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 Blast in Goa:
Goa, the paradise for tourists,
witnessed a bomb kept in a scooter going off on the eve of Divali
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Panaji:
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Monday filed charges in a
court against 11 activists of a Hindu right wing organisation for
the 2009 Diwali-eve blasts that killed two people in Goa's Margao
town.
However, the organisation itself has been given a clean chit, its
top official claimed, noting that it has not been named as
conspirator.
All the 11 people named in the charge sheet are members of Sanatan
Sanstha, whose members were also linked to several low-intensity
explosions in Maharashtra some years back.
They face charges of conspiring and collecting arms for waging a war
against the state and mischief.
They have also been charged under the Explosive Substance Act and
the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The charge sheet, running into about 3,000 pages, was filed before
Sessions Judge U.V. Bakre.
The investigating agency also listed among the accused, two Sanatan
Sanstha members who were killed in the accidental blast that took
place while they were ferrying the explosives to a festival
gathering in Margao, 35 km from here, Oct 16, 2009.
The two accused who died in the blast were Malgonda Patil and Yogesh
Naik.
The charge sheet names 250 witnesses, who are likely to be examined
by the local court during the trial.
Those named as accused include Vinay Talekar, Vinayak Patil,
Dhananjay Ashtekar, all residents of Goa, and Dilip Mangaonkar, a
resident of Maharashtra. They all are at present in judicial
custody.
Other accused named in the charge sheet are Prashant Juvekar, Sarang
Akolkar, Jayaprakash, Rudra Patil and Prashant Ashtekar, all
residents of Maharashtra. They all are absconding.
A top Sanatan Sanstha official said that nowhere in the charge sheet
had the NIA named it as a conspirator.
Speaking to IANS, Sanatan Sanstha managing trustee Virendra Marathe
said that the NIA has given a clean chit to the organisation.
"We have always been saying that the Sanstha had nothing to do with
the blast. Our ashram was raided twice too. The charge sheet is a
vindication of our stand that our ashram was not involved in the
blast," Marathe said.
Giving details of the sequence of events before the blast, the NIA
said that Dhananjay Ashtekar rigged 12 electronic detonator circuits
in Pune and of these, he set aside five for the intended explosion
in Goa.
It says that Ashtekar met Patil, who was the managing trustee of the
Sanatan Sanstha, in June last year in a room close to the residence
of Sanstha's founder Jayant Athavale.
The charge sheet said that a dry run was also carried out by the
accused a couple of months before the Diwali-eve blasts.
The charge sheet has listed unexploded improvised explosive devices
(IED) and clothes found at the blast site in the list of evidence.
The investigation into the Margao blast was initially conducted by a
special investigation team (SIT) of Goa Police, but was later handed
over to the NIA.
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