On May 5, 2011 the Supreme Court refused to consider the affidavit that Sanjiv Bhatt had submitted to it. SIT submitted its report on April 25 and denied that Bhatt attended the meeting at the house of Modi. Bhatt alleged that the CM had told the police to let the Hindus vent out their anger at the Muslims as he wanted to teach the Muslim a lesson to stop the balancing act of the previous governments in communal rights and let the Hindus have the upper hand and to tilt the balance in their favour for good. The other serious observation of the SIT is that Bhatt has some motive to level grave charges nine years later and it calls for a probe. Next, he tutored his driver to give false information.
Earlier report of SIT submitted in November 2010 had found insufficient evidence against Modi and amicus curaie Raju Ramchandran objected to “no prosecutable evidence against Modi.” SC asked SIT to probe further.
However SC hints at the fact that SIT has not come up with any change in the second report submitted to it. It has given 8 weeks time to Ramchandran to study all the evidence and suggest if any offence can be made out against anyone. Next hearing is on July 28. Thus the slow movement of the judicial process makes one wonder whether the adage justice delayed is justice denied is still true.
This has been going on in Gujarat for more than ten years now. It is proudly passed off as Moditva, unrepentant hijacking of the state to commit atrocities and still go scot free. The best example is Babu Bhai Bajrangi. The crimes he committed speak loudly for the heaven to hear and yet we on the earth have not heard it so far! The courts also seem to be taken in by Moditva. Madhu Srivastava and his people made Zahira Shaikh turn hostile. She went to jail but they are still free. Of the accused and convicted for life in prison now another witness has turned hostile. The case must reopen again and this would continue ad absurdum.
The obvious reason is that the endeared chote sardar of Gujarat is also capable of becoming the Prime Minister! Therefore the judicial process must continue as it is going until more hurdles come in the way and the courts prolong to kingdom come!
The crimes Modi has committed are like a hippopotamus clearly seen trampling the grass on the lawn and yet the investigators are holding the magnifying glass close to their eyes and prying into the roots of the grass as if watching the movement of an ant. The fun is that Modi knows that we know it that Modi knows it!
The impotency of everyone in the face of all this is a tribute to those who had gathered at Janter Manter for a revolution to usher in. Exceptions are there to prove the rule.
Modi brought in a reign of terror, in the words of Zakia Jafri. He conspired, he executed the conspiracy and is busy in what Shanti Bhushan calls cover-up job. The courts like the Chief Minister are vying with each other to go to infinity in time. Will nine years that Sanjiv Bhatt took slide into nine decades before justice is delivered?
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Hunger strike of the prisoner falsely accused in 2006 blasts
Of all the nine accused in 2006 blasts case and wrongfully arrested Dr Faroqh Magdumi is the most articulate and learned. He is the Shahid Azmi of Malegaon for the simple reason that he studied law in the prison and fought for his bail. After spending more than four and a half years in prison he announced on March 17, 2011 that he would go on hunger strike. He started his hunger strike on April 5th and wrote from Arthur road prison in Mumbai making his reason for taking such crucial step.
His letter is a gospel of truth written to his family for news editors. It is so inspiring that it could give birth to radicalism as well as self sacrifice in the ones who read it discerningly. He says he has already submitted 300 pages to the court pleading for bail and exoneration as he is truly innocent. Instead of getting justice he has been kept in different prisons on different pretexts and thus deprived him of justice. But in the light of the affidavit that Sajid Shaikh (pw-3 in the case of the haj house imam Maulana Gulam Yahya) gave to the judge and the hearing of it on October 30 and 31 2008, and the affidavit of the approver Abrar who turned hostile, the undeniable confession of Swami Aseemanand, his innocence has been established before the world. Therefore it was incumbent on the government to use the prosecutor to withdraw the case against the nine accused under the acts of Code of Criminal Procedure 320 and 321and set them free. Though the National Investigation Agency took over the case on March 26, 2011 it has not registered a criminal case against Aseemanand nor has it bothered to take the statements of the nine accused. This is exactly the same mistake that CBI also had committed. This is another way of delaying justice and delaying justice is denying justice.
According to him the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crimes Act court judge is a puppet in the hands of the public prosecutor and the government. He can have only four cases tried at one time. Even if he gives 2 hours a day he can handle the cases. Presently he is hearing the cases of 7/11; Aurangabad arms haul case and Malegaon 2006 bomb blasts case. Although the article 21 of the Constitution gives right to every prisoner to demand speedy trial and the article also enjoins the government to set up fast track court for it, Dr Farog contends that the judge is not taking up the 2006 case in order to deny justice to the accused.
Let alone starting the trial, the court has not given verdict on his appeal for discharge. He had appealed the court in 2008 to discharge him. The hearing started in 2010 and concluded in December 2010 and yet the court has not given verdict just because during the hearing his innocence has been proved by the discovery of the involvement of Hindutva terrorists among other things. And now they are trying to find out some excuse or the other to delay the release of the nine accused.
It is the dictum of the Supreme Court that justice delayed is justice denied and yet Magdumi has to undergo the tribulation in prison.
Therefore he has asked the court in a letter forwarded by the jailer to the court that the court should give him justice afresh. He also cautioned the court that if his demands were not met within fifteen days then for the sake of speedy trial and against the snail speed pace of the MCOCA court and the prejudicial atmosphere in all these as well as the callous disregard of the government he would start an indefinite hunger strike.
Even so the government remained indifferent till April 4th. Hence he stopped eating from 9 am on Tuesday April 5. He started Islamic fasting by drinking a little water before sunrise and the same at sunset. He had already informed the jailer in writing about his fasting. He would continue it indefinitely. But his condition worsened on Friday April 9 so the authorities started his medical check up and started feeding him through sline. This has stopped his fasting but his abstaining from touching food is also continuing. The jailer has informed the home department as well as the concerned government officers. Frog has also been admitted in the prison hospital since Saturday. He was the shifted to JJ hospital on Wednesday April 13th.
He has resolved to continue his hunger strike until the following five demands are met.
1. As there is no definite proof against him and the real criminals have been now identified the government should under CrPC 321 ask the prosecution particularly prosecutor Raj Thackeray to request the court for the withdrawal of the case and set the accused honorably free so that NIA can collect proof against the real criminals without any hindrance.
2. The Malegaon bomb blasts case 23/6 should be tried and concluded in three months time. Till then the accord should be discharged under CrPC 169, 227 and 239 or discharge them through the trial.
3. As the hearing in his appeal for discharge has ended with what the prosecution and the defence argued, the court should decide in his favour. Postponing the verdict would be trivializing justice. It is already a mischief and lethargy to have not given verdict when more than four months have lapsed.
4. In the light of what Swami Aseemaand, Abrar and Sajid Shaikh have told to the court the real criminals should be arrested and the nine accused should be acquitted.
5. For giving justice to the nine accused and speeding up the judicial process a new fast track MCOCA court should be set up.
He addressed his letter to the editor but did not mention any name of any newspaper and requested that the content should be made known to the people.
The religious implication of the fasting is bound to appeal to the people and produce sympathy wave for him. But there is fear that this denial of justice could cause serious problems. It is likely to lower the image of India as far as denial of human rights enshrined in the Constitution of India itself is concerned. It would also make people aware that there is double standard in policing the state and the judicial practice. The real culprits have still not been arrested for the Malegaon 2006 blasts.
In the meantime Nihal Ahmed and his followers have started mass relay fasting to protest against the delay in justice. They have also begun preparation for courting arrest. All this is bad omen for the town if the government remains obdurate and the apathy continues.
His letter is a gospel of truth written to his family for news editors. It is so inspiring that it could give birth to radicalism as well as self sacrifice in the ones who read it discerningly. He says he has already submitted 300 pages to the court pleading for bail and exoneration as he is truly innocent. Instead of getting justice he has been kept in different prisons on different pretexts and thus deprived him of justice. But in the light of the affidavit that Sajid Shaikh (pw-3 in the case of the haj house imam Maulana Gulam Yahya) gave to the judge and the hearing of it on October 30 and 31 2008, and the affidavit of the approver Abrar who turned hostile, the undeniable confession of Swami Aseemanand, his innocence has been established before the world. Therefore it was incumbent on the government to use the prosecutor to withdraw the case against the nine accused under the acts of Code of Criminal Procedure 320 and 321and set them free. Though the National Investigation Agency took over the case on March 26, 2011 it has not registered a criminal case against Aseemanand nor has it bothered to take the statements of the nine accused. This is exactly the same mistake that CBI also had committed. This is another way of delaying justice and delaying justice is denying justice.
According to him the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crimes Act court judge is a puppet in the hands of the public prosecutor and the government. He can have only four cases tried at one time. Even if he gives 2 hours a day he can handle the cases. Presently he is hearing the cases of 7/11; Aurangabad arms haul case and Malegaon 2006 bomb blasts case. Although the article 21 of the Constitution gives right to every prisoner to demand speedy trial and the article also enjoins the government to set up fast track court for it, Dr Farog contends that the judge is not taking up the 2006 case in order to deny justice to the accused.
Let alone starting the trial, the court has not given verdict on his appeal for discharge. He had appealed the court in 2008 to discharge him. The hearing started in 2010 and concluded in December 2010 and yet the court has not given verdict just because during the hearing his innocence has been proved by the discovery of the involvement of Hindutva terrorists among other things. And now they are trying to find out some excuse or the other to delay the release of the nine accused.
It is the dictum of the Supreme Court that justice delayed is justice denied and yet Magdumi has to undergo the tribulation in prison.
Therefore he has asked the court in a letter forwarded by the jailer to the court that the court should give him justice afresh. He also cautioned the court that if his demands were not met within fifteen days then for the sake of speedy trial and against the snail speed pace of the MCOCA court and the prejudicial atmosphere in all these as well as the callous disregard of the government he would start an indefinite hunger strike.
Even so the government remained indifferent till April 4th. Hence he stopped eating from 9 am on Tuesday April 5. He started Islamic fasting by drinking a little water before sunrise and the same at sunset. He had already informed the jailer in writing about his fasting. He would continue it indefinitely. But his condition worsened on Friday April 9 so the authorities started his medical check up and started feeding him through sline. This has stopped his fasting but his abstaining from touching food is also continuing. The jailer has informed the home department as well as the concerned government officers. Frog has also been admitted in the prison hospital since Saturday. He was the shifted to JJ hospital on Wednesday April 13th.
He has resolved to continue his hunger strike until the following five demands are met.
1. As there is no definite proof against him and the real criminals have been now identified the government should under CrPC 321 ask the prosecution particularly prosecutor Raj Thackeray to request the court for the withdrawal of the case and set the accused honorably free so that NIA can collect proof against the real criminals without any hindrance.
2. The Malegaon bomb blasts case 23/6 should be tried and concluded in three months time. Till then the accord should be discharged under CrPC 169, 227 and 239 or discharge them through the trial.
3. As the hearing in his appeal for discharge has ended with what the prosecution and the defence argued, the court should decide in his favour. Postponing the verdict would be trivializing justice. It is already a mischief and lethargy to have not given verdict when more than four months have lapsed.
4. In the light of what Swami Aseemaand, Abrar and Sajid Shaikh have told to the court the real criminals should be arrested and the nine accused should be acquitted.
5. For giving justice to the nine accused and speeding up the judicial process a new fast track MCOCA court should be set up.
He addressed his letter to the editor but did not mention any name of any newspaper and requested that the content should be made known to the people.
The religious implication of the fasting is bound to appeal to the people and produce sympathy wave for him. But there is fear that this denial of justice could cause serious problems. It is likely to lower the image of India as far as denial of human rights enshrined in the Constitution of India itself is concerned. It would also make people aware that there is double standard in policing the state and the judicial practice. The real culprits have still not been arrested for the Malegaon 2006 blasts.
In the meantime Nihal Ahmed and his followers have started mass relay fasting to protest against the delay in justice. They have also begun preparation for courting arrest. All this is bad omen for the town if the government remains obdurate and the apathy continues.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Impunity in disposing of rape case of a Muslim girl
The rape and murder Rukhsana of Partur Hathdi, Jalna district, is dreadfully gruesome. She was pregnant and was raped by some Hindus so far not identified. From the gory details of the circumstances it is clear who had raped her. The police Patel of the village Sadashiv Jurekar and the sarpanch (village head) Ramesh Shyam got the death of Rukshana entered as suicide and then burnt her dead body in the Muslim graveyard of the village.
What is unmistakable to infer is that both administrative officials of the village tried to cover up the matter. They could not be so naïve as to believe that the Muslims burn their dead in their cemetery! The rural Muslims are the most penurious of our population. Their being indigent makes them survive at the sufferance of the Hindus. Crimes committed against them have little chance of airing let alone registration in any administrative offices of the state. The way her body was disposed off shows that the rapists and killers were not from the Muslim community. The deafening silence of their identity is eloquently telling the story of that identity. The hand to mouth existence of the rural Muslim makes it unthinkable that they would ever have enough to grease the palms of the officials.
However, some Muslim leaders came to know the murky circumstances. One of them was Abu Azmi who condemned the event and spoke about the plight of the rural Muslims. But on Saturday April 9, 2011the Maharashtra Assembly legislative council member Hussein Dalwai entered the hall with an earthen pot containing the ashes and bones of Rukhsana. He along with other leaders like Manikrao Thakere protested. That forced Home Minister RR Patil to pacify them that an inquiry by crime investigation department would be conducted and the guilty would be brought to book.
This case of rape and murder of a Muslim girl could not have drawn even this much attention in the legislative council but for the sudden time schedule change. Two important matters were on the agenda but the concerned members and ministers were absent when the assembly session began. The third item was the case of Rukhsana. The Home Minister casually assured that inquiry would be made. The matter was hushed up. But Dalwai came to know of it in a hospital of Mumbai. He rushed to the assembly hall and along with the congress party president Manikrao Thakere forced the speaker to restart the debate on the issue. Hence, the dramatic entry of Dalwi!
Sachchar commission says Muslims constitute majority in the prison population of India. However, some crimes like rape have become so luxurious to go beyond the reach of some.
In the absence of a healthy civil society and strict adherence to the law of the land the women and the minorities suffer alike. But for the woman from the minority it is virtual hell. Even the dead body has no rest! (courtesy to Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes were Watching God).
The mainstream papers have no space for the Rukhsanas as they are preoccupied with the weighty matters of corruption. Urdu papers like Sahafat or journalism struggle to keep abreast.
What is unmistakable to infer is that both administrative officials of the village tried to cover up the matter. They could not be so naïve as to believe that the Muslims burn their dead in their cemetery! The rural Muslims are the most penurious of our population. Their being indigent makes them survive at the sufferance of the Hindus. Crimes committed against them have little chance of airing let alone registration in any administrative offices of the state. The way her body was disposed off shows that the rapists and killers were not from the Muslim community. The deafening silence of their identity is eloquently telling the story of that identity. The hand to mouth existence of the rural Muslim makes it unthinkable that they would ever have enough to grease the palms of the officials.
However, some Muslim leaders came to know the murky circumstances. One of them was Abu Azmi who condemned the event and spoke about the plight of the rural Muslims. But on Saturday April 9, 2011the Maharashtra Assembly legislative council member Hussein Dalwai entered the hall with an earthen pot containing the ashes and bones of Rukhsana. He along with other leaders like Manikrao Thakere protested. That forced Home Minister RR Patil to pacify them that an inquiry by crime investigation department would be conducted and the guilty would be brought to book.
This case of rape and murder of a Muslim girl could not have drawn even this much attention in the legislative council but for the sudden time schedule change. Two important matters were on the agenda but the concerned members and ministers were absent when the assembly session began. The third item was the case of Rukhsana. The Home Minister casually assured that inquiry would be made. The matter was hushed up. But Dalwai came to know of it in a hospital of Mumbai. He rushed to the assembly hall and along with the congress party president Manikrao Thakere forced the speaker to restart the debate on the issue. Hence, the dramatic entry of Dalwi!
Sachchar commission says Muslims constitute majority in the prison population of India. However, some crimes like rape have become so luxurious to go beyond the reach of some.
In the absence of a healthy civil society and strict adherence to the law of the land the women and the minorities suffer alike. But for the woman from the minority it is virtual hell. Even the dead body has no rest! (courtesy to Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes were Watching God).
The mainstream papers have no space for the Rukhsanas as they are preoccupied with the weighty matters of corruption. Urdu papers like Sahafat or journalism struggle to keep abreast.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Of Praise for Mr Modi
Calling chief minister of Gujarat as Nero was self consciously too circumspect way of describing the kind rule of Ravana that Gujarat has been going through even now. He may gloat over the praises showered on him by an American officer of the US embassy, Anna Hazare, etc., he may cock a snooke at the centre or the Congress party, but it is time now for the nation to see through the kind of demagoguery he has been engaged in. This is quite serious. He is a true demagogue, a political agitator who appeals to the basest instinct of the mob. He did his act over and over again. It was evident in his repeatedly asking what the crowd would do to Sohrabuddin. Their encore of murder illustrates the point.
The acolytes and associates of Modi are like the nine blind men who have discerned features which they perceive without having a fuller comprehension of the whole behemoth he is. Major General I S Sinha of Golden Katara Division of Indian Army gave three cheers to Modi for having accomplished his work within given time. Look at what Modi accomplished overnight. Wali Gujrati’s mausoleum was demolished and wiped out of the surface and a road built overnight there. If this was not done by Modi by his own hands he also did not kill the nearly two thousand Muslims in the pogroms of 2002. What he had done was set the target for Hindus to vent their anger for full three days. He also moved around and applauded the Chharra community women for giving birth to the valiant members who slaughtered Muslims in Naroda Patia. One of the most gruesome murderers (Suresh Richard) has gone on record telling how Modi visited his womenfolk in the evening of the first day of wholesale murder and slaughter and rape. A senior police officer at the same place refused to protect Muslim women and children and told them that it was an order from above that that day they would show no heed to the pleadings of the Muslim victims. Police officer KK Mysorewala’s utterance denying help to the Muslims became the title of the report that Human Rights Watch published. Why do those praising Modi choose to ignore this? They have also not bothered that Mysorewala was the one who told Babu Bajrangi to go into hiding as there was shoot at sight order against him. When Modi wanted Bajrangi to surrender Mysorewala was again used to convey the message. Mysorewala was superintendant of police of Modasa when Muslims were attacked by Abinav Bharat with bombs on September 29, 2008. He turned a Nelson’s eye on it.
Anna Hazare’s reason for preferring Modi as well as Nitish Kumar is rural development. This is myopic vision of what actually is the case. Modi’s administration not only did not do anything to stop the genocide of Muslims but over the years tacitly and criminally let the Hindus systematically boycott Muslims in the rural parts of Gujarat. Most of them cannot even now return to their heaths and hearths although nearly a decade has passed the fury he let loose upon them. Their humble professions, commercial establishments along with their homes were destroyed. Were not the Muslim transporters, motel owners, garage mechanics parts of the wheel of development of rural Gujarat? Where was Hazare when this went on year in and year out?
Modi did what Slobodan Milosevik did in former Yugoslavia, instigate the mobs of Serbians against the minority Muslims. The mobs did the rest. It is a national shame that the police never supplied CDs of his derogatory speeches and phone calls. Why did all this fall on the deaf ears of Hazare and Sinha?
It is amazing that a Muslim divine like fellow Gujarati Maulana Ghulam Vastanavi saw the material development in Gujarat as worthy of praise. Islam does not prefer material development over the spiritual and moral development. Had it been otherwise the Prophet could have started collecting interest over the money that many deposited with him because of his sterling moral character. Islam forbids interest or usury and values sound moral character.
Amitabh Bacchan chose to advertise the glory of Gujarat because of the same material consideration. He would collect money by advertising because money is important. This is his characteristic attitude. A brother of his has enormously got rich and lives in Switzerland with the booty of the Bofors guns deal. Money and conscience are two different and contradicting things. Modi and Bacchan have set perceptions on whom to bond with. If Bacchan did not invite any of the Khans to the marriage of his son Abhishek he is free to do so as a citizen of this country. A man is known not only by the company he keeps but also the company he avoids. Choosing to bond with Modi and not bonding with Amir, Salman, and Shah Rukh Khan is truly melodrama in effect.
But in public life there is need for introspection. Modi was against the secular minded MP Ahsan Jaffri who had opposed his Hindutva ideology during the election at the beginning of Modi’s term in office. He chose to ignore and not take any notice of the pleadings of Jafri to save the life of the people taking shelter in his house. His party also did not want to have a motion in the parliament to express grief over the brutal murder of the MP. Again he like his party is free in democracy to hang a portrait of Savarkar in Parliament or bond with Swami Aseemanand or the likes of Babu Bajrangi. Conscience is a strange thing it is activated in the case of corruption involving money but remains dormant in the corruption of other things.
CPM P Abdulla Kutty is another strange bedfellow of Modi like Dr Farooq Abdullah and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. But how many have even thought of Tulsiram Prjapati, a family friend and associate of Sohrabuddin Shaikh? Why does he deserve real praise? He was taken to identify Sohrab. Without losing time he informed Sohrab’s brother Rubabuddin that he had seen Sohrab alive in police station. Two days later Sohrab was killed. This was the notorious fake encounter that has failed to make any dent in our cussedness as you can see how Modi hobnobs with the fathers of industry like Mukesh Ambani and Ratan Tata and how he preens over the praise showered by the American diplomatic staff.
Subsequently Tulsiram was brought to Gujarat and killed as the Rajasthan police refused to oblige the Gujarat police. During this and since his inception as CM Modi has been the home minister. In 2007 election Modi justified the murder of Sohrab. Can the nation not recall that he went further and told his mobs that what he had done would deserve hanging him and he was ready for it?
Those who are loudest in demanding hanging Afzal Guru do not want to recall that because of the demagoguery of the Modi kind that has entrapped us? But how long!
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The acolytes and associates of Modi are like the nine blind men who have discerned features which they perceive without having a fuller comprehension of the whole behemoth he is. Major General I S Sinha of Golden Katara Division of Indian Army gave three cheers to Modi for having accomplished his work within given time. Look at what Modi accomplished overnight. Wali Gujrati’s mausoleum was demolished and wiped out of the surface and a road built overnight there. If this was not done by Modi by his own hands he also did not kill the nearly two thousand Muslims in the pogroms of 2002. What he had done was set the target for Hindus to vent their anger for full three days. He also moved around and applauded the Chharra community women for giving birth to the valiant members who slaughtered Muslims in Naroda Patia. One of the most gruesome murderers (Suresh Richard) has gone on record telling how Modi visited his womenfolk in the evening of the first day of wholesale murder and slaughter and rape. A senior police officer at the same place refused to protect Muslim women and children and told them that it was an order from above that that day they would show no heed to the pleadings of the Muslim victims. Police officer KK Mysorewala’s utterance denying help to the Muslims became the title of the report that Human Rights Watch published. Why do those praising Modi choose to ignore this? They have also not bothered that Mysorewala was the one who told Babu Bajrangi to go into hiding as there was shoot at sight order against him. When Modi wanted Bajrangi to surrender Mysorewala was again used to convey the message. Mysorewala was superintendant of police of Modasa when Muslims were attacked by Abinav Bharat with bombs on September 29, 2008. He turned a Nelson’s eye on it.
Anna Hazare’s reason for preferring Modi as well as Nitish Kumar is rural development. This is myopic vision of what actually is the case. Modi’s administration not only did not do anything to stop the genocide of Muslims but over the years tacitly and criminally let the Hindus systematically boycott Muslims in the rural parts of Gujarat. Most of them cannot even now return to their heaths and hearths although nearly a decade has passed the fury he let loose upon them. Their humble professions, commercial establishments along with their homes were destroyed. Were not the Muslim transporters, motel owners, garage mechanics parts of the wheel of development of rural Gujarat? Where was Hazare when this went on year in and year out?
Modi did what Slobodan Milosevik did in former Yugoslavia, instigate the mobs of Serbians against the minority Muslims. The mobs did the rest. It is a national shame that the police never supplied CDs of his derogatory speeches and phone calls. Why did all this fall on the deaf ears of Hazare and Sinha?
It is amazing that a Muslim divine like fellow Gujarati Maulana Ghulam Vastanavi saw the material development in Gujarat as worthy of praise. Islam does not prefer material development over the spiritual and moral development. Had it been otherwise the Prophet could have started collecting interest over the money that many deposited with him because of his sterling moral character. Islam forbids interest or usury and values sound moral character.
Amitabh Bacchan chose to advertise the glory of Gujarat because of the same material consideration. He would collect money by advertising because money is important. This is his characteristic attitude. A brother of his has enormously got rich and lives in Switzerland with the booty of the Bofors guns deal. Money and conscience are two different and contradicting things. Modi and Bacchan have set perceptions on whom to bond with. If Bacchan did not invite any of the Khans to the marriage of his son Abhishek he is free to do so as a citizen of this country. A man is known not only by the company he keeps but also the company he avoids. Choosing to bond with Modi and not bonding with Amir, Salman, and Shah Rukh Khan is truly melodrama in effect.
But in public life there is need for introspection. Modi was against the secular minded MP Ahsan Jaffri who had opposed his Hindutva ideology during the election at the beginning of Modi’s term in office. He chose to ignore and not take any notice of the pleadings of Jafri to save the life of the people taking shelter in his house. His party also did not want to have a motion in the parliament to express grief over the brutal murder of the MP. Again he like his party is free in democracy to hang a portrait of Savarkar in Parliament or bond with Swami Aseemanand or the likes of Babu Bajrangi. Conscience is a strange thing it is activated in the case of corruption involving money but remains dormant in the corruption of other things.
CPM P Abdulla Kutty is another strange bedfellow of Modi like Dr Farooq Abdullah and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. But how many have even thought of Tulsiram Prjapati, a family friend and associate of Sohrabuddin Shaikh? Why does he deserve real praise? He was taken to identify Sohrab. Without losing time he informed Sohrab’s brother Rubabuddin that he had seen Sohrab alive in police station. Two days later Sohrab was killed. This was the notorious fake encounter that has failed to make any dent in our cussedness as you can see how Modi hobnobs with the fathers of industry like Mukesh Ambani and Ratan Tata and how he preens over the praise showered by the American diplomatic staff.
Subsequently Tulsiram was brought to Gujarat and killed as the Rajasthan police refused to oblige the Gujarat police. During this and since his inception as CM Modi has been the home minister. In 2007 election Modi justified the murder of Sohrab. Can the nation not recall that he went further and told his mobs that what he had done would deserve hanging him and he was ready for it?
Those who are loudest in demanding hanging Afzal Guru do not want to recall that because of the demagoguery of the Modi kind that has entrapped us? But how long!
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Rape in Malegaon
The last time a rape took place in Malegaon was during the communal riot of October 26 2001. A girl named Mumtaz was raped by several men from Hindu community near the Girna dam. The case was registered, one of the rapists committed suicide during the trial, another died natural death and the third was convicted and is in jail. At that time the situation was terrific as more than 200 villages were affected by the riot that killed more than fifteen Muslims. A Hindu also lost his life. The riot started when a police man tore a handbill titled Be Indian and Buy Indian goods being distributed after Friday prayer at the Jama mosque. The Hindutva groups spread false rumour that fifteen Hindu women were raped. The Asian Age had sent its reporter Clarence Sequeira to verify the figure. She found that no Hindu woman was raped. When she questioned the police they told her that all the fifteen were high born ladies and would not reveal identity. The reporter found no case registered as far as the alleged rape of the fifteen was concerned.
A rape can cause riot and the 2001 case was just that. The rumour spread like wildfire and Muslims suffered enormously in more than 200 villages and beyond. Just because of the rumour.
More than ten years later and two bomb attacks after Malegaon has the second rape case which has the ingredients of a communal disturbance. A Muslim girl Sakina Afroz Shaikh(name changed) aged 15 was grazing her cattle in the forest area near Chinchgavan. Her brother Amjad was with her as they were on way back with their tiffin box. Two Hindu youths Ankush Shom Pawar and Eknath Sitaram Sonowne kidnapped her at 7 p.m. on Monday March 28, 2011. They beat up Amjad and scared him away. They covered her mouth and gagged her, she swooned. When she recovered and became conscious she started struggling. They carried her off to a place near Kushyaba temple. Ankush Pawar raped her twice. Eknath Sonowne returned to the village to see what the reaction of the kidnap and rape was. Amjad told his family pointing Eknath, that he was the one with Ankush who had abducted his sister. On receiving the news the family of the rape victim went to police station and lodged a police complaint.
An FIR was lodged in Malegaon and the police sent her for medical examination at the civil hospital. Dr Nikhat Parvez along with two nurses conducted the check up. Swabs with semen were obtained. Her dress with semen was also taken from the hospital. The medical report mentions that her hymen was freshly ruptured but it also says that she was ‘habitual’. That would mean that she has had frequent sex. The space mentioned in the report is ‘two fingers’.
How could there be fresh rupture of hymen if she is called habitual?
The girl is a minor and says loud and clear that this incident took place and identified the two above mentioned fellow villagers. But her relatives name one police constable Sanjay Pawar attached to Malegaon police who is trying to persuade them to have the matter settled in the village “tanta mukti” council, local council for settling dispute. When they complained to the sarpanch, village head, Pappur Goturam Pawar, he told them that if they give in writing he would have Sanjay Pawar transferred. The police have arrested the youths. The family of the girl fears that when court meets on April 13 the accused would get the bail. They have also expressed fear as the associates of the accused namely; Sanjay Wagh Naik, Dattu Bhiva Gere, Chandersing Sadhu Wagh, Sitaram Sonowne, Chanderram Sitaram Sonowne, Sanjay Sahebrao Naik and Dashrat KamaSingh have threatened them with consequence.
An aunt of the girl fears that the Hindus would have false cases registered against the Muslims and have them arrested! This would not only tip the balance against the Muslims but may lead to their forced migration as it happened in 2001.
So the need for impartial inquiry into the whole matter would go a long way to not only get justice to the girl but also ease communal tension that might lead to more trouble. It would also be desirable that women’s organizations come out and investigate the case and establish the facts. The national commission of women can also give a helping hand before the situation becomes ugly.
In particular inquiry must focus on the police why did they register the case under CrPC 366 (abduction) and not 376 (rape). The bias against the Muslims runs deep in the police and administration. This particular case is the latest example. She is saying that she has been raped and yet the police have registered the case under 366 and not 376!!!
And who is the cop Sanjay Pawar to mediate that the matter should be settled out of court!!! His role is suspect and the director general of police in Mahrashtra should look into the matter. Till 10 25 p.m. of Wednesday April 6, 2011 there was no change in the behavior of the police.
A rape can cause riot and the 2001 case was just that. The rumour spread like wildfire and Muslims suffered enormously in more than 200 villages and beyond. Just because of the rumour.
More than ten years later and two bomb attacks after Malegaon has the second rape case which has the ingredients of a communal disturbance. A Muslim girl Sakina Afroz Shaikh(name changed) aged 15 was grazing her cattle in the forest area near Chinchgavan. Her brother Amjad was with her as they were on way back with their tiffin box. Two Hindu youths Ankush Shom Pawar and Eknath Sitaram Sonowne kidnapped her at 7 p.m. on Monday March 28, 2011. They beat up Amjad and scared him away. They covered her mouth and gagged her, she swooned. When she recovered and became conscious she started struggling. They carried her off to a place near Kushyaba temple. Ankush Pawar raped her twice. Eknath Sonowne returned to the village to see what the reaction of the kidnap and rape was. Amjad told his family pointing Eknath, that he was the one with Ankush who had abducted his sister. On receiving the news the family of the rape victim went to police station and lodged a police complaint.
An FIR was lodged in Malegaon and the police sent her for medical examination at the civil hospital. Dr Nikhat Parvez along with two nurses conducted the check up. Swabs with semen were obtained. Her dress with semen was also taken from the hospital. The medical report mentions that her hymen was freshly ruptured but it also says that she was ‘habitual’. That would mean that she has had frequent sex. The space mentioned in the report is ‘two fingers’.
How could there be fresh rupture of hymen if she is called habitual?
The girl is a minor and says loud and clear that this incident took place and identified the two above mentioned fellow villagers. But her relatives name one police constable Sanjay Pawar attached to Malegaon police who is trying to persuade them to have the matter settled in the village “tanta mukti” council, local council for settling dispute. When they complained to the sarpanch, village head, Pappur Goturam Pawar, he told them that if they give in writing he would have Sanjay Pawar transferred. The police have arrested the youths. The family of the girl fears that when court meets on April 13 the accused would get the bail. They have also expressed fear as the associates of the accused namely; Sanjay Wagh Naik, Dattu Bhiva Gere, Chandersing Sadhu Wagh, Sitaram Sonowne, Chanderram Sitaram Sonowne, Sanjay Sahebrao Naik and Dashrat KamaSingh have threatened them with consequence.
An aunt of the girl fears that the Hindus would have false cases registered against the Muslims and have them arrested! This would not only tip the balance against the Muslims but may lead to their forced migration as it happened in 2001.
So the need for impartial inquiry into the whole matter would go a long way to not only get justice to the girl but also ease communal tension that might lead to more trouble. It would also be desirable that women’s organizations come out and investigate the case and establish the facts. The national commission of women can also give a helping hand before the situation becomes ugly.
In particular inquiry must focus on the police why did they register the case under CrPC 366 (abduction) and not 376 (rape). The bias against the Muslims runs deep in the police and administration. This particular case is the latest example. She is saying that she has been raped and yet the police have registered the case under 366 and not 376!!!
And who is the cop Sanjay Pawar to mediate that the matter should be settled out of court!!! His role is suspect and the director general of police in Mahrashtra should look into the matter. Till 10 25 p.m. of Wednesday April 6, 2011 there was no change in the behavior of the police.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Is Arushi a victim of ‘honour’ killing?
From the news coming in it appears increasingly as though the Talwars had killed their own daughter for the sake of family ‘honour’. Their domestic help Hemraj was also killed on suspicion that he had compromised the same family ‘honour’.
If they were outraged by discovering Hemraj with their daughter in a compromising situation it most likely incensed them. It was done in hot diabolic passion. Or even more diabolic, they waited and found it confirmed that she did have a liaison with the domestic help. They planned the murder meticulously so that no evidence would be found. The disappearance of Hemraj would arouse suspicion. But the discovery of his dead body the following day made it even more suspicious.
The accusation of Hemraj’s widow Khumbkala that Rajesh and Nuppur killed her husband can help in the final unraveling of the truth. However, her penury and very low and humble situation in life makes it more cogent that it was after all an ‘honour’ killing. How could the Talwars swallow down that their daughter would lower herself to such aberration as to sleep with their servant?
But it casts aspersion on the Talwars. They were in the habit of going to late night parties. Drinks and free mixing of people could not be said to have prevented from exchanging of couples. The people of Talwar’s educated social class with affluence were also the ones who had a penchant for John Updike’s avant garde fiction.
By leaving their impressionable daughter alone in the house while going to late night parties defies any sense of decorum one could have. Therefore, ‘honour’ is a double edged sword it cuts those who struggle to save it in the names of family as well as those who whittle it down because of personal intimacy.
Class and status can make kiths and kins bond together so much so that it is a self adopted prerogative to enter into conspiracy and crime.
Uncles gang up with fathers to wipe out the stigma. Their male chauvinism abetted by family lineage and class consideration goes into the head and snuffs out the consideration that the victim is hapless, helpless and most vulnerable one. Each photo of Arushi bears witness to this truth as the down cast gaze of Nuppur and the twinkling of spectacles of Rajesh hide the tell tale truth of the grim face and the eyes.
What comes out of the murky deeds is that the Talwars had high connection, that Rajesh was short tempered and chased and beat Hemraj even for trivial matters. That he was influential and the post murder scenario bears it out. Perhaps that is why they have outwitted the investigation agencies so far. Dinesh, brother of Rajesh, was influential, assured of the family ‘honour’ at stake. Do you think that Khumkala and Hemraj would have ever even thought of such deeds? It is the station in life that makes or mars the high born.
If they were outraged by discovering Hemraj with their daughter in a compromising situation it most likely incensed them. It was done in hot diabolic passion. Or even more diabolic, they waited and found it confirmed that she did have a liaison with the domestic help. They planned the murder meticulously so that no evidence would be found. The disappearance of Hemraj would arouse suspicion. But the discovery of his dead body the following day made it even more suspicious.
The accusation of Hemraj’s widow Khumbkala that Rajesh and Nuppur killed her husband can help in the final unraveling of the truth. However, her penury and very low and humble situation in life makes it more cogent that it was after all an ‘honour’ killing. How could the Talwars swallow down that their daughter would lower herself to such aberration as to sleep with their servant?
But it casts aspersion on the Talwars. They were in the habit of going to late night parties. Drinks and free mixing of people could not be said to have prevented from exchanging of couples. The people of Talwar’s educated social class with affluence were also the ones who had a penchant for John Updike’s avant garde fiction.
By leaving their impressionable daughter alone in the house while going to late night parties defies any sense of decorum one could have. Therefore, ‘honour’ is a double edged sword it cuts those who struggle to save it in the names of family as well as those who whittle it down because of personal intimacy.
Class and status can make kiths and kins bond together so much so that it is a self adopted prerogative to enter into conspiracy and crime.
Uncles gang up with fathers to wipe out the stigma. Their male chauvinism abetted by family lineage and class consideration goes into the head and snuffs out the consideration that the victim is hapless, helpless and most vulnerable one. Each photo of Arushi bears witness to this truth as the down cast gaze of Nuppur and the twinkling of spectacles of Rajesh hide the tell tale truth of the grim face and the eyes.
What comes out of the murky deeds is that the Talwars had high connection, that Rajesh was short tempered and chased and beat Hemraj even for trivial matters. That he was influential and the post murder scenario bears it out. Perhaps that is why they have outwitted the investigation agencies so far. Dinesh, brother of Rajesh, was influential, assured of the family ‘honour’ at stake. Do you think that Khumkala and Hemraj would have ever even thought of such deeds? It is the station in life that makes or mars the high born.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Sunil Joshi and the dragon that killed him
Seventh of September 2006 saw a resurgence of Hindutva movement around reviving the issue of the controversial national song of Vande Matrum. It was deliberately crafted around the worked up anniversary of Bankamchand Chaterjee’s novel Anand Muth. It fits well in the core strategy of Rashtrya Swayamsevak Sangh. The song eminently excludes Muslims as true citizens of the country as they can never sing the song since it violates their fundamental belief of worshipping Allah and no one else and rejecting idolatry.
As a town with sizable Muslim population, Malegaon saw this as a convenient way of whipping up communal passion against them. Thus the meeting at the famous temple at Mosampul in Malegaon included Shiv Sena leaders Dada Bhuse, Sanjay Dusane, Rama Mistry, Pramod Shukla, Anand Bhika Pawar, Narendra Maharaj, Raja Ram Jadhav, Kailash Teesge, Tarabai Shirsat, Chayabai Shewade. Bhuse and Pawar pointedly said that the national song was against the British and its reactionary fervor was still not dead as others had taken the place of the British in modern times. (Malegaonvi shiv sena turfe wande matrum, Lotkmut 8-9-2006)The basic approach of RSS, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena and VHP and their later day avatar of Jai Vande Matram, Abhinav Bharat, was to target Muslims by means of terrorism. By then terrorism had acquired the weltanschauung of anti Muslim connotation.
It was primarily this worldview that led to the attacks on Muslims on September 8, 2006. Sunil Joshi played a crucial role in it. It would be preposterous to say that he was an associate of SIMI and he used Muslims to bomb Muslims. However, the innuendo has got currency that well motivated and devoted members of Students Islamic Movement of India let him penetrate their movement. In the first place the government at Delhi could never produce a single instance of SIMI involvement in bomb blasts. It prevailed on the Supreme Court to continue banning SIMI after every two years. Sunil Joshi was a hardcore communalist and would not divulge anything against the right wing extremists of Hindutva. To say that Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur organized the second terrorist attack in Malegaon on September 29, 2008 to avenge SIMI’s alleged killing of Sunil Joshi is simply subterfuge.
The only link assumed in the second attack is that the Sadhvi’s motorcycle was parked under the SIMI office at Bhiku chowk. She wanted to give a warning to SIMI that she was capable of taking them on according to the pet ideology of the Hindu right of bomb for bomb. The well designed plot did not have the SIMI office at all as a target. Those who brought the motorcycle of Joshi (she had sold it to him) to the chowk did not want to park it there. They tried their best to park it at their designated centre at the Nukud corner where the crowd of Muslim women buying bangles and tawdry ornaments for Id was thickest. That would have caused a huge casualty in thousands. But the lady police which had cordoned off the approach from Bhiku chowk to Nukad corner had steadfastly refused to let the motorcycle riders enter the corner. It is this approach lane to the Nukad corner that is aptly named after Martyr Hemant Karkare.
Both the terrorist attacks of 2006 and 2008 were mounted by inner core group of Bajrang Dal which has the temerity of changing names to avoid detection and bad publicity.
Similarly, saying that Joshi’s “overall behaviour was something not expected by a woman (read Pragya)" and that is why she got him killed is dodging and diversion.
Then the question ultimately asked is who really got him bumped off. And why. It could be that Pragya let herself play in the hands of someone far superior. It could be a well placed man like Indresh Kumar or equally doughty Parveen Togadia. They have the enormous sums at their disposal. Of course, Harshad Solanki took instructions from her on the day he and his cohorts killed Joshi. The pugmarks are still there but the dragon is someone still elusive.
The dragon could be an organization or agency or its individuals working as splintered entities. This comes handy for the purpose of avoiding detection or later manipulation. The assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, Nathuram Godse, had got circumcised in JJ Hospital of Mumbai. He had never left RSS and according to his accomplice and brother and father of Himani Savarkar, Gopal, his whole family was nurtured on the ideology of RSS.
In those days there was no group like Bajrang Dal to take on more extensive destructive work. Bajrang Dal is the armed wing of RSS. It is this group which has the expertise of making bombs, using advanced weapons of mass murder and training to carry out difficult tasks. It has suicide squads and splintered groups designed to carry out violent attacks and deflect attention from the parent body as well as the mother of all groups, RSS. Durga Vaheni is the female counterpart of Bajrang Dal and Pragya rightfully belonged to it.
If description of Mithun Chakerwarty matches Lt Col Purohit, it was he who had trained and supplied RDX from his flat in Pune. He gave it to not just the Bajrang Dal activists of Nanded but also those who attacked Malegaon Muslims in 2006 and 2008, be they Abhinav Bharat or Jai Vande Matrum. Attacking Samjhauta express was even more daring. It shows all India recruitment of terrorists.
The definite and sure involvement of the army is very much there. Shrikant Prasad Purohit was in the intelligence wing of army working in the so called counter terrorism section. On October 15, 2008 even before his name appeared anywhere for 2008 attack in Malegaon the lieutenant colonel had sent a letter to his superior. In it he wrote not to report but to confide to a sympathizer and obtain advice from him. The lieutenant colonel wrote to Major Bhagirath Dey "The blasts which took place in Gujarat and Malegaon are on the same day and same time using the same technique. I had learnt that it is Mr Indresh Kumar of the RSS, who is instrumental in carrying out these actions. It is likely that senior RSS officials like Indresh Kumar are playing in the hands of ISI, knowingly or unknowingly." (Malegaon blast case: Purohit's letter indicts Indresh, Sadhvi Pragya. India Today March 3, 2011).
This disclosure reads like a report of an intelligence officer to his superior. But the army’s silence over more than two years would amount to either Purohit trying to save his skin or mutually worked out strategy of bailing out a fellow officer from a seemingly disastrous situation. This would lend to different explanations. That the army is itself neck deep in it or RSS is.
The headquarters of RSS at Nagpur was the Camelot of different assignment in different parts of the country. The visor, the armour and the swords and spears were replaced by bombs and bomb makers. According to Swami Asimanand, Indresh Kumar had told him that bomb making was not the work of the swami, it was for Sunil Joshi. He had given 50000 rupees to Joshi for the work. ('RSS leader Indresh provided money for making bombs' Zee New January 8, 2011)True to its nature the modern day Camelot was in touch with its knights in shining armour. The reports were coming in from someone (“Pophale”?) on duty in the police control room of Malegaon on September 8, 2006.
As a town with sizable Muslim population, Malegaon saw this as a convenient way of whipping up communal passion against them. Thus the meeting at the famous temple at Mosampul in Malegaon included Shiv Sena leaders Dada Bhuse, Sanjay Dusane, Rama Mistry, Pramod Shukla, Anand Bhika Pawar, Narendra Maharaj, Raja Ram Jadhav, Kailash Teesge, Tarabai Shirsat, Chayabai Shewade. Bhuse and Pawar pointedly said that the national song was against the British and its reactionary fervor was still not dead as others had taken the place of the British in modern times. (Malegaonvi shiv sena turfe wande matrum, Lotkmut 8-9-2006)The basic approach of RSS, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena and VHP and their later day avatar of Jai Vande Matram, Abhinav Bharat, was to target Muslims by means of terrorism. By then terrorism had acquired the weltanschauung of anti Muslim connotation.
It was primarily this worldview that led to the attacks on Muslims on September 8, 2006. Sunil Joshi played a crucial role in it. It would be preposterous to say that he was an associate of SIMI and he used Muslims to bomb Muslims. However, the innuendo has got currency that well motivated and devoted members of Students Islamic Movement of India let him penetrate their movement. In the first place the government at Delhi could never produce a single instance of SIMI involvement in bomb blasts. It prevailed on the Supreme Court to continue banning SIMI after every two years. Sunil Joshi was a hardcore communalist and would not divulge anything against the right wing extremists of Hindutva. To say that Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur organized the second terrorist attack in Malegaon on September 29, 2008 to avenge SIMI’s alleged killing of Sunil Joshi is simply subterfuge.
The only link assumed in the second attack is that the Sadhvi’s motorcycle was parked under the SIMI office at Bhiku chowk. She wanted to give a warning to SIMI that she was capable of taking them on according to the pet ideology of the Hindu right of bomb for bomb. The well designed plot did not have the SIMI office at all as a target. Those who brought the motorcycle of Joshi (she had sold it to him) to the chowk did not want to park it there. They tried their best to park it at their designated centre at the Nukud corner where the crowd of Muslim women buying bangles and tawdry ornaments for Id was thickest. That would have caused a huge casualty in thousands. But the lady police which had cordoned off the approach from Bhiku chowk to Nukad corner had steadfastly refused to let the motorcycle riders enter the corner. It is this approach lane to the Nukad corner that is aptly named after Martyr Hemant Karkare.
Both the terrorist attacks of 2006 and 2008 were mounted by inner core group of Bajrang Dal which has the temerity of changing names to avoid detection and bad publicity.
Similarly, saying that Joshi’s “overall behaviour was something not expected by a woman (read Pragya)" and that is why she got him killed is dodging and diversion.
Then the question ultimately asked is who really got him bumped off. And why. It could be that Pragya let herself play in the hands of someone far superior. It could be a well placed man like Indresh Kumar or equally doughty Parveen Togadia. They have the enormous sums at their disposal. Of course, Harshad Solanki took instructions from her on the day he and his cohorts killed Joshi. The pugmarks are still there but the dragon is someone still elusive.
The dragon could be an organization or agency or its individuals working as splintered entities. This comes handy for the purpose of avoiding detection or later manipulation. The assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, Nathuram Godse, had got circumcised in JJ Hospital of Mumbai. He had never left RSS and according to his accomplice and brother and father of Himani Savarkar, Gopal, his whole family was nurtured on the ideology of RSS.
In those days there was no group like Bajrang Dal to take on more extensive destructive work. Bajrang Dal is the armed wing of RSS. It is this group which has the expertise of making bombs, using advanced weapons of mass murder and training to carry out difficult tasks. It has suicide squads and splintered groups designed to carry out violent attacks and deflect attention from the parent body as well as the mother of all groups, RSS. Durga Vaheni is the female counterpart of Bajrang Dal and Pragya rightfully belonged to it.
If description of Mithun Chakerwarty matches Lt Col Purohit, it was he who had trained and supplied RDX from his flat in Pune. He gave it to not just the Bajrang Dal activists of Nanded but also those who attacked Malegaon Muslims in 2006 and 2008, be they Abhinav Bharat or Jai Vande Matrum. Attacking Samjhauta express was even more daring. It shows all India recruitment of terrorists.
The definite and sure involvement of the army is very much there. Shrikant Prasad Purohit was in the intelligence wing of army working in the so called counter terrorism section. On October 15, 2008 even before his name appeared anywhere for 2008 attack in Malegaon the lieutenant colonel had sent a letter to his superior. In it he wrote not to report but to confide to a sympathizer and obtain advice from him. The lieutenant colonel wrote to Major Bhagirath Dey "The blasts which took place in Gujarat and Malegaon are on the same day and same time using the same technique. I had learnt that it is Mr Indresh Kumar of the RSS, who is instrumental in carrying out these actions. It is likely that senior RSS officials like Indresh Kumar are playing in the hands of ISI, knowingly or unknowingly." (Malegaon blast case: Purohit's letter indicts Indresh, Sadhvi Pragya. India Today March 3, 2011).
This disclosure reads like a report of an intelligence officer to his superior. But the army’s silence over more than two years would amount to either Purohit trying to save his skin or mutually worked out strategy of bailing out a fellow officer from a seemingly disastrous situation. This would lend to different explanations. That the army is itself neck deep in it or RSS is.
The headquarters of RSS at Nagpur was the Camelot of different assignment in different parts of the country. The visor, the armour and the swords and spears were replaced by bombs and bomb makers. According to Swami Asimanand, Indresh Kumar had told him that bomb making was not the work of the swami, it was for Sunil Joshi. He had given 50000 rupees to Joshi for the work. ('RSS leader Indresh provided money for making bombs' Zee New January 8, 2011)True to its nature the modern day Camelot was in touch with its knights in shining armour. The reports were coming in from someone (“Pophale”?) on duty in the police control room of Malegaon on September 8, 2006.
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