New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has cleared senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader Indresh Kumar, radical Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and two others of all charges in the 2007 Ajmer dargah terror attack case in which three persons were killed. The NIA said no evidence was found against them.
In its supplementary closure report filed in the NIA Special Court here on Monday, the agency said it did not find any role of Mr. Kumar, Sadhvi Pragya, Ramesh Venkatrao and Samandar alias Rajendra Chaudhary in carrying out the blast at the 13th century shrine of Sufi mystic Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.
Special judge Dinesh Gupta fixed April 17 for deciding whether the court would accept or reject the closure report.
NIA’s failure
The court also expressed displeasure over the NIA’s inability to arrest three absconding accused, who figure in the agency’s list of most-wanted people with cash rewards against them.
The suspects on the run are Sandeep Dange, Suresh Nair and Ram Chandra Kalsangra. The court asked the NIA Director-General to file a progress report on the efforts to arrest the three fugitives.
The NIA Special Court had on March 22 sentenced RSS activists Bhavesh Patel and Devendra Gupta to life imprisonment after convicting them of carrying out the explosion inside the dargah during the month of Ramadan on October 11, 2007. Seven accused, including former RSS activist Aseemanand, were acquitted in the case.
(Agencies)
