By TCN News,
New Delhi: Most likely. After probing the blast on the old pattern – look for involvement of Muslim group or individual, shadowy Indian Mujahideen or any old, new real or imaginary outfit like that – but finding no clue about the perpetrators even 10 days after the attack, the authorities are now forced, maybe unwillingly, to look towards Hindu terrorist group and their trained cadres.
The narco testes of Lt. Col Purohit in 2008 had revealed that at least 500 people were trained for terror under the guidance of Purohit, self-styled guru, Dayanand Pandey and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur. Purohit had also revealed that Ahamadabad Ashram sheltered these people. The three and some other office bearers of Abhinav Bharat Hindu extremist group are in jail in connection with Malegaon September 2008 blasts.
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Why finger pointing to Hindu terrorists? Because “Key suspects involved in Abhinav Bharat’s terror campaign have never been held. Jatin Chatterjee – better known by his alias Swami Asimanand – is thought to be hiding out in Gujarat’s Adivasi tracts, where he runs a Hindu proselytisation organization. Ramnarayan Kalsangra, Abhinav Bharat’s key bomb-maker, is also a fugitive,” says writer Praveen Swami in The Hindu on February 19.
Eminent journalist Siddharth Varadarajan, in the same paper on February 15, had raised the question. “Has enough attention been paid to the network of Hindu extremists in Maharashtra who have planted bombs in the past?”
A bomb exploded at German Bakery on February 13 in Pune, the toll of which has now reached 15 besides scores of injured. The Maharashtra ATS was assigned the probe but it has failed to get even vague clue about the terrorists. Several teams of investigators have questioned Indian Mujahideen terror accused already in jail or police custody but no result.
A top Maharashtra police official has been quoted in media as saying: The Maharashtra government may also look at the possibility of involvement of right wing Hindu organisations in the Pune blast. “We have not ruled out possibility of the involvement of right wing Hindu organisations in the blast,” a senior Home Department official was quoted as saying in Mumbai.
Given the failure of Maharashtra ATS, there are media reports that the probe may be handed over to National Investigation Agency (NIA).
Pune, though presented in the media for some time as active hideout of Indian Mujahideen terrorists, has been a major centre for right wing activists for decades. Abhinav Bharat of Himani Savarkar is based in Pune and its all top office bearers now in jail in Malegaon blasts case are also Pune residents. Himani Savarkar is daughter of Gopal Godse, who is the brother of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse.