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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt takes on BJP: Home ministry puts saffron terror under lens

Govt takes on BJP: Home ministry puts saffron terror under lens

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published Published on Feb 17, 2012   modified Modified on Feb 17, 2012

-The Times of India

 

Days after the arrest of RSS worker Kamal Chouhan in connection with the Samjhauta Express blast case, the home ministry on Thursday said "more arrests will be made leading to the solving" of a number of terror cases including Malegaon, Modassa and Ajmer Shariff blasts.

The ministry said six terror cases were being reinvestigated and one of them (Modassa in Gujarat) was on the verge of being solved. The six cases are 2006 Malegaon blast, bombing in Samjhauta Express (2007), Hyderabad's Mecca Masjid and Ajmer dargah (2007) and explosions in Malegaon and Modassa (2008).

All these terror acts were allegedly carried out by Hindu right-wing extremist forces and their probe by investigating agencies are at different stages.

Referring to these cases, the ministry in a statement said: "The NIA had arrested Naba Kumar Sarkar alias Swami Aseemanand, Lokesh Sharma, Devender Gupta and a few others in connection with these six cases. Recently, the NIA has arrested Kamal Chouhan and it is expected that more arrests will be made leading to solving of the above cases".

Chauhan, arrested by the NIA on Sunday, has claimed he had planted bombs on the Samjhauta Express that left 68 people, mostly Pakistanis, dead.

The ministry's response came following a statement by main Opposition BJP that no case of terror has been solved by investigating agencies even since the UPA came to power in the Centre eight years ago.

Reacting to the Opposition's remarks, the ministry said it was "sparing no efforts" to solve such incidents and punish the culprits. It said 39 of the 46 cases related to major terrorist strikes that rocked the country in the last decade have been solved by the investigating agencies.

"Government's attention has been drawn to a statement made by the spokesperson of a political party that no case of terror has been solved by the investigating agencies in the last eight years.

"... Since May, 2000 there have been 46 major terrorist incidents. Of these, all but seven cases have been solved. In nine cases, convictions have been obtained. In the remaining 30 cases, charge sheets have been filed in 29 cases and trial has commenced in 19 cases. Two cases ended in acquittal and appeals have been preferred," the ministry said.

It claimed that four out of seven "unsolved" cases were on the verge of being solved on the basis of recent busting of an Indian Mujahideen (IM) module by Delhi and Mumbai Police that led to the arrest of seven terrorists from Bihar and other places.

The four cases are serial bomb blasts of Mumbai (July 13, 2011), bomb blast near Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore (April, 2010), shootout and blast near Jama Masjid in Delhi (September 19, 2010) and blast in Modassa (September, 2008).

Police have, however, remained completely clueless in three terror cases - blast at Mehrauli, Delhi (2008); explosion at Jama Masjid, Delhi (2006) and Sheetalaghat blast in Varanasi (2010).

The ministry said the recent busting of the IM module has revealed that the terror group was responsible for bomb blast at German Bakery, Pune (February 13, 2010); blast near Chinnaswamy Stadium, Jama Masjid shootout and blast (September 19, 2010) and 13/7 serial blasts in Mumbai.

"As regards the German Bakery case, one chargesheet has been filed, one of the accused is facing trial, and six accused have been declared absconders," it said.

The Times of India, 17 February, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-takes-on-BJP-Home-ministry-puts-saffron-terror-under-lens/articleshow/11918848.cms


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