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One of nine Muslims arrested for Malegaon had planted bombs for Hindu extremists, says NIA
One of nine Muslims arrested for Malegaon had planted bombs for Hindu extremists, says NIA - Indian Express
Posted: Fri Nov 04 2011, 01:37 hrs Mumbai:
The National Investigation Agency is said to have found that Hindu extremists linked to the RSS, who are suspected in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts, allegedly used two Muslim men to plant the bombs in and around a mosque in the textile town which killed 37 people.
While one of the two Muslim men is among the nine in custody in the case and has turned an approver, the other is believed to be dead, sources told The Indian Express. Some of these details are included in the progress report the NIA is due to submit to a MCOCA court in Mumbai tomorrow, they said.
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad had arrested the nine men from Malegaon and said they were linked to the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and had carried out the attack. One of them, Abrar Ahmed, had subsequently turned an approver.
The case, however, was turned on its head after Swami Aseemanand, an alleged Hindu extremist wanted in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blast, reportedly confessed late last year that Hindu extremists were also behind the 2006 Malegaon blasts and some other terror attacks around the country initially blamed on Muslim groups.
The probe, which had been transferred from the ATS to the CBI, was handed over to the NIA earlier this year amid a growing clamour for the freedom of the nine Muslim men. The families of these men and Muslim groups have maintained that they are innocent.
Last week, The Sunday Express had reported earlier this week that the National Commission for Minorities has asked the government to ensure that they are released at the earliest. NCM chairman Wajahat Habibullah recently wrote to the ministries of home and law, asking them to proactively intervene and clear the way for bail to be granted.
Abrar was allegedly purely motivated by the money offered to carry out the blast, while the reason for his accomplice to join the conspiracy is still not clear, sources said. Both men were known and possibly linked to a Muslim group affiliated to the RSS, they said.
In the months before the blasts, Abrar, the sources alleged, had traveled to Indore and the Shabri Dham Ashram in Dangs district of Gujarat, linked to Aseemanand, fully aware that he would be a part of the blasts conspiracy.
“Three RSS pracharaks from Madhya Pradesh - Sunil Joshi, Ramchandra Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange - were apparently at the heart of this conspiracy. Abrar got in touch with Joshi through a senior RSS pracharak he knew,” a source said. This has been apparently corroborated by Abrar’s wife, whose statement was recorded by the CBI and has been handed over to the NIA, the source added.
Sunil Joshi is a RSS pracharak from Indore who was allegedly a part of the 2008 Malegaon blast conspiracy as well. He was murdered in December 2007. Kalsangra and Dange are also accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
Investigators learnt about Abrar and his accomplice after questioning two other RSS pracharaks, one of whom was arrested by the Ujjain police in a murder case in 2010, the sources said. These two men were also associates of Joshi and Kalsangra, they added.
The 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts conspiracy was allegedly hatched by Aseemanand, Joshi and Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur - also arrested in the 2008 blast case - at the house of a man named Bharat Riteshwar in Valsad in Gujarat, the sources said.
The new allegations by the NIA echo the claims by Aseemanand in his reported confession, which he subsequently retracted saying he had been coerced to make it.
In the confession, he had said that he had been told by Joshi that the group had used two Muslim boys but had not specified if they had been used in Malegaon or in the Ajmer or Mecca Masjid blasts, in which the hand of the same Hindu extremists is suspected.
One of nine Muslims arrested for Malegaon had planted bombs for Hindu extremists, says NIA - Indian Express
Posted: Fri Nov 04 2011, 01:37 hrs Mumbai:
The National Investigation Agency is said to have found that Hindu extremists linked to the RSS, who are suspected in the 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts, allegedly used two Muslim men to plant the bombs in and around a mosque in the textile town which killed 37 people.
While one of the two Muslim men is among the nine in custody in the case and has turned an approver, the other is believed to be dead, sources told The Indian Express. Some of these details are included in the progress report the NIA is due to submit to a MCOCA court in Mumbai tomorrow, they said.
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad had arrested the nine men from Malegaon and said they were linked to the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and had carried out the attack. One of them, Abrar Ahmed, had subsequently turned an approver.
The case, however, was turned on its head after Swami Aseemanand, an alleged Hindu extremist wanted in connection with the 2008 Malegaon blast, reportedly confessed late last year that Hindu extremists were also behind the 2006 Malegaon blasts and some other terror attacks around the country initially blamed on Muslim groups.
The probe, which had been transferred from the ATS to the CBI, was handed over to the NIA earlier this year amid a growing clamour for the freedom of the nine Muslim men. The families of these men and Muslim groups have maintained that they are innocent.
Last week, The Sunday Express had reported earlier this week that the National Commission for Minorities has asked the government to ensure that they are released at the earliest. NCM chairman Wajahat Habibullah recently wrote to the ministries of home and law, asking them to proactively intervene and clear the way for bail to be granted.
Abrar was allegedly purely motivated by the money offered to carry out the blast, while the reason for his accomplice to join the conspiracy is still not clear, sources said. Both men were known and possibly linked to a Muslim group affiliated to the RSS, they said.
In the months before the blasts, Abrar, the sources alleged, had traveled to Indore and the Shabri Dham Ashram in Dangs district of Gujarat, linked to Aseemanand, fully aware that he would be a part of the blasts conspiracy.
“Three RSS pracharaks from Madhya Pradesh - Sunil Joshi, Ramchandra Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange - were apparently at the heart of this conspiracy. Abrar got in touch with Joshi through a senior RSS pracharak he knew,” a source said. This has been apparently corroborated by Abrar’s wife, whose statement was recorded by the CBI and has been handed over to the NIA, the source added.
Sunil Joshi is a RSS pracharak from Indore who was allegedly a part of the 2008 Malegaon blast conspiracy as well. He was murdered in December 2007. Kalsangra and Dange are also accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
Investigators learnt about Abrar and his accomplice after questioning two other RSS pracharaks, one of whom was arrested by the Ujjain police in a murder case in 2010, the sources said. These two men were also associates of Joshi and Kalsangra, they added.
The 2006 Malegaon bomb blasts conspiracy was allegedly hatched by Aseemanand, Joshi and Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur - also arrested in the 2008 blast case - at the house of a man named Bharat Riteshwar in Valsad in Gujarat, the sources said.
The new allegations by the NIA echo the claims by Aseemanand in his reported confession, which he subsequently retracted saying he had been coerced to make it.
In the confession, he had said that he had been told by Joshi that the group had used two Muslim boys but had not specified if they had been used in Malegaon or in the Ajmer or Mecca Masjid blasts, in which the hand of the same Hindu extremists is suspected.
