In a welcome move the home ministry has described the murder of Sunil Joshi as a scheduled offence under section (8) of NIA Act. Now the National Investigation Agency is busy investigating nine cases in which Malegaon prominently figures as one. According to the relevant section of the Act: "While investigating any scheduled offence, the agency may also investigate any other offence -- which the accused is alleged to have committed -- if the offence is connected with the scheduled offence."
In the first place scheduled offenses would mean a detailed and short timed plan of committing acts of terrorism. The so called nine terrorist attacks had the background of the 2000 census which had created a paranoia that the population of the Muslims had shown a remarkable increase. This would naturally play in the hands of the Hindutva groups who would whip up the concern of the majority by preying on their anxiety and use it against the Muslims. One common denominator of all this would be causing maximum casualties of the minority. This is very much in evidence in the planning of March 2006 and June 2006. In both of these Aseemanand, Sunil Joshi and Sandeep Dange, Lokesh Sharma, etc. would play a dynamic role.
Another feature of the backdrop was the world view of Muslims as terrorists in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack on America. This weltanschauung also facilitated Hindutva in its entrenched hatred of the Muslims within India. This was a heady mix that cross-fertilized Hindutva terror. Their penchant for planning strategies proved them to be hefty as ever.
Next important feature is the adoption of a strategy by the intelligence agencies to lure Muslim youths to cross the border for training in terrorism and on return collect intelligence from them and then frame them in false cases. This again played in the hands of the Hindutva groups. Muslim youths were invariably blamed for training abroad and dubbed as LeT members. This proved to be totally irrelevant to the bomb blasts that actually took place in Malegaon and other places like Ajmer, Samjhauta train, etc.
A part of the strategy would be to wipe out the trail that would actually lead to those in top rung of the RSS who must remain anonymous when an act of terror is executed. Sunil Joshi was believed to be boastful and he had also insulted Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur. This made him a liability. Therefore an adjunct plan was to take care of possible disclosure of their secret. The same seemed to have been in the case of Azhar Pervez who had seen either the bomb planter at Mushawrat chowk in Malegaon on September 8, 2006 and/or was present in the Mamco bank near Perry chowk. Around the time of the blasts of 2006 in Malegaon there was uproar in the same bank where those who had played their role in the blasts boasted of getting award and some quarreled and openly groused against the amount paid. Was Pervez silenced as he was a witness to these?
His so called suicide does not convince anyone. He had alerted the local Muslim NGOs of these events. Before they could give a protective cover he was found dead in a very suspicious situation. It is unheard of that anyone would commit suicide by cutting both his wrists as well as the artery on his ankles. It would rather look as if those who wanted to silence him chose the deserted part of his power loom shed and killed him in such a way that they made it sure that he would never speak of it again. He was reported to have received threatening calls as well. His relatives were very nervous and edgy as they belonged to the Ahle Hadish groups which was wrongfully blamed for these explosions and the group was under the clouds of suspicion. A reporter to an Urdu paper wanted to report this death had to face a tricky situation. The bereaved family rushed to him and supplicated that he does not publish the story. That would bring more trouble to them as the police had threatened them with dire consequences. From the vantage point of today when Anna Hazare is asking for greater security to news reporters in the aftermath of the murder of Jvotirmoy Dey it would look strange how India could slide down so low in human rights violation and media covering of events. But it is true that the papers by and large carried the police version that it was suicide. The murder of Joshi was also thought to be the work of SIMI or the Muslims and if not these at the most the result of the murder of Congress leader Pyare Singh Ninama. Ultimately the truth came out that Joshi could reveal the high ranking leaders of the RSS and so he was bumped off. Pragyasingh Thakur went to his house before the news could reach to them and secured all the incriminating evidence of RSS involvement in it. The family did not suspect anything foul according to the niece of Joshi. They did not know that the friend in the guise of the sadhvi had turned foe of their dear one. Thus the need to make thorough investigation is very necessary.
The so called suicide of Shanker Shelke of Ahmednager is also very much related to acts of terrorism. Four days before the blasts in Malegaon, i.e. September 4, 2006, the police seized 195 kilos of RDX, TNT mixed together from his scrap yard. First he absconded from the police. Then the police caught him and on the following day of Malegaon blasts, i.e. September 9 he committed suicide in police custody. The first finger of suspicion was pointed out at it by no other than the police commissioner Mr Shingre. He claimed that the seizure of the RDX in Ahmednager was related to Malegaon blast.
It is really astounding that till today the investigation agencies have turned a deaf ear to the claim of the police commissioner!
Therefore in the light of the section (8) of NIA Act it would be legitimate to inquire into the so called suicides of Azhar Pervez and Shanker Shelke as “scheduled offenses”.
The duo had not fallen out with anyone nor did they have “boastful nature” that Joshi had. Joshi was silenced because Indresh Kumar feared that this nature would one day give him out. Therefore the admonition of Aseemanand to Joshi to care for his life as Indresh Kumar would kill him.
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