Click to play videoMumbai: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) is investigating the role of Hindu Jagran Manch in the blasts in Malegaon and Modasa.
The blasts in the two cities on September 29, soon after the terror acts in Ahmedabad and Delhi, wasn't the handiwork of the minority community as the police initially thought. It is now confirmed that Hindu extremist groups were behind it.
The new names in India's terror landscape are Shyam Sahu, Dilip Nagar, Dharmendra Bairagi, Shivnarayan Singh and they have been picked up for questioning by the Maharastra ATS .
Parts of the bikes used for the blasts have been traced back to them.
The members of the Hindu Jagaran Manch, a front for an outfit named the Hindu Janjagruti Samity, have been operating out of Indore and Devas in Madhya Pradesh. Their targets had become mosques because they wanted to avenge the blasts carried out by Muslim terror groups.
Malegaon and Modasa are not the only blasts these groups may have triggered of. They are now being accused of masterminding other smaller blasts in Thane, Vashi and Panvel.
"After the blast, next day afternoon when we started clearing the debris we found a bomb and some material which is used in bomb making," said Maharashtra Police officer Suryaprakash Gupta.
Sources also say Bajrang Dal workers have been trained by expert bomb makers and they too have targetted mosques in Parbhani, Jalna and Purna, all in Maharashtra.
In August 2008, two Bajrang Del members died in an accidental explosion in Kanpur.
"It is clear that the two were associated with Bajrang Dal," SSP Kanpur Ashok Kumar Singh said.
When Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat accused both the United Progressive Alliance Government and the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance of targetting minorities for terror activities in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, it caused a pandemonium.
"Muslim community is blamed whenever there is a terror act," Brinda Karat said.
It has been suspected for some time that extreme right wing Hindu groups are being drawn to terror.
These latest arrests prove beyond doubt that the terror landscape in India is much more complicated than it had long been presumed to be.
(With inputs from VK Shashikumar and Prarthna Gahilote)
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