Click to play videoNew Delhi: The ambit of the Malegaon blast investigation has widened.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that five more serving officers of the Indian Army are being probed by Military Intelligence and the Maharashtra Police for their role in the Malegoan bomb blast.
They are being questioned for their association with Abhinav Bharat and for providing logistical and operational support for the blast.
In fact, the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad is seeking Army's permission to question at least three of these serving officers.
The government is also taking a closer look once again at the possibility of banning at least the Bajrang Dal if not the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
There is also evidence emerging that Lieutenant colonel Srikant Prasad Purohit was paid by RSS leaders to kill a key functionary Mohan Bhagwat.
Meanwhile, the Madhya Pradesh Police have already re-opened the Sonal Joshi murder case.
Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur's bike was sold to Joshi and sources say he was killed under mysterious circumstances in December 2007, possibility by someone from within the Abhinav Bharat itself.
Both Lt Col Purohit and the Sadhvi have been accused of being behind the September 29 bomb blast in Malegoan.
But the Sangh Parivar is not taking the allegations lying down.
"All this is the result of a big conspiracy. This being done at the behest of Sonia Gandhi," alleges senior Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Acharya Giriraj Kishore.
The VHP has now planned a country-wide agitation from Wednesday against what it says is the United Progressive Alliance's (UPA) propaganda to malign Hindu leaders and the Army.
The biggest fallout of the Malegoan blast is that it has breached the secular image of the Army.
And the biggest worry of the government at the moment is whether the case of Lt Col Purohit and others is an isolated incident or are the defence forces finally losing their secular sheen.
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