Why is the Malegaon bomb blasts case of 2006 still hanging fire?

Of all the cases of terrorism the one which requires most attention but has got the least is the September 8, 2006 bomb blasts of Malegaon. The case is tied with the second blast of Malegaon September 29, 2008 and even the arms hauls of May 2006 . However, the official line is that the two are not related. This has influenced investigation and led it into a blind alley. Unless the highest authorities were somewhere involved this could not have been achieved.
A significant lead is deliberately missed. What does Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur means when she exclaims why so few died in 2008 blast at Bhiku chowk. She had allegedly reconnoitered the site and was seized of the fact that the chowk as well as its environ of anjuman chowk was overwhelmingly crowded. Yet only six died and only about hundred injured! In the first place she was comparing and contrasting the 2008 blast with 2006 blasts which had killed more than thirty seven and injured more than 200. It is also known from news reports that the perpetrators including Ramji Kalsangrah had tried to park the motor cycle at the Nukad corner of anjuman chowk. But the lady police there resisted them. With the hindsight one can also see that the sadhvi was comparing and contrasting Bhiku chowk blast with February 2007 Samjhauta express attack. That had toll of nealy70 killed and many more injured. This would mean that she has been monitoring all these events along with Swamy Asimanand, Major Ramesh Upadhya and others. The huge amount of money that exchanged hands in these three attacks naturally was sourced from Gujarat. A part of the fund that Chief Minister Narendera Modi had gifted to the Swamy could also have ended up in these operations. So far there is no verification by the investigation agencies.
All these would make one infer that 2006 was the precedent if not a dry run. The main accused in 2006 blasts Abrar Ahmed has clearly identified the sadhvi to whom he was introduced in Indore in October 2006. What is interesting to note but not news to the informed ones is that the conspiracy was hatched at the Ashram at Valsad (in addition to Bhopal, Nasik, Indore, etc)run by the Asimanand . There is much greater ramification of this since Abrar was clearly used by the senior SP of Malegaon, Mr Rajwardhan. Abrar’s meeting the sadhvi and Lt Col Shrikant Purohit was also at the instance of that senior police officer. He on his own could not have taken such a risk. Abrar’s affidavit submitted to the judge YD Shinde is not fully vetted and investigated as it should otherwise have been.
This negligence is mainly on account of the unseemly hurry of concluding investigation as well as total lack of corroborative evidence in the matter of 2006 blasts. Mere confession under duress and torture is no confession. In 1000 days the CBI/STF/Mumbai has come out with only 65 pages of the purported investigation! The actual corroborative evidence such as the two clean shaved youths who purchased the two new cycles and strapped the bombs on them which went off at the graveyard and Mushawarat chowk and the initial questioning of 20 youths and the leading yarn tycoon Mahesh Patodia were not followed up. Nor was the call made to the editor of Marathi paper Dinkar probed seriously. Where had the two suspects whose sketches were published by the police stayed? They were outsiders, most likely members of the Bajrang Dal trained by Abhinav Bharat.
Instead the police changed horses in the mid stream and went for the Muslim youths who had beards. They were the counterparts in appearance of Swamy Asimanand, Shankeracharya Dyanand Pandey, sadhvi Pragyasingh. The bearded, skull capped, kurta clad Muslim youths are the counterfoils of the saffron clad accused. Were they picked up to distract attention from the real perpetrators and destroy the trail? This is material reason because the Muslim youths’ confession alone is used against them. The void of corroborative material evidence is staring us in the face.
Even a lay person can pick holes in the confessions! Confessions must have drawn blank as the accused had not done what they are imputed to have done. Can the police be as naïve and obtuse as Shakespeare’s constable Dogberry to dictate by way of narrating that Zahid planted bombs in Malegaon when he was physically present in a mosque five hundred miles away in a village of Yavatmal distict at the time of the blasts? As imam of the Phoolsanghvi mosque he had led the Friday prayer there. Do the illiterate or semi literate accused living in ghettos suddenly pick up Sankritized Hindi to tell and narrate their involvement to the recording officers? Conduct a survey as the writer did to ascertain how many hutment dwelling negihbours of the accused number one Noorulhoda know the words of chaste Hindi found in his confession. Perhaps his recording officer SP of Thane Archana Tyagi is not only conversant but also erudite with chase Hindi. To sample a few: adhikshak, adhikari, anya viyaktyo, bandhankarak, charcha, gramin, nishchay, parivartan, sambhandit, utter, etc.
Accused number 3 is a second standard drop out. Mohammad Raees Rajjabali Mansrui is certainly illiterate. Why didn’t then the police record his confession on tape or make a video recording of it? The recording officer must have himself narrated what the police wanted to put on the paper. Raees is also a Urdu speaker like Noorulhoda and the other accused. It is an anathema that Sanskritized Hindi words are ascribed to him which he could not have even heard in his life time!
The English adage goes: style is the man. In the confessions of 2006 case the gender is mixed. It is also a woman, Archana Tyagi with several other men working in the force.