Tehelka, 19 January 2009
Scheming, Hatred and Porn On Tape
As the ATS prepares to file the chargesheet against the eleven accused in the September 2008 Malegaon blasts, here is the evidence the ATS has put together during the course of its investigation
by Rana Ayyub
The Maharashtra ATS is all set to file its chargesheet against the eleven accused in the Malegaon blast of September 2008 which killed 6 including an eleven year old girl. Teams of ATS officials are camping in Karnataka and Gujarat hopeful of nabbing Sandeep Dange, Ramji Kalsangra and Pravin Mutallik -- the ones to have planted the bomb -- who, if officials are to be believed, will also help in linking the role of the accused in the other blasts including the Samjhauta and Ajmer blasts. Another key accused in the case is Swami Aseemanand of Dangs who is on the run and holds the key to all information regarding the Samjhauta blast as one of his key men RSS worker Sunil Joshi is supposed to have planted the bomb at Ajmer and Samjhauta express. Sunil Joshi was killed in Devas in Madhya Pradesh by men from his own organisation.
Meanwhile, the ATS which is presenting the chargesheet in the court tomorrow has been extremely careful in crosschecking every fact as the case, which first brought to light the involvement of Hindu terror outfits in the country, is seen as very sensitive. Even then, the officials fear an outburst tomorrow once the evidence is presented in court. The key evidence to be presented by the ATS would comprise video, audio, text, narco reports, bank transactions and confession statements of the accused .The videos are film clippings obtained from Dayanand Pandey’s laptops showing the key accused like Sudhakar Chaturvedi, Col Purohit and other members having an inflammatory discussion on eradicating the minority community. In one of the discussions of which the audio recording is in possession with the ATS, Col Purohit says, "I don'''t believe in the Constitution of India. We need to eradicate these people from the country. There is a need for an organisation which has an overt and covert face. We need to take our agenda to an international level and let Abhinav Bharat be the face of this operation”. Purohit is also said to have cited the example of J&K leader Yasin Malik .He has, in one of the videos, said that if a person like Yasin Malik can achieve international fame then why can’t they.
In another video, where the key accused are heard conspiring and planning the blasts in various parts of the country, one of them says, "The blasts should be done at the time of namaaz so that a maximum number of people die". Dayanand Pandey who is not seen in the video but heard, says "Pressure create karna hoga tabhi toh Abhinav Bharat ka nirmaan hoga". The ATS also possesses strong evidence in the form of texts and emails which were exchanged between Dayanand Pandey and Col Purohit besides the internal party circulars of Sharda Vidya Peeth which was run by Dayanand Pandey .The mails sent from the email ids, Shardapeeth@gmail.com and Shardapeeth@yahoo.com, have evidence of the conspiracy of the blasts. In one of the internal party circulars published on 25 October, Ayodhya Prasad Tripathi, who was the press secretary of Dayanand Pandey as well as the secretary of Aryavart (which is what they called a Hindu government in exile) says "Shri Sharda peeth congratulates Saadhvi Pragya Singh for her daring and heroic step. Let Malegaon episode be repeated again and again across the country. Aryavarti government wishes her success in her future efforts in eradication of Muslims across the country." One of the texts retrieved from the laptop says, "All Jews, Muslims and Christians are enemies of Hindus …These communities are there to slaughter us…Hindus have the right to self defence in the IPC and they should do the same."
There are also pictures of the accused during their meetings as well as videos of SIMI as well as the Taliban – in which the Taliban are seen slaughtering the heads of non-believers. These videos were shown to the members to incite them against Muslims in the country.
Besides, officials have also conceded to have recovered close to 3GB of pornographic content from Dayanand Pandey’s laptop. Pandey, who had registered himself on some of the porn websites, had used the email ids of Sharda Vidyapeeth to access them. It is after fear of the content being revealed that Dayanand Pandey is said to have spilled the beans on the blasts.
When being asked as to why most of the people seen in the clippings on Dayanand Pandey’s laptop including the members of rightwing organizations have not being arrested, an ATS official said that a case could not be made against them as they just expressed a willingness to harm Muslims but there was no direct evidence to link them to the blasts.
Officials here have said that Ramji Kalsangra, who had the keys to Sudhakar Chaturvedi’s residence at Deolali where the bomb was said to have been assembled – he also had conversations with Sadhvi Pragya Thakur – will throw light on the missing links when it comes to the procurement of RDX and planting of bombs. The statements in the case made by eye witnesses Dharmendra Bairagi, who heard the conversation between Ramji and Pragya, as well as Ashok Chawla, the treasurer of Abhinav Bharat confessing to a transfer of cash to his accounts by Ajay Rahirkar will also be submitted. The statements of three army men, who had worked with Col Purohit at Dolali, have also been submitted.
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