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Mumbai:
Nearly three months after arresting right-wing group member Pravin
Mutalik, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Thursday filed
a chargesheet in a Mumbai court alleging he was a key conspirator
in the Sep 29, 2008 Malegaon blast.
Absconding since the blast, Mutalik, an important functionary of
Abhinav Bharat organisation, was arrested by the ATS from Gokak in
Belgaum in Karnataka Jan 31.
The 2008 Malegaon blast in a crowded market place had killed six
and injured over 100 people.
The ATS, in its supplementary chargesheet in the Malegaon blast
case, charged Mutalik under various sections of the Indian Penal
Code, the Explosive Substances Act, the Maharashtra Control of
Organised Crime Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
Describing Mutalik, an engineer, as a key link in the case, the
ATS said that he worked as a personal secretary to the main
accused, Lt. Col. S.P. Purohit, who is presently in judicial
custody.
Mutalik allegedly assembled bombs and fuses at Purohit's behest,
aided and abetted other conspirators in the crime and a week
before the blast, took the keys of the rented room of Sudhakar
Chaturvedi - another accused - in Deolali (near Nashik) where the
explosive device was assembled.
Earlier, in January 2009, the ATS filed a chargesheet with
4,500-plus pages in the case before the MCOCA court in Mumbai.
It named 11 accused, including Purohit, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur,
self-proclaimed Shankaracharya Dayanand Pandey alias Sudhakar
Dwivedi, Sameer Kulkarni, Rakesh Dhavade and others. It name two
accused - Ramji Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange - as absconders.
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