By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: In a major exposure that Hindutva terror groups have recruited higher educated people to carry out their sinister design, the Goa Police, during the probe into the last month’s blasts in Margao town, have arrested an MBA graduate and an engineering student. While the former is alleged to have planted the crude bomb that failed to go off on the eve of Diwali near Margao town the latter allegedly built the circuits and timers for the bombs.
The 28-year-old Vinay Talekar, who had an MBA in Human Resources and was working with a local five-star hotel, has been arrested by the Goa Police along with Dhananjay Ashtekar who was studying engineering in Kolhapur district in Maharashtra. Talekar and Ashtekar are said to be serious activists of Hindutva terror outfit Sanatan Sanstha.
Two members of the Hindutva terror outfit, Malgounda Patil and Yogesh Naik, were killed when the bomb they were carrying to plant at a Diwali celebration in Margao went off prematurely on the night of October 16. While two unexploded bombs were found from near the site of the blast, one more was found and defused at a Diwali event in Sancaole town, 20 km from Margao. Patil died within hours of the blast and Naik succumbed to injuries days later.
According tot he police, Talekar and Vinayak Patil had planted the bomb in a truck carrying effigies of Narkasur in Sancaole at Malgounda Patil’s instance. Malgounda Patil and Naik had zeroed in on the target at both the spots and also provided them with explosives.
Talekar is originally from Karwar district in Karnataka. He studied at Goa University while Vinayak Patil was a driver from Belgaum district in Karnataka. Ashtekar was from Khed in Ratnagiri and was a fourth year electronics engineering student at the DKTE Society’s Textile and Engineering Institute in Ichalkaranji in Kolhapur.