Purohit planned Israel-based Hindu govt-in-exile, support from Thai contacts:
ATS chargesheet today
Smita Nair Posted online: Jan 20, 2009 at 0305 hrs
http://www.indianexpress.com/story_print.php?storyid=412947
Mumbai : The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chargesheet in the Malegaon blast
case claims that as per statements from the accused the town was singled out
for the blast as it was the ideal place where the Muslim community crowd was
the maximum and that prime accused Lt Col Prasad Purohit had told fellow
conspirators it was time to set up a parallel, Hindu government-in-exile which
could operate out of Israel and ensure a completely sashastra (armed) India.
Purohit, according to the chargesheet, promised all logistic help with
finances from several quarters and support from some of his contacts in
Thailand.
The ATS chargesheet, which includes two important confession statements,
statements of witnesses under Section 164, laptop records, telephonic records,
detailed SMSes and financial transactions across states, will be filed tomorrow
in the designated MCOCA court chaired by sessions judge Y D Shinde.
The ATS will tell the court how a group called Abhinav Bharat became a front
organisation for a conspiracy which led to an explosion at 9.26 pm on
September 29, 2008 at Bhikku Chowk, Malegaon. While all eleven accused have
been charged with conspiracy, logistics and execution of the blast, the key
roles, according to the ATS, were those of Purohit, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur
and Sudhakar Dardwivedi alias Dayanand Pandey.
This will be the first case where a probe has been able to reach the
conspirators unlike other cases where only those who planted bombs have been
arrested. In this case, the alleged bomb planters Sameer Dange, Ramji
Kalsangra and Pravin Patil, another on the wanted list, remain at large.
Patil also used the cover name of Mutalik and is a close aide of Purohit.
While the forensic finding of the chassis and engine number of the motorcycle
used in the blast it was a Gujarat registration number GJ-05-1920, owned by
Pragya Singh Thakur led the ATS to Gujarat, it was the statements of
witnesses and the forensic report that helped the ATS build a strong case.
The ATS chargesheet has relied heavily on the statement of Sudhakar Chaturvedi
(37), the last to be arrested, who said Purohit had called him on September 17,
asking him to give the keys of his house in Deolali to a person named Pawar.
According to the ATS, Pawar handed the keys to Ramji Kalsangra who along with
some others used the house to assemble the bomb that was eventually used in
Malegaon.
The ATS team took a picture of Ramji to the locality where Chaturvedi stayed.
Two witnesses identified him and confirmed that Ramji did come to the house. A
search of the house revealed remains of items used in making the bomb this
was verified by a forensic team. Evidences include recordings from the laptop
of Sudhakar Dardwivedi which also has footage of various meetings.
Of the arrested, it is Rakesh Dataram Dhavdes involvement in the conspiracy
that led the ATS to slap MCOCA charges against all ten accused. Pragya Singhs
telephonic conversations recorded with accused Shyam Sahu immediately after the
blasts will be included in the chargesheet.
According to the ATS, the Abhinav Bharat, a group founded on June 12, 2006 in
Raigad where Shivaji was coronated, initially had retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay
in the role of working president. Later, under the control of Purohit, it
became the front for an agenda of creating a Hindu Rajya.
While the anger and the determination to create a parallel government which
gives power to Hindus can be seen in the records of the many meetings that
transpired between the accused, the ATS says that it was at a meeting in Bhopal
where the conspiracy for Malegaon was hatched. Purohit was said to have
convinced the group that the time had come for a parallel government and he
detailed the idea of a bomb blast.The group, according to many statements of
the accused, was told about possible safe houses in Israel from where the
conspirators could operate once their ideology took root and their numbers
increased.
According to the ATS, Pragya Singh promised two of her men from Gujarat.
Upadhyay and Pune-based Ajay Rahirkar played key roles in logistics, conspiracy
meetings and finances while Sudhakar and Sameer Kulkarni, the ATS says, were
active foot soldiers of Abhinav Bharat who were paid a monthly sum of Rs 5,000
and were called Chanakyas.
SEE ALSO:
Accused were seeking help of Nepal Maoists (Jan 21, 2009, Times of India)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4009190.cms
Purohit main conspirator: Chargesheet (Jan 21, 2009, The Tribune)
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090121/nation.htm#12
Malegaon conspirators plan was to push for Hindu Rashtra (Jan 22, 2009, Times
of India)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4015358.cms
On Dwivedis laptop: jehadi text, videoclips, one on Iraq, another on Sonia (Jan
22, 2009, Indian Express)
http://www.indianexpress.com/story_print.php?storyid=413720
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