The Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) has said that it will question Hindu extremist leader Swami Aseemanand over his recent confessions once he gets out of judicial custody.
This comes in a day after reports said that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is about to reinvestigate the 2006 Malegaon blast case following the confessions of Aseemanand, the prime suspect in the case.
Aseemanand, who was arrested on Nov 19 for his alleged involvement in the Ajmer, Hyderabad and Samjhauta Express blasts, faces the charge of leading Malegaon and Samjhauta Express bombings.
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that the party was “intrigued” by the new tacks of “various security agencies” that contradict their earlier stand on the Samjhauta and Malegaon blast investigations.
The right wing nationalist party is often seen as close to the Hindu volunteer organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) whose activists were involved in a series of terror acts, according to Aseemanand’s confessions.
The confessions, purportedly to a magistrate at a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court, were published by the Tehelka magazine.
The BJP said that it was surprising that that the investigative agencies were now looking for Hindu extremist ties in the cases for which they were earlier probing Islamic militants.
“More than that, arrested terrorist David Headley?s wife had clearly stated the role of her estranged husband in the blasts in front of US officers in Islamabad in 2008,” BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said on Friday.
The party reminded that the Maharashtra ATS had also submitted a 2200-page indictment on the same line in the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act court on the Malegaon blast.
“The divergent revelations leaked in the media by the security agencies […] could not only hamper justice for the victims but may also help the real culprits go scot free,” said Rudy.