Aseemanand, 6 Others Freed in Ajmer Dargah Blast Case
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Mumbai NEARBY Aseemanand, 6 others freed Compassion International in Ajmer dargah blast case to wind up India operations Govt. denies U.S. NGO is leaving due to ‘ideological’ reasons Insuicient evidence against accused, says NIA special court judge Suhasini Haidar J&K police chief sends New Delhi warning to militants Srinagar Special Correspondent the investigating agencies The government on Wednes- Jaipur Days after militants had found involvement of day dismissed a statement vandalised the house of a The National Investigation right-wing Hindutva organ- by American Christian NGO Deputy Superintendent of Agency (NIA) Special Court isations, including Abhinav Compassion International Police (DSP) in south here on Wednesday acquit- Bharat, which were later sus- that it is being forced to shut Kashmir, Director General ted self-proclaimed monk pected to be linked to sev- down its operations in India of Police S.P. Vaid on and former Rashtriya eral other blast cases. next week because of “ideo- Wednesday said that Swayamsevak Sangh activist Aseemanand’s confession logical” reasons, while the “militants should bear in Swami Aseemanand and six before a metropolitan magis- Rashtriya Swayamsewak mind that they too have others, while convicting trate at the Tis Hazari courts Sangh (RSS) that was also ac- families”. three persons in the sensa- in Delhi had made headlines cused by the NGO distanced NEWS Ī PAGE 10 tional Ajmer dargah blast in December 2010. itself from the issue. case. He had stated that he and “We have responded to Fresh snowfall, rain in The explosion in the 13th other activists were involved the report (quoting Compas- Kashmir, Himachal century dargah of Sufi mys- in bombings at various sion International)”, an MEA SRINAGAR/SHIMLA tic Khwaja Moinuddin places of worship across the official told The Hindu, People in Kashmir and Chishti on October 11, 2007, country, such as Ajmer pointing to the MEA state- Himachal Pradesh had to during Ramzan, had left Sharif and Hyderabad’s ment calling the allegation bring out their woollens on three persons dead and 17 in- Mecca Masjid, and in that an RSS activist in the Wednesday after a fresh spell jured. Malegaon and Samjhauta Ex- U.S. had suggested that the of snow and rain. While the The dargah was packed to press for taking revenge Christian NGO re-route some ing they had been versions. After several ap- 300-km Srinagar-Jammu capacity with about 5,000 against the “terror acts of of its funding through the approached by an RSS activ- peals, CI announced that it is national highway had to be devotees when the blast oc- Muslims.” RSS, “totally extraneous to ist in Washington D.C., shutting down its India oper- closed, Himachal Pradesh curred at the time of Iftaar Investigation into the case the law enforcement action.” Shekhar Tiwari, who works ations on March 15 this year. saw snow in the month of (breaking of fast). Those Sentencing next week: Bhavesh Patel, who was convicted in was transferred in 2011 from Meanwhile, RSS spokes- with a powerful Indian- According to the allega- March after three years. found guilty by the court the Ajmer dargah blast case, being brought out of the NIA the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism person Manmohan Vaidya American lobby group, with tion carried in the NYT, the NORTH Ī PAGE 2 were Bhavesh Patel, De- special court in Jaipur on Wednesday. ROHIT JAIN PARAS Squad (ATS) to NIA, which said the “RSS has nothing to a proposal that indicated proposal forwarded was that vendra Gupta and Sunil filed three supplementary do with the allegations lev- they were “negotiating with the [Indian] government NCPCR lashes out at Joshi. The sentences of the con- the accused who were let off. charge sheets in the court. elled and carry out our so- an ideological movement “might view Compassion In- Jalpaiguri oicials victs will be pronounced on The court analysed the The case was fast-tracked cio-cultural activities that is fuelling the govern- ternational more favorably if KOLKATA Three accused at large March 16. testimony of 149 witnesses after the change of govern- through support from the ment.” the charity routed a portion Days after a child traicking There were a total of 13 ac- Aseemanand and Sunil and the contents of 451 docu- ment at the Centre in 2014. public rather than the In March 2016, the Min- of its $45 million in annual racket was busted in cused in the case, three of Joshi were also accused of ments submitted to it, while In one of the charge- government.” istry of Home Affairs had put charitable donations away Jalpaiguri, the district whom are absconding, while being involved in the about a dozen witnesses sheets, the name of RSS The MEA and RSS officials Compassion International from churches and through administration has come under ire from the National former RSS pracharak Sunil Malegaon and Samjhauta Ex- turned hostile in cross-exam- leader Indresh Kumar ap- were referring to a report in on a “prior permission” non-Christian aid groups, in- Commission for Protection of Joshi was murdered in press blast cases. ination during the trial. peared as a suspect, though the New York Times pub- watchlist, effectively curtail- cluding Hindu ones.” Child Rights. December 2007. In his judgment running he was not formally named lished on Wednesday, which ing its ability to bring in (With inputs from EAST Ī PAGE 3 The court imposed a fine into 500 pages, special judge Hindutva link an accused. quoted Compassion Interna- funds for NGOs in India, Nistula Hebbar) of ₹1 lakh each on Bhavesh Dinesh Gupta said there was The Ajmer dargah blast was tional’s chief executive of- some of which were accused DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES and Devendra. insufficient evidence against the first instance in which CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 ficer Santiago Mellado, say- of carrying out religious con- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC The die is cast No IS link to Ujjain CSIR-Tech shut down train blast, says DGP for lack of funds ‘Suspects were IS-inspired’ Formed to commercialise technology Vijaita Singh their affiliation to the outfit Jacob Koshy is defunct. CEO of CSIR-Tech New Delhi was one-sided,” Javeed NEW DELHI Amitabh Shrivastava, an en- A day after the Uttar Pra- Ahmed, U.P. DGP, told The CSIR Pvt. Tech Ltd (CSIR- trepreneur, told The Hindu desh police issued a press Hindu on Wednesday. Tech), a company affiliated that a lack of legal support statement that those in- It was the Telangana po- to the Council of Scientific or funds, and delays in ex- volved in the Ujjain train lice who had been tracking and Industrial Research ecuting commercial deals by blast belonged to the Islamic the online activities of the (CSIR), and primarily the CSIR’s labs, were among State, they retracted it, nine Uttar Pradesh-based formed to commercialise the key impediments to the claiming there was no evid- men; it was on the basis of technology developed by success of CSIR-Tech. ence linking these individu- specific information the 75-year-old organisa- “There was no official als to the terror group. provided by them that the tion’s 37 labs, has been shut memorandum that em- The U.P. police said the Madhya Pradesh and U.P. down. powered CSIR-Tech to have accused were “self-pro- police could nab the ac- “Folks, CSIR-Tech is shut- exclusive rights to commer- claimed” members of the cused within hours of their ting down its operation after cialise the CSIR’s patent terrorist group, and “they allegedly planting a “pres- 6 years…sad for commer- portfolio,” he said, adding fancied themselves as being sure pipe bomb” on a train cialisation of Scientific R&D all employees had left as of members of the IS.” in Bhopal. in India. Many lessons November last and he was “There is nothing to show learned for similar future the “last employee” staying that they were part of the IS. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 endeavours,” said a Febru- back only to shut it down. Good turnout: Women display their inked ingers at a booth in Varanasi on Wednesday. In the last phase of the U.P. Assembly polls, They were self-proclaimed FATHER WANTS TERROR ary 9 post on CSIR-Tech’s over 60% of polling was recorded. Manipur registered 86% polling in the second phase. RAJEEV BHATT (REPORTS ON PAGE 11) sympathisers of the outfit; CHARGES PROVED. Ī PAGE 10 Facebook page. 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