11/7 accused may ‘benefit’ as crime branch chargesheet contradicts that of ATS.
In its chargesheet in the July 11, 2006, serial train blasts case, the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had asserted that only Pakistanis had planted the bombs.
But the Crime Branch has claimed that even the Indian Mujahideen (IM) was involved. The contradiction will benefit those accused in the case, lawyers said.
On Tuesday, the Crime Branch filed a chargesheet before the special MCOCA judge against the arrested IM operatives. A sanction order, signed by Chitkala Zutshi, additional chief secretary, home department, and attached with the chargesheet, says the operatives were involved in the 11/7 blasts and permits the Crime Branch to charge them with “waging a war against the country”
Interestingly, there is not even a word about 11/7 blasts in anywhere else. “We are only investigating the misuse of WiFi connections the IM members had hacked to send e-mails,” joint commissioner of police (Crime) Rakesh Maria said.
The order states that the accused “aided and abetted each other” in blasts in “different cities of India since 2005”.
The cities mentioned in the order are Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Delhi and Mumbai. The serial train blasts are the only blasts the city witnessed after 2005. ATS chief KP Raghuvanshi said he is yet to read the chargesheet.
In a press conference last September, Maria had claimed that the “Pakistanis” who had absconded after planting the bombs in the local trains were IM operatives. “Some IM members who received training in Pakistan acted as Pakistanis. They gave SIMI operatives the impression that they were Pakistanis,” he had said.
But the ATS, in its 11/7 chargesheet, had specifically accused seven Pakistanis and two unidentified men of planting the bombs with five others. It had named 15 Pakistanis as absconding, including Ehsanullah, who allegedly smuggled in the RDX.
Lawyers said the contradictions in the chargesheets will affect the 11/7 case. “The only people who will benefit are those who have been arrested,” Mubin Solkar, who has been involved in an ancillary case involving an 11/7 accused, said.
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