Bomb for Bomb: New twist in Swami's confession

Swami spills beans on Sangh leader’s ‘ISI links’

Aseemanand Says Col Purohit Suspected Indresh Kumar Of Crossing Over To Other Side

Vishwa Mohan
TNN
New Delhi: RSS leader Indresh Kumar may be under the CBI scanner for his suspected role in “saffron” terror but he might have been seen as an apostate by the Abhinav Bharat crew, with Lt Col Srikant Purohit, held for the Malegaon blast, seeing the Sangh man as an “ISI agent”.
In his confession in the Mecca Masjid case, Swami Aseemanand, who claims to know a lot about a number of bomb blasts allegedly carried out by Hindu extremists in 2006-08, has said Purohit saw Indresh as a renegade who had crossed over to the other side.
Aseemanand has recalled that Purohit had “also” once told him that “Indreshji is an ISI agent” and he (Purohit) had documents with him about this, indicating that others might have earlier told the Swami about the RSS man’s Pakistan links. He, however, added: “...Col Purohit had never shown him those documents.” Purohit — who had worked with Military Intelligence for many years — is currently in jail.
Indresh had earlier attracted sharp criticism from Purohit and other radicals for his attempt to woo Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir. The RSS leader’s bid to flag off Muslims on yatras — a scheme that went largely unnoticed — had incensed some of the Abhinav Bharat members.
The Swami, in his statement, has also claimed that Sunil Joshi (the operational man who was allegedly killed by his own men) had told him that two Muslim boys along with him (Joshi) and others carried out the blast in Ajmer (in October 2007).
“When I asked Sunil Joshi as to how did he get Muslim boys, he told me that Indreshji had given it to him,” claimed Aseemanand in his confession, made before metropolitan magistrate Deepak Dabas here last month in connection with the Mecca Masjid blast case of the CBI.
The Swami, born as Naba Kumar Sarkar, while referring to these two Muslim boys said he warned Joshi that if he was caught, Indresh’s name would also be exposed. This was why Joshi had a threat to his life from Indresh.
Aseemanand claimed that he also told Joshi that by using Muslim boys, he would end up being targeted by Islamic extremists too. The Swami claimed that he had therefore advised Joshi not to go anywhere and stay at Sabri Dham in Gujarat. Incidentally, Joshi was killed in December 2007.
Asked about Aseemanand’s claim about Indresh’s involvement in financing a number of bomb blasts, a top CBI official said: “So far, we don’t have any corroborative evidence to point at Indresh’s criminality, but the RSS leader continues to be on our radar.”
About Indresh, the Swami who was arrested by the CBI from Haridwar in November 2010, also claimed that the RSS leader had, in fact, once told him that he should better concentrate on his works among tribals as the “bomb-forbomb” operation was not meant for him.
“Indreshji told me that this responsibility (bomb-forbomb) is given to Sunil and whatever help Sunil needs would be provided by him,” claimed Aseemanand in his confession before the court under Section 164 of the CrPC.
He also stated that he had come in contact with all the key men — Sunil Joshi, Sandeep Dange, Ram Chandra Kalsangra and others — through Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, who is also currently in jail in connection with her role in the 2008 Malegaon blast.
In his statement, he also spoke about the presence of Abhinav Bharat leader Himani Savarkar in one of the meetings in which their “bomb-for-bomb” plan was discussed to take revenge for a number of terror attacks carried out by jihadi elements.
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