Swami Aseemanand confessed to a plot to kill RSS leader that was planned by Shrikant Purohit, accused in Malegaon blast

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and National Investigation Agency (NIA) have been questioning the Hindu radical groups behind the number of blasts from 2005 to 2008, including Malegaon, Samjhauta Express, Ajmer and Mecca masjid blasts.

However, the agencies are now referring back to the statement given by Military Intelligence officer Lt Col Shrikant Purohit, who was arrested in November 2008 after the Malegaon blast.
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Lt Col Shrikant Purohit had said during his interrogation that they had planned to get RSS leader Indresh Kumar and Mohan Bhagvat (left) killed

The revelations made by him after his arrest were not taken seriously by the investigating agencies then.

Purohit had said during his interrogation that they had planned to get RSS leader Indresh Kumar and Mohan Bhagvat killed.

The reason for killing Kumar was that many Hindu radicals suspected him to be linked with ISI and also that he played a major role in the fake currency racket.

After Swami Aseemanand made the same revelations in his confessional statement, all the investigating agencies have now started the inquiry on the lines that they should have started after Purohit's statements in November 2008.

According to the investigators, Purohit confessed to arranging firearm for Kumar's possible murder. He said he had contacted Rakesh Dhawade, who runs a museum of arms and ammunition in Pune, to arrange weapons.

Dhawade was paid Rs 50,000 for arranging a 9 mm locally manufactured revolver and a dozen 9 mm rounds.

Purohit told his interrogators that he gave the revolver to a man named Alok in Bhopal, and the rounds were delivered to Alok by another man Sudhakar Chaturvedi at the Shankaracharya's ashram in Faridabad in May 2008.

However, after the Malegaon blast, the accused tried to go underground while many were arrested, including Pragya Thakur, Purohit, Dhawade and Chaturvedi.

Purohit had earlier told Aseemanand about Kumar's connection with ISI. Now, Aseemanand has mentioned about Kumar in his confessional statement and also that Purohit has documents to prove Kumar's links with the ISI.