No links with Samjhauta bomber: Aseemanand

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 15:09

Tags: Assemanand, Samjhauta Express, Kamal Chauhan

No links with Samjhauta bomber: Aseemanand

Zeenews Bureau

Panchkula: Swami Aseemanand, under arrest in connection with right-wing terror acts, on Wednesday denied any links with Kamal Chauhan, the alleged Samjhauta Express bomb planter.

Aseemanand denied knowing Chauhan when he was produced before the court today. “I don’t know him…it is a conspiracy by the agency (NIA),” he told mediapersons while being escorted out of the court.

As per the NIA, Kamal Chauhan, a disgruntled RSS worker, had planted bombs on Samjhauta Express in 2007 that left 68 people, mostly Pakistanis. He was produced in the court on Feb 14 and was sent in NIA’s custody till Feb 24.

"Yes, I have done it on my will," Chauhan had said.

After a four-year probe, the NIA had on June 20, 2011, charged Aseemanand, Sunil Joshi (now dead), Lokesh Sharma, Dange alias Parmanand and Kalasangra for hatching a criminal conspiracy which resulted in blasts in Samjhauta Express near Deewana railway station in Haryana's Panipat district, about 80 km from Delhi.

According to the NIA, the conspiracy involved six persons: Lokesh Sharma who planted the bombs in the train along with Chauhan; mastermind Sunil Joshi, who was murdered in December 2007; Aseemanand, the financier and ideologue; and Sandeep Dange, a close associate of Joshi, who along with Ramchandra Kalsangre had procured the raw material and made the bombs. Dange and Kalsangre are still at large.

NIA is also investigating the role of Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and Indresh Kumar in the blasts.

Swami Aseemanand and Sharma are already in judicial custody.

Apart from Ajmer Dargah blast, which claimed three lives and left 15 others injured, Aseemanand and Sharma are accused in several other blast cases across the country, including those at Hyderabad's Mecca Masjid and Malegaon.

One of the main accused in the case, Swami Aseemanand, alias Naba Kumar Sarkar, had confessed to his role in the attack after his arrest by the CBI in November 2010, but later retracted his statement, saying it was made under duress.

First Published: Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 12:45

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ahmad - uae
kamal chauhan was not alone in the samjhota blast how can one man do such a complicated blast he surely got help from the army and intelligence he says that he did it but from where did he get the amunition barud from where from pakistan , let etc a person who hates pakistan and muslims will not buy from them so it leaves with only one option and that is the indian army provided him with the material so that means that the indian army and intelligence are involved in this blast and he accepting it alone and calling himself disgruntled rss worker is to save rss and the indian army and intelligence. all bloddy drama by him to save rss indian army and intelligence heck even indian mujahedin is indian inteligence handiwork.

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kiran kashinath bade - yavatmal445001
Absolutely right.The present UPA,and that too with persons like Chidambaram,Digvijay,Manish,Alvi Salman,who still wants,to continue the power with the blessing of Madam,can do any thing to please the so called minority and beg for vote.As it is now clear from the Quota Theary by congress.It is designed,and will be continued till next election.The cacus including Madam,Rahul is much power hungry.

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Batra - Rohtak
govt of the day does not have the credibility as it cries when terrorists die on the one hand and awards the inspector who kill them. they also make visits to the people who killed their father and forget that there were other innocents also killed in the incident.

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ABHISHEK KUMAR DUBEY - BHUBANESHWAR
THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED HAVE BEEN KEPT UNDER detention since 5 years.

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pradeep kumar mohanty - Bangalore
This is the biggest conspiracy of congress government to probe Hindu terrorism.

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Venugopal Kaikulath - Mumbai
Sometime around 2005 there was a report in the newspapers that the intelligence wing of the Indian army would concentrate on counter-terrorism and its principal mechanism would be to think like the enemy does in order to predict the enemy`s future moves. I suspect that all the subsequent bomb blasts ascribed to so-called Hindu terrorism was a result of the activities of the Military Intelligence Wing in its attempts to get under the skin of the Islamic terror being perpetrated in India. Somewhere down the line the patriotic, legal and authorized strategy of the Indian army was sabotaged by certain political powers in India and as a consequence Hindu organisations were made the scapegoat. A probe is called for and the real story behind the so-called Hindu terrorism must be exposed. It would be the story of the hold of unpatriotic, anti-national, elements on Indian political power.

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Sathya - Bangalore
These people who have been arrested have been kept under detention since 5 years. If they are deemed to be innocent which I think they will because of the way the prosecution is not able to prove things repetedly they would have lost 5 years or may be a decade of their precious lives.