Intelligence Bureau masterminded Mecca Blast? By BG Rajeswar and Syed Omar Farooq - 28 June 2010 http://hydjournal.com/headlineNews.php?id=194
*In what looks like an ISI or Mossad in the offing in our own land, India's premier intelligence agency is fast turning into a terror-sponsoring outfit, if highly placed sources are to be taken into account. A Hyderabad Journal exclusive* The country's supreme intelligence agency - Intelligence Bureau (IB) - appears to have masterminded the Mecca Masjid bomb blasts that killed nine people and triggered communal tensions in Hyderabad on 18 May 2007. The IB is believed to have adopted the Pakistan's ISI modus operandi to check the communal terrorism that is creating social insecurities in both the countries. According to highly placed sources in the right wing, the IB had picked up some disenchanted Svayamsevaks, trained them and provided every support to them until they exploded bombs at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad. A similar strategy was adopted in Malegaon and Ajmer blasts that followed Mecca blasts in the next few months. However, as far as police version is concerned, it is a loosely knitted group of Hindu extremists known as Abhinav Bharat carried out the blasts at the behest of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). But, the question is who planted the idea in their minds and who had given them logistics support to target the mosques. Reliable sources say that IB masterminded the bomb blasts at Hyderabad, Malegaon and Ajmer. And the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is under sever pressure from political bosses to implicate RSS in all the three cases. Sources say some officials in the IB wanted a Hindu group to carry out blasts for two reasons - one is to check the growing menace of Indian Mujahideen by sending a message that the Hindus will no more remain silent spectators to ISI-sponsored terrorism in India. The second reason is to break the back of right wing pressure groups such as RSS, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and a host of other organizations and weaken the BJP further, sources said. This crooked plan was meticulously executed by some IB agents just like their counterparts in Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) do. The IB team identified some militant ex-members of the right wing groups, who have left the organizations out of bitterness for just remaining to verbal rhetoric against the Islamic terrorists. Those members were trained in Madhya Pradesh in using arms and preparing improvised explosive devices, sources told Hyderabad Journal. The IB team is said to have given four ‘tasks' to the militant group, but the group could execute only two of them, while the third one - blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, which is the first incident in the series, was executed by some mysterious people, sources said. The Mecca Masjid blast occurred on May 18, 2007. Initially investigators suspected the involvement of ISI sponsored outfits and detained about two dozens of suspects and some of them were booked for having links with ISI related modules. Interestingly, around a year after the blasts (by the time a similar blast was carried out in Ajmer dargah in October 2007), a report is said to have reached the then Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil indicating the involvement of right wing group behind the Mecca Masjid blast. However, Patil preferred the case to be kept in ‘cold storage' as he is reportedly a rightist sympathizer, sources said. But Patil was replaced by Chidambaram soon after the attack on Mumbai in November 2008. By the time, the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) had made some arrests in connection with the September 2008 Malegaon blasts. The accused happen to be Hindus and members of a group called Abhinav Bharat. The members were associated in the past with one wing or the other of the Sangh Pariwar. Seeing this as the best opportunity to hook RSS, the IB acted fast. As a result, the investigators not only got a go ahead but were instructed to see that RSS was linked to all the three blasts, sources told Hyderabad Journal. It came as a big relief for the CBI, which was groping in the dark despite having the ‘unexploded SIM card' recovered from Mecca Masjid blast site. Ironically, instead of tracking down the culprits using the SIM card, the cops preferred to keep quiet, saying they had left with no clues to further probe the blast. The series of the SIM cards used in the explosions in Ajmer and Hyderabad were in a sequential order. The CBI investigators were overjoyed when they came to know that the accused in the Ajmer blast had confessed to their visit to Hyderabad for a ‘recce' of the Mecca Masjid. Based on the technical input, the CBI brought two of the accused - Devendra Gupta and Lokesh Sharma, to Hyderabad. Sources close to the accused told Hyderabad Journal that they did visit Hyderabad but they were no way connected to the blast. It appears their handlers - the IB team has deputed others to carry out the blast and ‘fixed' these two persons, sources said. The two accused were tortured by the investigators physically and mentally while at Ajmer to extract the ‘confession' which meets their requirement. The accused were not allowed to sleep as part of torture, sources said. And now, the CBI wants to repeat the same thing. This is why the investigating agency insists on interrogating the accused in the night though the court has permitted them to do the job in the day, sources told Hyderabad Journal. Highly placed sources in RSS told Hyderabad Journal that the CBI officials are under pressure from the political bosses to implicate the right wing groups in the blasts. It helps them malign the right wing organizations, said the sources. Analysts say that the implication of organizations like RSS and VHP in the blasts will certainly damage the prospects of the BJP in the coming elections. This exactly is what the political bosses want to happen, they said. In their eagerness to damage the prospects of the right wing, the political bosses are ignoring the most dangerous aspect of the crooked design. That the IB is going the ISI way and allowing the agency to go ahead will result only in one thing - spread of communal hatred and lawlessness in the society - just what is happening in our neighboring country, sources said. *Hunt for the dead* The uncanny style of operations of India's premier investigative agency has been a topic of discussion among the urban intelligentsia time and again. In what sounds like a funny little joke, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh for those who provide leads to the capture of the two accused allegedly involved in the Mecca Masjid blasts. The irony is that the CBI has photographs and addresses of the accused who are said to be at large. Yet, the elite agency has miserably failed to nab them. It shows the inefficiency of the so-called premier investigating agency, sources in the Andhra Pradesh Police told Hyderabad Journal. A CBI release claimed that Sandeep Dange alias Premanand and Ramachandra Kaslangara alias Ramji were wanted in connection with the May 18, 2007 Mecca masjid blasts in Hyderabad. The investigators claim that they were also involved in Malegaon and Ajmer blast cases and are at large since long. What all the CBI could achieve in the case is that it could secure the custody of Devendra Gupta and Lokesh Sharma for interrogation. The duo had been in Rajasthan police custody for long for their alleged role in the Ajmer dargah blast. Highly placed sources in Madhya Pradesh made a shocking revelation: The two accused - Sandeep and Ramachandra - may not be alive. The masterminds of the blasts have utilized the suspects to meet their selfish ends and made them scapegoats, the sources said. What is the funniest thing in the CBI investigation is that the name of Sunil Joshi, a man who was dead and gone long back, has been added in the list. Joshi was killed in December 2007 allegedly at the instructions of the masterminds of the three blasts - Malegaon, Ajmer and Hyderabad. But some activists of the Congress party were made scapegoats. Sources close to the CBI expressed doubt that the two accused - Sandeep and Ramachandra - might have met the same fate as Joshi. Legal experts say that the case against Devendra Gupta and Lokesh Sharma is very weak. Now that they have added Joshi in the case, the outcome of the case is clear. The CBI will finally claim that since the mastermind, Joshi, has been killed, there is no possibility of going further in the case. And the arrested persons may get imprisonment for a few years on charges of conspiracy irrespective of whether they were really involved in it or not, said the experts. The more interesting part of the case is that Gupta and Sharma are said to be very happy on being named as the accused in Mecca Masjid blasts, though they have not actually done it. Sources close to the accused said they were looking forward to be hanged on the charges of causing bomb blasts in Malegaon, Ajmer and Hyderabad so that they could remain in the annals of history. -- " The so called caste-hindus are bitterly opposed to the depressed class using a public tank not because they really believe that the water will be thereby spoiled or will evaporate but because they are afraid of losing their superiority of caste and of equality being established between the former and the latter. We are resorting to this satyagraha not becasue we believe that the water of this particular tank has any exceptional qualities, but to establish our natural rights as citizens and human beings." - Dr B.R. 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