NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over the probe of Ajmer Sharif blast case from the Rajasthan Police.
A group of Hindu radicals, belonging to an outfit named Abhinav Bharat, were allegedly involved in the blast.
With this, all the cases except the one in Madhya Pradesh, also involving Hindu radicals, have come to the Central anti-terror probe agency.
Sunil Joshi, an RSS Pracharak, was shot dead just two months after the Ajmer blast.
India has recently shared some information with Pakistan on the suspected involvement of Hindu radicals in the Samjhauta Express blast in which 43 Pakistanis were also killed.
The NIA will investigate more than a dozen cases involving Hindutva terrorists.
Several leads have been gained from the confessional statement of the accused mastermind in some cases, Swami Aseemanand alias Naba Kumar Sarkar.
Aseemanand has confessed to his involvement in Ajmer, Malegaon and Mecca Masjid blasts. His name also appears in the chargesheet, filed by Mumbai anti-terrorist squad.
Three people were killed and as many as 30 injured in Ajmer on October 11, 2007 and the police arrested Devendra Gupta of Abhinav Bharat in connection with the case in 2010.
The car impounded later by Rajasthan ATS was the one by which Sunil Joshi, the RSS leader, had allegedly transported the bombs from Indore to Ajmer. Later one Anand Raj Kataria, an accused in Sunil Joshi’s murder, reportedly confessed that he was the one who drove the car from Dewas to Ajmer carrying explosives that were used in the blast that killed three people.
Investigating agencies are probing whether the same car was also used for ferrying explosives used in the Mecca blast.