Jaipur, August 04: The Rajasthan anti-terrorist squad (ATS) on Tuesday is said to have nabbed a key accused involved in Makkah Masjid and Ajmer dargah blast Ramji Kalsangra from Indore in Madhya Pradesh.
Ramji, who is wanted in other blast cases, including those at Makkah Masjid in Hyderabad and Malegaon, was on the run since his name came up during interrogation of other accused – Devendra Gupta, Lokesh Sharma and Chandrashekhar Barod – arrested earlier by Rajasthan ATS.
No ATS officer from Rajasthan confirmed the reports of Ramji’s arrest, claiming them to be “just rumors”.
Ramji who is said to be a former RSS pracharak, is believed to have played a vital role in the three blasts as he is accused of preparing the bombs which were planted at the blast sites in Ajmer, Hyderabad and Malegaon.
He had allegedly prepared the bombs while Sushil Joshi, who was shot dead in MP two months after the Ajmer Dargah blast, was a middleman between the people who planted the bombs and those who prepared them and planned the attack.
Rajasthan home minister Shanti Dhariwal claims that Sushil was murdered by RSS people in order to shield the names of the top leaders of RSS who were involved in the blast.
The Rajasthan anti-terrorist squad teams had been searching for Ramji in Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh since May.
DIG (ATS) Anand Srivastava told Media that the reports of Ramji’s arrest are just rumours and the agency has not arrested anyone.
——Agencies