Mumbai Police Wednesday arrested a serving Lieutenant Colonel for allegedly supplying money and explosives for the September 29 Malegaon bombing that left at least five dead. This is the first time that a serving army officer has been held on terror charges.
ATS sleuths grilled Purohit after his name cropped up in interrogations of two retired army personnel arrested for alleged role in the blasts.
The Maharashtra ATS placed Lt Col Srikant Purohit under arrest after questioning.
Purohit was produced before a Nashik court where he was remanded to 10 days of police custody. The court allowed the police to subject him to narco-analysis and other scientific examinations.
Chief Judicial Magistrate K D Boche allowed the ATS to conduct polygraph, brain-mapping and narco analysis of Purohit and remanded him to police custody till November 15.
Purohit has been accused of transferring of huge amounts through ‘hawala’ to Ajay Rahirkar who is already in ATS custody.
He also sent SMS to ex-army officer Ramesh Shivji Upadhyay, also in ATS custody, after the September 29 Malegaon blast case was cracked by ATS saying “that we are on ATS radar,” Public Prosecutor Ajay Misar told the court.
Misar said the Malegaon blast is a sensitive case in which six persons died and many were injured. Even the forensic report revealed that explosives, including RDX, were found and it was necessary to get 14-days police custody of Purohit for interrogation.
He said Purohit conducted several meetings of ‘Abhinav Bharat’, a saffron group, in Madhya Pradesh, New Delhi, Gujarat. Purohit had also attended meetings in Pune, Kashmir, Mirzapur and Bhonsala Military School at Nashik where some of the accused were also present, Misar said.
ATS sleuths grilled Purohit after his name cropped up in interrogations of two retired army personnel arrested for alleged role in the blasts.
The Maharashtra ATS placed Lt Col Srikant Purohit under arrest after questioning.
Purohit was produced before a Nashik court where he was remanded to 10 days of police custody. The court allowed the police to subject him to narco-analysis and other scientific examinations.
Chief Judicial Magistrate K D Boche allowed the ATS to conduct polygraph, brain-mapping and narco analysis of Purohit and remanded him to police custody till November 15.
Purohit has been accused of transferring of huge amounts through ‘hawala’ to Ajay Rahirkar who is already in ATS custody.
He also sent SMS to ex-army officer Ramesh Shivji Upadhyay, also in ATS custody, after the September 29 Malegaon blast case was cracked by ATS saying “that we are on ATS radar,” Public Prosecutor Ajay Misar told the court.
Misar said the Malegaon blast is a sensitive case in which six persons died and many were injured. Even the forensic report revealed that explosives, including RDX, were found and it was necessary to get 14-days police custody of Purohit for interrogation.
He said Purohit conducted several meetings of ‘Abhinav Bharat’, a saffron group, in Madhya Pradesh, New Delhi, Gujarat. Purohit had also attended meetings in Pune, Kashmir, Mirzapur and Bhonsala Military School at Nashik where some of the accused were also present, Misar said.
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