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CBI did not take leads of Nanded seriously
Sumir Kaul
Mumbai, Nov 16 (PTI) Central Bureau of Investigation (C.B.I.), India's premier investigating agency, investigations into the 2006 Nanded blast have come into question as the agency appears to have not taken due cognisance of deposition of one of the accused indicating first signs of militarisation of some of the self-styled right wing groups.
Sources in the Central security agencies said one of the
accused, whose voice had to be restored after operating his
vocal chord which was damaged in the blast, had told
investigators that Naresh Rajkondwar, a Bajrang Dal activist,
had allegedly planned three blasts outside mosques that shook
Jalna and Parbani in Maharashtra in 2003 and 2004.
The Nanded bomb blast took place in the intervening night
of April 4 and 5, 2006 at the residence of Laxman Rajkondwar,
allegedly a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (R.S.S.) worker.
Rajkondwar' son Naresh and Himanshu Panse who was Vishwa Hindu
Parishad (V.H.P.) activist were killed while assembling the
bomb.
Though the C.B.I. has chargesheeted ten people in the
case, sources said, it has not been able to trace back the
leads provided by some of the accused who claimed to have
admitted, before investigators, their role in the earlier
blasts.
Recoveries made by the investigating agencies from
Rajkondwar's house included Muslim skull caps, fake beards and
a plan showing that the target was to hit a Mosque at
Aurangabad, nearly 200 km from Nanded.
Investigators claimed the accused had revealed that he
was sent to Pune by Naresh on his train ticket on the day when
crude explosive material was thrown outside a mosque in Jalna
in 2004.
According to sources, this was done to create an alibi
for Naresh and to show that he was not in town when the blast
took place.
With the Anti-Terrorism Squad (A.T.S.) looking into the
possible linkages of the accused in the Malegaon blast with
Nanded and other explosions, C.B.I. has now sent a team to
Mumbai to get fresh inputs to help its probe.
While the C.B.I. preferred to remain silent on the issue,
some of its senior officers admitted that their investigations
were limited to Nanded case only.
Officials who had investigated the Nanded blast, on
condition of anonymity said that during the probe, call
details of Naresh were also traced to an important functionary
of a saffron outfit in Ayodhya, which was however, not
pursued.
The C.B.I. now wants to probe the links of 10 arrests in
the Malegaon blast case including Lt. Colonel Srikant Purohit,
with the Nanded case.
The agency had investigated the Nanded blast and filed a
chargesheet on March 15, 2008 against 10 people which included
Sanjay Chowdhury, Yogesh Deshpande, Maruti Wagah, Gunniraj
Thakur and Mahesh Pandey, allegedly associated with Bajrang
Dal besides the two who were killed. PTI SKL
DEP
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Mumbai, Nov 16 (PTI) Central Bureau of Investigation (C.B.I.), India's premier investigating agency, investigations into the 2006 Nanded blast have come into question as the agency appears to have not taken due cognisance of deposition of one of the accused indicating first signs of militarisation of some of the self-styled right wing groups.
Sources in the Central security agencies said one of the
accused, whose voice had to be restored after operating his
vocal chord which was damaged in the blast, had told
investigators that Naresh Rajkondwar, a Bajrang Dal activist,
had allegedly planned three blasts outside mosques that shook
Jalna and Parbani in Maharashtra in 2003 and 2004.
The Nanded bomb blast took place in the intervening night
of April 4 and 5, 2006 at the residence of Laxman Rajkondwar,
allegedly a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (R.S.S.) worker.
Rajkondwar' son Naresh and Himanshu Panse who was Vishwa Hindu
Parishad (V.H.P.) activist were killed while assembling the
bomb.
Though the C.B.I. has chargesheeted ten people in the
case, sources said, it has not been able to trace back the
leads provided by some of the accused who claimed to have
admitted, before investigators, their role in the earlier
blasts.
Recoveries made by the investigating agencies from
Rajkondwar's house included Muslim skull caps, fake beards and
a plan showing that the target was to hit a Mosque at
Aurangabad, nearly 200 km from Nanded.
Investigators claimed the accused had revealed that he
was sent to Pune by Naresh on his train ticket on the day when
crude explosive material was thrown outside a mosque in Jalna
in 2004.
According to sources, this was done to create an alibi
for Naresh and to show that he was not in town when the blast
took place.
With the Anti-Terrorism Squad (A.T.S.) looking into the
possible linkages of the accused in the Malegaon blast with
Nanded and other explosions, C.B.I. has now sent a team to
Mumbai to get fresh inputs to help its probe.
While the C.B.I. preferred to remain silent on the issue,
some of its senior officers admitted that their investigations
were limited to Nanded case only.
Officials who had investigated the Nanded blast, on
condition of anonymity said that during the probe, call
details of Naresh were also traced to an important functionary
of a saffron outfit in Ayodhya, which was however, not
pursued.
The C.B.I. now wants to probe the links of 10 arrests in
the Malegaon blast case including Lt. Colonel Srikant Purohit,
with the Nanded case.
The agency had investigated the Nanded blast and filed a
chargesheet on March 15, 2008 against 10 people which included
Sanjay Chowdhury, Yogesh Deshpande, Maruti Wagah, Gunniraj
Thakur and Mahesh Pandey, allegedly associated with Bajrang
Dal besides the two who were killed. PTI SKL
DEP
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