Heroin pushed by IPS officer has Pak markings:Anti Terrorism Squad

In a new twist to the alleged heroin racket run by former zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau Saji Mohan, who was arrested by the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Saturday, the IPS officer has reportedly told ATS investigators that consignments of heroin sourced from Pakistan were delivered to his house in Chandigarh by a smuggler operating on the Jammu and Kashmir border.

According to the ATS, the seized packets of “high-grade” white heroin bear Pak markings like ‘555’ and ‘B52.’ The ATS recovered an additional 25 kg of heroin — its first haul was of 13.85 kg — from a rented apartment in Naigaon on Monday.

Mohan, a 1995 batch IPS officer, was recently posted as the Deputy Director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Kochi, and was with NCB in Chandigarh from Feb 2007 to Dec 2008.It was around this period that he also handled NCB’s Srinagar office.

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Thirty Close Circuit Televisions at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus may hold key to probe

Thirty Close Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras, installed at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station in the aftermath of the 7/11 Mumbai train bombings in 2006, hold the key to investigations into Wednesday night’s Terror attack on Mumbai.

Having “roamed around firing indiscriminately” inside the station premises for more than two hours, the images of men unleashing terror at CST are learnt to have been captured by these CCTVs. While Railways Protection Force (RPF) officials were sceptical about the usefulness of CCTV footage given their “skeletal” presence at the station, security agencies were still hopeful of finding some important leads into the identities of the perpetrators through the recorded footage. “The CCTV footage has been sealed and will be handed over to the Anti-Terrorism Squad,” Central Railway Chief Public Relations Officer Srinivas Mudgerikar said.

The attack at CST railway station, which began around 9.55 pm on Wednesday, left four persons, including three railway employees, dead and seven injured.

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Mumbai’s night of terror without end

A city in siege and a horrified nation watched perhaps the most audacious attack by terrorists at home as heavily armed men, with automatic weapons, grenades and low-intensity bombs, struck at least nine locations killing over 70 people and wounding some 200.

Landmark symbols of cosmopolitanism and affluence as well as public hubs were targeted. The dead included top police officers such as the chief of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad Hemant Karkare, Additional Commissioner (East) Ashok Kamte and encounter specialist Inspector Vijay Salaskar. All were killed fighting the attackers.

The attacks, sophisticated and co-ordinated on a scale never seen before, continued well into the night as reports trickled in of fresh explosions and continuing gun battles.

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Malegaon probe: Lt Colonel is from Intelligence, studying Chinese

Lt colonel Prasad Purohit, the serving Army officer being questioned by the Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra Police in connection with the Malegaon blasts, belongs to the Intelligence Corps and was posted in Nashik with the Army’s Liaison Unit (ALU). It was there that he first got in touch with Major (retd) Ramesh Upadhyay, the ex-Army officer who is currently in police custody for his alleged role in the blasts.

Sources in Delhi said that Purohit was moved from Nashik last year to take a Chinese language course at the Army Education Corps College in Panchmarhi, Madhya Pradesh, where he is currently posted.

Army Headquarters confirmed that ATS officials met Purohit to “seek clarification from him so as to proceed with further investigations.” “The officer has been called to help the ATS in their investigations as he was in touch with some of the suspects as part of his posting. As a Liaison Unit officer, he was in touch with several people, including ex-servicemen in the region,” a senior Army Officer in New Delhi said.

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