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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Sukla Sen <[email protected]> wrote: > The term "Hindu Terror" is as repugnant as "Muslim Terror" or "Sikh Terror" > and so on and so forth. > Like "Islamist" or "KhalistanI", "Hindutva" will be a far > more appropriate term. > Otherwise it'd suggest that the mainstream religion itself is the driver > for terrorrism, and not a particular radical version of it. > That's too objectionable and also unreal. > > The use of "Hindu Terror" instead of being an antidote to "Muslim Terror" > will actually legitimise its, and such other, use. > > Sukla > > On 12 July 2010 07:52, saeed patel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> hindu terror >> The Mirror Explodes >> Hindu terror is a reality, yet India refuses to utter its name >> Smruti Koppikar <http://peoplefnl.aspx?pid=3884&author=Smruti+Koppikar>, >> Debarshi >> Dasgupta <http://peoplefnl.aspx?pid=3882&author=Debarshi+Dasgupta>, Snigdha >> Hasan <http://peoplefnl.aspx?pid=3926&author=Snigdha+Hasan> >> PRINT <http://printarticle.aspx?266145> >> Share<http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=xa-4bc6d6f20cb62856> >> COMMENTS <#129c49f8b946325f_129c476f1e74b9ac_comments> >> Also In This Story >> hindu terror >> ‘Purohit Was Supplying Firearms For Money’ <http://article.aspx?266146> >> Excerpts from the confession statement of the two suspects arrested in the >> ’08 Malegaon blasts >> EXCLUSIVE investigation: samjhauta blast >> Dead In Its Tracks <http://article.aspx?266147> >> The probe continued as long as Pakistan was seen as culprit. Enter Hindu >> angle, and... >> Chander Suta Dogra >> SOCIETY >> The Bomber Among Us <http://article.aspx?266148> >> The Hindu majority has a blind spot for terror among its own >> Saba Naqvi, Smruti Koppikar >> Unfinished stories, goes an old idiom in Ajmer, find their denouement >> in Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti’s shrine. Perhaps, unfinished investigations do >> too. Two-and-a-half years after low-intensity blasts ripped apart the >> courtyard of the centuries-old shrine, the Rajasthan police arrested three >> men—Devendra Gupta, Vishnu Prasad and Chandrashekhar Patidar. Gupta, an RSS >> worker, was suspected to have bought the mobile phone and SIM card that >> triggered off the October 2007 blast in which three were killed. Till their >> arrest on April 30 this year, the story narrated by the investigators, >> lapped up by the establishment and reiterated in large sections of the media >> was that the Ajmer blast was the handiwork of jehadi terrorists. >> >> >> >> The SIM-mobile phone-detonated bombs are similar in Ajmer and Mecca >> Masjid blasts, with RDX-TNT mix in proportion used by the Indian army. >> >> >> The one troubling question—would jehadis target Muslim devout at a >> dargah?—can have complicated answers, as the body count at Lahore’s Data >> Ganj Baksh would testify. But in India, the question wasn’t even deemed >> worthy of being asked as a reasonable line of inquiry. The needle of >> suspicion remained firmly and automatically fixed on Islamic >> terrorists—young men from the community were detained at various stages of >> the investigation and interrogated at length—until the trail finally led to >> Gupta and pointed to radical Hindu nationalist groups instead. Says >> Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Kapil Garg: “We have arrested some >> people of that religion (Hinduism) and we’re dead sure we’re on the right >> track.” >> >> >> *May 18, 2007 Doom Friday* Mecca Masjid was rocked by a pipe bomb >> In Hyderabad too, the CBI team believes it is on the right track, finally, >> in the Mecca Masjid bomb blasts case. Four men belonging to radical Hindu >> groups were arrested this May for triggering a high-intensity bomb that went >> off in the masjid complex in May 2007, killing 14 and injuring some 50. At >> that time, the Hyderabad police had said it was most likely the work of the >> Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI), backed by local logistical support; some 26 >> Muslim men were picked up, interrogated, forced to confess and detained for >> up to six months. >> >> >> >> The terror trail in India changed after the Maharashtra ATS’s >> investigations into the 2008 Malegaon blasts, which alerted them to Abhinav >> Bharat. >> >> >> The story followed this script till the CBI found evidence to the >> contrary: the SIM card-and-mobile phone-detonated explosives packed in metal >> tubes were strikingly similar to the Ajmer blasts contraption. Tellingly, >> both bombs are believed to have contained a deadly mix of RDX and TNT, in >> proportions often used by the Indian army. CBI director Ashwani Kumar told >> the media that an activist named Sunil Joshi “played a key role in >> orchestrating the Ajmer blast... and a set of mobile SIM cards that had been >> used in activation of the bomb-triggers in the Mecca Masjid blast was used >> again in the Ajmer blast”. >> Around the same time, officers of the National Investigating Agency (NIA) >> filed a chargesheet in a Panjim court accusing 11 people, all Hindus and >> members of the ultra-right-wing Sanathan Sanstha, of masterminding and >> executing the October 2009 Margao blasts that killed the two people ferrying >> the explosives to a local festival. Investigation in Pune’s German Bakery >> blast this February has run aground after the initial suspicion, detaining >> and interrogation of suspected Muslim men, some believed to be members of >> “sleeper cells of jehadi groups” or the Indian Mujahideen (IM). When Abdul >> Samad was arrested last month, the Maharashtra ATS actively encouraged the >> understanding that he was the man caught on CCTV cameras in the bakery that >> night. However, Samad was never charged with the blast and subsequently let >> off in other cases too. >> >> >> *Malegaon Blasts II: September 29, 2008 >> Deadly Bike *The bomb here was mounted on a Hero Honda (Reuters, From >> *Outlook >> J*uly 19, 2010 Issue) >> ------------------------------ >> >> *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 Hindu 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 Hindu 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. >> >> ------------------------------ >> Terror trails in India dramatically changed with the Malegaon blasts >> investigation in September-October 2008. Led by then Maharashtra ATS chief >> Hemant Karkare, who was subsequently killed on the night of 26/11, the >> investigation pointed to Abhinav Bharat (AB), an ultra-right-wing Pune-based >> organisation established in 2005-06, and its members or affiliates. What >> Karkare’s teams managed to uncover is part of recent history and should have >> become the basis of examining and monitoring the new phenomenon of Hindutva >> terror but didn’t. >> >> >> >> “For a decade, stories of Hindu terror have been trickling in. Instead >> of a systematic investigation, it’s been an event-to-event probe so far.” >> >> >> The Hindutva links to Mecca Masjid, Ajmer and other low-intensity blasts >> have been in the public domain for close to two years; the signs were >> visible since 2002-03 when an ied found at the Bhopal railway station was >> traced back to local Hindutva activists Ramnarayan Kalsangra and Sunil >> Joshi. They were questioned, but no evidence was found. Yet, it prompted >> Congress leader Digvijay Singh to declare a Bajrang Dal hand. Later in 2006, >> there were explosions in the houses of Hindutva activists in Nanded and >> Kanpur, where ieds were being prepared. Through that year, mosques in >> several towns in Maharashtra—Purna, Parbhani, Jalna—were rocked by >> low-intensity blasts; the Nanded one was meant for a mosque in Aurangabad. >> Recovered with a map of Aurangabad were false beards and Muslim male >> outfits. That should have been warning enough. >> However, till May-June this year, the establishment did not either see >> these warning signals or chose to ignore them—except for a brief two-month >> period in 2008 when Karkare led the Malegaon probe. Now, it may be difficult >> to sustain the denial. “For the last 10 years, stories about Hindu >> right-wing violence have been trickling out. Instead of a systematic >> investigation, there has been an event-to-event investigation. The larger >> story has remained underinvestigated and under-reported,” says Mumbai >> advocate and human rights campaigner Mihir Desai. The CBI is only now >> seeking directions from the Union home ministry to see the Ajmer, Mecca >> Masjid, Malegaon and other blasts in conjunction after there has been no >> conclusive evidence of the involvement of Islamic groups. >> >> >> >> Purohit had provided a link between Malegaon and Mecca Masjid blasts. >> But the police was chasing HuJI. >> >> >> Malegaon 2008 provided the much-needed aperture to review the role of >> Hindutva groups. In September that year, eight people were killed and many >> injured in a low-intensity blast. The ATS investigation led to Sadhvi Pragya >> Singh Thakur, whose motorcycle was used to explode the bomb, and then to 13 >> others, including self-styled guru Dayanand Pandey and Lt Col Prasad >> Shrikant Purohit, the first-ever serving officer to be charged. During >> interrogation, he had disclosed to ATS investigators that he had provided >> the RDX in the Mecca Masjid blasts too but the ATS was reportedly asked not >> to make it public as the Hyderabad police had detained HuJI suspects. The >> similarity with the Ajmer Sharif blasts was evident too. >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> Malegaon I - September 8, 2006 two bombs attached to cycles went off in a >> cemetery >> The 4,528-page chargesheet filed in the Malegaon case offers insight into >> the grand design of the Abhinav Bharat and its affiliates. Purohit, the >> Sadhvi and others had spoken to one another “to avenge bomb attacks on Hindu >> shrines” and had engineered a series of blasts with the larger ambition to >> establish a “separate Hindu rashtra”. Abhinav Bharat—whose original avatar >> was started by Veer Savarkar, later disbanded, and restarted by Himani >> Savarkar—was set up to achieve this ambition. “This organised crime >> syndicate,” states the chargesheet, “wanted to adopt a national flag, that >> is, a solo-themed saffron flag with a golden border...with an ancient golden >> torch.” >> >> >> >> The one crucial missing link, who has been named by all accused in >> custody as “the man”, is Ramnarayan Kalsangra, an expert at assembling >> bombs. >> >> >> Malegaon honoured Karkare by naming a chowk after him—the tribute of a >> relieved town to a man they believed would have led them to the truth about >> the September 2006 blasts too. Three bombs had gone off that Friday >> afternoon near a mosque and cemetery, killing 37 and injuring 100. >> Typically, Muslim men alleged to be members of the proscribed SIMI were >> picked up, interrogated and forced to confess. But the chargesheet had >> several loopholes—main accused Mohammed Zahid, though a SIMI activist, was >> leading prayers in a village 700 km from Malegaon that day; conspirator >> Shabbir Masiuallah had been in police custody a month before the blasts, >> police sketches made on the basis of eyewitness accounts showed clean-shaven >> men while all accused had kept beards for years. >> The Rajasthan ATS now believes that Devendra Gupta, linked to the Ajmer >> blasts, was in touch with AB members through RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi. >> Providing the other end of the link, the Maharashtra ATS says the Sadhvi, >> enraged when Joshi was killed by suspected SIMI activists in September 2007, >> ordered the 2008 Malegaon blast. Joshi has also been linked to the Samjhauta >> Express blasts which killed 68 people, all Pakistanis. The evidence has come >> from Purohit’s reported phone conversation as narrated by an unnamed >> witness. >> ------------------------------ >> >> >> *Unholy deed* A bomb in a schoolbag exploded during iftaar at the Ajmer >> Sharif >> October 11, 2007 >> Yet, the story has several loose ends, most critical among them being >> fugitives Ramnarayan Kalsangra, Swami Aseemanand and others. Kalsangra, >> investigators in Maharashtra and Rajasthan say, was introduced to Devendra >> Gupta by the Sadhvi and is believed to be an expert at assembling bombs. >> Finding Kalsangra is crucial since all accused in custody have named him as >> “the man”. Ajmer, Mecca Masjid, Malegaon, Samjhauta Express and several >> other blasts are clearly part of a larger story. 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