shishir gupta

Tags : Malegaon blast, Colonel Purohit, Abhinav Bharat, Military

Intelligence, Sadhvi Pragya
Posted: Sat Jan 29 2011, 02:07 hrs

New Delhi:
Not just Muslims, Lt Colonel Prasad Srikant Purohit and his Abhinav
Bharat also targeted Christians in several locations including Kandhamal in
Orissa, North Karnataka, Pune, Jabalpur and Bhopal. And that Malegaon
blast accused and Purohit’s key aide Sameer Kulkarni was allegedly
behind the killing of two Christians in Orissa in August 2008.

This revelation comes in the Military Intelligence (MI) report of the Army
based on the interrogation of Purohit, himself one of the prime accused in
the 2008 Malegaon blast and a key link in the Hindu extremist network.

The report, a copy of which is with The Indian Express, said that Malegaon
blast co-accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh confronted Purohit during his joint
interrogation by MI, the Maharashtra ATS and the Intelligence Bureau at a
safe house in Khandala on October 30, 2008.

“She mentioned that the Army officer had met her on October 5, 2008, and
confessed to have orchestrated the Malegoan blast, killing of two persons in
Orissa in August 2008 and arson in North Karnataka. The officer admitted to
having made such statements to Sadhvi Pragya but attributed these outbursts to
his boasting about the Malegaon incident. But, later, during the same
confrontation he admitted that this outfit had killed two persons in Orissa through
Sameer Kulkarni, a full-time activist of Abhinav Bharat,” the MI report stated.