Author: Lokpal Sethi
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: April 10, 2011
URL: http://www.dailypioneer.com/330567/Mentioned-Indresh's-name-in-blasts-conspiracy-under-duress-says-Aseemanand.html
In a jolt to the investigating agencies, including
the National Investigating Agency, Swami Aseemanand, branded as the mastermind
behind the Mecca Masjid, Malegaon, Samhjhauta Express and Ajmer Dargah blasts,
has claimed that he was forced to specifically mention the name of senior
RSS leader Indresh Kumar as a conspirator in these blasts.
In a startling revelation in the court of
the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Ajmer, Aseemanand said he had never met Kalim,
a youth undergoing imprisonment for his involvement in Mecca Masjid blast
case, in Hyderabad jail. Aseemanand said he does not even know who Kalim was
and the story about his meeting him was concocted by an assistant superintendent
of police, TR Balaji, and was made part of his confessional statement, which
he said was extracted under duress.
The next date of hearing is April 22. According
to the statement supposedly given by him to the Central Bureau of Investigation,
Aseemanand had said he had undergone a change in heart seeing the conduct
of Kalim towards him when both were in the Hyderabad jail.
This led him to reveal his role and involvement
of some right wing outfits in these blasts, which these agencies earlier believed
were the handiworks of Muslim terrorist elements, he had claimed.
In his second letter to the CJM RL Moond on
Friday, Aseemanand said sleuths of these agencies, including CBI, NIA and
ATS of Rajasthan, had not only threatened to implicate his family members
but also his disciples at his Shabari Ashram in Gujarat, if he refused to
give a confessional statement and agreed to become an approver.
On March 29, Aseemanand had petitioned the
court that his confessional statement should not be taken into consideration
and he was not willing to become an approver as submitted by investigating
agencies.
The court later directed that name of Aseemanand
and another accused Bharat Bhai Riteshwar, should be taken out from the list
of approvers and witness of these agencies.
Bharat Bhai, about whom ATS had claimed that
he had also confessed his involvement in Dargah blast case, had also moved
similar petition and said that he at no stage had given confessional statement
and had never expressed his willingness to become an approver.
