Shravan Krushnapaksha 3, Kaliyug Varsha 5115
Hard slap on face of Hindu Hater Congress Government of Maharashtra !
O Hindu haters ! At least now stop pointing fingers at and blaming Hindus as well as Hindu organisations for each and every issue. Remember, Hindu organisations are not terrorist organisations, they are staunch Nationalist organisations !
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NEW DELHI : The Union home ministry has turned down Maharashtra government's plea to ban Abhinav Bharat, the radical Hindutva outfit named in several cases of saffron terror, on grounds of insufficient evidence of its continuing "terror activities" over the last two to three years.
The home ministry wrote to the state government about a month back opposing proscribing of Abhinava Bharat — accused of launching bomb attacks at Mecca Masjid, Malegaon, Samjhauta Express and Ajmer Sharief — under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). According to sources in the MHA, there wasn't substantial material at hand to establish Abhinav Bharat's "terror activities" over the last two to three years.
Also, there was no clear information available on the organizational structure of the Hindutva outfit, including its leadership and cadre still at large, or its infrastructure such as offices and hideouts. The security agencies also had no track of its continued terror funding. "To ensure that a ban under UAPA stands the court's scrutiny and is also upheld by a review committee mandatory under the act, we have to have exhaustive material documenting the terror activities of the outfit sought to be banned, its funding, leadership and cadre still on the loose and the threat it would pose in the absence of a ban," a home ministry official pointed out.
Not only are most of its top cadres like Lt Col Shrikant Purohit, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and Lokesh Sharma already behind bars, but it now seems Abhinav Bharat was a only ginger movement limited to states like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. The MHA felt that given its lack of pan-Indian influence and inconspicuous activity in the recent years, there was no merit in banning the outfit.
The Maharashtra government had moved the MHA last year seeking a ban on Abhinav Bharat. The terror origins of Abhinav Bharat, a closed group of Hindu radicals who believed in "bomb-for-a-bomb" ideology to counter jehadi terror attacks, can be traced back to 2006, with the blasts at Malegaon the same year being the first big attack by extremists owing allegiance to the outfit.
Swami Aseemanand, Lt Col Shrikant Purohit, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, Lokesh Sharma, Kamal Chauhan, Sunil Joshi (now dead) and Rajendra Choudhary are some of the Abhinav Bharat leaders already arrested for their role in various blasts, including the 2007 Samjhauta train blasts and Malegaon, Mecca Masjid and Ajmer Sharief explosions.
Himani Savarkar, daughter-in-law of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's brother and niece of Nathuram Godse, assassin of Gandhiji, is also said to be associated with Abhinav Bharat. Abhinav Bharat members actively raised funds from "sympathizers" for its terror activities and allegedly imparted arms training to those interested in its extremist ideology.
According to the charge sheet filed by Mumbai ATS in the Malegaon blasts case, members of Abhinav Bharat held meetings through 2007 and 2008 at various places such as Ahmedabad, Ujjain, Faridabad, Kolkata, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Indore, Pune and Nashik. Purohit met the other accused during the various meetings in these cities. At every place, he would assign them a task related to an attack.
Source : TOI