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Mumbai:
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is set to arrest the
terrorist belonging to the Hindu terrorist organisation who is
currently in Delhi Police custody for the 2007 Samjhauta Express
blasts in the 2006 Malegaon blast case.
The suspect, Rajender Chaudhary, will be produced before a special
court here in January 3, news agency PTI reported Friday.
The Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA)
Court on Friday issued a production warrant for Chaudhary in
connection with the Malegoan blasts, which according to NIA, were
the handiwork of right wing groups.
“The court has issued a production warrant and he will be brought
to the court on January 3,” PTI quoted Special Public Prosecutor
Rohini Salian as saying.
A series of blasts had struck
Malegaon on September 08, 2006 ahead of Shab-e-Barat, a
Muslim festival when thousands of people were busy offering Friday
prayers at the Hamidia Masjid. Another blast occurred at nearby
Mushawerat chowk few minutes later. 37 people were killed and more
than 300 were injured in the blasts, most of them being children -
all Muslims.
The alleged role of Chaudhary in the terror attack came out
through statements of some of the terrorists allegedly belonging
to the Hindu terrorist organisations who are in custody of NIA in
different cases, sources in the National Investigation Agency
said.
More arrests will follow once Chaudhary is taken into custody and
interrogated, they said.
After the explosions, Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had
arrested nine suspects - Salman Farsi, Shabbir Ahmed, Noorulhuda, Rais Ahmed, Mohammed Ali, Asif Khan, Javed Sheikh, Farogue
Ansari and Abrar Ahmed.
Local Muslims in Malegaon including
the victims since the day one had maintained that the arrested
Muslim men were innocent. They in fact carried one of the longest
campaign in the history of the town demanding arrest of the actual
perpetrators and release of the innocents.
Earlier, the case took a surprising turn when Swami Aseemanand, allegedly involved in Ajmer, Mecca Masjid and
Samjhuata Express blasts, confessed that Hindu extremists, some of
them already wanted in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, were
also behind the 2006 Malegaon blast.
The nine Muslim youths were in
November 2011 released on bail.
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