Ashwin Shuddha Trutiya
Even if Thane blast accused have cleared that there is no involvement of Sanatan and HJS in bomb blasts, why ATS want to ask questions to members of Sanatan and HJS regarding Malegaon blasts? Will Police or ATS will dare to ask questions to Muslim organizations about Thane Riots or serial blasts in various cities?
Updates
- Police enquiry into Sanatan means leaving culprit and hanging an innocent (3 Oct 08)
- Hindu extremist groups on radar in Malegaon probe (2 Oct 08)
Police enquiry into Sanatan Sanstha means leaving the main culprit and hanging an innocent
October 3, 2008
Ashwin Shuddha Chaturthi
Mumbai: Shri. Abhay Vartak, spokesperson of Sanatan Ashram has informed that conducting enquiry into Sanatan by police is like leaving the main culprit and hanging an innocent. Sanatan Sanstha has always condemned anti-social activities like terrorism. Sanatan has condemned even those involved in bomb blasts at Gadakari Rangayatan. Even then, conducting enquiry into Sanatan’s activities is unfair. Police should not pass comments to prejudice others without carrying out investigations in the matter; they should first objectively carry out investigations and then pass comments.
Source: Daily Sanatan Prabhat
Hindu extremist groups on radar in Malegaon probe
October 2, 2008
Ashwin Shuddha Trutiya
Mumbai: A day after the Maharashtra Police said it could not rule out the possibility of a Hindu extremist hand in Monday’s blast in Malegaon, investigators are revisiting the crude bombs that were planted in auditoriums on the outskirts of Mumbai earlier this year.
The state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) last month charged six members of two Hindu revivalist organisations, the Sanatan Sanstha and the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti (HJS), for the incidents in Thane, Vashi and Panvel, and its members will be questioned in connection with the Malegaon blast, sources in the ATS told ‘The Indian Express’ on Wednesday.
“The possibility of Hindu extremist groups being involved is being probed along with other possibilities. We will soon question members of the Sanatan Sanstha and the HJS,” said a senior ATS official.
On September 11, the ATS had filed a 1,020-page chargesheet against six arrested accused for their alleged involvement in a small explosion that took place at a Panvel theatre screening Bollywood film Jodhaa Akbar on February 20, a crude bomb planted at Vishnudas Bhave auditorium in Vashi on May 31 as well as a bomb that exploded at Gadkari Rangayatan auditorium in Thane on June 4. The Vashi and Thane halls were showing a Marathi play which apparently poked fun at the Mahabharat.
Source: ‘Daily Sanatan Prabhat’
