Chronology of Blasts in India in last Four Years Mastermind by Enemies of Our Nation
Malegaon Blasts-I
September 8, 2006
37 dead- Initial arrests: Arrested include Salman Farsi, Farooq Iqbal Makhdoomi, Raees Ahmed, Noorul Huda Samsudoha and Shabbir Batterywala.
- Later revelation: Suspicion now rests on Hindutva terrorists because of the 2008 blasts.
Samjhauta Express Blasts
February 18, 2007
68 dead, mostly Pakistanis- Initial suspicion: LeT and JeM were blamed. Those arrested included Pakistani national Azmat Ali.
- Later revelation: Police have seen the evidence trail lead to right-wing Hindutva activists. Investigators claim the triggering mechanism for the Mecca masjid blast three months later was similar to the one used here. Police are looking for RSS pracharaks Sandeep Dange and Ramji.
Mecca Masjid Blast
May 18, 2007
14 dead- Initial arrests: Around 80 Muslims detained for questioning and 25 arrested. Several have now been acquitted, including Ibrahim Junaid, Shoaib Jagirdar, Imran Khan and Mohammed Adul Kaleem.
- Later revelation: In June 2010 the CBI announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh for information on the two accused, Sandeep Dange and Ramchandra Kalsangra. Lokesh Sharma arrested.
Ajmer Sharif Blast
October 11, 2007
3 dead- Initial arrests: HuJI, LeT blamed. Those arrested include Abdul Hafiz Shamim, Khushibur Rahman, Imran Ali.
- Later revelation: In 2010, Rajasthan ATS arrests Devendra Gupta, Chandrashekhar and Vishnu Prasad Patidar. Accused Sunil Joshi, who was killed weeks before the blast, is believed to have been a key planner.
Thane Cinema Blast
June 4, 2008- Affiliated to Hindu Janjagruti Samiti and Sanathan Sanstha, Ramesh Hanumant Gadkari and Mangesh Dinkar Nikam arrested. Blast planned to oppose the screening of Jodhaa Akbar.
Kanpur And Nanded Bomb Mishaps
August 2008- Two members of Bajrang Dal—Rajiv Mishra and Bhupinder Singh—were killed while assembling bombs in Kanpur. In April 2006, N. Rajkondwar and H. Panse from the same outfit died under similar circumstances in a bomb-making workshop in Nanded.
Malegaon Blasts II
September 29, 2008
7 dead- Initial suspicion: Groups like Indian Mujahideen involved
- Later revelation: Abhinav Bharat and Rashtriya Jagaran Manch accused of involvement. Arrested include Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Srikant Purohit and Swami Amritanand Dev Tirth, also known as Dayanand Pandey.
Goa Blasts
October 16, 2009- 2 dead Both accused are members of the Sanathan Sanstha. Malgonda Patil and Yogesh Naik were riding a scooter laden with explosives, which accidentally went off.
Scenes from 2000 Bajrang Dal training recruits at a camp in AyodhyaSource: http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?266145
Terrorist face
ANUPAMA KATAKAM
in Mumbai
The Malegaon investigations showed for the first time that Hindu right-wing terror cells exist.
MITESH BHUVAD/PTI
The Malegaon blast accused when they were produced in court at various times. (From left) Ajay Rahirkar, Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit and Rakesh Dhawade (partly hidden).
FROM 2002 until 2008, there had been several minor yet noticeable bomb blast incidents in Maharashtra and neighbouring States. The involvement of Hindu right-wing members in them was alleged but there was no concrete proof of this. Then, on September 29, 2008, the Malegaon blast happened. It resulted in the death of six persons and injuries to many in the predominantly Muslim area. The State's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) went after every possible suspect and eventually hit the shocking terror trail of Hindutva-driven fundamentalists, many of whom had links to national-level political parties. Their agenda, as the investigations by the ATS showed, was to create a Hindu Rashtra by fighting terror with terror.
Within a few weeks of the blast at Bhiku Chowk, a crowded area in the small textile town, the ATS arrested 11 persons, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a former member of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). All of them were subsequently charge-sheeted. They have also been linked to some of the other blasts in the State, such as those in Nanded, Parbhani and Jalna; the police are yet to establish their involvement conclusively.
On July 19, 2010, the Bombay High Court upheld the charges against the Sadhvi and the others, including an Army officer Lt Col Shrikant Purohit, under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). This is the first time members of a Hindu right-wing organisation have been accused of carrying out violent, anti-national activities.
Essentially, the Malegaon investigations revealed that Hindu right-wing terror cells existed and that terror attacks were not exclusive to jehadi groups. From the charge-sheet filed in 2009, it emerges that the members of the saffron brigade, who are known to be rabble-rousers, have found other means to strike terror and propagate their agenda.
Ever since bombs exploded at masjids in Parbhani (2003), Jalna (2004) and Purna (2004), the involvement of Hindu groups in terror activities was suspected. The suspicions were strengthened in 2006 when a bomb that was being assembled in the house of a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) in Nanded exploded. The Malegaon blast, in which six people were killed, was confirmation, in a sense, of the existence of Hindu right-wing terror.
Interestingly, since the arrest of the Sadhvi and the others, there has only been one incident involving Hindutva activists. In October 2009, two men died in Margao, Goa, when a bomb they were carrying exploded. The men were linked to the Sanatan Sanstha, a right-wing group with a presence in Maharashtra and Goa. During the investigations, the police recovered two unexploded improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at Sancaole, Goa, which they believe belong to the Sanstha or a similar organisation.
Malegaon Blasts-I
September 8, 2006
37 dead
September 8, 2006
37 dead
- Initial arrests: Arrested include Salman Farsi, Farooq Iqbal Makhdoomi, Raees Ahmed, Noorul Huda Samsudoha and Shabbir Batterywala.
- Later revelation: Suspicion now rests on Hindutva terrorists because of the 2008 blasts.
Samjhauta Express Blasts
February 18, 2007
68 dead, mostly Pakistanis
February 18, 2007
68 dead, mostly Pakistanis
- Initial suspicion: LeT and JeM were blamed. Those arrested included Pakistani national Azmat Ali.
- Later revelation: Police have seen the evidence trail lead to right-wing Hindutva activists. Investigators claim the triggering mechanism for the Mecca masjid blast three months later was similar to the one used here. Police are looking for RSS pracharaks Sandeep Dange and Ramji.
Mecca Masjid Blast
May 18, 2007
14 dead
May 18, 2007
14 dead
- Initial arrests: Around 80 Muslims detained for questioning and 25 arrested. Several have now been acquitted, including Ibrahim Junaid, Shoaib Jagirdar, Imran Khan and Mohammed Adul Kaleem.
- Later revelation: In June 2010 the CBI announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh for information on the two accused, Sandeep Dange and Ramchandra Kalsangra. Lokesh Sharma arrested.
Ajmer Sharif Blast
October 11, 2007
3 dead
October 11, 2007
3 dead
- Initial arrests: HuJI, LeT blamed. Those arrested include Abdul Hafiz Shamim, Khushibur Rahman, Imran Ali.
- Later revelation: In 2010, Rajasthan ATS arrests Devendra Gupta, Chandrashekhar and Vishnu Prasad Patidar. Accused Sunil Joshi, who was killed weeks before the blast, is believed to have been a key planner.
Thane Cinema Blast
June 4, 2008
June 4, 2008
- Affiliated to Hindu Janjagruti Samiti and Sanathan Sanstha, Ramesh Hanumant Gadkari and Mangesh Dinkar Nikam arrested. Blast planned to oppose the screening of Jodhaa Akbar.
Kanpur And Nanded Bomb Mishaps
August 2008
August 2008
- Two members of Bajrang Dal—Rajiv Mishra and Bhupinder Singh—were killed while assembling bombs in Kanpur. In April 2006, N. Rajkondwar and H. Panse from the same outfit died under similar circumstances in a bomb-making workshop in Nanded.
Malegaon Blasts II
September 29, 2008
7 dead
September 29, 2008
7 dead
- Initial suspicion: Groups like Indian Mujahideen involved
- Later revelation: Abhinav Bharat and Rashtriya Jagaran Manch accused of involvement. Arrested include Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Srikant Purohit and Swami Amritanand Dev Tirth, also known as Dayanand Pandey.
Goa Blasts
October 16, 2009
October 16, 2009
- 2 dead Both accused are members of the Sanathan Sanstha. Malgonda Patil and Yogesh Naik were riding a scooter laden with explosives, which accidentally went off.
Scenes from 2000 Bajrang Dal training recruits at a camp in Ayodhya
Source: http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?266145
Terrorist face
ANUPAMA KATAKAM
in Mumbai
MITESH BHUVAD/PTI
The Malegaon blast accused when they were produced in court at various times. (From left) Ajay Rahirkar, Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit and Rakesh Dhawade (partly hidden).
FROM 2002 until 2008, there had been several minor yet noticeable bomb blast incidents in Maharashtra and neighbouring States. The involvement of Hindu right-wing members in them was alleged but there was no concrete proof of this. Then, on September 29, 2008, the Malegaon blast happened. It resulted in the death of six persons and injuries to many in the predominantly Muslim area. The State's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) went after every possible suspect and eventually hit the shocking terror trail of Hindutva-driven fundamentalists, many of whom had links to national-level political parties. Their agenda, as the investigations by the ATS showed, was to create a Hindu Rashtra by fighting terror with terror.
Within a few weeks of the blast at Bhiku Chowk, a crowded area in the small textile town, the ATS arrested 11 persons, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a former member of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). All of them were subsequently charge-sheeted. They have also been linked to some of the other blasts in the State, such as those in Nanded, Parbhani and Jalna; the police are yet to establish their involvement conclusively.
On July 19, 2010, the Bombay High Court upheld the charges against the Sadhvi and the others, including an Army officer Lt Col Shrikant Purohit, under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). This is the first time members of a Hindu right-wing organisation have been accused of carrying out violent, anti-national activities.
Essentially, the Malegaon investigations revealed that Hindu right-wing terror cells existed and that terror attacks were not exclusive to jehadi groups. From the charge-sheet filed in 2009, it emerges that the members of the saffron brigade, who are known to be rabble-rousers, have found other means to strike terror and propagate their agenda.
Ever since bombs exploded at masjids in Parbhani (2003), Jalna (2004) and Purna (2004), the involvement of Hindu groups in terror activities was suspected. The suspicions were strengthened in 2006 when a bomb that was being assembled in the house of a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) in Nanded exploded. The Malegaon blast, in which six people were killed, was confirmation, in a sense, of the existence of Hindu right-wing terror.
Interestingly, since the arrest of the Sadhvi and the others, there has only been one incident involving Hindutva activists. In October 2009, two men died in Margao, Goa, when a bomb they were carrying exploded. The men were linked to the Sanatan Sanstha, a right-wing group with a presence in Maharashtra and Goa. During the investigations, the police recovered two unexploded improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at Sancaole, Goa, which they believe belong to the Sanstha or a similar organisation.
in Mumbai
| The Malegaon investigations showed for the first time that Hindu right-wing terror cells exist. |
The Malegaon blast accused when they were produced in court at various times. (From left) Ajay Rahirkar, Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit and Rakesh Dhawade (partly hidden).
FROM 2002 until 2008, there had been several minor yet noticeable bomb blast incidents in Maharashtra and neighbouring States. The involvement of Hindu right-wing members in them was alleged but there was no concrete proof of this. Then, on September 29, 2008, the Malegaon blast happened. It resulted in the death of six persons and injuries to many in the predominantly Muslim area. The State's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) went after every possible suspect and eventually hit the shocking terror trail of Hindutva-driven fundamentalists, many of whom had links to national-level political parties. Their agenda, as the investigations by the ATS showed, was to create a Hindu Rashtra by fighting terror with terror.
Within a few weeks of the blast at Bhiku Chowk, a crowded area in the small textile town, the ATS arrested 11 persons, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, a former member of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP). All of them were subsequently charge-sheeted. They have also been linked to some of the other blasts in the State, such as those in Nanded, Parbhani and Jalna; the police are yet to establish their involvement conclusively.
On July 19, 2010, the Bombay High Court upheld the charges against the Sadhvi and the others, including an Army officer Lt Col Shrikant Purohit, under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). This is the first time members of a Hindu right-wing organisation have been accused of carrying out violent, anti-national activities.
Essentially, the Malegaon investigations revealed that Hindu right-wing terror cells existed and that terror attacks were not exclusive to jehadi groups. From the charge-sheet filed in 2009, it emerges that the members of the saffron brigade, who are known to be rabble-rousers, have found other means to strike terror and propagate their agenda.
Ever since bombs exploded at masjids in Parbhani (2003), Jalna (2004) and Purna (2004), the involvement of Hindu groups in terror activities was suspected. The suspicions were strengthened in 2006 when a bomb that was being assembled in the house of a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) in Nanded exploded. The Malegaon blast, in which six people were killed, was confirmation, in a sense, of the existence of Hindu right-wing terror.
Interestingly, since the arrest of the Sadhvi and the others, there has only been one incident involving Hindutva activists. In October 2009, two men died in Margao, Goa, when a bomb they were carrying exploded. The men were linked to the Sanatan Sanstha, a right-wing group with a presence in Maharashtra and Goa. During the investigations, the police recovered two unexploded improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at Sancaole, Goa, which they believe belong to the Sanstha or a similar organisation.
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Malegaon. Mecca Masjid. Ajmer Sharif. Why are tapes implicating ultra Hindutva outfits in terror blasts gathering dust?
BY RANA AYYUB
Dayanand Pandey: Yesterday Brig. Mathur of the Deolali Cantt called and said, give me 20 men, I will train them.Col. Purohit: Maj. Prayag Modak was the one who came in our meeting and is helping us. There is Col. Raikar and Col. Hasmukh Patel. On 24 June 2007, we were to have a meeting with King Gyanendra. Col. Lajpat Prajwal, who is now a brigadier, was the one who made the meeting possible.
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Tehelka has accessed 37 audio tapes, two videos and several witness statements that cast further light on the Malegaon blasts case of 2008. This conversation is just a snippet of the voluminous — and self-incriminating — evidence in these tapes which reveal the right-wing Hindutva terror network beyond Sadhvi Pragya and Colonel SP Purohit. The fact that such damning evidence has been in the possession of investigative agencies for a while but has not been acted upon, is testimony to a disturbing unwillingness by the State to unearth the larger conspiracy behind the blasts. .
Transcripts of some of these video and audio tapes were first published in Tehelka (Scheming, Hatred and Porn on Tape, 23 January 2009). They expose not just the complicity of members of various ultra Hindutva organisations from across the country but, interestingly, their vituperative hatred even for Sangh Parivar members who they believe are diluting their hate agenda against Muslims.
The Maharashtra Anti Terror Squad (ats) under its late chief, Hemant Karkare, had arrested high-profile seer Dayanand Pandey alias Shankaracharya and Col. SP Purohit for the planning and execution of the Malegaon blasts (2008) which claimed five lives. Another blast had taken place around the same time in Modasa, Gujarat, killing one.
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The tapes show that the conspiracy was not just restricted to the 12 who were arrested. They throw up names of those who were sympathisers and funders, as suggested by Hemant Karkare in his last interview to Tehelka on 25 November 2008, a day before his death. The people mentioned are majors, brigadiers, police chiefs and politicians. But after the filing of the chargesheet, there has been silence.
Damningly, Tehelka also has a copy of an important department communication to a top ats official officials in the beginning of the year, with information on Ramji Kalsangra, a key accused. Kalsangra is wanted not just in the Malegaon blasts case but also for the Ajmer dargah, Mecca Masjid (Hyderabad), Malegaon mosque and Samjhauta Express blasts. Kalsangra was the one who planted the bombs and rode the bike used in the blasts. He was declared absconding. However, the department communication accessed by Tehelka speaks of specific information about Kalsangra’s whereabouts — the fact that he visited his mother on Diwali and Makar Sankranti and was being sheltered by a Patidar family in Gopipur, Madhya Pradesh. It also mentions his voter identity (MP 33 258 192304 Shajapur). Yet no action was taken.
Disillusioned officials say they were dismayed by the disinterest in pursuing these leads. In fact, the nexus between these blasts and the Modasa one now being established by central agencies could have been done much earlier had the ats not sat on the evidence.
At the time of filing its chargesheet in 2009, the Maharashtra ats had asserted that it had a watertight case against the accused. However, it remained silent on the involvement of the same accused in the Mecca Masjid blast of May 2007 which killed 14 people as well as the Ajmer dargah blasts of October 2007 which took four lives. It dismissed a statement by Maj. Nitin Joshi, member of Abhinav Bharat, that his colleague Col. Purohit had said that the rdx used in the Malegaon blasts was the same as that used for the Samjhauta blasts.
The tapes accessed by Tehelka also contain what amount to confessions of rioting. For instance, RP Singh, an endocrinologist at Apollo Hospital, tells Dayanand Pandey, “We burnt 25 Muslims at one go. Killing Muslims by day, practicing medicine at night: we have to do this. We have to spread terror. No more crying” (translated from Hindi).
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Further in the same conversation, Singh is heard discussing with BL Sharma Prem, former bjp mp, Maj. Ramesh Upadhyay and Col. Purohit (in custody for the Malegaon blasts) of attempting to kill Vice-President Hamid Ansari. Singh, also associated with the World Hindu Federation, says: “I had a very good relation with Ashok Singhal from the vhp. He is a great guy but the Sangh men did not let him continue… rss should also pay a price for its betrayal”.
Col. Purohit: “The Israelis ask us to give them proof of our involvement. What more proof do they need? We have done two such operations earlier which were successful. I was the one who had got the equipment for all of them”.
Ramesh Upadhyay: “Hyderabad mein jo bomb blasts kiya thha woh apna hi admi thha. Woh colonel apko batayenge kisne kiya thha. (The Hyderabad blasts were done by our man. The colonel can tell you who it was).”
In a curious twist — and in grotesque proof of the lengths this group is willing to go — the tapes also reveal big fissures within the Sangh Parivar. A week ago, a story broadcast by a television channel obliquely implicated rss leader Indresh Kumar in the terror conspiracy. However, in the tapes accessed by Tehelka, senior rss leader from Pune, Shyam Apte talks of meeting members of Abhinav Bharat. Startlingly, he is recorded talking to Dayanand Pandey about getting Indresh Kumar eliminated through a chemical which one of their men was to procure, for not sufficiently supporting their ultra-hardline activities. Pandey says: “Post mortem mein bhi woh cheez nahi aayegi, mere liye toh usmein koi risk nahi hai. (The post-mortem won’t show the chemical, there is no risk for me.) I have told him whatever time it takes, we are fine with it.” To which Apte adds that whatever money is needed for this should be given.
If sources in the Maharashtra ats are to be believed, Apte was on the verge of being arrested in November 2008 and broke down when confronted with the evidence by the ats team. However, ats chief Hemant Karkare died soon after in the Mumbai 26/11 attack and Apte was never arrested. Today, both he and RP Singh are walking free because agencies claim they have no corroborative evidence against them. Apart from these voluntary admissions on tape, of course.
Another example of inexplicable lethargy is Swami Aseemanand, who used to run the Shabri Ashram in the Dangs region of Gujarat. He is an accused in the Malegaon case, and the cbi now believes could be a key figure in the Hyderabad and Mecca Masjid blasts. He was spotted two months ago in Waghai village in Dangs in a blue Santro by local police informers. He was also spotted in April in Mahal district of Gujarat driving a white van. But no move was made against him.
Another despairing investigator says there did not seem to be a will to question vhp leader Pravin Togadia whose name crops up many times in the tapes: “They just could not prove that Togadia had given Rs 1 lakh to Abhinav Bharat. Nor were they able to investigate why Col. Purohit’s email account shriyaak@yahoo.co.in had four email ids of Praveen Togadia.”
YP Singh, ips officer and law expert, is also baffled by the go-slow. “How much really was done to make it a watertight case and to put in the dock all those in whose direction the leads were pointing?” he asks. The answers are disturbingly evident.
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