ATS has Pandey’s 2 laptops, may hold key to probe

The religious leader used the laptop to record conversations and also video recorded many of the meetings he held with other conspirators.

The recordings are expected to provide valuable evidence to the ATS regarding the role of other accused and Pandey in carrying out the blast.

Pandey is among the eleven persons arrested for their alleged involvement in the Malegaon blast in which six persons were killed and over 80 injured.

The laptop also contained a lot of right wing literature and documents which could be used to prove the accused had plans to commit more terror acts in the country, sources said.

Visitors to the self-styled religious leader were also filmed or photographed by Pandey when they visited him, the sources said, adding that the final report from the Forensic Science Laboratory was still awaited.

The ATS had earlier alleged that Pandey was among the main conspirators to carry out the blast and was the link between arrested Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, army official Prasad Purohit and wanted accused in the Malegaon case, Ramji Kalsangra.