Click to play videoNew Delhi/Mumbai Self styled spiritual guru Dayanand Pandey alias Swami Amritanand Dev, who was arrested on Wednesday by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in Kanpur in connection with the September 29 Malegaon bomb blast, has been taken to Mumbai for further investigation.
The ATS has got three-day transit remand for Pandey to take him to Mumbai.
Pandey, the head of a math in Jammu, is a National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla, Pune dropout. Pandey was for NDA in 1989 and was in training for five-six months and then ran away. He was training at the Air Force Wing.
Police also raided a temple in Faridabad on Thursday for evidence against Pandey in the blast case.
Police sources say that Pandey made frequent visits to the Chakradhar Mata temple situated in Anagpur village in Faridabad.
According to people in the village, Pandey was a self-styled Shankarachraya and his last religious camp in the temple was held three months ago.
ATS has also been claiming that those arrested in connection with the Malegaon blast could be connected to the Parbhani, Jalna and Nanded blasts.
Police also indicate there might be more arrests in the Malegaon blast case.
So far, police say they have traced financial transactions worth Rs 20 lakh used in the Malegaon blast.
Reports also claim that Pandey actively backed the Amarnath land agitation in Jammu earlier in the year.
The ATS has already arrested sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in Surat and then Sham Lal Sahu and Shivnarayan Singh were arrested from Bhopal and Indore respectively
On October 28 a member of Abhinav Bharat, Sameer Kulkarni, was arrested followed by the arrest of retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay - the first Army link in the blast case.
Pune was next on the radar from where two people - Ajay Rahirkar and Rakesh Dhawade - were taken into custody while Jagdish Mhatre was arrested from Mumbai's Dombivili.
But the biggest shock came on November 5 when for the first time ever a serving Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Srikant Prasad Purohit posted in Panchmarhi, Madhya Pradesh was arrested.
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