By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Parbhani (Maharashtra): The police associated with the investigation into February 1st blast in an apartment here that caused death of a chemical engineering professor has ruled out terror angle and have indicated it to be instance of suicide.
On February 1 Atul Bhagwanrao Waghmare (29 years), a chemical engineering professor who was employed with Yogeshwari Polytechnic College in Ambejogai, Beed was found dead in a mysterious condition with his charred body in an apartment located in Anand Nagar on Basmat Road of Parbhani. He was resident of Pathri taluka of Parbhani.
The witnesses claimed to have heard loud explosion from the apartment with smoke coming out of it and when police entered inside they found windows were broken due to explosion and a dead body was lying on the floor. Police later on confirmed the identity of the body to be of Waghmare.
ToI reported Additional superintendent of police Niyati Thakar as saying , “The body was handed over to the family on Sunday evening. We are awaiting the autopsy report and suspect that he died of burn injuries. We have also studied the background of the deceased and there are bleak chances of terror angle in the incident. There is a possibility that he may have committed suicide but we are probing all the angles.”
The police have ruled out terror angle although the forensic team has concluded that petroleum hydrocarbons were found at the spot of the explosion.
“The forensic reports have concluded that the chemical content that fuelled the fire was petroleum hydrocarbons. We are awaiting chemical analysis and histopathology reports. The findings leave less scope for any terror angle,” Special inspector general of police (Aurangabad range) Amitesh Kumar said to ToI.
The investigation of the police found Waghmare was depressed and hence are suspecting it to be the more probable case of suicide.
Although investigation team has ruled out possibility of terror angle but Waghmare’s unreported absence from the college since last 16 days has created a suspicious doubt in the case.
College principal Raman Deshpande told TOI, “Atul Waghmare had joined the institute as a lecturer on 16 August, 2014 and was very normal and cooperative with the students. We never felt that he was upset about anything nor did he skip college without informing us. He did not report to the college since January 16 and all our efforts to contact him failed as he had switched off his cell phone.”
Meanwhile, the local unit of All India Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has demanded a thorough investigation of the matter by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Members of MIM handed over a letter of demand to SP office and have also insisted the local police to explain to the anxious people of the city about the reasons and findings in the case so far.
In Nanded a similar blast had occurred very early on the morning of April 6 2006, at the residence of a retired irrigation department engineer and RSS worker, Lakshman Rajkondawar. It killed his son Naresh Lakshman Rajkondawar, and one Himanshu Venkatesh Panse. Three others, Yogesh Ravindra Deshpande Vidholkar, Maroti Kishore Wagh and Gururaj Jayaram Tuptewar, were seriously injured. Another injured, Rahul Manoharao Pande, managed to flee from the scene of the explosion, but was arrested later.
In 2006-2007 there were blasts in the Mosques of Purna, Parbhani and Jalna which were blamed on the right wing activists. State ATS probed the case, arrested some right wing activists against whom the trial is pending.