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Hindu group behind Malegaon blast: Police

Smita Nair Posted: Oct 23, 2008 at 1307 hrs IST
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/hindu-group-behind-malegaon-modasa-blasts/376802/

Mumbai, October 22 : The Maharashtra police are said to have cracked
the September 29 bomb blasts in Malegaon and Modasa town in
neighbouring Gujarat saying these were allegedly carried out by the
Hindu Jagran Manch, an Indore-based Hindu extremist group known to
have links to the BJP's student wing, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi
Parishad (ABVP). The key suspects are being questioned, top
Maharashtra Police sources have told The Indian Express.

Five Muslims were killed in a powerful blast in the communally
sensitive textile town of Malegaon in Maharashtra and one Muslim boy
was killed in the explosion in Modasa in Sabarkantha district.

Both bombs were placed on motorcycles parked in crowded areas days
before Eid and set off after Muslims had broken their Ramzan fast on a
Monday evening.

The BJP had condemned both the blasts. Investigators initially
suspected Islamist groups such as SIMI or the Indian Mujahideen to be
behind the near-simultaneous attacks — the first blast was at Modasa
at 9.26 pm, the second minutes later in Malegaon — as they came in the
aftermath of blasts in Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Delhi.