By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Mumbai: The CBI has decided to reopen investigation into the April 2006 Nanded blast; a key indicator of Hindutva groups’ involvement in terror activities in the country. The CBI also took custody of Rakesh Dhawade, one of the accused in the September 29 Malegaon blast, in connection with the Nanded case.
The central government probe agency has accused Dhawade of providing arms training to those allegedly involved in the Nanded blast. The decision to reopen the case was taken after some leads emerged during the investigations into the Malegaon case.
The CBI had asked for one-week custody of Dhawade but the court sanctioned only for three days. During the remand the CBI interrogated him about Nanded blast. It is believed that Dhawade has disclosed to CBI some important facts about Nanded blast case.
Meanwhile, CBI will produce Dhawade today (Tuesday) before the court and try for extension of his police custody. CBI told that the aim of the expansion in the remand is to conduct a narco-analysis test on him to know about the realities of the Nanded blast case.
Earlier the Maharashtra ATS and Intelligence Bureau (IB) had criticized the CBI role in Nanded blast case accusing it of not taking notice of a Nanded case accused witness.
The accused was deprived of speaking capability due to vocal infection in throat and it was restored only after medical treatment. Then he had told CBI officers that the three bomb blasts in 2003 and 2004 in Parbhani and Jalna mosques were planned by the Bajrang Dal worker Naresh Raj Kondwar who was involved in Nanded bomb blast also.
Noticeably the reopening of the blast case has created trouble and discomfort among the communal outfits. The police sources said that security in the city and out of the court where the accused will be produced today has been tightened.
CBI told that there were the connections between Nanded blast and Malegaon blast; therefore the whole case has been reopened and a fresh investigation is to be injected.
The district president of the social organization Movement for Peace and Justice (MPJ) Firoz Khan Ghazi has demanded the state and the central governments to impose MCOCA on the accused of Nanded blast case as it was done on Malegaon blast accused.