The declare comes days after a particular NIA courtroom acquitted all seven accused, together with BJP MP Pragya Thakur and Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, citing lack of credible proof.
In an announcement quoted by TOI, retired inspector Mehiboob Mujawar, who was a part of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) that originally probed the blast, mentioned the latest acquittal had uncovered the “pretend issues” performed in the course of the investigation.
“The decision uncovered the pretend investigation performed by a pretend officer,” Mujawar mentioned, immediately naming a senior ATS official.
He additional alleged that he obtained confidential orders to behave in opposition to a number of people, together with Ram Kalsangra, Sandip Dange, Dilip Patidar, and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.
“I can't say what investigation the ATS did then and why… However I used to be given some confidential orders relating to personalities like Ram Kalsangra, Sandip Dange, Dilip Patidar and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. All these orders weren't such that one might comply with them,” TOI quoted Mujawar as saying.He claimed he selected to not adjust to the orders as a result of he discovered them “horrific” and “knew the fact.”“It was past my capability to apprehend a towering persona like Mohan Bhagwat. As I didn't comply with the orders, a false case was registered in opposition to me and it destroyed my profession of 40 years,” he added.
Mujawar mentioned he has documentary proof to help his claims and insisted that the saffron terror idea was fabricated. “There was no saffron terrorism. All the pieces was pretend,” he mentioned.
The Malegaon blast on September 29, 2008, killed six folks and injured a number of others. The explosion befell close to a mosque throughout Ramzan and on the eve of Navratri.
The Maharashtra ATS, then led by the late Hemant Karkare, had arrested Pragya Thakur and Prasad Purohit, alleging that the motorbike used within the blast belonged to Thakur, and that Purohit had sourced RDX from Jammu and Kashmir.
(With inputs from TOI)
