Why only Hindus confessing: RSS

NEW DELHI: Raising questions over the role of investigating agencies , RSS has said it was “intriguing ” that only those who have been arrested for links to ‘Hindu radicalism’ were “confessing” to terror acts, whereas convicted militants like Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru appeared to be more “tightlipped ” with them.

“Intriguing that only people named in alleged Hindu radicalism seem to be making confessions . We have not heard of a Kasab or Afzal Guru or any other captured jihadi, terrorist making such confessions. Are they so tight-lipped ,” the Sangh asked, in an editorial in its mouthpiece, Organiser. The RSS editorial referred to the recent alleged “confessions ” of Swami Aseemanand , a key accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast that killed nine people, to the CBI. Aseemanand headed the RSS-affiliated Van Vasi Kalyan Ashram, Shabri Dham, in the Dangs, Gujarat.

Aseemanand has allegedly confessed to playing the role of an ideologue of the terrorists. Besides presiding over terror meetings held in the Dangs and Valsad in Gujarat, he is believed to have selected Malgeaon, Ajmer Sharif and Hyderabad as terror targets. In its editorial, the Sangh said, if the agencies wanted to really unearth the plot behind the terror strikes, they would not have given “this kind of publicity to the so-called confessions of Aseemanand”.

RSS termed the “leak” of the “confession” to the media as “politically motivated” . “Before CBI took over the case, the Hyderabad Police had named HuJI, the banned outfit, for being responsible for the Mecca Masjid blast,” the Organiser editorial said.

Nine Malegaon blast suspects file bail plea

Nine youth, arrested for alleged involvement in the 2006 Malegaon blasts, moved a special Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA) court on Monday seeking bail after Swami Aseemanand ‘confessed’ to the role of rightwing Hindutva groups in the blast. After Aseemanand’s confession, the applicants sought bail. The special court directed CBI to file its reply by January 28. TNN