New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed a letter written by Saumjhauta Blast accused Swami Aseemanand which shows that his confession before the CBI was voluntary. The letter accessed by CNN-IBN was written by Swami Aseemanand to the presidents of India and Pakistan on why he had a change of heart and wanted to confess. swami Aseemanand had given the letter - where he expressed his desire to confess - to his...
07:46 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Mumbai: In a fresh development in the 2006 Malegaon blast probe, a special court on Thursday granted permission to CBI for reinvestigating the case in wake of "confession" statements made by Swami Aseemanand linking Hindu groups to terror acts. CBI has moved the application before a MCOCA court here after the statement made by Swami Aseemanand under section 164 Criminal Procedure Code before a magistrate in which he claimed that...
05:48 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Malegaon: After Swami Aseemanand's confession, there was clamour in Malegaon for the release of the nine local youth arrested in the 2006 Malegaon blast case. The family members of the youth say even if they are released, the scars of being targetted as the accused for years can never be erased. Noorul Huda is one of the accused in Malegaon blast case and was arrested from Malegaon in the 2006....
02:21 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Panchkula: Samjhauta Express train blast accused Swami Aseemanand has been sent to judicial custody till January 27 by a special Panchkula court. The court sent Assemanand to judicial custody after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) sought an extension of his custody. His statement under Section 164 of CrPC is being recorded in the Samjhauta blast case at the court. NIA special judge Ritu Garg had earlier extended his police remand...
11:13 AM, Jan 13, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday announced cash rewards for information on three suspects in the Samjhauta blast probe, following Swami Assemanand's confession in the case. The NIA has now announced cash rewards for information on Ramchandra Kalsangre and Sandeep Dange, the two individuals named by Aseemanand in his confessions of being close to Sunil Joshi. Both have already been named as accused by the Rajasthan ATS...
08:37 PM, Jan 11, 2011
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has announced a cash reward of Rs 10 lakh for information on Ramchandra Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange in the 2007 Samjhauta blast case. Both the accused, believed to be the bomb-makers for the saffron terror module, are absconding. Their names are mentioned in senior Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh leader Swami Aseemanand's confession statement to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Aseemanand, 59, recently confessed...
11:10 AM, Jan 11, 2011
New Delhi: Following Swami Aseemanand's confession to the CBI about having planned the Samjhauta Express blast, Pakistan foreign office has summoned the Indian envoy in Islamabad. RSS leader Aseemanand confessed before the CBI that Hindu terrorists were behind the Samjhauta Express blasts of 2007. Seeking details on the Samjhauta blast, in which 68 people including 42 Pakistanis were killed, India's acting Deputy High Commissioner G V Srinivas was called by...
10:43 AM, Jan 11, 2011
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07:30 AM, Jan 11, 2011
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11:46 PM, Jan 10, 2011
New Delhi: It’s not just the Indo-Pak diplomacy that has been affected by Aseemanad’s confession statements. RSS too is feeling the embarrassment. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat spoke out on Monday in an effort to distance the Sangh from reported acts of terror. He said that radical elements in the Sangh were acted against and told that the bomb for bomb kind of aggression was unacceptable to the organisation. Confessions by...
09:23 PM, Jan 10, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan on Monday asked India to provide an early update to it on the investigations into the 2007 Samjhauta Express train bombing in the wake of RSS leader Swami Aseemanand's confession about the involvement of Sangh activists in the attack. India's acting Deputy High Commissioner GV Srinivas was called to the Foreign Office by Director General (South Asia) Afrasiab Mehdi Hashmi, who said information on progress in the investigations...
06:53 PM, Jan 10, 2011
Ramnathi: The VHP on Sunday accused the Congress-led government of trying to "malign the image of Hindu leaders by terming them as terrorists" and claimed it was the "greatest lie" that Swami Aseemanand has confessed to the Samjhauta Express blast. "We are trying to enlighten the people. If Congress tries to entangle Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders, then a movement will be started against them (Congress)," VHP...
08:52 PM, Jan 09, 2011
New Delhi: The RSS on Friday accused the CBI of deliberately leaking the confession of Swami Aseemanand in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast which, it alleged, was given under duress. "This is a conspiracy and witch hunt. We have doubts about the manner in which this confessional statement has been taken. CBI is behaving like Congress Bureau of Investigation. The statement is full of contradictions," said Ram Madhav. "This deliberate...
01:30 PM, Jan 07, 2011
Panchkula: A special court in Panchkula on Monday extended, by 10 days, the police custody of Hindu group leader Swami Aseemanand in connection with the 2007 Samjhauta Express train blasts in Haryana that killed 68 people. Aseemanand was brought before the National Investigation Agency (NIA) court amidst tight security cover on Monday afternoon. The proceedings were in-camera and no media person was allowed to enter the court while he was...
05:36 PM, Jan 03, 2011
New Delhi: Senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar was summoned to the CBI on Thursday to investigate any alleged role he may have had in Mecca blast of 2007. After five hours of questioning by the CBI, Indresh Kumar said that he was not even questioned about involvement in any terror strikes. Indresh said, "The CBI asked me about my personal life and my family." But Indresh's name has figured in...
09:48 PM, Dec 23, 2010
