Purohit Obtained Explosives For Malegaon Blast: Co-Accused

Purohit Obtained Explosives For Malegaon Blast: Co-Accused Dated: 18 Feb 2009, 2323 hrs IST, Source: PTI Text: MUMBAI: Arrested Army officer Prasad Purohit had allegedly obtained the explosives used in the 2008 Malegaon blasts and supplied them to two other accused, Rakesh Dhawade, another accused, has said in his confession. "In August 2008 Purohit told me that two persons associated with Sadhvi Pragya, Ramji Kalsangra and Sandeep Dange, had asked him for RDX. He said RDX has to be given to them at all costs," Dhawade said in the confession given to the police in December 2008. Dhawade said he refused to assist Purohit in obtaining the explosives, but after a few days the Lt Colonel telephoned him and told him that he had obtained the RDX. "Using that RDX, Pragya's associates carried out the blast in Malegaon." However, when produced before a magistrate later, Dhawade denied making such statements and said his signature had been taken on previously typed sheets of paper. He also denied any involvement in the September 29 Malegaon blasts in which six persons were killed. Dhawade said he had met Purohit at a shop in Pune in 2005 and many times at his residence. In his statement, Dhawade has also alleged that the right wing organisation, Abhinav Bharat, had been formed by noted historian Ninad Bedekar and Shirish Date, an associate of Purohit and himself.

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