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New Delhi:
A new book curiously titled Who Killed Karkare? says a nationwide
network of Hindutva terror that has its tentacles spread up to Nepal
and Israel is out to destroy the India most Indians have known for
ages and to remould it into some kind of Afghanistan under the
Taliban.
The writer, a former IG Police of
Maharashtra, SM Mushrif, has reconstructed a fearsome picture out of
former Maharashtra ATS chief Hemant Karkare’s chargesheet against
alleged Hindutva terrorists like Lt. Col. Purohit, Sadhvi
Pragyasingh Thakur and others.
The chargesheet pointed towards a
mind-boggling nationwide conspiracy with international support to
destabilise the constitutional order and the secular democratic
Indian state that upholds it, to be replaced by a Hindutva state run
according to a new Constitution. For that the conspirators were
prepared for a massive bloodbath, using bomb attacks on religious
places to trigger that anti-Muslim holocaust.
Mushrif, who has over three decades of
diligent policing behind him and whose feats include exposing the
Telgi scam, has made an elaborate case out of nearly a dozen blasts
over a large area of the country conducted by Hindutva terror groups
of different stripes. His case: a section of India’s intelligence
services, a miniscule group in the armed forces and a section of
different state police forces have been compromised and infiltrated
by these elements, a development that bodes ill for the future of
the country.
In Hemant Karkare’s net (of
investigations, of course) many big and small fishes of VHP, RSS,
Bajrang Dal and Sanatan Sanstha (which has been found to be involved
in Diwali-eve blasts in Goa last week) had been trapped. Serving and
retired army officers, academics, serving and retired officials of
India’s premier intelligence service were ensnared in Karkare’s
fishing net. The menacing power of the latter groups, inspired by
sustained anti-Muslim hate campaigns of the last six decades, gave
the plot a sinister and highly destructive character.
Among the plans unearthed by Karkare
was a blueprint for the assassination of 70 prominent Indians who
could by a hindrance to the project of Hindutva. Interestingly, most
of the persons marked for elimination would, naturally, be Hindus
because it is they who primarily run the dispensation. The
conspirators were also unhappy with organisations whose Hindutva
they suspected to be less virulent than desired.
Mushrif, who very well knows the power
of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to make or mar lives and careers,
says he is prepared to face the consequences of hostility of this
power hub. He musters “evidence” to show that the IB has regularly
been interfering with regular police investigations to let Hindutva
terrorists slip out of the net and replace them with random Muslim
youth. To fudge the issues further obliging police officers in the
states would not mind exterminating a few Muslim youth to be branded
posthumously as “terrorists”.
There are quite a few number of such
cases where such extra-judicial killing of Muslim youth has turned
out to be false police encounters. All this is done to cover tracks
of Hindutva terror. Mushrif says a “Brahminist” network that has its
origins in Maharashtra, and is closely knit across political
parties, government services, including IB, and other vital sectors
of life is behind the terror that seeks to destroy the secular,
democratic state. He hastens to clarify that very few Brahminists
are Brahmins. Many are from other high Hindu castes, some from
middle and lower castes.
Most Brahmins are fair-minded and
would not like to associate themselves with hate ideologies. Hemant
Karkare, too, was a Brahmin, Mushrif says. So is Mushrif’s
son-in-law.
It is pertinent to note that
“Brahminism” and “Brahminical order” first appeared in Dalit protest
vocabulary in the Dalit uprising movement in Maharashtra towards the
turn of the 20th century. Mushrif, who appropriates part of this
vocabulary for the present discourse, says that Maharashtra still
remains the centre of this ideology that, among other things, has
the dubious distinction of killing the Father of the Nation.
The power establishment that really
runs the affairs of this country (Mushrif says it is not Sonia
Gandhi, Manmohan Singh or Rahul Gandhi) does not want to expose the
Hindutva terrorists. One example is the blasts in Samjhauta Express,
which the IB said was carried out by Pakistan’s ISI. Mushrif quotes
a report in The Times of India that said, “the Centre had blamed the
ISI on the basis of the IB’s findings.” However, during a narco-analysis
test under Karkare, Lt. Col. Purohit had admitted having supplied
the RDX used in the blast. The IB, which draws its power from its
proximity to the Prime Minister (its director briefs the PM every
morning for half an hour), did not want Karkare’s investigation that
blew the cover off the IB’s shenanigans, to continue.
Once Karkare was removed from the
scene, the IB moved in to fill his position with KP Raghuvanshi, a
pliant police officer with extremely low credibility among Muslims
for his record of letting off known Hindutva terrorirsts and
implicating innocent Muslim youth even in bomb attack cases on
mosques.
There are quite a few interesting
vignettes here, like Raghuvanshi and Col. Purohit’s association with
Abhinav Bharat in Maharashtra, whose hand was evident in a series of
blasts across the country. It has old connections with men like Veer
Damodar Savarkar (whose relative Himani Savarkar leads the Abhinav
Bharat movement), Dr Munje, who led the Hindu Mahasabha, and other
Hindutva luminaries. It is at the Bhonsala Military Academy run by
these groups that Purohit trained police officers, including
Raghuvanshi. Mushrif asks a pertinent question: Will Raghuvanshi
pursue the investigation against Purohit, his guru? A plausible
answer is, perhaps no. Already charges have been dropped by a
special court under MCOCA against 11 accused, including Purohit, on
the grounds of insufficient evidence produced in the court by the
prosecution.
This was just the beginning of the
undoing of Karkare’s painstaking investigation. Mushrif says slowly
the system is working to undo all of Karkare’s work and let off the
terrorists who over the years destroyed scores of lives and wreaked
irreparable economic damage. The ATS team under Karkare had pointed
out VHP leader Praveen Togadia’s role in the blasts. The ATS under
Raghuvanshi dropped the investigation against him saying (please
hold your laughter) they do not know who Togadia is!
A number of investigations have been
thus sabotaged by the powers that be and the tracks of the Hinduta
terrorists duly covered. The 319-page book is crammed with such
information.
But what about who killed Karkare?
Mushrif says two teams were at work on 26/11 – one which did the
maximum damage, and was from outside. The smaller team took
advantage of the confusion of the moment and acted only on the
relatively small CST-CAMA-Rangbhavan stretch that killed Karkare. It
was a desi unit that wanted Karkare and his men out of the way.
Book:
Who Killed Karkare? The Real Face of Terrorism in India
Author: SM Mushrif
Price:
Rs 300 / USD 25
Pages:
319
Publisher: Pharos Media (www.pharosmedia.com), New Delhi
(The Milli Gazette)
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