(Image tweeted by @amjedmbt)Jaipur: A court on Wednesday acquitted RSS leader Swami Aseemanand and five others in the the 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast case while convicting three of the accused.Three persons were killed and at least 15 others injured when a bomb exploded at around 6.15 p.m. on October 11, 2007 inside the premises of dargah of Sufi Khawaja Moinuddin Chisti.Initially, police had blamed Islamic terror groups for the blast, but later a confession by Aseemanand shifted the focus of the probe towards Hindutva groups.Hearing in this case was completed in the first week of January in which 149 witnesses were examined and 451 documents were produced before the court. The court was due to announce the verdict on February 25 but had postponed it to March 8.As per the NIA chargesheet, some fringe Hindu groups were responsible for conducting the blasts and it had accused Swami Aseemanand, Devendra Gupta, Chandrashekhar Leve, Mukesh Vasani, Bharat Mohan Rateshwar, Lokesh Sharma and Harshad Solanki of planting and exploding bombs and murder among other charges.
July 26, 2024
