Cow dung and Bombs: Haryana bombings reveals role of cow protection outfit [a covert hindutva operation?]

[See two reports below on what could be covert Hindutva operation?. While these cowboys were blowing up places in Harayana, a recently arrested RSS nut (who has a role in the Samjhauta train bombing) was also playing with cow dung for cover see the third news item below about Kamal Chauhan ]

The Financial Express

Probe into Haryana bombings reveals role of cow shelters
VARINDER BHATIA

Posted: Wednesday, Feb 22, 2012 at 0106 hrs IST

Jind: Investigations into the bombings of several Muslim sites in Haryana’s Jind and Mewat districts in 2009-10 have led the police to a network of gaushalas or cow shelters dotting the region, some of which appear to have played a part in indoctrinating and inspiring the alleged bombers.

The five alleged bombers arrested in Patiala last week on the initial charge of planning a dacoity were produced in a Jind court today. The five men — members of a cow protection group called Azad Sangathan — have given police names of six accomplices, all of whom are on the run.

The arrested men are learnt to have told interrogators that they were “instigated and motivated” to carry out attacks on a mosque, madrasa and slaughterhouse by a man called Swami Dayanand, allegedly the head of a gaushala in Mewat district’s Nuh tehsil.

Dayanand is under the scanner, as are the heads of two other gaushalas in the region, sources in the state police said. None of the three has been questioned yet. Police sources said the gaushalas might have paid the five men a few thousand rupees each to carry out the attacks.

The men — leader Sagar alias Azad alias Kala and his associates Rajesh Kumar, Sham Niwas, Praveen Sharma and Gurnam Singh — were produced before chief judicial magistrate Basruddin who remanded Sagar and Rajesh in the custody of Safidon police in connection with a blast in the town in 2009, and sent the others to jail.

“It has been revealed during interrogation that six more persons — Kismat, Surender, Ajay, Pawan, Sonu and an unidentified man — helped Sagar and his associates in executing the serial blasts. Most of them belong to Jind district and are members of Sagar’s group. The role played by gaushalas and their heads is under investigation too,” investigating officer Inspector Rohtash Singh said.

Besides Dayanand, under the scanner are Swami Gorakshanand and Swami Ganeshanand, both gaushala heads based in Uchana village in Jind. Police sources said they were investigating information that Sagar and his associates were regular visitors to both gaushalas, and might have used them as bases to plan their attacks.

Gorakshanand denied knowing anything about the Azad Sangathan. “I am not aware of any such activity by Sagar or his friends. I have been based in this gaushala for the last 40-50 years. We run ashrams in Haridwar and Kurukshetra, and gaushalas in Jind,” he told The Indian Express.

Villagers in Uchana claimed Ganeshanand had passed away recently.

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From: Indian Express

A mysterious discovery, and a bomb in an abattoir

VijaitaSingh : Punhana, Mewat, Wed Feb 22 2012, 01:07 hrs
Fifteen days before a 50-year-old migrant labourer from Bihar was killed in a mysterious explosion at a slaughterhouse in Haryana’s Mewat district, police had recovered explosives and detonators from a ditch in a nearby village.

Three years after these incidents, police have begun to join the dots — after five alleged dacoits arrested by Punjab Police confessed to have carried out four bombings targeted at Muslims in Haryana’s Jind district.

The death of the labourer — identified as Mohammad Medi Hassan, a resident of Madhubani in Bihar — has lain in police records since February 14, 2009, when the blast took place. No progress was made in tracing the planters of the bomb, or the people who hid the explosives in the ditch.

Hassan was killed at Al-Nafees Proteins Limited, a sprawling slaughterhouse owned by a Delhi-based businessman at Satakpuri village in Mewat, after someone rolled a crude bomb into the godown where he was sleeping with two others.

“It was 4 in the morning, and I was asleep. I was woken up by the noise of someone rolling up the shutter of the godown. Something wrapped in a newspaper was rolled towards us,” Rehmatullah, a labourer who survived the explosion said in his complaint to police.

“Two of us ran towards the window, and Hassan ran towards the shutter. Just then, the bomb exploded and he started bleeding from his stomach. We rushed him to hospital but he was dead by then,” Rehmatullah said.

The slaughterhouse complex also has a mosque, which faces the godown where the incident took place.

Barely two weeks before this incident, on January 31, police had recovered a countrymade revolver, red wires, six small pipes, a box of detonators and a bundle of cordex wire from a ditch some six kilometres from the slaughterhouse. From a file that was also found, police had identified three men from Bhilwara in Rajasthan who they suspected might have hidden the bomb-making equipment there. The three — Brij Raj Singh Shekhawat, Kanhaiyya Lal and Bairu Lal — have been declared proclaimed offenders.

“We have sent our teams to Jind and they are interrogating the five accused (arrested in Patiala last week). It is not yet established why they decided to attack this particular slaughterhouse,” Brishbhan, in-charge of Punhana police station in Mewat where both cases are registered, said.

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From: The Times of India

Post-Samjhauta bombing, Kamal Chouhan was saving cows

Venugopal Pillai, TNN Feb 16, 2012, 06.28AM IST

INDORE: RSS man Kamal Chouhan, who is alleged to have bombed the Samjhauta Express killing 68 people, was busy saving cows till last year, say people who knew him in his village near here.

Chauhan, who used to run an RSS shakha in his village Moorkhedi, was associated with Shree Ganga Goshala in Gangajalkhedi. He used to save cows from slaughter and rehabilitate them till last year. "About a year ago, he rescued some ten cows and brought them to the goshala," said Mohanlal, keeper of Shree Ganga Goshala.

According to Ashok Jain, state RSS head, Kamal may have been associated with the RSS at some time, but he did not hold any official position. Jain, however, did not clarify if Chouhan was still an RSS member. "There is nothing like admission or sacking in the RSS," he maintained. Incidentally, Chouhan was quoted saying in reports yesterday that he broke away from the RSS because he could not stand its "new ideology".

Kailash Chauhan, his uncle, said Kamal was an eighth standard dropout from a local government school, and owned 30 bighas of farm land and a tractor. Kailash said his nephew had stopped going to the RSS shakha sometime in 2008. The shakha was held opposite Kamal's home and an RSS worker Rajesh Dhakad had encouraged him to join. Dhakad soon disappeared from the scene and Kamal took over the shakha. "Kamal ran the shakha, attended by many small children," said his uncle, adding the shakha was later "discontinued".

Some, however, believe Kamal could not have been the Samjhauta bomber. A fellow-villager, Rameshwar, claimed that on February 19, 2007 the day the train was bombed, Kamal was in Badoli about 2 kms from Moorkhedi attending a marriage and that his presence has been video recorded.