<http://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=5008042&widgetType=HTML&widgetId=HTML3&action=editWidget> July 18, 2010 Hindutva terror’s deep roots exposed<http://communalism.blogspot.com/2010/07/hindutva-terrors-deep-roots-exposed.html> <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ykt0v_25KWA/TELL4QFCkII/AAAAAAAABoA/1Xr9L6wpDWc/s1600/saffronterrorMailtoday18Jul10.jpg> Mail Today, 18 July 2010<http://epaper.mailtoday.in/epaperhome.aspx?issue=1872010>
Saffron Terror’s Hall of Shame By Krishna Kumar Why did the CBI sleep over vital leads provided by Hemant Karkare? These expose Hindutva terror’s deep roots “What happened in Hyderabad’s [Mecca] Masjid and what is happening in other mosques hasn’t been done by the ISI. It was our people who were involved.” TITLED Major Upadhaya. wma, this audio file in Malegaon blast suspect (and self-styled Shankaracharya) Dayanand Pande’s laptop shows why the CBI, which is patting itself on the back for cracking the Ajmer Sharif dargah and Mecca Masjid 2007 blasts, should have solved these cases last year. In the recording, Major Ramesh Upadhyaya (Retd.) is heard planning out the 2008 Malegaon blast that killed six and injured over 70. Other recordings recovered from Pande’s laptop reveal that the blast was just a small part of the terror outfit Abhinav Bharat’s diabolical gameplan. The radical organisation was even in talks with groups based in Nepal and Israel to achieve its stated goal of establishing a ‘pure’ Hindu Rashtra. This, as well as the other sinister designs of the Hindutva terror brigade, are stored in recordings on Pande’s laptop, which was recovered by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) led by Hemant Karkare in 2008. Another recording has Delhi Hindu Mahasabha chief Ayodhya Prasad Tripathi talking about his links with an anti-Islamic group based in the UK. “We are in regular touch with Stephen Gaus in England. He is a dreaded anti-communist and anti-Islamic. His units are growing rapidly in France, Germany, England and America,” Tripathi is heard saying. In yet another recording, Malegaon blast ‘mastermind’ Lt Col Shrikant Prasad Purohit talks about contacting King Gyanendra of Nepal for the training and shelter of the Abhinav Bharat men. Then, Pande mentions using the services of a British woman who works as a secretary in the United Nations to get the ‘Hindu Government in exile’ registered in the UN. Purohit, a Military Intelligence man, is heard talking about starting a military school in every state, where recruits would be given rifle training during the summer. He tells an as- yet unidentified man that the school could be used to hide people in case of “any police action”. The colonel goes on to say that the Sangh’s name should not be linked in any way to the schools. “We have to assume such a name that is deceptive. We will work under the name ‘Bastion Guards.’ There is nothing related to the Sangh. The saffron flag is also not there,” he says on tape. In another conversation, Purohit admits that the blasts (Mecca Masjid and Ajmer Sharif) had been carried out by people he knew. The transcripts show not just how dangerous the men were but also why the investigations should have been taken over by central intelligence agencies immediately. “Listen to the tapes and you’ll understand why these men should be charged with sedition and waging war against the state,” said a former Maharashtra ATS officer involved in the investigations. The officer added that what the CBI is claiming as its findings had come to light during ATS investigations in 2008 itself. ATS chief Hemant Karkare, who was killed in the 26/11 attacks, was under tremendous pressure not to dig deep into the Malegaon case. “Both the opposition and some ministers in the state government were not happy with Karkare’s investigations. A senior state cabinet minister in the Congress-NCP government known for his opposition to dance bars had blasted Karkare for the investigations just a week before his death,” said a source. The involvement of politicians and army officers in the Abhinav Bharat operations is perhaps why Karkare was pulled up. A witness in the Malegaon case said that a ‘Colonel Dhar’ (later identified as Lt Col Bappaditya Dhar) was present in an Abhinav Bharat meeting. Purohit had also named several officers. “There are many respected men who are not there today,” Purohit is learnt to have said, adding, “There is a Col Raikar, Col Shailesh Raikar, a Major Nitin Joshi, and a Col Hasmukh Patel.” The ATS is learnt to have interrogated Raikar and Dhar extensively but could not move against them as it did not have a watertight case. But it says that the Army should have stepped in and conducted an inquiry. The transcripts show how the ATS was hampered because of the large number of suspects spread across different states. As an ATS officer puts it, it would be a mistake to treat the Malegaon case as an aberration. The inter-linkages between the prime suspects in the terror attacks have shown that the ATS officer, indeed, is right -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
