Samir Khan

Security agencies have thwarted a major plot to arm the capital with advanced weapons, uncovering a cross-border syndicate linked to Pakistan. Eighteen sophisticated firearms were seized from nine suspects allegedly planning to distribute them nationwide. Investigators are also examining the involvement of a figure connected to a previous arms case, highlighting ongoing threats.

The encounter in which samir khan Pathan was killed near Usmanpura garden on October 22, 2002 was reconstructed by officials of the special task force (STF) during the wee hours of Wednesday.

City crime branch received yet another setback when Ahmedabad's metropolitan court ordered re-investigation into the encounter of samir khan Pathan.

With data on more than 1.5 lakh customers of seven banks across 13 states leaked to online fraudsters, the cyber cell of city crime branch is tracking down the mastermind of the racket, samir khan. Cyber cell sources said they are close to nabbing him and a big racket of cheating credit card and debit card users is likely to emerge.

The relatives of samir khan, who was killed in an alleged shoot-out by the city crime branch sleuths, have submitted evidence to Justice H S Bedi committee showing how the encounter was a stage managed.

Till last week samir khan was conjuring tricks on the roads of Ankleshwar.

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Residents of Desterro, near the coast in Vasco, whose dwellings will have to be demolished for a highway project, are unhappy about the rehabilitation arrangements done by the government for them

A district administration team, led by SDO Ravi Ranjan, rescued 31 labourers, between ages five and 50, from a brick kiln at Dunagarh in Churchu late on Thursday.

Boston bombing accused Tsarnaev brothers considered a suicide strike on a Fourth of July celebration but settled on attacking the city's famed marathon because they finished building the pressure cooker explosives far quicker than they had expected, according to US law enforcement authorities.

A special CBI court on Friday permitted the Justice H S Bedi-headed Special Task Force, which has probed 17 alleged fake encounters, to interrogate three accused cops inside the jail in connection with the 2002 samir khan encounter case.

AHMEDABAD: samir khan, the alleged mastermind of a plan to eliminate Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, was shot dead by the police on Tuesday.

Nirmal Nagar police arrested two men for killing a paan shop vendor near the railway flyover in Bandra (E) on Wednesday. samir khan and Sahu asked Muddassir Khan for a free cigarette. When he refused, they slit his throat a knife.

AHMEDABAD: A plot to assassinate Deputy PM L K Advani, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and prominent religious leaders has been uncovered by state police with the arrest of a Jaish-e-Mohammad militant in the city last weekend.

Two youths namely samir khan (20) and Imran (21) were arrested in New Delhi for allegedly murdering an elderly woman, the mother of a prominent lawyer who is fighting for the Talwar family in the Aarushi murder case, police said today.

Hanumanganj police acting on a complaint filed by a constable, registered a case on charges of fraud and breach of trust against a car-broker. The accused took Rs 2.

An electricity bill paved way for police teams in cracking murder of a Bandra woman whose dismembered body stuffed in a suitcase was recovered from Barabankion July 7.

While Gujarati films are going urban, City Girl 009 presents Gujarati actress Greeva Kansara in a glamorous role.

The owner of the flat in Cansaulim from which four suspected Manipuri militants were arrested on Wednesday, has told police that the group was living in Goa since the last four months. He said the flat was rented by Saira Bhanu alias Samsat Sauda, samir khan alias Babu, and Khan's three siblings.

A 24-year-old used car dealer and travel agency operator was duped of Rs 1.7 lakh allegedly by a car garage owner and his Mumbai-based accomplice on the pretext of providing a used car from Mumbai.

The JJ Marg police have arrested two men for allegedly attempting to steal cash from an ATM kiosk.

Veteran all-rounder and senior cricket coach of Thane, Kiran Salgaonkar, from Salgaonkar Sports Club (SSC), beat samir khan of Royal Cricket Club (RCC) by 8 runs in the decisive final of the 28th Khaderao Rangnekar Memorial Single Wicket Cricket Tournament at Central Maidan, under the auspices of Sporting Club Committee, Thane.

A local court on Tuesday granted interim bail to Poonam Malik, former personal assistant of former deputy commissioner Mohammad Shayin of Chandigarh, in the case of the missing file.

The special task force (STF) headed by Supreme Court judge H S Bedi which has been probing 17 alleged fake encounter cases in the state, moved special CBI court on Thursday seeking permission to interrogate three police officers — Tarun Barot, K M Waghela and J G Parmar — inside jail for the 2002 samir khan encounter.

Sonbhadra police, on Sunday, arrested three liquor smugglers after the seizure of two trucks carrying liquor worth Rs 1.20 crore.