Neeraj Chauhan, senior associate editor with the National Political Bureau of Hindustan Times, writes on security, terrorism, corruption, laundering, black money, narcotics, and related policy matters while covering MHA, ED, CBI, NIA, IB, CVC, NHRC, CAG, Income Tax department, etc.
Articles by Neeraj Chauhan
Kerala-based ISIS suspect inspired by Sri Lanka bombing plotter caught: NIA
During the course of the interrogation, the man admitted that he wanted to carry out a suicide attack in Kerala.
Updated on Apr 29, 2019 11:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
Bomber involved in Sri Lanka blasts visited India twice in 2017, shows Intel
The April 21 attacks on three churches and three luxury hotels killed more than 250 people, including 11 Indian nationals, and injured 500. Fifteen people, including three suicide bombers, died during a raid by Sri Lankan security forces on Friday night and nearly 100 people have been detained in the island nation.
Updated on Apr 28, 2019 11:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan and Sudhi Ranjan Sen
After Sri Lanka blasts, drive on to hunt down ‘sleeper cells’ in Kerala and Tamil Nadu
The IS has owned up the terror attacks in the island nation that killed more than 250 people.
Updated on Apr 26, 2019 08:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
‘Terror group NTJ wanted separate Islamic confederate in Sri Lanka’: Official
The official, however, said the Tamil Nadu-based organisation doesn’t seem to be involved in Sri Lanka attacks but it was in touch with radical elements, an angle which needs to be probed further.
Updated on Apr 25, 2019 08:16 AM IST
New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
CBI issues look-out notice against Bhushan steel boss, wife in bank fraud case
On April 6, the CBI had filed a case under the charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy against the company - Bhushan Steel, it’s CMD Sanjay Singhal, Vice Chairman Aarti Singhal, director Ravi Prakash Goyal and others.
Updated on Apr 24, 2019 07:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
India’s first alert sent to Lanka 17 days before deadly bombing, then 2 more
The last alert was sent hours before the suicide bombers attacked the three churches and four hotels.
Updated on May 04, 2020 02:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan and Sudhi Ranjan Sen
Interpol takes up India’s red notice on fugitive Zakir Naik
Red notices are requests issued to Interpol’s 194 member states worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest fugitives wanted either for prosecution or to serve a sentence.
Updated on Apr 24, 2019 07:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
Second team of NTJ terrorists ready for bombing, Indian officials tell Lanka
India is helping Sri Lanka probe the attacks with “technical and intelligence” support, and Indian security agencies are watching a Tamil Naidu-based cleric, officials said.
Updated on May 03, 2020 02:34 PM IST
New Delhi | Shishir Gupta, Neeraj Chauhan and Sudhi Ranjan Sen
Sri Lanka Islamic centre merits probe: Officials
Some of them were converted to Islam at the Zakir Naik-led Islamic Research Foundation at Mumbai; the NIA has arrested Arshi Qureshi and chargesheeted him.
Updated on Apr 23, 2019 09:56 AM IST
New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
CBI set to probe smuggling case from Alok Verma’s tenure as chief
Alok Verma was asked to take over as Director General, Fire Services, but refused to, saying he had already reached the age of retirement in the course of his term at CBI.
Updated on Apr 20, 2019 07:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
Terrorists using Chinese grenades sent by Pak: Intel
Other than the seizures, a dozen incidents documented in the past 15 months involved either trained terrorists or over-ground workers (OGWs) of terror groups lobbing grenades at patrol parties, bunkers, vehicles or camps of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and other paramilitary forces, Jammu and Kashmir Police, and the army.
Updated on Apr 18, 2019 01:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
ED seizes ₹6-crore assets of Kashmiri businessman who funded Hurriyat
The Enforcement Directorate in a statement said that its probe had also been able to directly establish that the Pakistan high commission was one channel of funding for Kashmiri separatists.
Updated on Apr 16, 2019 10:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
NIA takes over probe into Punjab RSS leader killing
The NIA took over the investigation after a primary assessment pointed to the involvement of a Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) module in the murder.
Updated on Apr 16, 2019 09:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
Maoists eye safer regions to revive ops, says CRPF study
The Communist Party of India ( Maoist), mired in its worst leadership crisis and confronting a slump in its influence in states such as Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Odisha where it once held sway, may shift to safer locations to revive the movement.
Updated on Apr 14, 2019 11:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
CBI seeks government sanction to prosecute former Aligarh Muslim University Vice Chancellor
CBI officials familiar with the matter said the investigation against Naseem Ahmad is complete, following which a sanction to prosecute him has been sought from the Union human resource development (HRD) ministry. The ministry will forward the request to the President, who is the appointing authority of VCs in central universities.
Published on Apr 12, 2019 09:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
2 of 3 prisoners in Indian jails are undertrials
A majority (1,192), who either gave birth inside jail or had a small child at the time of commission of the crime, are undertrials. Undertrial female prisoners are caring for 1,409 children inside the jail, suggesting that some women have to take care of more than one child in already overcrowded and poorly kept Indian jails.
Updated on Apr 12, 2019 12:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
Body scanners to replace metal detectors at Indian airports
Body scanners detect objects being carried by a traveller without the need for physical contact such as frisking.
Updated on Apr 10, 2019 09:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
‘Was asked to help carry out Pulwama bombing’: Jaish commander to cops
This is the first confirmation from a JeM commander that the Pulwama attack was carried out on the orders of the outfit’s leadership, and that Khan was the person who executed it.
Updated on Apr 29, 2020 06:54 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
A flight booking call gave NIA leads to nab Lashkar-e-Taiba funding head
The agency compared this with telephone intercepts of conversations featuring Kamran that it recovered in the form of a CD from the residence of Arif Ghulambashir Dharampuria, an associate of Kamran, in Valsad, Gujarat, in January.
Updated on Apr 08, 2019 10:15 AM IST
New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
Naga rebels supplying arms to Maoists, says NIA probe
The MHA official termed this a “dangerous trend” and said it could derail peace talks between the Naga groups and the Indian government.
Updated on Apr 06, 2019 08:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
Security of 919 ‘undeserving persons’ withdrawn in J-K, says MHA
The withdrawal of security of these persons has freed 2,768 police personnel and 389 vehicles, which can now be used for election or other useful duties, said an MHA officer, requesting anonymity.
Updated on Apr 05, 2019 10:06 PM IST
New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
Rejected immigration appeal buoys agencies in Nirav Modi case
The Vanuatu official has claimed, while doing a background check on Modi, he found out that the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) had investigated him in 2015.
Updated on Apr 04, 2019 07:14 AM IST
New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
Govt moves to speed up appeal as 2G-linked firm seeks damages
The PMO stepped in after Khaitan Holdings (Mauritius) Ltd, a company named by CBI and ED in the 2G case, invoked arbitration proceedings at the International Arbitral Tribunal (IAT) in The Hague against the government.
Updated on Apr 03, 2019 08:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
UAE deports Jaish terrorist Nisar Tantray wanted for 2017 CRPF camp attack in Kashmir: NIA
NIsar Ahmed Tantray had escaped to UAE on February 1, 2019. Government of India brought him back to the country on March 31.
Updated on Apr 03, 2019 12:33 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan
ED attaches Hyderabad’s Viceroy Hotels assets in alleged bank fraud case
The properties of Viceroy Hotels, Hyderabad, to the extent of ₹315 crore was provisionally attached under the provisions of the PMLA.
Updated on Apr 02, 2019 10:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Neeraj Chauhan