Samjhauta
blast: Aseemanand in court, two declared offenders
Friday July 01, 2011 03:07:47 PM,
IANS
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Panchkula (Haryana): A
special National Investigating Agency (NIA) court Friday declared Sandeep Dange and Ramchandra Kalasangra proclaimed offenders (POs)
in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case. Radical Hindu activist
Swami Aseemanand was also produced in court for the first time.
With Aseemanand, another accused Lokesh Sharma was also produced
in the court of NIA special judge Subhash Mehla.
NIA had on June 20 filed a chargesheet against Aseemanand and four
others - while Sharma has already been arrested, Dange and
Kalasangra are absconding and the fourth, Sunil Joshi, is dead.
The next date of hearing is July 18.
"After the filing of chargesheet, Aseemanand was produced in the
court for the first time. Besides, NIA special court has declared
Sandeep Dange and Ramchandra Kalasangra as POs," Manveer Singh
Rathi, Aseemanand's lawyer, told IANS here.
According to the chargesheet, Aseemanand was the mastermind behind
the terror attack and had instigated others to carry out the
terrorist act.
Aseemanand had earlier told the court that he had no role in the
Samjhauta Express bombing in which the victims were mainly
Pakistanis. He accused the NIA of torturing him mentally and
physically to extract the statement from him.
Aseemanand, a member of the rightwing Hindu group Abhinav Bharat,
was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Nov 19
last year from Haridwar in Uttarakhand for his alleged role in the
2007 Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad in which 14 people were
killed.
The NIA had questioned Aseemanand about his role in the Samjhauta
Express blasts Feb 18, 2007, at Diwana village near the industrial
town of Panipat, 160 km from here.
The bombing took place in two coaches of the Samjhauta Express, a
peace train between India and Pakistan.
The train was going from Delhi to Attari, the last station on the
Indian side. The passengers were to board the train to Lahore in
Pakistan the next day.
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