H'bad bombing: CBI quizzes RSS leader Indresh Kumar

H'bad bombing: CBI quizzes RSS leader Indresh Kumar
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Indresh Kumar was questioned by the CBI on Thursday in connection with the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderbad that killed nine people. After arriving at the CBI office in the afternoon, Kumar told reporters that he had full faith in the country's related stories
Chargesheet filed, reveals more plots

The CBI summoned Kumar after his name figured in the case registered by the CBI though he is not named an accused.

In 2007, a bomb blast inside Mecca Masjid claimed nine lives. Five more people died in police firing following the blast.

Indresh Kumar (62), who was based in Rajasthan from 2001 to 2004, has also been involved with the work of the Rashtriya Muslim Manch, an RSS affiliate that calls itself a “nationalist organisation” of Muslims.

"It's a political conspiracy by the Congress party. I am not aware why they have called me. As a law abiding citizen I have come here to answer whatever question they have," said Indresh Kumar before going for questioning.

Indresh added, "I request my friends and colleagues to protest against my questioning peacefully. I am innocent. I have full faith in the judiciary and the people of my country."

In its 806-page chargesheet filed in the court of the additional chief judicial magistrate in Ajmer on Friday, the ATS
had said that Swami Aseemanand and Sunil Joshi, who was murdered in 2007, were the brains behind the Ajmer blast.

Aseemanand and Joshi allegedly held a secret meeting in Jaipur on October 31, 2005 with five others, including Indresh and Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, an accused in the Malegaon blast case.

At the meeting, Indresh suggested they work in tandem with other religious organisations so that no one would suspect anything and they could successfully carry out the attacks, the chargesheet says.