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Goa blast accused linked with Hindu extremists of Sanatan Sanstha
WSN Network

Panaji : Just as India's newly set up National Investigating Agency (NIA) took over the probe into the Diwali bomb blast in Goa, police in the state have said they have found links between the Sanatan Sanstha members blamed for the blast and the Hindu extremists of Abhinav Bharat accused in the September 2008 Malegaon bomb blast.

Phone records show that some key members of the two Hindu groups had been in touch in the past. The NIA took over the investigation on December 17. 

Clearly, the case has links with Sadhvi Pragya and Colonel Shrikant Purohit. Two Sanatan members were killed after one of the three bombs they were allegedly planting at a Diwali celebration in Margao went off on the night of October 16. It may be recalled that BJP had strongly defended the sadhvi and both L K Advani and Rajnath Singh had come out in support. At one stage, she was even offered an election ticket.

Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur and Col. Purohit are among 11 Abhinav Bharat members arrested in connection with the September 29, 2008, Malegaon blast in which six people were killed. India has witnessed a series of blasts in recent past, many of them carried out by Hindu terror groups as reprisal attacks.

23 December 2009
 

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