi Police's Special Cell is still looking for the unidentified man behind the bombs used in Bangalore and the over two-dozen bombs with technical faults recovered in Surat, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 22, 2008 12:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Police probe Atif’s links with LeT, SIMI
Atif alias Bashir, allegedly the head of the shadowy Indian Mujahideen who died in a police encounter on Friday in Jamia Nagar, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 20, 2008 11:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Nationwide terror network unravels
The Delhi Police says terrorists of Indian Mujahideen and SIMI in league with Pak-based LeT executed four serial blasts in the last 10 months across India, report Abhishek Sharan and Vijaita Singh. Home-grown terror
Updated on Sep 21, 2008 01:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan and Vijaita Singh, New Delhi
IM mystery may unravel now
With the arrest of an Indian Mujahideen operative in Friday’s Jamia Nagar encounter, the country’s anti-terror establishment is hopeful of gaining an insight into IM’s working, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 20, 2008 12:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Who was Atif?
Atif, who used the alias Bashir, was only 24. But police say he was the man who headed the terror teams that carried out all the serial blasts in the country this year, report Abhishek Sharan and Vijaita Singh.
Updated on Sep 20, 2008 12:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan and Vijaita Singh, New Delhi
Did Bashar meet Qureshi in Delhi?
Delhi Police’s Special Cell interrogates Ahmedabad blasts mastermind about his four-day stay in the Capital in July, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 19, 2008 12:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
He kept touch with family
Anti-terror investigators disagree with Abdus Subhan Qureshi's mother Zubeida’s claim in Mumbai that he had snapped links with the entire family since 2001.
Updated on Sep 18, 2008 12:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
When Abdus Subhan Qureshi sent terror e-mails?
Indian Mujahideen’s suspected mastermind Abdus Subhan Qureshi might have earned a grudging acknowledgement as an effective prose communicator, but he is apparently not shy of plagiarising either. Abhishek Sharan reports.
Updated on Sep 17, 2008 01:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Qureshi sent men to check wi-fi network
Investigators suspect that Abdus Subhan Qureshi sent his men posing as router-repairers to gain necessary information about insecure private Wi-Fi connections to send his last three terror e-mails, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 17, 2008 01:40 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
'Qayamuddin could be behind blasts'
Investigators probing the Delhi blasts suspect that Qayamuddin Kapadia aka Ashfaque, accused in the Ahmedabad blasts case, was present in the city on Terror Saturday, report Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 16, 2008 12:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, Ahmedabad
Terror network firmly in place
Abdul Subhan Qureshi, a skinny, convent-educated, 36-year-old computer-savvy and smooth-talking bomb maker, is currently the country’s most wanted man. HT Correspondents report. Inside the bomb
Updated on Sep 15, 2008 11:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, Vijaita Singh and Presley Thomas, New Delhi/mumbai
Operation BAD warned: Delhi is next
It now transpires that Delhi was in the crosshairs of unknown terrorists all along, and that was known to India’s security agencies, report Abhishek Sharan and Tushar Srivastava.
Updated on Sep 14, 2008 07:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan and Tushar Srivastava, New Delhi
Krishna, Raj Kumar released on bail
Krishna Thadarai and Raj Kumar, both accused in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, were granted bail. CBI was not able to furnish any evidence against them either, report Peeyush Khandelwal and Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 13, 2008 01:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Peeyush Khandelwal/Abhishek Sharan, Ghaziabad
CBI draws a blank in Noida teen murder case
Four months after Aarushi-Hemraj murders, CBI investigation hits a wall, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 10, 2008 12:45 AM IST
PTI | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Jaipur, Ahmedabad, SIMI men to blame
Abu Bashar, suspected by the police to have masterminded the Ahmedabad blasts, disclosed that the blasts were orchestrated by SIMI leader Abdus Qureshi, reports Abhishek Sharan.
Updated on Sep 03, 2008 02:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Who was Bunty?
Bunty was wanted in 42 cases. He has 18 serious crimes, including five murders, in 55 days (between June 13 to August 8) to his credit.
Updated on Aug 26, 2008 12:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vijaita Singh and Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Zeroing in on Abu Bashar
It started when a few residents of the city approached the police and claimed to have seen “a few suspicious-looking men in the process of changing the number plates of two Maruti Wagon-Rs”.
Updated on Aug 17, 2008 12:12 AM IST
None | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
The wee hour parantha trail
How about digging into steaming, hot and crisp aloo parantha, or anda parantha? You might especially like a parantha with spicy boondi raita, fresh curd, and homemade mango-carrot-radish pickles, Abhishek Sharan explores.
Updated on Aug 16, 2008 10:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan, New Delhi
Tinker, tailor, gourmet, spy
Former IB man MK Dhar sums up his culinary tastes as an amalgam of food habits of regions where he had worked. Abhishek Sharan gives us the details...
Updated on Aug 08, 2008 11:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Abhishek Sharan