Terror plot convict gets life imprisonment

October 6, 2016

Bengaluru, Oct 6: A Bengaluru court on Wednesday sentenced Bilal Ahmed Kota alias Imran Jalal, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, to life imprisonment. He is convicted for hatching a criminal conspiracy to attack Information Technology companies and other installations in Bengaluru.

TerrorAdditional city civil court judge Kotrayya M Hiremath had convicted Bilal on all charges, including criminal conspiracy, possession of assault rifles, ammunition and hand grenades on Tuesday.

The court sentenced Bilal to undergo life imprisonment, which is the maximum punishment awarded for the charges proved against him and slapped a fine of Rs 2.75 lakh on him.

Prime accused in the case, Bilal was arrested by the anti-terrorism cell of the Bengaluru police on January 5, 2007.

Five other accused in the case are absconding, including Pakistani nationals Alqama alias Lala Khan, Khalid and Azam Cheema. A native of Jammu and Kashmir, Bilal had travelled to Pakistan in September 2005 using a fake passport. Bilal had received directions from LeT commanders to carry out a recce of IT companies, Vidhana Soudha and the airport in Bengaluru.

After his return from Pakistan, Bilal created e-mail IDs to communicate with his handlers there. The police had retrieved 68 pages of e-mail printouts from a cyber centre at Hampi in Ballari district.

“In one of the e-mails, Bilal had requested LeT's operational commander Lala Khan to financially help the family of Tariq Dar, who was arrested in the Delhi blast case. In another e-mail, Bilal confirmed receiving Rs 50,000 from Khan,” an official said.

Bilal was arrested at Yeshwantpur in Bengaluru, when he was alighting from a private bus that arrived from Hampi. The police had seized an AK-47 rifle, 200 rounds of ammunition and a satellite phone from him.

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Rikaz
 - 
Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

wrong doers should be punished irrespective of their cast, community, religion....but innocents should be spared...most of the time we have seen police arresting Muslims randomly because of their muslim background, this is bad, that should not happen, must be stopped once and for all...

hamiii
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Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

good.....pre planned story, i think we can make a film about this issue,,

if any minister visit to pakistan there will be no issue..

if any other indian people visit to pakistan then he is a terrist..?

Moorthy
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Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

Bopanna.................Still you are Bopanna.....Balvadi ge Hoganna.........when your people oppose Sharia saying Women and Men should go to one school and same time oppose seat sharing in Government and assaulting Sulya youth......pls let us know where you stand....before you talk about the Country which Muslims gave blood more than RSS ( in Fact RSS was fighting against Muslims in that Freedom struggle movement) ....and we never hoisted Pakistan Flag unlike Sindhagi....

Zainab
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Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

A muslim will NEVER do any sort of distress to others. Forget about terrorism. And BOPANNA, be grateful to Muslims atleast because they let you earn in Saudi and feed your family. Muslims are suppressed in India and that's why our brothers are still in jail. You know bopanna..every single person who was in TRUTH faced hardship from oppressive rulers..but in the end they won. So inn sha Allah..there will be a time when the oppressed Muslims will have victory.

Zeeshan Ali
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Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

Great work by anti terrorism cell. All national and international terrorist should be given capital punishment whatsoever..Commencement of Anti terrorism squad was a great move by the Maharashtra government and then later by other states. The first of its additional commissioner being Mr. Aftab Ahmed Khan.

Mohammed SS
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Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

Fake criminal charges imposed on him, he is innocent. Muslims always targeted.. all Muslims are innocent, patriots and true God believers who never harm anybody.. they always obey and respect their country and the law and order. we cannot change the opinions of the RSS mental people

Bopanna
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Thursday, 6 Oct 2016

Simply shows no Muslim can be trusted, their only love is for allah and 72 virgins. No love for the country they live in. Ungrateful wretched people.

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March 21,2020

Bengaluru , Mar 21: Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar exuded confidence that the party will return to power in the state and praised former chief minister Siddaramaiah's term.

"I am confident that we will come back to power. Everyone in the past has worked their best to build the party. Siddaramaiah being a full-term chief minister gave the best programs to Karnataka, his government's programs were the best of all time," Shivakumar said at a press conference on Friday.

He further assured his full support to anyone who wanted to work for the betterment of the party.

"Though I have become the state president of the party but I am still the worker of Congress and each of us should work for the party as ground workers. I am ready to give any kind of support to those who want to work for the party. We need to take all caste, communities along for the betterment of the party," he said.

Shivakumar was appointed the state Congress President on March 11, while Eshwar Khandre, Satish Jarkiholi, and Saleem Ahmed have been appointed working presidents of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.

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satya vishwasi
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Monday, 23 Mar 2020

First Tell your all MP & MLA s that if they wish to join BJP better join from now later  after getting elected from the congress they betray the voter, such hiddnen sangis from congress to be kicked out.

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March 25,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 25: Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday targetted Centre over surge in coronavirus cases in the country, alleging that the government has miserably failed in tackling the unprecedented situation and was still not managing the crisis well.
"The government has miserably failed in tackling this very serious disease. They are not properly managing the crisis," senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah told ANI.
Siddaramaiah's response comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown in the entire country to deal with the spread of coronavirus, saying that "social distancing" is the only option to deal with the disease, which spreads rapidly.
In a televised address to the nation, Prime Minister Modi said that it is vital to break the chain of the disease and experts have said that at least 21 days are needed for it.
The Prime Minister said the lockdown has drawn a "Lakshman Rekha" in every home and people should stay indoors for their own protection and for that of their families.
Noting that the Centre has on Tuesday allocated Rs 15,000 crore for the treatment of coronavirus patients and to strengthen health infrastructure, he said testing facilities, personal protective equipment, isolation beds, ICU beds, ventilators and other necessary materials will be ramped up.
The Prime Minister said the country will have to bear the economic cost of lockdown but saving the life of every citizen is his priority and the priority of the Central and state governments as also of local administrations.
Noting that the virus spreads like fire, he said that if care is not taken for 21 days, the country, a family can go behind by 21 years.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), India has reported about 536 individuals have been confirmed positive among suspected cases and contacts of known positive cases. A total of 22,694 samples from March 24 till 8 pm.
Ten people have died so far due to the deadly virus, according to the data by Union health ministry.

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July 17,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 17: Karnataka Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar held a meeting through video conference on Thursday with private and government establishments involved in testing and treatment of COVID-19 in the state.

A total of 51,422 cases including 19,729 recoveries and 1,032 deaths were reported in the state till yesterday.

On the same day, K Sudhakar also paid a surprise visit to the Bengaluru's CV Raman Hospital and urged the administration to follow COVID-19 guidelines properly. He also took stock of the hospital's preparedness to fight the deadly virus.

"Surprise visits will continue. I will be in touch with every lab and get the right number of tests done on a daily basis," the minister said while speaking to the media.

He also urged the people who have recovered from coronavirus to donate their plasma to save other lives, adding that donors will receive a reward of Rs 5,000 as a token of appreciation.

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