By TCN Staff Reporter,
Mumbai: The special MCOCA court on Wednesday here in Mumbai granted permission to the Rajasthan Anti Terror Squad (ATS) to interrogate all the 12 accused of the Malegoan 2008 blasts in connection with the Ajmer Drgah 2007 blast.
Rajasthan ATS which is investigating Ajmer blast case filed an application seeking permission to question the accused in Malegaon 2008 blasts about their roles in Ajmer blast. The 12 accused who are reportedly the members of Hindntva group Abhinav Bharat include Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Col. Purohit, Swami Dayanad Pande, Sudhakar Chaturvedi, Rakesh Dharve and Praveen Mutalik.
A bomb exploded on October 11, 2007 at the famous Ajmer Sufi shrine after evening prayer that killed three and injured 17 others.
Meanwhile, a local court of Ajmer on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of Swami Aseemanand, the main accused in the Ajmer Dargah blast case, and his three associates Harshad Solanki, Bharat Mohan and Mukesh Vasani till 29 March 2011. All of them are in Ajmer jail in connection with the Ajmer Dargah 2007 blast. They were produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate R L Moond yesterday who extended their judicial custody for more 15 days.
Notably, Swami Aseemanand who is believed to be a close aide of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Colonel Srikant Purohit, the main accused in Malegaon blasts case, recently confessed that he and several other Sangh activists had a direct role in a series of bomb blast happened in the country since last many years.
Aseemanand was arrested in December 2010 from Haridwar. The CBI which is investigating Malegaon 2006 blast is also expected to quiz him.