By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Mumbai: The noose of the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), seems to have tightened around the neck of the Hindutva extremist organizations, like Hindu Janajagruti Samiti(HJS) for their alleged role into the thane bomb blast.
Yesterday the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) arrested another person in connection with the blast named Hemant Chalke.He too, like his other friends, is associated with the Hindutva fundamentalist groups.
His arrest was followed by the raid by the ATS at the native places of the two accused, Mangesh Dinkar Nikam, and VIkram Bhave, in Satara district and in Warsai village in Pen (Raigad district) respectively.
The ATS seized there huge amount of arms ,ammunitions, and explosive materials including two revolvers, 92 bullets , huge quantity of ammonium nitrate powder, 20 detonators, 19 gelatin sticks, timers, voltage meters, timers, detonators, two radio circuits and remote controllers.
The Maharashtra police also arrested one Hari Bhav Devkar for trying to hide and destroy the explosives.
According to the Maharashtra ATS, Hemant Chalke, is an educated person, an Electro-homeopathist. He is being accused of surveying the Bhave theatre of Vashi with the intention of making it as one of his bombing target.
The name of Hemant has been spilled out by the four people arrested in the thane blast case.
According to the senior inspector of the ATS Wokherly, Bheem Dewar Athor, Hemant
has been working for the Sanathan Sanstha, which is an organization run under the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti.
In fact he was accused in the case of a bomb blast in the area of Ratnagiri, but later on the same year, the court freed him as not guilty.
“According to our investigation report, Chalke, who hails from Chiplun, had helped the other accused by accompanying them for the surveillance of places to be targeted,” a senior police officer said. Chalke is reported to be staying in the ashram run by HJS in Panvel.
With Chalke’s arrest the total number of those held so far in the connection with the case goes to six persons.
According to the ATS what the investigators are trying to look for , is what kind of relations all these people arrested till now, Mangesh Dinkar Nikam, Ramesh Hanumant Gadkari, Santosh Angre, and Vikram Bhave, Hari Bhav Devkar and Hemant Chakle have with the HJS.
It is a noteworthy point here that Mangesh Nikam, an accused in the Thane Bomb Blast has also been involved in the Ratan giri bomb blast.
The Head of the Anti-Terror Squad, Hemant Kirkire points out that although they made the case solid by seizing upon the explosives, arms and ammunitions, lots of questions are yet too be raised.
He said that there are lots of information which are yet to be known about these organization. The most important of them being the source of funding of theses organizations, and their actual aim in being active in India.