‘Cops worried over military’s lack of control over its explosives’

It says the “use of military-grade explosives in the Malegaon blasts clued investigators to look for existing military ties to the recent bombings”. Though Folmsbee has not attributed this observation to any officer,he says “Director General of Police for Maharashtra,A N Roy recently told CG Folmsbee that he is concerned about the increasing level of violence carried out by Hindu extremists” in another sentence. Describing some arrested persons to be members of Abhinav Bharat that he identifies as “a militant Hindu group which advocates retaliatory terrorism against minority groups”,Folmsbee narrates how the arrest have become “a headache” and “cause for indigestion” for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh as it goes for state elections.

Till date,the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad has believed that the main accused in Malegaon 2008 blasts case,Lt Colonel Prasad Purohit,had ‘diverted RDX from seizures which he may have made during his posting in Jammu and Kashmir”. Another hint of “military” involvement came soon after the Ajmer Sharif (October 2007) and Mecca Masjid (May 2007) blasts that used inter-threaded twin cast iron pipe shells,something that was first used in Malegaon 2006 blast. It is only the Indian Military that uses cast iron to make hollow pipes with striations for its grenades,unlike the Pakistani military that opts for a plastic make. Another aspect that goes against the military,according to investigators,is that the RDX found at the crime scene in Malegaon 2006,Mecca Masjid and Ajmer was white RDX-‘the kind used by the Indian Army”,unlike the Black RDX used by Pakistan.