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THERE could be a breakthrough in the deadlocked investigation into the bombings in the Samjhota Express and the Jamia Masjid in Delhi.
For the first time, there is an official admission by an Indian investigating agency that these two were on the hit list of Hindutva terrorists involved in Ajmer Sharif, Malegaon and Makkah Masjid in Hyderabad, reported India Today on Sunday.
The Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squads 806-page charge sheet on the Ajmer blasts says the module behind these three targets had sinister plans to target the Samjhota Express and Jamia Masjid as well. It was not clear though whether this terror cell could execute with its plan.
Over 60 Pakistanis died in the Samjhota Express blast on February 19, 2007, while 13 people were wounded in blasts inside Jamia Masjid on April 14, 2006 - months after this module (according to the Rajasthan ATS) chose them as targets at a meeting chaired by Rashtriya Savak Sangh (RSS) leader Swami Asimanand in February 2006.
The five targets were apparently chosen at a marathon meeting in Gujarat by the module comprising Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Swami Asimanand, Ramji Kalsangre, Sandeep Dange and Sunil Joshi, the chargesheet says.
From February 11 to 13 in 2006, Swami Asimanand organised a Shabri Kumbh at his Shabri Dham in Gujarat. All the hardline Hindu activists like Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Sunil Joshi, Ramji Kalsangre, Lokesh Sharma and Sandeep Dange took part at the meeting and discussed avenging the terror attacks at the Akshardham temple in Gujarat in 2002 and other Hindu religious shrines.
They drew up a list of five targets - Samjhota Express, Makkah Masjid, Malegaon, Ajmer Sharif and Jamia Masjid, it says.
A source said Lokesh Sharma, the man who did a recce of Ajmer Sharif, confirmed this meeting after his arrest.
The bombs used in the Samjhota Express are believed to have been assembled in Indore. But the suspected bomber, Sunil Joshi, was found mysteriously murdered in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, on December 27, 2007.
These details could let the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the Samjhota Express case, vital leads.
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