[Reader-list] Hindu group behind Malegaon blast: Police

[taraprakash]

Now, after the police in India has lost so much of its credibility, should 
we take this claim with a pinch of salt?

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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.
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