Designated as terrorist organisation under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (4 June 2010)[1] Designated terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 (22 October 2010)[2] Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (15 September 2011)[3] Banned by the United Kingdom Designated as terrorist organization[4] Banned as a terrorist organization by New Zealand (22 October 2010) Designated as a terrorist organization.
Indian Mujahideen (IM) is an Islamist terrorist group which has been particularly active in India.[6] The jihadist group was founded as an offshoot of the Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) by several radicalized members including Iqbal Bhatkal, Riyaz Bhatkal, Yasin Bhatkal, Abdul Subhan Qureshi, Amir Reza Khan and Sadiq Israr Sheikh, among others.[a][b][9][10][11] It has been active since at least 2005 when it bombed the Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi (where eight people were injured).[9][12] It carried out several serial-bombings in Indian cities in the following years notably the 2007 Uttar Pradesh bombings, 2008 Jaipur bombings, 2008 Ahmedabad bombings, 2008 Delhi bombings, 2010 Pune bombing, 2011 Mumbai bombings, 2011 Delhi bombing, 2013 Patna bombings,[c] 2013 Hyderabad blasts and the 2013 Bodh Gaya bombings.[12]
Investigators believe that Indian Mujahideen is one of many groups composed of lower-tier SIMI members. According to the Indian Intelligence Bureau, SIMI took new titles because the top leadership of SIMI have been detained and would be available for interrogation.[13] The change in names is believed to signal a change in tactics as SIMI-affiliated militants attempt to garner more support from India's Muslim community rather than be seen as a group consisting of foreigners.[14] Two days after the 13 May 2008 Jaipur bombings, the extremist group[15] sent an e-mail to Indian media in which they claimed responsibility for the attacks[16] and said they would "demolish the faiths (all religions apart from Islam) of the infidels of India."[17] The biggest and boldest attack to date by the group was the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, where it gained national notoriety with a casualty of more than 50 people.
The group has been linked with the jihadist Lashkar-e-Taiba and its backer Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh is also closely linked with the group and was instrumental in its founding.[12][18]
Two of the founding leaders, Iqbal Bhatkal and Riyaz Bhatkal, shifted to Karachi in the aftermath of the Batla House encounter in 2008 and remain active from there, operating a faction of the group. Amir Reza Khan also fled to Karachi and is reported to run his own IM module from there.[12][18] Yasin Bhatkal was apprehended in 2013 and was sentenced to death in 2016 for the 2013 Hyderabad blasts; Abdul Subhan Qureshi was similarly apprehended in 2018.[19]
After multiple Indian Mujahideen bomb blasts in different cities of India over the years, many of which were claimed by the group itself, it was declared a terrorist organisation on 4 June 2010 and banned by the Government of India.[20][21][22] On 22 October 2010, New Zealand declared it a terrorist organisation.[2] In September 2011, the United States officially placed the Indian Mujahideen on its list of foreign terrorist organisations, with the State Department acknowledging that the group had engaged in several terrorist attacks in India and had regional aspirations with the ultimate aim of creating an "Islamic caliphate" across South Asia.[23] The group was banned by the United Kingdom as it aimed at creating an Islamic state and implementing sharia law in India, by use of indiscriminate violence.[24]
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Terrorist attacks in India(since 2001)
List of terrorist incidents in India Attacks with 50+ deaths in italics
2001
Indian Parliament
1st Srinagar
2002
Raghunath (Mar)
Akshardam
Kolkata
Jammu and Kashmir
2nd Jammu & Kashmir
Rafiganj
Raghunath (Nov)
1st Mumbai
Kurnool
2003
2nd Mumbai
3rd Mumbai
4th Mumbai
5th Mumbai
2005
Ayodhya
Jaunpur
Begumpet
1st Delhi
1st Bangalore
2006
Ahmedabad
1st Varanasi
2nd Delhi
Doda
6th Mumbai
Malegaon
W Bengal
Kakopathar
2nd Srinagar
2007
Samjhauta Express
1st Hyderabad (May)
2nd Hyderabad (Aug)
Ajmer
Uttar Pradesh
2008
Jaipur
2nd Bangalore
Ahmedabad
3rd Delhi (13 Sep)
4th Delhi (27 Sep)
Malegaon
Agartala
Imphal
1st Assam
7th Mumbai
2009
Guwahati
2nd Assam
Bhimajuli
2010
3rd Bangalore
Pune
1st Dantewada (Apr)
2nd Dantewada (May)
Jnaneswari
5th Delhi
2nd Varanasi
2011
8th Mumbai
6th Delhi
2012
7th Delhi
Pune
2013
Hyderabad
3rd Srinagar (Mar)
4th Bangalore
1st Sukma
4th Srinagar (Jun)
Bodh Gaya
Patna
2014
Chennai
3rd Assam
2nd Sukma
Burdwan
Kashmir Valley
4th Assam
5th Bangalore
2015
Gurdaspur
Manipur
2016
Pathankot
Pampore
Uri
Nagrota
2017
Shajapur
3rd Sukma
Amarnath Yatra
2018
Sunjuwan
4th Sukma
2019
Pulwama
Gadchiroli
2021
Sukma-Bijapur
2023
Rajouri attacks
3rd Dantewada
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