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| Before Aseemanand, the SIMI theory |
| Before Aseemanand, the SIMI theory
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| INDIA
, 13-January-2011
3:9:7 AM |
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Since the 2006 blasts in Malegaon, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) had arrested nine men in that connection. Now, Swami Aseemanand’s confession about Hindu terrorists plotting and executing that attack — besides a number of others—- has revived a campaign by the families of these nine alleged SIMI members, who they say have been framed.
BLASTS
On Friday, September 8, 2006, during the festival of Shab-e-Baraat, four bombs exploded at Hamidiya Masjid, Bara Kabrastan and Mushawra Chowk, each having been planted on a parked bicycle. The blasts killed 31 people and injured 312.
CATCHES
A month later, the ATS arrested Noor-ul-Huda Shamshudoha Ansari and said he was a SIMI activist and had planted one of the bombs. The others arrested were Shabbir Ahmed Masiullah alias Batterywala, Raees Ahmed, Dr Salman Farsi, Dr Faroqh Maghdumi, Mohammed Zahid alias Zahid Ali, Asif Bashir Khan alias Junaid, Mohammed Ali of Govandi, and Abrar Ahmed alias Ghulam Ahmed, who has since turned approver. A few of them, including Batterywala, were already under arrest in other cases such as the 7/11 train blasts; the ATS booked them in the current case too.
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