- *Saffronized Army; more serving Army officers under ATS scan?*
   - *RSS Leaders links with ISI, receives Rs 3 crore from it??*
   - *Abhinav Bharat had plans to poach RSS???*

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*More Army officers under scanner for Malegaon blast*
*Tue, Nov 25, 2008 *
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/more-army-officers-under-scanner-for-malegaon-blast/78946-3.html


[image: NET WIDENS: With more Army officer under probe for Malegaon blast,
the case is generating more heat.]

*NET WIDENS: With more Army officer under probe for Malegaon blast, the case
is generating more heat.*
<http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/78946/more-army-officers-under-scanner-for-malegaon-blast.html>

*New 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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 <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/>

*RSS leader rubbishes charge of links with ISI*
23 Nov 2008,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/File_RSS_leader_rubbishes_charge_of_links_with_ISI/articleshow/3746361.cms


KISHANGANJ: Senior RSS leader Indresh has rubbished the charge that he had
been hand-in-glove with Pakistan's ISI and had received *Rs 3 crore* from
it.

Addressing newsmen at Kishanganj on Saturday, he said it is the ATS that has
fabricated the story and attributed it to arrested Lt Colonel Prasad
Shrikant Purohit. Purohit has reportedly 'disclosed' to the ATS that he had
complained to the RSS leadership about Indresh's links with ISI.

ATS sources also quoted Purohit as having told his interrogators that he had
hatched a plot to kill Indresh and another RSS functionary, Mohan Bhagwat,
for being soft on Muslims.

*"The government should provide protection to me if it feels there is any
danger to my life,"* Indresh said. He also said he would not say anything
regarding involvement of sadhvi Pragya or Purohit.
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 *Abhinav Bharat had plans to poach RSS flock:ATS*
 Tuesday, November 25, 2008
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1705975


*Mumbai: As the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad investigates the
involvement of 10 persons arrested in connection with the September 29
Malegaon blast, central security agencies have widened the scope of the
probe. Agencies are now investigating how this radical group, which formed
an outfit called Abhinav Bharat, was funded and how its cadre were recruited
*.

Investigators said on Monday that the alleged mastermind, self-styled godman
Dayanand Pandey, and Pune-based Shyam Apte at a meeting in January decided
to identify disgruntled workers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and
recruit them to the outfit. Another key accused, Lt Col Shrikant Prasad
Purohit, also attended the meeting.

While Pandey and Purohit have been arrested, Apte's involvement is being
investigated. The three are also under the scanner for allegedly plotting to
eliminate two top RSS leaders, as first reported by HT on November 21.


Corroborative information on the outfit's recruitment plans was also found
in Pandey's laptop, which is being examined at the Forensic Science
Laboratory in Kalina, a Mumbai suburb.


Pandey and Purohit told investigators they'd decided to reach out to RSS
workers who weren't satisfied with the organization's functioning, and give
them a platform to take up the cause of Hindus by making them part of
Abhinav Bharat.

They reportedly revealed they'd found many such RSS workers who believed a
more hardline approach was required to not only counter the threat to Hindus
from Islamic fundamentalism but also to establish a strong political
standing at the Centre.

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Purohit claims Togadia funded Abhinav
Bharat<http://ibnlive.in.com/news/purohit-claims-togadia-funded-abhinav-bharat/78867-3.html>
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/purohit-claims-togadia-funded-abhinav-bharat/78867-3.html

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