Dubious terrorism

India has a rare phenomenon of most publicized events of terrorist attacks which have generated highest amount of doubt. In the general public, of course; but for the cultural nationalists there is firm conviction of the evil originating across the border. This is so much in vogue even after a decade that the terrorists are invariably the Pakis behind all terrorist attacks. In sharp contrast March 12 1993 serial bomb attacks in Bombay ascribed to the fugitive Dawood Ibrahim had all natives of India to the last man caught and tried and convicted. Since then the Pakis have become the wandering Jew for all acts of terrorism within India. Only the rarest rare exception is Ajmal Kasab, tried, convicted and quickly hanged. Even this case is fraught with many doubts. The Hindu extremist fringe includes RSS and all the other organizations under its umbrella. They had initiated bomb attacks as is clear from Saharanpur bomb attacks of May 14, 2002 and before that the Bhopal Ijtema target of the previous year. Bhopal has the largest mosque in India. There was going to be a bomb attack but it could not be carried out. The Hindutva group under Sunil Joshi was behind it. Had it been effective it would have produced very large casualties. In Saharanpur a bomb went off at the roof of the mosque and another near the gate. A third failed to blow up at the end of the prayer early morning. Luckily the third was defused. There was no dubiety regarding these three. Nor was there any such in the four bombing incidents between 2003 and April 2006 in Parbhani, Purna, Jalna and Nanded when when RSS-Bajrang Dal-VHP activists targeted mosques. The fourth incident happened in Nanded when the bomb meant for Aurangabad railway station mosque accidentally blew up and killed several terrorist busy making the bomb. The most spectacular cases of dubiety are the Parliament attack on December 13, 2001 and Malegaon September 8, 2006 and September 29, 2008. In the first Prime Minister AB Vajpayee had warned on December 12, 2001of impending attack on the Parliament and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had warned on September 5, 2006 and again on September 17, 2008 that there would be terror attacks. [1]A caller on phone had warned the office of Malegaon Marathi Daily Dinkar on September 5 2006 that within a day or two there would be attack and when it was realized he again called to remind that they had carried out the September 8th attack and would carry out another because the people have not taken it seriously.[2 ] That India is for Hindus and Muslims must leave. On September 13 there was a bomb found at Mohammadiya shopping complex. The phone call was also corroborated by a letter to the same effect which was sent to the Jamiatul Ulema-e-Hind office. It was signed by “Sangh Parivar.” Regarding the Parliament attack Arundhati Roy figuratively speaks of the foot prints of the dragon. The letter and phone calls are prosaic illustration of what it was that was not named: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh [RSS]. There is no organization that can choose time and place with such confidence and carry out terrorist attacks with impunity. What Mohan Bhagwat told Swami Asimanand that Sangh was doing it and he should concentrate on tribal development, much later is a confirmation of the truth, dotting the line. If there is involvement of police it is not compartmental but infiltration of the Hindutva ideology in the police force as well as the army. The Congress government had been baulking from naming it fearing backlash in election. When the Home Minister Susdhilkumar Shinde named RSS he recanted the next day. The reach of RSS is beyond computing. Its most remarkable pracharak Sunil Joshi was involved in activities in Jammu and Kashmir. He was also hiding/hibernating in Jammu in a facility that was run by RSS. That was on account of his direct involvement in the murder of a Congress leader and his son. It was again Dyanand Pandey known as Shankaracharya who had his ashram in Jammu. Lt Col Prasad Purohit had close contact with him and in this way J&K, Madhya Pardesh, Maharashtra got linked together. Furthermore Amit Chauhan aka Hakla from Nanded also lived in JK and was trained there. He had exploded the first bomb of the Hindutva laboratory in Parbhany mosque in 2003. His base was Maharashtra but he moved into the Madhya Pardesh module of Sunil Joshi and also worked for Abhinav Bharat. Purohit had provided RDX for Samjhauta Express in 2007 attack in which Hakla was very much involved and is absconding since the truth came in the open. Hakla went by another name in the Madhya Pardesh module: Ramesh Veyankat Mahalkar. He was quite active in the MP module which was behind Malegaon 2006 blasts, Ajmer blasts 2007 and Samjhauta Express blasts 2007. Thus Hakla’s link is established between two sets of attacks, one in which he figured in Marathwada region of Maharashtra and the other in which Haryana(Panipat), Malegaon in Maharshtra and Rajasthan (Ajmer) figure prominently. [3] RSS works in different guises: as VHP in the case of Hakla’s role for he and his family were members of VHP; as Bajrang Dal in the case of Malegaon 2006 attack (Former DGP Dr Pasricha had remarked that it was Bajrang Dal behind Malegaon 2006 blasts.) [4] Thus until Swami Asimanand admitted involvement of Hindutva terrorists in 2006 Malegaon blasts as well the dubiety was hidden. There are many ramifications of what Purohit remarked when he admitted his role in Malegaon blast 2008: "I am the mastermind of the blast. I arranged for the RDX and weapons but I can't understand how the weapons reached Abhinav Bharat members."[5] One, that Purohit was associated with Abhinav Bharat so if he did not know how the RDX was transferred does he mean that the RDX and weapons supplied by him caused the 2008 attack in Malegaon as well as the same consignment of explosives and arms were used by the ATS to frame innocent Muslims in the Arms haul case of Aurangabad-Malegaon-Ankai 2006? If that were true then it would mean that that was also the provenance for 7/11 attack on local trains in Mumbai. The inference is clear that all these sundry cases were dubious terrorist attacks engineered by Hindutva and their sympathizers in police and army but blamed on Muslims. The minority had to bear the cross for years on end. They were the handiwork of Hindutva! Further to note here is that source of RDX is only one way, the army. It is not easy to get it within India. Who else could do it so well than Purohit? If Zabiuddin and others transferred RDX the consignment was certainly not from Pakistan but from army source. It could also mean that it was sourced from Ahmedanagar artillery camp from the where Shanker Shelke got it in his scrap yard. The police commission of Thane SM Sangari had identified one of the attackers on Parliament as Mohammad Yasin Fateh Mohammad aksAbu Hamza arrested in November 2000 and he was handed over to JK. Did the JK special task force use him to attack the Parliament as the same agency used Afzal Guru to escort one Mohammad to Delhi for the attack? Much later Sangari also said that the lead to the attack in Malegaon 2006 is in the mysterious death of the scrap monger Shankar Shelke of Ahmadnagar on September 9, 2006. Some days ago 195 kg of RDX was seized from his scrap yard. He absconded from the police but after Malegaon blast of September 8, 2006 he was arrested. The attack on the Parliament is all the more dubious because member of Parliament Priyaranjan Dashmunshi saw 6 attackers come out of the car while the police say only five had come. The difference in counting the attackers is insidious. Anita Udaiyya had counted 6 landing on the shore from a boat on 26/11 and she had said that Ajmal Kasab was not one of them. So where did the other four come from? The Marathi speakers who attacked Cama hospital were believed to be Pakis but after the arrest of Zabiuddin Ansari aka abu Jindal it is believed that they were Muslims speaking fluent Marathi.[6] The hallmark of dubiety is covered in two books one on 26/11 by SM Mushrif universally known as who killed Who killed Karkare? the other on Parliament attack called 13 December , A Reader. Unfortunately the Establishment has failed to rise to the challenge thrown by such texts. What kind of democratic set up is this! --- [1] 13December : A Reader. Penguin India 2006 [2] Inquilab August 30, 2008 [3] http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-06-17/bhopal/40027296_1_himanshu-panse-samjhauta-express-blast-maharashtra-blasts [4] Punyanagri September 11, 2006 [5] I was Malegaon mastermind, admits Lt-Col 7 Nov 2008, TNN [6] Vikram Bhave, Malegaon bomb blasts, the invisible hand (Marathi) Grukrupa Praisthan. 2013. p 108