Ajmer Blast

Ajmer Blast Convict, Out On Bail, Gets Hero's Welcome In Gujarat Hometown

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 5, 2018

A convict in the 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast case, in which three people were killed, was accorded a hero's welcome in Bharuch on Sunday by a large crowd, including members of the VHP, RSS and BJP, after being released on bail.

Aseemanand, Samjhauta Blast Accused, To Walk Out Of Jail After 6 Years

Hyderabad News | Written by Harsha Kumari Singh | Friday March 24, 2017

Six years after his arrest for involvement in three bombings, Swami Aseemanand will soon walk out a free man. A Hyderabad court has granted bail to Aseemanand in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case that killed over a dozen people in the Telangana capital on the condition that does not step out of the city without the court's permission.

Ajmer Blast Convicts Sentenced To Life, Say Will Appeal In High Court

Cities | Written by Harsha Kumari Singh | Thursday March 23, 2017

A local court in Jaipur awarded life imprisonment to two men convicted for the 2007 Ajmer Dargah bomb blast in which three persons were killed. On March 8, the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court had convicted Bhavesh Patel, Devendra Gupta and Sunil Joshi, who is dead now.

Ajmer Blast Case: Quantum Of Punishment Likely On March 22

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday March 18, 2017

The special NIA court in Jaipur is likely to pronounce the quantum of sentence in the Ajmer Dargah bomb blast case on March 22 after it continued to hear arguments today on the sentencing of the two convicts. Defence counsel Jagdish Rana said the magistrate deferred the verdict and posted the matter for Wednesday.

Pakistan Calls Swami Aseemanand's Acquittal In 2007 Ajmer Blast Case "Regrettable"

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday March 11, 2017

Pakistan had summoned India's Deputy High Commissioner, JP Singh, on Friday to express its concern over the acquittal of right-wing activist Swami Aseemanand, an accused in the Samjhauta train blasts case, in a case of terrorism.

10 Facts On Swami Aseemanand, Acquitted In Ajmer Dargah Blasts Case

India News | Reported by Harsha Kumari Singh, Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Thursday March 9, 2017

Swami Aseemanand, accused in three of the worst terror cases around a decade ago, has been acquitted in one of them - the Ajmer Dargah blast of 2007, in which three people had died and 15 were injured. The 65-year-old had caused political ripples in 2014, when his alleged interview to a news magazine, Caravan, had upset the group and the BJP. His l...

Witness Number 20 Turns Hostile in Ajmer Blast Case

India News | Written by Harsha Kumari Singh | Tuesday August 18, 2015

One more witness in the Ajmer shrine blasts case, Ram Charan Patel turned hostile in a Jaipur court today, bringing the total number of hostile witnesses to 20, in a case in which the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has charged right wing extremists including some Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) members for the blast which killed three people...

Exclusive: After Malegaon, Ajmer Blast Case Faces Allegations of Sabotage

India News | Sreenivasan Jain (with inputs from Harsha Kumari Singh and Manas Roshan) | Sunday July 5, 2015

In a major blow to the National Investigating Agency's Ajmer blast trial, 13 crucial prosecution witnesses have now turned hostile and gone back on their testimonies.

If Aseemanand has made the disclosure, then it may be true: Sushil Kumar Shinde

Who Said What | NDTV.com | Thursday February 6, 2014

According to reports by Caravan Magazine, Aseemanand, a key accused in the 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast case, has claimed that the Malegaon, Ajmer and Samjhauta Express attacks were sanctioned by the RSS top brass, including its chief Mohan Bhagwat. No prominent RSS leader has been named in the chargesheet of the Natoinal Investigating Ageny so far. The...

Ajmer blast to Malegaon bombings: new row as terror suspects allege political pressure

India News | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Thursday September 26, 2013

An accused in the 2006 blast in Malegaon in Maharashtra told a court today that he was falsely implicated due to political pressure.

Charges framed against Aseemanand, 6 others in Ajmer blasts

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 25, 2013

A special NIA court in Jaipur framed murder charges against seven persons, including key accused Aseemanand, in the 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast case.

Ajmer blasts case: Aseemanand backtracks

India News | NDTV Correspondent | Thursday March 31, 2011

Key accused in dargah blast case, Swami Aseemanand, who is currently in an Ajmer jail, has allegedly told his lawyer that he is being coerced by the CBI into turning approver.Aseemanand who had given a sealed envelope to the court a few weeks ago in his court appearance, asked for that sealed envelope not to be taken on record yet. The envelope, ac...

Ajmer blast: Key accused names RSS leader Indresh Kumar

India News | NDTV Correspondent | Sunday February 13, 2011

Bharat Bhai, a key accused in the Ajmer blast case who was arrested from Gujarat last week, has told the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) that RSS leader Indresh Kumar was the mastermind behind the murder of RSS functionary Sunil Joshi. In his confessional statement given to an Ajmer court, he said that RSS pracharak from Madhya Pradesh, Sunil ...

BJP corporator arrested for Sunil Joshi murder

India News | NDTV Correspondent | Friday January 28, 2011

Less than three months after RSS man Harshad Solanki was charged with killing RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi, the Dewas police has now arrested BJP leader, Ram Charan Patel in connection with the murder. Ram Charan Patel is a BJP corporator from Dewas. Police say, Patel stole Sunil Joshi's cellphone right after his murder on December 29, 2007 and was al...

In editorial, RSS questions Aseemanand confession

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday January 17, 2011

Raising questions over the role of investigating agencies, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) said it found "intriguing" that only those persons arrested for alleged links to Hindu radicalism were "confessing" to terror acts, whereas convicted militants like Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru appeared to be more "tight-lipped" with them."...Intriguing t...