Assemanand didn?t write to presidents: Brother

Hyderabad : Brother of Swami Aseemanand, the prime accused in the Samjhauta Express blast case, has denied reports of the latter writing to presidents of India and Pakistan regarding the terror attacks.

?I met my brother. We spoke about personal things. But he never gave me any letter,” Sukumar told CNN-IBN news channel.

Aseemanand is presently lodged at Chanchalguda Central Jail here.

His lawyer Ramchandraji Rao too denied the reports and said: “Sukumar met Aseemanand in front of me and no exchange of letters of took place.”

According to reports, Assemanand wrote two letters to the presidents after confessing his ?crime? before the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Dec 18 last year.

The content of the letters were same as his statements where he confessed his involvement in the blasts.

Earlier on Jan 13, Aseemanand, who was arrested on Nov 19 for his alleged involvement in the Ajmer, Hyderabad and Samjhauta Express blasts, was produced before a special court on expiry of his 10-day police remand.

The court ordered 14-day jail remand for him.

During his previous remand term the National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing the Samjhauta Exrpess blast had interrogated him.

The NIA recently announced rewards upto Rs 22 lakh for information about three more suspects in the case.

Aseemanand faces the charge of leading the bombing which killed 68 passengers of Samjhauta Express in Feb, 2007.

Majority of the victims were Pakistan nationals.

Swami Aseemanand alias Jatin Chatterjee,who hails from Hooghly district in West Bengal, is a post-graduate in Botany.

He settled at Dangs in south Gujarat in late 1990s.

He is believed to be close to Sadhvi Pragya who is also a suspect in the Malegaon blast case.

The Malegaon bombings took place on 8 September 2006 in Malegaon, a town in the Nashik district of Maharashtra.The explosions, which killed at least 37 people and injured over 125 more, took place in a Muslim cemetery, adjacent to a mosque.

The Samjhauta Express bombings took place around midnight on 18 February 2007 on the twice-weekly train service connecting Delhi, India, and Lahore, Pakistan. Of the 68 fatalities, most were Pakistani civilians.

The blast in the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer in October 2007 had claimed three lives and injured several others.

The Mecca Masjid blast in May 18, 2007 killed nine people.