By TwoCircles.net Staff Correspondent,
New Delhi: Ten months after the Central Bureau of Investigation began re-probe into Nanded blast, a charge-sheet was filed yesterday in the case by the federal agency against Rakesh Dhawde, one of the accused in the September 2008 Malegaon serial blasts. He has been charged for organizing training camps to carry out blasts in Muslim-majority areas.
According to CBI, Dhawde, who did business in antique weapons in Pune, held several training camps for the purpose, and some of the recruits later established extremist group Abhinav Bharat.
After the exposure of the involvement of Hindu terrorists in the Malegaon blasts, the CBI had reopened the 2006 Nanded blast case 10 months ago. Slain ATS chief Hemant Karkare had arrested 11 Hindu extremists in connection with the September 29, 2008 Malegaon serial blasts, and only then CBI had felt the need to reprobe the Nanded blast case. It is said that the June 2006 Nanded blast was first indicator of Hindu involvement in terrorist activities but was not probed properly.
Now CBI has filed charge sheet against 10 persons in the Nanded blast case. Along with Nanded, Dhawde has been accused in blasts at a mosque in Parbhani and Jalna also. According to CBI, Dhawde not only instigated other accused for the blasts but also helped them.
In the beginning, CBI was criticized for showing negligence in the case. Its role came into doubt when it did not take seriously the statement of an injured of the Nanded blast. The man who lost his vocal cord initially later stated that Bajrang Dal activist Naresh Rajkondwar had planned for blasts in mosques in Jalna and Parbhani in 2003 and 2004.
The Nanded blast took place in the intervening night of 4-5 June 2006 at the home of Laxman Rajkondwar, father of Naresh, when bombs were being made there. In the blast Naresh and his friend and VHP worker Himanshu Phanse were killed. The police had recovered Muslim caps, fake beards from the spot. The documents recovered from the site also said their next target was a mosque in Aurangabad.