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JAIPUR: The Rajasthan police has named senior RSS functionary, Indresh Kumar, as one of the key conspirators in the 2007 terror attack on the Ajmer dargah that killed three people. Kumar, who is based in Varanasi, was named in the chargesheet filed by the Rajasthan anti-terrorism squad (ATS) in the court of Ajmer's additional chief judicial magistrate Jagendra Kumar Jain on Friday.
Though the 806-page chargesheet said five people associated with a militant Hindu group were accused, Kumar was not accused and the RSS itself was not described as directly linked to the conspiracy. The police are yet to say if they plan to arrest Kumar anytime soon.
Kumar denied the charges and called them a ploy to tarnish his image. "It is a political conspiracy against me. Investigating agencies have been misused. The present government protects the traitors and wages a war against patriots. I will fight this injustice in court," Kumar said.
RSS too reacted angrily. ''We reject media reports that claim the name of Indresh Kumar, a senior functionary from New Delhi, features in the Ajmer dargah blast chargesheet,'' RSS spokesman Ram Madhav said.
ATS said a secret meeting was held in Room No. 26 of the guesthouse of Gujarati Samaj near MI Road on October 31, 2005 and that it was attended by Indresh Kumar, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Sunil Joshi, Ramji Kalsangra, Devendra Gupta, Lokesh Sharma and Sandeep Dange. Pragya is in jail, accused of taking part in the Malegaon terror attack. During the meeting, ATS claimed, Indresh Kumar suggested other members attach themselves to some religious organization so that they could carry out their plan successfully without being suspected.
Meanwhile, sources said charges against Kumar and Pragya Singh were not strong and that neither has been named as an accused in the case. ''ATS is still investigating the case and once it is able to corroborate the involvement of other members present in the meeting, the names can be included in the FIR,'' said an official. The accused in the chargesheet Devendra Gupta, allegedly linked to Abhinav Bharat, Lokesh Sharma and Chandra Shekhar have been charged under various sections of IPC including 302, 307, 120B, 295 and others. Two other accused, Sandeep Dange and Ramji Kalsangre, are on the run while another accused Sunil Joshi died two months after the Ajmer blast. The court fixed October 26 for arguments on the chargesheet.
The chargesheet stated that the responsibility of carrying out blasts at several places including Ajmer dargah, Mecca masjid in Hyderabad and Malegaon was fixed at the secret meeting. Sunil Joshi was to carry out the bomb blasts, Lokesh Sharma and Ramji Kalsangra were to do recces and procure weapons and explosives and Devendra Gupta was tasked with organizing mobile phones and SIM cards with fake identity cards while Sandeep Dange and Sunil Joshi were to collect funds.
It is also said that the dargah blast was not an act of any particular terrorist organization but the accused had formed their gang to execute the blast. The chargesheet claimed that Jai Vande Matram, an organization founded by Joshi to hit back at Muslim terror groups operating in the country, planned and executed the Ajmer dargah blast on October 11, 2007.
While Joshi was killed near Mhow in Madhya Pradesh two months after the blast, Devendra Gupta was arrested in April 2010 when he had come to meet his family in Ajmer. ATS had arrested Chandra Shekhar from Madhya Pradesh.
Read more: Rajasthan cops name top RSS man for Ajmer blast - The Times of India Rajasthan cops name top RSS man for Ajmer blast - The Times of India
Though the 806-page chargesheet said five people associated with a militant Hindu group were accused, Kumar was not accused and the RSS itself was not described as directly linked to the conspiracy. The police are yet to say if they plan to arrest Kumar anytime soon.
Kumar denied the charges and called them a ploy to tarnish his image. "It is a political conspiracy against me. Investigating agencies have been misused. The present government protects the traitors and wages a war against patriots. I will fight this injustice in court," Kumar said.
RSS too reacted angrily. ''We reject media reports that claim the name of Indresh Kumar, a senior functionary from New Delhi, features in the Ajmer dargah blast chargesheet,'' RSS spokesman Ram Madhav said.
ATS said a secret meeting was held in Room No. 26 of the guesthouse of Gujarati Samaj near MI Road on October 31, 2005 and that it was attended by Indresh Kumar, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Sunil Joshi, Ramji Kalsangra, Devendra Gupta, Lokesh Sharma and Sandeep Dange. Pragya is in jail, accused of taking part in the Malegaon terror attack. During the meeting, ATS claimed, Indresh Kumar suggested other members attach themselves to some religious organization so that they could carry out their plan successfully without being suspected.
Meanwhile, sources said charges against Kumar and Pragya Singh were not strong and that neither has been named as an accused in the case. ''ATS is still investigating the case and once it is able to corroborate the involvement of other members present in the meeting, the names can be included in the FIR,'' said an official. The accused in the chargesheet Devendra Gupta, allegedly linked to Abhinav Bharat, Lokesh Sharma and Chandra Shekhar have been charged under various sections of IPC including 302, 307, 120B, 295 and others. Two other accused, Sandeep Dange and Ramji Kalsangre, are on the run while another accused Sunil Joshi died two months after the Ajmer blast. The court fixed October 26 for arguments on the chargesheet.
The chargesheet stated that the responsibility of carrying out blasts at several places including Ajmer dargah, Mecca masjid in Hyderabad and Malegaon was fixed at the secret meeting. Sunil Joshi was to carry out the bomb blasts, Lokesh Sharma and Ramji Kalsangra were to do recces and procure weapons and explosives and Devendra Gupta was tasked with organizing mobile phones and SIM cards with fake identity cards while Sandeep Dange and Sunil Joshi were to collect funds.
It is also said that the dargah blast was not an act of any particular terrorist organization but the accused had formed their gang to execute the blast. The chargesheet claimed that Jai Vande Matram, an organization founded by Joshi to hit back at Muslim terror groups operating in the country, planned and executed the Ajmer dargah blast on October 11, 2007.
While Joshi was killed near Mhow in Madhya Pradesh two months after the blast, Devendra Gupta was arrested in April 2010 when he had come to meet his family in Ajmer. ATS had arrested Chandra Shekhar from Madhya Pradesh.
Read more: Rajasthan cops name top RSS man for Ajmer blast - The Times of India Rajasthan cops name top RSS man for Ajmer blast - The Times of India
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