Indian Police discover RSS Hindu Terror Cell which was pretending to be Muslim‏s

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India shocked by discovery of first Hindu terror cell

At least 10 people, including monk and army officer, held over bombings initially blamed on Islamists

By Andrew Buncombe in Delhi
Sunday, 23 November 2008

India is in something of a state of shock after learning from official sources that its first Hindu terror cell may have carried out a series of deadly bombings that were initially blamed on militant Muslims. The revelation is forcing the country to consider some difficult questions.

At least 10 people have been arrested in connection with several bomb blasts in the Muslim-dominated town of Malegaon in the western state of Maharashtra in September, which left six people dead. But reports suggest that police believe the cell may also have carried out a number of previous attacks, including last year’s notorious bombing of a cross-border train en route to Pakistan, which killed 68 people. Among the alleged members of the cell are a serving army officer and a Hindu monk.

Bomb attacks are not uncommon in India – there has been a flurry in recent months – but police usually blame them on Muslim extremists, often said to have links to militant groups based in either Pakistan or Bangladesh. As a result, the recent cracking of the alleged Hindu cell has forced India to face some difficult issues. A country that prides itself on purported religious and cultural toleration – an ambition that in reality often falls short – has been made to ask itself how this cell could operate for so long.
India’s military, which prides itself on its professionalism, has been forced to order an embarrassing inquiry.

The near-daily drip of revelations from police has also caused red faces for India’s main political opposition, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), ahead of state polls and a general election scheduled for early next year. The BJP and its prime ministerial candidate, Lal Krishna Advani, have long accused the Congress Party-led government of being soft on terrorism that involved Muslims. However, the BJP has refused to call for a clampdown on Hindu groups, and last week Mr Advani even criticised the police over the way they questioned one of the alleged cell members, a woman called Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur.

The Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, phoned his rival to ask him not to politicise the issue or the investigation. “There is a strong case so let the police do their job,” he told Mr Advani. While some commentators have expressed surprise about the discovery of the alleged cell, others have pointed out that there has been growing concern about the possible threat from Hindu extremists. In the summer, two members of a right-wing Hindu group were killed while putting together a bomb, and two other suspected members of the same group died in similar circumstances in 2006.

Meanwhile, senior right-wing leaders have made no secret of their wish that Hindus should form suicide squads to protect themselves against Muslim extremists. Bal Thackeray, leader of a group called the Shiv Sena, which has been responsible for communal and regional violence in Mumbai, wrote recently in the party’s magazine: “The threat of Islamic terror in India is rising. It is time to counter the same with Hindu terror. Hindu suicide squads should be readied to ensure the existence of Hindu society and to protect the nation.”

Observers say the fact that the police have arrested the alleged cell members amid considerable political pressure suggests the growing professionalism of its security forces. “It’s the first Hindu cell and it’s the first time Hindus have been shackled and taken to jail,” said Professor Dipankar Gupta, a sociologist at Delhi’s Jawarlahal Nehru University. “I’m quite pleased with the way the police have done their jobs.”

Hindu group behind Malegaon, Modasa blasts: Police

http://in.news.yahoo.com/...p-behind-malegaon-mod
asa-b.html

http://www.expressindia.com/...-Malegaon-Modasa-b
lasts-Cops/376802/

The Maharashtra police are said to have cracked the September 29 bomb blasts in Malegaon and Modasa town in neighbouring Gujarat saying these were carried out by the Hindu Jagran Manch, an Indore-based Hindu extremist group known to have links to the BJP’s student wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi
Parishad (ABVP). The key suspects are being questioned, top Maharashtra Police sources have told The Indian Express. Five Muslims were killed in a powerful blast in the communally sensitive textile town of Malegaon in Maharashtra and one Muslim boy was killed in the explosion in Modasa in Sabarkantha district. Both bombs were placed on motorcycles parked in crowded areas days before Eid and set off after Muslims had broken their Ramzan fast on a Monday evening. The BJP had condemned both the blasts.
Investigators initially suspected Islamist groups such as SIMI or the Indian Mujahideen to be behind the near-simultaneous attacks - the first blast was  at Modasa at 9.26 pm, the second minutes later in Malegaon - as they came in the aftermath of blasts in Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Delhi. Besides, the motorcycle in Malegaon was parked below the now-defunct first floor office of SIMI while the one used in Modasa had Islamic stickers on its seat. However, investigators found that these were apparently attempts by the attackers to mislead them, the sources said. The breakthrough, they said, came when they traced the origin of the two-wheeler used in Malegaon.

The vehicle used was a LML Freedom brand although some of its parts had been cannibalised from other vehicles and the chassis and engine numbers had been erased. But with this brand out of production, dealer records and help from forensic experts led the probe to Gujarat, the sources said. The motorcycle was allegedly owned by a man with an “ABVP background” there while the attackers belonged to the Hindu Jagran Manch with its headquarters based out of the office of an NGO in Indore, investigators found.

Top Maharashtra police officials confirmed the breakthrough but refused to go on record due to the sensitivities involved, adding that Central agencies were aware of the development. The blast in Malegaon had sparked mob violence as angry Muslims targeted the local police and grievously injured the first policemen to arrive at the site, including a probationary IPS officer. The attack came two years to the month when three bombs had exploded in and around a mosque in the town and killed 37 people, mostly Muslim worshippers. That attack was blamed on SIMI and nine men were arrested but the trial has been stayed by the Supreme Court.

(Indian express / Front Page Report,  no other national press covered this news.)

Human Right activists and all sane persons were shouting from the roof tops that HINDU RIGHT WING TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS might be behind the blast that rocked the nation since couple of months. But the Indian communal media and partially communalized state machineries were pointing fingers at Muslims and projecting the whole community as traitors, without any evidence or investigation.

Even though our Police force & Judiciary are infiltrated by these hate-mongers, there are few souls left with clean heart who strive hard to be impartial and bring the truth out.

After a thorough investigation, a clear evidence without an iota of doubt  has emerged that BJP’s youth-wing ABVP and Hindu Jagran Manch were responsible for the Blasts in Malegaon and Modasa. These TERRORIST
organizations used to fool innocent countrymen by chanting NATIONALISM rhymes when ever they get an opportunity to speak. If all the blast cases are impartially and thoroughly investigated, it will ultimately lead to these TERRORIST organizations only.

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Uwe Paschen

Look, this is important news and yet you copied and highlighted the hole article or almost with out following NP guidelines nor rules. Please do fix this.

Further I checked the source as well as the sources of the source and I can not find any official press release nor a credible enough source to be able to flag this. 

This is a very volatile situation and extra care and caution needs to be taken before making any such allegation, even if this may be true and end up being the case, it need to be verified first. Further I would suggest that you tag this as an OPINION POST for now.

At least until some proof comes to light or official statement has been made.

Thank you for the Post.

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Laughing-Samurai

Paschen:

Andrew Buncombe is the author of this post.

Andrew Buncombe. The Independent's Asia Correspondent Andrew Buncombe is based in Delhi. His dominion ranges over India, Pakistan, Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sir Lanka, occasionally parts of South East Asia and - or at least he is hoping - The Maldives.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/andrew-buncombe-delhi-notebook-890256.html

http://andrewbuncombe.independentminds.livejournal.com/


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Uwe Paschen

Yes, and? I ask for an OPINION, Did I not? Since even Andrew Buncombe is writing a OPINION him self. I am not saying it is not true nor that it could not be the case, since any one that knows history knows it could be so, however those are serious allegations and need some proof and more then just hearsay.

Once it is an NP post and follows the NP guide lines I do flag it because it is an important point that could very well be the case.  There for first it needs an OPINION tag and then it needs to follow NP guide line in order to be flagged. 

Thanks for your concern here z.

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Sanjay Jha

Hi, Thanks very much for your post. I have noticed that most of your post are biased and prejudiced. Also your post doesn't make any value addition to our readers. Even in this case this story is 4 days old published in The London Independent. Except highlighting there is no value addition from your side. I would suggest that please follow Paschen's advise and stick to NP's guidelines.

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Laughing-Samurai

Sanjay, sorry I don't agree with you, I read this post and being a sometimes reader of NP found it useful.

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Uwe Paschen

Well, You seem to miss read the comments here Zichi (L-S) and you should not try to make capital on other people grief nor on any such tragedy.

I do agree with Sanjay Jha and you know he is right. This is no time for your  personal vendettas.




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azzayindia

hey man i have not heard this story anywhere too.it might just be a religious propoganda by adversories

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