Monday, November 29, 1999

Ajmer-Malegaon link: Devendra Gupta knew `bomb planter` Kalsangra

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A new link has emerged between the Ajmer dargah blast of October 2007 and the Malegaon bombing of September 2008.The Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) is understood to have discovered that Sunil Joshi — the Madhya Pradesh man to whom Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur claimed she had sold the motorbike used to plant the Malegaon bomb — had introduced Ramnarayan Kalsangra, the alleged planter of the bomb, to Devendra Gupta, one of the three men arrested in connection with the Ajmer blast last week.The CBI has already confirmed that there are "links" between the Ajmer bombing and the terrorist attack on the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad on May 18, 2007. The Sunil Joshi-Devendra Gupta connection has brought into sharper focus the Malegaon threads in the web — and with it, the role of the radical Hindu Abhinav Bharat organisation and its key members, the Sadhvi and Lt Col Shrikant Purohit.Devendra Gupta, who is believed to have Abhinav Bharat links, was arrested in Ajmer on April 28 on the charge of purchasing the SIM card used in the mobile phone that triggered the dargah bomb.Sunil Joshi was an RSS pracharak from Mhow in Madhya Pradesh, who was mysteriously shot dead in December 2007. Sources said Joshi met Gupta, who was also an RSS pracharak, in Mhow in 2006.Joshi was friends with Kalsangra, the alleged planter of the Malegaon bomb. He introduced Gupta to Kalsangra in a Jharkhand village, the sources said.Gupta and Kalsangra are believed to have kept in regular touch after that. Gupta, a bachelor, is believed to have procured 11 mobile phone SIM cards from Jharkhand, one of which was used as a trigger for the Ajmer bomb.During the probe into the Malegaon blast, the Maharashtra ATS had found that Kalsangra and his brother Shivnarayan owned a mobile phone shop and dealt in SIM cards. Kalsangra is also accused of procuring SIM cards allegedly used by the Malegaon blast conspirators to communicate with each other.Sources said they suspect Kalsangra introduced Gupta to Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur. With Kalsangra still wanted for the Malegaon blast, they said Gupta's arrest could throw some new light on his whereabouts.

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