Haidar Naqvi covers central UP and Bundelkhand. He closely tracks developments in internal security in the region and beyond.
Articles by Haidar Naqvi
Cops turning heat on boy?s family
AFTER THE cops forcibly executed ?talaq? in the police station, now they are suddenly turning the heat on the boy?s family to put a barrier on a controversy slipping out of their control.
Published on Jul 07, 2006 12:23 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
Police force ?talaq? on techie
Sharib's family has alleged that his wife and her relatives used the police to force a talaq.
Published on Jul 06, 2006 03:56 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
Cops order & execute talaq in thana, by force
IT IS famous that policemen are infamous for various reasons. But this one takes the cake. ?Just 15 minutes, decide or go to jail,? was their order. The father and son duo huddled in a corner in the scorching sun at the Chakeri police station pondering over the options. The boy, minutes later, moved to give in to the demand: Divorce his wife.
Published on Jul 05, 2006 01:47 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
Documents trap shoora satraps
THE DOCUMENTS submitted to the Registrar of Societies and Chits for approval of the new shoora (governing council of a madarsa) has trapped the new office-bearers of the city?s oldest seminary in financial irregularities. In the set of documents, the new team headed by Mohd Ismail Syed Shareef has endorsed the papers pertaining to the annual budget from 1996 to 2005. The last budget approved by the Shareef team is just Rs 29, 896, whereas the annual booklet of the shoora puts the seminary budget at Rs 45 lakh.
Published on Jun 24, 2006 12:21 AM IST
None | HAIDAR Naqvi, Kanpur
Papers forged for seminary takeover
The story behind the take-over of the 124-year-old seminary is no less scandalous than the way the Sunni Waqf Board appointed a SIMI friend to manage its vast properties. Believe it or not, the creme de la creme of the city used forged documents to turn the tides in their favour. Many big fishes could find themselves in serious trouble with the process already under way for the registration of an FIR.
Published on Jun 22, 2006 12:07 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
Sleuths come across more SIMI friends
INTELLIGENCE SLEUTHS are getting to know SIMI?s network of ?friends?, who have either directly or indirectly supported the radical group financially. According to well-informed sources, names that have surprised the sleuths the most are that of a well-known leather industrialist, a doctor and a gun dealer.
Published on Jun 20, 2006 01:34 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
Govt overrules Sunni Board decision
THE STATE Government on Friday night overruled the controversial decision of the Sunni Central Waqf Board to appoint a prominent SIMI friend as caretaker/manager of the city?s oldest and biggest seminary.
Published on Jun 18, 2006 01:47 AM IST
None | HAIDAR Naqvi, Kanpur
SIMI moves put sleuths on alert
SIMI state president Mohd Aamir surrenders. In a controversial move, a SIMI ?friend? is appointed head of a top seminary. Now, members of a particular persuasion take over mosques. ARE THE above incidents, which took place one after another, mere coincidence? Certainly not, at least, the intelligence agencies feel so. Instead, the developments have their matrix inter-woven to expose SIMI?s old and trusted strategy: use friends to serve purposes.
Published on Jun 15, 2006 12:02 AM IST
None | HAIDAR Naqvi, Kanpur
DM says not my nod. Then who gave it?
TO KEEP shady characters at bay, the department of Minorities Welfare and Waqfs introduced a system of obtaining character certificates from the police before appointing a muttawalli.
Published on Jun 14, 2006 12:00 AM IST
None | HAIDAR Naqvi, Kanpur
SIMI sympathiser appointed Kanpur seminary caretaker
AFTER THE ?infamous? surrender of Mohd Aamir, here comes another shocking story. The Sunni Central Waqf Board has appointed a known sympathiser of the Students? Islamic Movement of India (often making financial contributions to it) as the caretaker and manager of the city?s oldest and biggest seminary ? the Jaam-e-Uloom.
Published on Jun 11, 2006 01:24 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
Seminary dogged by controversy
CITY OLDEST and biggest seminary ? the Jame Uloom that is 150-year-old ? is in the eye of a storm. In a dramatic move, the Sunni Central Waqf Board has changed the entire managing body and given the reigns to some industrialists with shady track records.
Published on Jun 09, 2006 12:02 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
Sympathisers of SIMI state chief may be unmasked soon
THE STATE government is finally out of its slumber to tighten the noose around state president of SIMI Mohd Aamir. After the Hindustan Times expose, a detailed investigation is under way and chances are that Aamir may be taken on remand in the near future. The investigation also aims at unmasking the sympathisers, most of them white-collared, who helped Aamir surrender on April 25 last.
Published on Jun 08, 2006 12:15 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
SIMI in revival mode, State slumbers
AS THE State Government soft-pedals the issue, the SIMI leadership has come out of hibernation to form the national executive in riot-scarred Aligarh. The new body will oversee the revival of the SIMI in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Its office-bearers have been touring the outfit?s pre-ban bastions over the past couple of months.
Published on Jun 04, 2006 10:54 AM IST
None | HAIDAR Naqvi, Kanpur
In UP, terror has govt patron
With charges as serious as treason, masterminding the March 16 riots in Kanpur, state SIMI president Mohd Aamir would always have been a dream catch.
Published on Jun 03, 2006 03:22 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Lucknow
?Laden is not a terrorist?
Mohammad Aamir, the Uttar Pradesh SIMI president needed the right political climate to surrender.
Published on Jun 03, 2006 03:22 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
Osama no terrorist: State SIMI chief
STATE SIMI president Mohd Aamir waited for five years for the political atmosphere to get congenial for his surrender. Now, all he wants from the Mulayam Singh Yadav government is withdrawal of the treachery case slapped by Bajaria police ? the only hurdle between him and his freedom..
Published on Jun 03, 2006 01:34 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
What makes the cops keep SIMI leader?s surrender under wraps?
WITH CHARGES as serious as treason and complicity in the serial bomb blasts, Students? Islamic Movement of India State president Mohd Aamir was always a dream catch. He is also the alleged mastermind of the March 16 riots in Kanpur.
Published on Jun 01, 2006 01:42 AM IST
None | HAIDAR Naqvi, Kanpur
3 ?Daya Nayaks? shunted out of STF
DODGED FOR long, the Special Task Force (STF) identified its very own ?Daya Nayaks? and hurriedly has shown them the door! At least three officers including a DSP were shunted out of the agency after the charges they faced were corroborated in an in-house inquiry.
Published on May 24, 2006 12:31 AM IST
None | HAIDAR Naqvi, Kanpur
SIMI spreading its tentacles in UP
THE UP government?s refusal to accept Centre?s proposed extension of ban on the Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) comes at a time when the students? body is more rejuvenated and stronger than earlier. Be it the Varanasi serial blasts or the Shramjeevi Express explosion, the SIMI?s Ansars definitely played the key role to announce its return to Uttar Pradesh.
Published on May 23, 2006 12:19 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
?Overzealous? policemen in the dock
KANPUR COPS, if described in one line, are specialists in fake encounters! The bullets they fired to eliminate the baddies in the last one year or so delivered only humiliation rather than the success the city police always crave for.
Published on May 21, 2006 12:20 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
Demand to remove plaque bearing CM name
THE OLDEST and biggest Muslim Yateem Khana, is hit by another controversy. After All India Muslim Personal Law Board chairman Maulana Rabey Hasan Nadvi backed out of the centenary function on Sunday, a group of intellectuals is rallying to have a plaque of CM Mulayam Singh Yadav removed. This group feels the CM?s plaque is an insult to those who kept or are keeping the institution alive with their zest and monetary assistance.
Published on May 10, 2006 12:03 AM IST
None | HAIDAR Naqvi, Kanpur
IIT-Kanpur student ?attempts suicide?
A FIRST year student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, had to be hospitalised in a serious condition after he ?attempted suicide? on the campus.
Published on May 09, 2006 01:36 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
IIT-K students question rampant ?F? grade
THE STUDENTS of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, have started raising their voice against the rigid teaching practices that they say are constantly putting them under severe stress.
Published on May 05, 2006 01:35 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
No dearth of Daya Nayaks in STF
LAURELS APART, the elite Special Task Force (STF) boasts of a fair share of ill-famed Daya Nayaks within! Well-connected and neck-deep in all types of dirty business, this breed of cops is causing an irreparable damage to the overall image of the agency.
Published on Apr 30, 2006 01:20 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
After rush of blood, a forced return to sense
JUST A year back when Sher Singh Rana, main accused in Phoolan Devi murder case, smuggled in the remnants of King Prithviraj Chauhan to India from Afghanistan, he was billed as the new Thakur icon. So moved was the community by his amazing feat that it announced construction of a temple in Mainpuri with a special place for Rana.
Published on Apr 27, 2006 12:22 AM IST
None | HAIDAR Naqvi, Kanpur
Integrated plan needed to reduce loss during quakes
TWO TOP seismologist and geophysicist examining the Himalayan region fear more quakes like the ones that hit Kashmir. They have appealed to the Union and State Governments for an integrated strategy to minimise the loss of life and property. The scientists, Prof KN Khattri and Prof Ramesh P Singh, also ask for involvement of earth scientists and engineers in the formulation of plan.
Published on Apr 19, 2006 12:07 AM IST
None | HAIDAR Naqvi, Kanpur
Even the ?big? men can?t make city powerful
WHAT DOES it take to make a VIP city? If it is political might and representation, Kanpur, for sure, fits the bill. But even with more than its share of the khadi-clad ? seven powerful men with ministerial status, four ruling party MLAs ? the city is being plagued by the worst electricity crisis in the last two decades. The city isn?t only the biggest in terms of size (6,233 sq km) and population (45 lakh), it pays the maximum revenue against the electricity consumed.
Updated on Apr 18, 2006 01:23 AM IST
None | HAIDAR Naqvi, Kanpur
Left parties to raise issue in Parliament
THE LEFT parties are all set to raise the issue of paying compensation to victims of Gujarat riots on the basis of the compensation paid to the 1984 riot victims, in Parliament.
Published on Apr 15, 2006 12:26 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
It?s bargain time for Rajaram Pal
THE SUPREME Court order for not holding the elections till July 31 has given a relief to the caught-on-camera MPs.
Published on Apr 04, 2006 12:25 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur
Is ICS another name of SIMI?
INVESTIGATIONS INTO the Varanasi serial blasts are pointing the needle of suspicion towards Bangladesh?s infamous Islamic Chattra Shibir, controlled by none other than SIMI leaders in hiding.
Published on Mar 25, 2006 01:13 AM IST
None | Haidar Naqvi, Kanpur