Anuraag Singh

Phone exchanges and hawala: How the Pak spy ring in MP funded their operations

Jabbar, a resident of Urdu Bazar (near Jagat Cinema) in Jama Masjid locality of old Delhi is believed to be the key link in the Pakistani espionage ring which used Chinese Sim Box exchanges converting international calls into local calls to spy on Indian military operations.

Pak handlers may have used MP spy racket to plan 2016 Pathankot and Uri attacks

It has been found that over 60 parallel phone exchanges, similar to the 36-odd operations that have been busted by the Madhya Pradesh police anti-terrorism squad (ATS) in four towns of the state, could be functional in other parts of the country.

US agency helps CBI track 125 unidentified impersonators accused in MP’s Vyapam scam

An external law enforcement and probe agency of the US has helped India’s central bureau of investigation (CBI) track unidentified impersonators accused in MP’s multi-layered Vyapam scam.

Released from Pak jail, MP youth to fish in troubled waters again

After languishing in Karachi jail for 10 months for inadvertently straying into the Pakistani sea in March 2015, a tribal youth from Madhya Pradesh is ready to fish in troubled waters once again.

Singham redux: MP town protests transfer of IPS officer who busted hawala racket

The protests have come as a major embarrassment for the BJP government led by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who has been highlighting his zero-tolerance policy on corruption.

MP Lokayukta shake-up on cards

A huge organisational shakeup is on cards in the state’s ombudsman, the Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta Organisation.

Note exchange: Now, Katni rail station under CBI scanner

The Jabalpur unit of the CBI has started a preliminary inquiry into the alleged conversion of demonetised currency worth ₹3.72 lakh into new ones at the ticket booking counters of Katni railway station, 90 km from Jabalpur.

To wipe out ‘terror tag’, slain SIMI men’s lawyer wants trial to go on

Lawyer Parvez Alam wants the trials to continue to prove that his clients were not “terrorists”. In normal course, trial is closed against an accused after death.

MP: Credit coop banks, realtors under taxman’s scanner for parking black money

A slew of credit cooperative banks and real estate businessmen in major cities of Madhya Pradesh, including Bhopal are under the Income Tax department scanner for possibly helping in conversion of defunct black money into liquid assets worth several crore rupees.

Records show villagers called emergency number during SIMI encounter

The Madhya Pradesh government has announced cash rewards for several villagers for helping security forces track down and kill eight SIMI fugitives last month.

Bhopal jailbreak: Madhya Pradesh govt suspends DIG, Congress questions delay

The Madhya Pradesh government suspended deputy inspector general of prisons in the wake of the daring jailbreak by eight SIMI undertrials from the ISO certified jail in Bhopal.

SIMI jailbreak: Planned over two months, executed in 45 minutes

The eight SIMI men gagged and locked up a warder Chandan Singh and killed another Ramashankar Yadav in two different sub-blocks of Block B of the Bhopal Central Jail.

Not just 8, all 29 SIMI men might have planned to escape Bhopal jail on Diwali

Imprints of keys on prison toilet soaps, scribbles in the prison register that say “We are coming on Deepawali” and recovery of 17 duplicate cell keys are among the leads explored by officers probing a jailbreak by eight SIMI men, sources privy to investigations said.

Doubts swirl but state govt rules out NIA probe into SIMI ‘encounter’

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will not probe the police shooting of eight Islamist prisoners who escaped from a Bhopal jail, Madhya Pradesh home minister Bhupendra Singh said on Tuesday

Doubts swirl but MP govt rules out probe into SIMI ‘encounter’

The SIMI encounter is unquestionable and it will not be probed by NIA. They will investigate only the jail break, Madhya Pradesh home minister Bhupendra Singh said.

Encounter unquestionable, jail break massive lapse: MP home minister

Bhupendra Singh, Madhya Pradesh’s home minister, says National Investigation Agency will not probe shootout.

‘Cops murdered my son’: SIMI operative’s mother says encounter staged

Mother of one of the eight suspected operatives of the banned Students Islamic Federation of India (SIMI) said the police encounter in Acharapura village on Monday was “staged”.

Bhopal: Eight SIMI men killed in encounter, but video clips raise doubts

Eight suspected members of a radical Islamist group were killed by the police in Madhya Pradesh on Monday

From robbing banks to making bombs: What the 8 SIMI men were accused of

Eight suspected members of the banned Students Islamic Federation of India (SIMI) were killed by Madhya Pradesh police in an encounter on Monday, hours after they escaped from a high-security jail in Bhopal.

Eight suspected SIMI men killed after escaping from Bhopal jail

Police killed eight suspected members of the banned Students Islamic Federation of India (SIMI) in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, ANI said, hours after they escaped from a high-security jail in Bhopal.

Eight suspected SIMI activists escape from Bhopal jail, guard killed

Eight activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) escaped from the Bhopal Central Jail on Monday morning, killing a security guard, a senior police officer said.

MP police demand ‘better food’ than jail inmates

Policemen and women from the constable level to that of inspector, who work 15 to 18 hours a day while on special duty, are entitled to spend Rs 60 per head on food, while an inmate in the state’s jail gets daily food of the value of Rs 70 per head, according to a top police official.

Five decades and counting: A Chinese POW in MP still waits for permit to go home

The dream of a Chinese prisoner of the 1962 war, now in his seventies, to meet his family five decades after capture is lost in red tape.

Defamation case: Bhopal court issues arrest warrant against Uma Bharti

Taking serious note of the minister’s non-appearance before the court for recording of her statement as accused for around a year, Bhopal chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Bhubhaskar Yadav issued the arrest warrant.

With no financial backing, MP swimmers fishing out coconuts from Narmada

With no financial backing, national and state-level swimmers in MP are back to fishing out coconuts from the Narmada

MP’s millionaire mystery: Poor get crores in bank accounts, questioned by IT

Situated some 350 kilometres from the state capital Bhopal, Katni – the second biggest town after Jabalpur in the Mahakoshal region – is now abuzz with the men’s surreal brush with wealth that they held, but never came to enjoy.

Paddy worth Rs 12.40 cr either rots or goes missing in MP

Eklavya, the ‘other’ guru: Why Bheel and Bhilala archers don’t use right thumbs

Dronacharya and Arjun, the ‘guru-shishya’ duo from the Indian epic Mahabharata, occupy a special place in the hearts of the masses. But not for Bheels and Bhilalas who revere Eklavya — the archer prodigy immortalised for cutting off his right hand’s thumb as ‘guru dakshina’ to Dronacharya.

Tortured, starved: MP boy escapes 2 yrs after mother sold him for Rs 50,000

The boy, now 11, was tortured, starved, locked up, made to work illegally, forcibly converted to Islam and circumcised a few months ago

MP: 2 yrs after death, man booked for accident in Dindori village

Two years after Dindori villager Rangi Singh died, he was booked by the local police for rash driving and causing grievous hurt to four people in a 2014 road accident case. An arrest warrant was also issued to the truck driver by a local court after he failed to appear before it despite repeated summons.