| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
According to police, the arrested man possessed 30,000 capsules and 50 kg of zinc phosphide (rat poison), and had already filled 14,900 capsules with the poison.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
Mumbai/Pune police arrested a man who bought 50 kg of rat poison and 300 empty capsules, allegedly to distribute poison-filled capsules to Shia Muslims in a Muharram procession to kill thousands at once.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
The accused, a paint trader from Pune, acquired 50 kg of rat poison through his business, bought empty capsules online, and stayed 15 days in Mumbai's Dongri area filling them with poison to target Muharram participants.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
At Mumbai's largest Muharram procession, a man was distributing poisoned capsules to Shia Muslims claiming they were painkillers; police grew suspicious after a boy who ate one complained of vomiting and stomach pain.
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| Anjana Om Kashyap |
2026-06-29 |
Police arrested a man at Mumbai's Muharram procession who was found with 3,000 capsules and 50 kg of zinc phosphide, a rat poison.
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| Chitra Tripathi |
2026-06-27 |
A man was caught distributing suspect capsules during a Muharram procession in Mumbai; 14,900 capsules containing 1 gram of poison each were seized, and per Mumbai police there was a plot to kill 300 people, with 3,000 capsules ordered; the accused Fayaz had travelled to Iran and Iraq in 2025.
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