Mumbai, January 05: Anant Singh, the guru bhai of Pragya Thakur, Malegaon blast accused consumed poison reportedly after tortured by NIA.
Anant Singh was helping Pragya in legal matters.He also happens to be her guru bhai. He was picked up by NIA and was reportedly tortured by the agency.
According to Upama Singh the sister of Anant, NIA tortured him so much that he decided to end his life.She said that NIA gave him notice for January 5 but instead he was picked up on January 4th only. He was tortured bith phycically and mentally, Upama Singh added.
Anant was assisting Pragya Thakur in her legal battle and NIA reportedly threatened him to implicate in false cases unless he ‘confesses” of his crime. His condition ,according to his sister is not known to the family and he was alone when he consumed poison.
Pragya Thakur is one of the prime accused in the Malegaon blasts case of September 29, 2008. Mumbai’s Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) claimed that Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur formed a group to take revenge for the Mumbai train bomb blasts and that her motorcycle was used in bomb blast.
This motorcycle was a key evidence in the arrest of Sadhvi. She sold the motorcycle in 2004, to a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh volunteer who was later.
On 19 January 2009, Maharashtra Police filed a 4000 page charge sheet for the Malegaon Blast. According to this charge sheet Lt Col Prasad Purohit is the main conspirator who provided the explosives and Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur arranged the persons who planted the explosive.
On April 11, 2008, Sadhvi Pragya Singh and Lt Col Prasad Purohit met in Bhopal. In this meeting both agreed to for cooperation in carrying out the blast. However, the Maharashtra Control of Crime Act was dropped against Thakur in July 2009 due to lack of evidence
——–Agencies