Blast in Bengaluru's Church Street - One dead

[Detonator]

RIP There is no way to stop these activities unless we weed out the terrorists and the potential terrorists who kill people for fun. These IED's with shrapnels (tool nails are used here) are meant to kill few people.

[Debutant]

Now I am really afraid to go to MG road in the 31st night :nervous:

[G_B_]

Yes' date= like understanding what is the purpose of such blasts? Will killing one person destroy India? No The purpose is to sow enmity and fear and create such differences. So yes, we should indeed think practically

or maybe the philosophy behind these blasts

[SLICKR392]

Now I am really afraid to go to MG road in the 31st night :nervous:

Will be at a farm house on 31st. Brigade stuff will close at 1 AM anyhow

[bulbul]

Will be at a farm house on 31st. Brigade stuff will close at 1 AM anyhow

2 am is new timing for new year.

[adi B]

alfalah bank under scanner for funding the simi for this blast. This is the same bank which sponsored pak matches in UAE earlier

[Debutant]

Will be at a farm house on 31st. Brigade stuff will close at 1 AM anyhow

pub ka maja hi kuch aur hai yaar. 2 baje wapas aake room me subah tak party hogi na :yess:

[Malcolm Merlyn]

alfalah bank under scanner for funding the simi for this blast. This is the same bank which sponsored pak matches in UAE earlier

:facepalm:

[asterix]

alfalah bank under scanner for funding the simi for this blast. This is the same bank which sponsored pak matches in UAE earlier

Sauce?

[G_B_]

alfalah bank under scanner for funding the simi for this blast. This is the same bank which sponsored pak matches in UAE earlier

who would have thunk it..... oh wait most people.

[surajmal]

Weak chain link.

[hhunaeh]

What kind of banana state is Madhya Pradesh which lets terrorists escape. They escape from here and cause terror all over the country. Somebody needs to be held accoutable here. 5 SIMI men who fled MP jail suspects in Bangalore blast

Five members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who escaped from a Madhya Pradesh prison in October 2013, have emerged as suspects in Sunday’s blast on Bangalore’s Church Street that killed a homemaker. Pictures of Shaikh Mehboob (25), Amjad (25), Mohammed Aslam (26), Mohammed Aijajuddin (30) and Zakir Hussain (32) were circulated Monday between agencies and police, indicating that the five are under the scanner. Investigating agencies are mining call records and internet use by the fugitives for leads. The five stayed in rented houses in Karnataka’s Dharwad, Yadgir and Hospet using fake identities between December 2013 and September 2014, sources said, adding that efforts are on to identify if they were associated with any local SIMI cadre during their stay. The five have already been linked to a robbery of Rs 46 lakh from an SBI branch in Telangana’s Karimnagar district on February 1, 2014, a blast on Bangalore -Guwahati express on May 1, 2014 that killed a woman, a blast near Pune’s Dagadusheth Ganesh temple on July 10, 2014 and an accidental blast in UP’s Bijnor on September 12, 2014. Security agencies linked the five to the crimes through a cellphone they abandoned at the Bijnor house. CCTV footage from a Bijnor clinic where an injured Mahboob was taken and the SBI branch they robbed have also provided evidence. Call data and SIM cards linked to the phone have thrown up an elaborate picture of the gang’s network across 12 states, sources said. The gang’s members have been constantly crisscrossing the country and some visited Bangalore briefly, they added. One number linked to the phone was a Karnataka Reliance number 7847980513, which was obtained using ID of a Dharwad house owner Shivaji Rao Kulkarni. Investigations have revealed that three of the five stayed at Rao’s house between December 2013 and March 2014 using fake names, sources said. They added that the number was used to make 17 calls to contacts in Karnataka. The gang procured SIM cards using borrowed IDs and abandoned them frequently, sources said. “Similarities between the three blasts with regard to the pipe bomb and wires used suggested involvement of the SIMI fugitives. The modus operandi hints at the involvement of this group,’’ a senior police officer said. Police are awaiting a forensic report to assess the kind of explosive used in the blast. Ammonium Nitrate, used in earlier blasts by Indian Mujahideen and SIMI -linked operatives, has not emerged as the explosive substance in this case, sources said. They have started to analyse CCTV footage of Church Street but could not make much progress owing to poor image quality.

[hhunaeh]

MP link to Bengaluru blast: How the state allowed SIMI to deepen its networks

Dropped ‘catches’ by the butter-fingered Madhya Pradesh government are proving expensive for the nation’s security. Sunday’s explosion in Bengaluru is suspected to be the handiwork of the five Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) operatives who escaped from a jail in Madhya Pradesh in October last year. According to sources in the intelligence agencies, the five have kept busy ever since, looting a bank in Karimnagar in Telangana and triggering bomb blasts in at least two places in the country. They are believed to have been in Bengaluru at the time of the Chruch Street blast. SIMI has made the most of the laxity of the state government and rapidly spread its network in the state. Mocking the ban imposed on it 13 years ago, the organisation has spread its presence to 21 out of 51 districts in Madhya Pradesh. The organisation had its activities in three districts before the BJP government took over 11 years ago. “The explosives used in Bengaluru were similar to the ones used in the blasts in Roorkee, Pune and Chennai earlier this year and bore the imprint of the SIMI module that has been active since five of its members escaped from Khandwa jail in October 2013,†say officials in counter-terrorism agencies. “It’s a matter of concern. They (SIMI members) are anti-nationals and working in support of one religion,†says Home Minister Babulal Gaur and listed Bhopal, Indore, Khandwa, Ratlam, Burhanpur, Jabalpur and Ujjain among the 21 districts. Gaur, who has also been the former chief minister of the state, recently presented the report card after the periodic review of his ministry. According to Gaur, 28 SIMI activists have been kept in the Bhopal central jail. The five who escaped were led by Abu Faisal alias Doctor. The others were Aijazuddin, Mehboob, Zakir Hussain, Amjad Khan and Aslam Ayub. Only Faisal was apprehended a couple of months later. After their escape the state police blamed the jail authorities and claimed that a constable had helped the convicts. The matter is being investigated. But there has been little progress over the past 14 months. After the Khandwa jailbreak, the Madhya Pradesh high court had ordered to shift trials involving SIMI members to Bhopal. SIMI activists had threatened to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May this year. They raised pro-Taliban slogans while being taken from court to the jail in Bhopal. Since then the court has been conducting video trials for them. The intelligence agencies had inputs to suggest that SIMI operatives had planned to revive the organisation by raising money and trying to seek the release of their supreme commander Safdar Nagori lodged in Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad. During the earlier abortive jailbreak plot to seek Nagori’s release from Sabaramati in February the Khandwa operatives were still in jail. But, many crimes have been attributed to them since October last year. Abu Faisal had confessed to masterminding at least five bank robberies in Madhya Pradesh. SIMI involvement was suspected in a bank robbery in Karimnagar district of Telangana in February. Karimnagar police claim SIMI operatives who escaped during the Khandwa jailbreak are suspected. Similarly, Patna police officers were tipped off about involvement of SIMI activists in the Rs 1-crore loot from a cash-loaded van of a nationalised bank on 13 May. The role of SIMI is also suspected in a Rs 15 lakh robbery from Nadan branch of Madhyanchal Rural Bank in Maihar police station in Satna. Even before the Khandwa jailbreak, involvement of SIMI was reported in a heist in Bhopal in which around Rs 2.5 crore of gold was looted in August 2010 from a finance company. Intelligence Bureau had last alerted the police that the same five could carry out attacks in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. Intelligence officials have expressed dismay that so many alerts they shared by them have been ignored. These youths have constantly been dodging the police and it has become an embarrassment for them. Intelligence agencies say that the SIMI activists carry out very few acts of violence in Madhya Pradesh but the state continues to be a key centre for them to strategise. Even more alarming is the input about youth being enlisted to spread communal hatred. Former Director General of Police Arun Gurtu says if the government has admitted to the spread of SIMI’s activities in the state it should also reveal its action plan to deal with them.

[Vilander]

what the f' do they want ?

[nalanda]

Bangalore blast: Three suspected Indian Mujahideen operatives arrested, explosive materials seized http ://indianexpress.com/article/india/crime/bangalore-blast-police-arrest-three-indian-mujahideen-operatives/

The suspected IM operatives Sayed Ismail Aafaque (34), Saddam Hussein (35) and Abdus Sabbuur (24), an MBA student, were picked up. All the three are residents of Bhatkal.