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India.com
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- India.com
Delhi Police Links Ex-RAW Officer In Pannun Case To Mahadev App Staff In Dubai
In a shocking revelation, the Delhi Police have found new links between former RAW officer Vikash Yadav and people connected to the Mahadev online betting app operating out of Dubai. Yadav had earlier been named by U.S. prosecutors as a co-conspirator in an alleged plot to assassinate Khalistani separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun. In December 2023, Yadav was arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell following an FIR by a Rohini resident. He was accused of kidnapping and extorting a Delhi businessman, allegedly linking him with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. He and his associate Abdullah Khan were granted bail in April this year. Court records show that complainant Raj Kumar Walia was kidnapped and threatened by Jalaluddin, a Dubai-based contract-killer, who arranged payment through hawala. Yadav and his associate Abdullah received ₹16 lakh from Jalaluddin via this route. Connection to Mahadev App Racket The probe linked Yadav to Jalaluddin, an operator in the Dubai-based Mahadev online betting racket that is under investigation by the Enforcement Directorate for alleged money laundering worth thousands of crores. Jalaluddin, also named in the Rohini case, was arrested on July 1 in Chanakyapuri but later granted bail. Although his passport has been seized and a look-out circular issued, the court allowed his release, citing lack of criminal history. U.S. Charges and Legal Implications In the U.S., the Department of Justice had charged Yadav with "murder-for-hire" and money laundering in the failed assassination plot against Pannun. It led him to the FBI's "most wanted" list. Delhi Police have informed the court that further investigation is ongoing. Call records are being examined to establish clearer links between Yadav, Jalaluddin, and the Mahadev betting app network. The connection of Yadav's alleged involvement in both the Pannun plot and the Mahadev app scam has highlighted multi-national criminal connections that law enforcement agencies are working to uncover.
Time of India
04-08-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
CM: Operation Sindoor was a befitting reply to Pakistan
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Monday alleged that the opposition parties loved anti-national forces, but not Bharat, and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Operation Sindoor that avenged the Pahalgam terror attack . Speaking on the first day of the monsoon session of Delhi Assembly during a debate on operations Sindoor and Mahadev, Gupta said Operation Sindoor was a befitting reply to Pakistan after the Pahalgam attack in which some women had lost their loved ones, asserting that PM Modi played a huge role in protecting the dignity of "our sisters". Hitting out at the opposition INDIA bloc, CM claimed, "These people do not love Bharat, but they love anti-national forces because they see their own reflection in them." She alleged, "The name is INDIA, but if you listen to them, it feels like they are spokespersons for Pakistan… They do not trust their own Army, their own Prime Minister, but they trust foreign countries." You Can Also Check: Delhi AQI | Weather in Delhi | Bank Holidays in Delhi | Public Holidays in Delhi Gupta also attacked Congress over Partition. "In 1947, your party was in power. You took credit for India's Independence, but not for Partition. Why didn't you take responsibility for the 1962 Indo-China war?" After BJP chief whip Abhay Verma gave notice for a congratulatory motion for operations Sindoor and Mahadev, both BJP and opposition AAP raised slogans of 'Bharat Mata ki jai', hailing Indian Army. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like 5 Books Warren Buffett Wants You to Read In 2025 Blinkist: Warren Buffett's Reading List Undo Leader of the opposition Atishi pointed out that the whole country said in one voice after the Pahalgam attack that "we need to give a befitting reply to Pakistan. We thank our armed forces for destroying terror sites in Pakistan...". She continued, "But suddenly, I saw a post on X by US president Donald Trump claiming that he stopped the war. I want to ask the BJP-led central govt whether the cost of business with America is more than the sindoor of our sisters. " The former CM questioned why the operation was stopped at a crucial juncture. Before being marshalled out, AAP MLA Sanjeev Jha criticised the central govt for accepting the cease-fire decision made by US president Trump. "Operation Sindoor was an opportunity... to take back Pakistan-occupied Kashmir." Home minister Ashish Sood said the two operations represented the new normal in response to terror attacks. "After terrorist attacks, dossiers are not sent any longer; instead, the Army is given a clear order to eliminate the enemy." Those questioning the two operations should be tried on sedition charges, he said. Minister Kapil Mishra said AAP leaders shed tears whenever a terrorist was killed. "The talk of taking back Pakistan-occupied Kashmir started only after PM Modi took charge." BJP MLA Shikha Rai demanded that Operation Sindoor be made part of the school curriculum. BJP's Arvinder Singh Lovely said India had become such a country that didn't bow down to terrorism any more.
Time of India
04-08-2025
- General
- Time of India
In Shravan, not only humans but nature itself also performs the Abhishek of Shiva
The nature scorched by the scorching heat of summer satisfies its thirst in Shravan, the earth dances in green attire and the devotees immersed in devotion say loudly – Bam Bam Bhole. All the seasons have their own special significance for maintaining the ecological cycle and its balance. But from the spiritual point of view, Shravan has a different significance in Sanatan Dharma. According to the Hindu calendar, Shravan is the fifth month of the year. This month is considered to be dedicated to the God of Gods, Mahadev. According to mythological beliefs, the Samudra Manthan (churning of the ocean) happened in the month of Shravan due to the demons' desire to attain immortality. According to Shiva Purana, during Samudra Manthan, along with other substances, the dreadful poison Halahal was also produced, which could have posed a terrible threat to the universe. To save the universe from this terrible threat, Mahadev drank this poison. Due to this poison, Mahadev's throat turned blue and he is also called Neelkanth. Due to the effect of Halahal poison, Mahadev's body started generating heat like thousands of volcanoes and Mahadev also seemed to be disturbed. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like These Photos Captured the Exact Wrong Moment Read More Undo Then, to give him relief, the deities performed Jalabhishek of him with water. Even today, the Kanwar Yatra held across the country is a symbol of this Jalabhishek. In the month of Sawan, lakhs of people in India perform Jalabhishek of Mahadev with the water of Ganga ji. Amrit Kalash was also produced from this Samudra Manthan which happened in the month of Shravan, and it was in the month of Shravan that all the three worlds received Amrit. According to Sanatan Dharma, Devshayani Ekadashi, also known as Harishayani Ekadashi or Padma Ekadashi, is celebrated on the Ekadashi of Shukla Paksha of Ashadh month. On this day, Lord Vishnu gives the charge of operating the universe to Mahadev and goes into Yog Nidra for four months (Shravan, Bhadrapada, Ashwin and Kartik), which is called Chaturmas. During this time, the operation of the universe is in the hands of Lord Shiva. Shravan month also comes in Chaturmas, and in Shravan, the operation of the universe is in the hands of Lord Shiva. This is also one of the many reasons why Shravan month is considered to be a month dedicated to Shiva. In the month of Sawan, the water Abhishek of Lord Shiva is considered as Rudrabhishek. Lord Shiva is pleased with the Rudra Abhishek of Lord Shiva in the month of Sawan and all the wishes of the person are fulfilled. According to astrology, Rudra Abhishek provides relief from Vish Yog, Kalsarp Dosh, etc. and brings happiness, prosperity and wealth. This article is written by Rajeev Aacharya, Astrologer, International Sanatan Dharm parishad nyas ujjain. Discover everything about astrology at Times of India , including daily horoscopes for Aries , Taurus , Gemini , Cancer , Leo , Virgo , Libra , Scorpio , Sagittarius , Capricorn , Aquarius , and Pisces . Read your detailed Horoscope Today and Horoscope Tomorrow here.
The Hindu
04-08-2025
- The Hindu
Security agencies gather evidence confirming Pakistani nationality of Pahalgam attackers
Security agencies have gathered evidence, including documents issued by the government of Pakistan and biometric data, confirming that the three slain foreign terrorists involved in the deadly Pahalgam attack were Pakistani nationals, officials said on Monday (August 4, 2025). The terrorists, identified as senior Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Dachigam forest on the outskirts of Srinagar on July 28 during an operation code-named 'Mahadev'. They had been hiding in the Dachigam-Harwan forest belt since the April 22 attack in Pahalgam's Baisaran meadow, which claimed 26 lives. Also read | Pahalgam terror attack: Photos recovered from an encounter site in 2024 helped identify terrorists The evidence collected shows that no local was among these terrorists, the officials said. Biometric records of Pakistan's National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), voter identity slips and digital satellite phone data, including logs and GPS waypoints, are among the clinching evidence gathered by the security agencies confirming the Pakistani nationality of the three terrorists, the officials said. They said the post-encounter investigation, including ballistics weapon-to-cartridge match and statements of two detained Kashmiri helpers, corroborated the terrorists' involvement in the Pahalgam attack. "For the first time, we have government-issued Pakistani documents in hand that nail the nationality of the Pahalgam attackers beyond doubt," a senior official said. Forensic, documentary and testimonial evidence collected during and after 'Operation Mahadev' conclusively shows that all three attackers were Pakistani nationals and senior LeT operatives who had been hiding in the Dachigam-Harwan forest belt since the day of the attack, the officials said, adding that no Kashmiri was part of the shooting team. The slain terrorists were identified as Suleman Shah alias "Faizal Jatt", an A++ category terrorist, mastermind and lead shooter; his close associate Abu Hamza alias 'Afghan', an A-grade commander and the second gunman; and Yasir alias 'Jibran', also an A-grade commander and the third gunman, the officials said. Along with weapons, the security forces recovered Pakistani government-issued documents, such as two laminated voter slips issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan, from the pockets of Shah and Hamza, they said. According to the officials, the voter serial numbers correspond to electoral rolls in Lahore (NA-125) and Gujranwala (NA-79), respectively. The officials said the NADRA-linked Smart-ID chips — a micro-SD recovered from a damaged sat-phone contained the NADRA biometric records (fingerprints, facial template, family tree) of all three men — confirming their Pakistani citizenship and addresses in Changa Manga (Kasur district) and Koiyan village near Rawalakot, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Pakistan-manufactured personal items like wrappers of 'CandyLand' and 'ChocoMax' chocolates (both brands produced in Karachi) were found in the same rucksack that carried spare magazines, the officials said, adding that lot numbers printed on wrappers were traced to a May 2024 consignment shipped to Muzaffarabad, PoK. On forensic and technical confirmation, the officials said, the 7.62x39 mm casings found in Baisaran were test-fired against the three AK-103 rifles seized on July 28 and the striation marks matched 100— while mitochondrial profiles extracted from blood on a torn shirt found in Pahalgam were identical to the DNA of the three bodies of the terrorists. The terrorists crossed the Line of Control (LoC) through north Kashmir's Gurez sector in May 2022, when the intelligence intercepts placed their radio check-in from the Pakistani side, the officials said. On April 21, they moved into a 'dhok' (seasonal hut) at Hill Park, 2 km from Baisaran, as was stated by two detained helpers, Parvaiz and Bashir Ahmad Jothar, who sheltered them overnight and provided them cooked food before they trekked to Baisaran the next day to carry out the attack. The GPS waypoints recovered from Shah's Garmin device match the exact firing positions reported by eyewitnesses, the officials said, adding that they escaped towards Dachigam after carrying out the attack. The shell casings at the scene matched the three rifles recovered from the terrorists after the encounter, the officials said. On digital footprints, they said a Huawei satellite phone (IMEI 86761204-XXXXXX) used by the terrorists had been pinging Inmarsat-4 F1 every night between April 22 and July 25. Triangulation narrowed the search grid to four square kilometres inside Harwan forest. Jammu and Kashmir Police released sketches of three people — Hashim Musa, Ali Bhai alias "Talha", and local Adil Hussain Thoker — on April 24. However, after the July 28 encounter, the agencies clarified that those sketches were based on a photograph found on a phone retrieved from an unrelated December 2024 shootout and the actual attackers were different. Another crucial evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the attack was the command and control links inside the neighbouring country, the officials said. They said LeT's south-Kashmir operations chief, Sajid Saifullah Jatt of Changa Manga in Lahore, was the overall handler as his voice samples from the recovered sat-phone matched his earlier intercepted calls. LeT Rawalakot chief Rizwan Anees also visited the families of the slain attackers on July 29 to organise 'Ghaibana Namaz-e-Janaza' (funeral prayers in absentia) and its footage is now part of the Indian dossier, they said.
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Business Standard
04-08-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Security agencies confirm Pakistani nationality of Pahalgam attackers
Security agencies have gathered evidence, including documents issued by the government of Pakistan and biometric data, confirming that the three slain foreign terrorists involved in the deadly Pahalgam attack were Pakistani nationals, officials said on Monday. The terrorists, identified as senior Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Dachigam forest on the outskirts of Srinagar on July 28 during an operation code-named 'Mahadev'. They had been hiding in the Dachigam-Harwan forest belt since the April 22 attack in Pahalgam's Baisaran meadow, which claimed 26 lives. The evidence collected shows that no local was among these terrorists, the officials said. Biometric records of Pakistan's National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), voter identity slips and digital satellite phone data, including logs and GPS waypoints, are among the clinching evidence gathered by the security agencies confirming the Pakistani nationality of the three terrorists, the officials said. They said the post-encounter investigation, including ballistics weapon-to-cartridge match and statements of two detained Kashmiri helpers, corroborated the terrorists' involvement in the Pahalgam attack. "For the first time, we have government-issued Pakistani documents in hand that nail the nationality of the Pahalgam attackers beyond doubt," a senior official said. Forensic, documentary and testimonial evidence collected during and after 'Operation Mahadev' conclusively shows that all three attackers were Pakistani nationals and senior LeT operatives who had been hiding in the Dachigam-Harwan forest belt since the day of the attack, the officials said, adding that no Kashmiri was part of the shooting team. The slain terrorists were identified as Suleman Shah alias "Faizal Jatt", an A++ category terrorist, mastermind and lead shooter; his close associate Abu Hamza alias 'Afghan', an A-grade commander and the second gunman; and Yasir alias 'Jibran', also an A-grade commander and the third gunman, the officials said. Along with weapons, the security forces recovered Pakistani government-issued documents, such as two laminated voter slips issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan, from the pockets of Shah and Hamza, they said. According to the officials, the voter serial numbers correspond to electoral rolls in Lahore (NA-125) and Gujranwala (NA-79), respectively. The officials said the NADRA-linked Smart-ID chips -- a micro-SD recovered from a damaged sat-phone contained the NADRA biometric records (fingerprints, facial template, family tree) of all three men -- confirming their Pakistani citizenship and addresses in Changa Manga (Kasur district) and Koiyan village near Rawalakot, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Pakistan-manufactured personal items like wrappers of 'CandyLand' and 'ChocoMax' chocolates (both brands produced in Karachi) were found in the same rucksack that carried spare magazines, the officials said, adding that lot numbers printed on wrappers were traced to a May 2024 consignment shipped to Muzaffarabad, PoK. On forensic and technical confirmation, the officials said, the 7.62x39 mm casings found in Baisaran were test-fired against the three AK-103 rifles seized on July 28 and the striation marks matched 100 per cent while mitochondrial profiles extracted from blood on a torn shirt found in Pahalgam were identical to the DNA of the three bodies of the terrorists. The terrorists crossed the Line of Control (LoC) through north Kashmir's Gurez sector in May 2022, when the intelligence intercepts placed their radio check-in from the Pakistani side, the officials said. On April 21, they moved into a 'dhok' (seasonal hut) at Hill Park, 2 km from Baisaran, as was stated by two detained helpers, Parvaiz and Bashir Ahmad Jothar, who sheltered them overnight and provided them cooked food before they trekked to Baisaran the next day to carry out the attack. The GPS waypoints recovered from Shah's Garmin device match the exact firing positions reported by eyewitnesses, the officials said, adding that they escaped towards Dachigam after carrying out the attack. The shell casings at the scene matched the three AK-103 rifles recovered from the terrorists after the encounter, the officials said. On digital footprints, they said a Huawei satellite phone (IMEI 86761204-XXXXXX) used by the terrorists had been pinging Inmarsat-4 F1 every night between April 22 and July 25. Triangulation narrowed the search grid to four square kilometres inside Harwan forest. Jammu and Kashmir Police released sketches of three people -- Hashim Musa, Ali Bhai alias "Talha", and local Adil Hussain Thoker -- on April 24. However, after the July 28 encounter, the agencies clarified that those sketches were based on a photograph found on a phone retrieved from an unrelated December 2024 shootout and the actual attackers were different. Another crucial evidence of Pakistan's involvement in the attack was the command and control links inside the neighbouring country, the officials said. They said LeT's south-Kashmir operations chief, Sajid Saifullah Jatt of Changa Manga in Lahore, was the overall handler as his voice samples from the recovered sat-phone matched his earlier intercepted calls. LeT Rawalakot chief Rizwan Anees also visited the families of the slain attackers on July 29 to organise 'Ghaibana Namaz-e-Janaza' (funeral prayers in absentia) and its footage is now part of the Indian dossier, they said. (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
