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Hindu extremists bombed Samjhauta Express |
Initially Indian authorities blamed Pakistan for attack on Samjhota Express and the Indian media flashed this as the act of Pakistan and full-scale propaganda was carried out against Pakistan whereas Pakistan repeatedly denied of its involvement in any such act.
This India-Pakistan Samjhauta
Express attack was done on 18th Feb 2007 where 68 Pakistanis were killed.
Haryana police registered a case against the attackers, but the probe was
handed over to the National Investigation Agency in July 2010 after three years
of the incident. Later during investigations by Anti Terrorism Squad team, a
Hindu extremist leader Swami Aseemanand, a leader of Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh (RSS) who has strong ties with Modi’s BJP, confessed of having been a
part of the incident. He also confessed in the court that several RSS preachers
and Sang activists were directly involved in planning, funding and executing
Samjhauta Express, Ajmer, Malegaon and Mecca Masjid blasts. He even said that
Gen J J Singh is “with us” (former Singh was Army Chief till Sept. 2007) and
this fact stood proved when Lt Colonel Shrikant Prasad Purohit of Indian Army
was also found evidently involved in 2008 blast in the Muslim-majority Malegaon
town in Nasik district of Maharashtra besides his further link to the Samjhauta
Express terrorist attackers.
After Malegaon and Samjhauta
Express attack, the police in India arrested Muslims alone despite the fact
that Muslims were victims. Hemant Karkare, as the chief of the state
Anti-Terror Squad, led the investigation into Samjhauta Express and Malegaon
blasts. He arrested eleven suspects, all Hindus, including a former ABVP
student leader Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Swami Amritananda alias Dayanand
Pandey, Swami Aseemanad (RSS member), a retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay and a
serving Army officer Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit. Most of the accused
belonged to Sangh Parivar organisation. He identified them as being responsible
for terrorism in India.
Mr. Karkare had documented the
evidence very professionally and he was sure to get these accused convicted for
their involvement in the terrorist attack on Samjhauta Express killing 68
Muslims. This investigation made Indian Army, RAW & RSS furious against DIG
Karkare, as he had very honestly exposed these accused fully and their deep
involvement in this blast.
He started to get the threats
from RAW and RSS and he continued facing serious life threat from the highest
ranking members of BJP and RSS, Even the then Chief Minister of Gujarat,
Narendra Modi, and BJP Prime Ministerial candidate, L.K. Advani accused Karkare
of being a traitor and proposed death penalty for him by calling him “Daish
Dhrohi”. These statements were like orders for the elimination of DIG Karkare.
Unfortunately this brave hunter of criminals by then had become a target of
RSS/ RAW. This great hunter of terrorists was finally hunted by RAW and RSS
when he was shot three times in his chest during Mumbai attacks on 27th
November 2008 killed him at the spot. The murder investigation was not allowed
further and the case was dropped on frivolous grounds though everybody was
aware of his killers. RSS & RAW won and honest and brave Karkare lost his
life to the bosses of terrorism.
The crucial evidence in
Karkare’s death - the source of bullet fired into his body was absent. The
bullets were removed from his body but declared that no bullets were shown to
have found and hence no match found resulting in dropping of the investigation.
The poor wife of this brave officer, Kavita Karakare kept voicing for justice
for her husband and her children but to no avail. She lived in Hindu colony,
Dadar, and was a professor at the NSS B.Ed College, but soon left work as she
was suffering from hypertension which gave her a massive brain haemorrhage on
27 September 2014 and she soon got slipped into coma. Thereafter she died on 29
September 2014, at age of 57.
Lt Colonel Srikant Purohit,
who was arrested by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for questioning in the case
although confessed his role in the attack yet this terrorist is free but
Karkare is dead.
According to reports, Purohit
told the ATS officials that he prepared the blue print of the conspiracy and
provided ammunitions for the September 29 ‘revenge’ attack in Malegaon and
Samjhauta Express. The 37-year-old officer had confessed to providing the
logistics and explosives to a radical Hindu outfit ‘Abhinav Bharat’, who
carried out the blast.
During investigation, Col
Purohit had also confessed to training Hindu terrorists from RSS for attacking
Muslims, besides training them for attacking Samjhauta Express besides
providing them RDX. He further confessed that it was intended to cause armed
conflict between Pakistan and India so that anti-Muslim passions could be
nurtured in India leading to violence. It had close simile of facts with
Pullwama and exactly the same situation was engineered after Pulwama.
The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS)
claimed that Purohit supplied RDX to one of Abhinav Bharat member for Samjhauta
Express blast. Public prosecutor Ajay Misar said Abhinav Bharat treasurer Ajay
Rahirkar had handed Rs2.5 lakh to Lt Col P S Purohit.
After 12 years of the
incident, victim Muslim families in Pakistan are still awaiting justice,
After the death of Karkare,
the Indian Government through Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA)’s
manipulated the investigation and the trial through faulty investigation and
suppression of the evidence in the trial court. The Indian government, after 12
years long wait by the victim families in Pakistan for justice, managed a
favourable decision by Judge Jagdeep Singh wherein he released all the
criminals with an intention to save RSS and to benefit BJP in coming election.
This decision infact has supported the Modi war doctrine, as one of the
components of his doctrine is to suppress the other political parties.
It looks like the decision has
been taken under the direction of PM Modi as these departments are under his
control. In fact he also appointed his favourite judge to seek the judgment in
favour of the accused persons.
It is no more a secret that
Samjhauta Express attack was pre-planned and executed by Indian agencies as per
the investigation and the judicial statements of the accused persons.
The decision will further
strengthen Hindu fundamentalism in Indian society and the world will now
witness Hindu Taliban in coming years. RSS is BJP’s militant group, which
exposes Indian dual face. Indian democracy and secularism is badly exposed by
International media. I out rightly reject this engineered judgment made by a
judge who is friend of PM Modi.
In view of above facts, India
owes to answer the following questions as one day India will have to respond to
International Court of Justice as the people will not like the butchers of 68
Muslims to go unpunished
1. Why names of many accused
were dropped from the investigation whereas solid evidences were available
against them and judicial confessions were available on record.
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2. Why the real role with
evidence of Col. Purohit was not made part of the court proceedings and why the
judge did not examine him resultantly he has not been convicted?
3. Why the decision of the
Samjhauta Express is coming in such a time frame when next Lok Sabha general
election are very near and BJP is not sure about its success in upcoming polls?
4. Why the case of the
Samjhauta Express was shifted to the NIA whereas, the earlier investigating
authorities observed sizeable advancement?
5. DIG Karkare got killed in
Mumbai terror attack where he was badly criticized by the BJP leadership. Why
was he criticised by the masters of RSS
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6. Why killing of DIG Karakre
was not investigated under the laid down legal procedure laid down under law?
7. Sadhu Swami Aseemanand made
confession in judicial custody in the presence of a magistrate. Why his
confession was not made part of the court proceedings and then why was he
acquitted despite his judicial confessions?
8. Why the evidence offered by
Rahila Wakeel as eye witness not given the weightage and was not given a chance
of appearance before the court whereas the judgment was reserved in order to
obtain the claimed evidences by the said Pakistani eyewitness Muslim leady?
9. Why/how could Sadhu Swami
Aseemanand gets walk over in all the cases whereas his name appears in brutal
acts against Muslims in Makkah Masjid blast, Ajmer Dargha blast and every time
he is declared innocent? It needs to be investigated as to why he is nominated
in all such violence related cases. Can Indian government give some logic to
justify it?
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10. The involvement of RSS
trained terrorists, backed by BJP leadership, in Samjhauta Express attack was
proven with sufficient evidence and it indicated that Samjhauta Express attack
was a state sponsored act of terrorism. Why those who blackened the name of
India have not been treated as the criminals under the state law? Can India
deny that it is not an act of state terrorism by India.
The victims expect response of
India government and appeal to Chief Justice of India to take notice of this
injustice committed by state sponsored terrorists.
The Article was published by The Nation on March 24, 2019.
Link to the article: https://nation.com.pk/24-Mar-2019/injustice-with-victims-of-samjhauta-express
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