Panaji, May 17: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today issued charge sheets to 11 Sanatan Sanstha members in the Goa blast case that claimed two lives but did not directly indict the right-wing group for the crime in which the accused have been charged with waging war against India.
In the charge sheet filed before the district court in Margao town about five-and-a-half months after it took over the probe from Goa Police, the NIA said that the conspiracy was hatched at the Sanstha’s ashram in Ramnathi village, about 40 km from here.
It said the crime was plotted by the main accused Malgonda Patil and Dhananjay Ashtekar last June in a room at the ashram just a few metres away from the one occupied by its founder Jayant Athavale.
–Agencies