Malegaon blast issue: IANS wrongly publish HJS name

Ashwin Krushna Trayodashi

HJS clarification on wrong news reporting about it by IANS.

Mumbai – While reporting the Malegaon Blast Issue news Indo-Asian News service has published name of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti in stead of Hindu Janajagaran Manch. Hindu Janajagaran Manch is different organization and HJS has no connection with it and also HJS has no connection with Bomb blast.

Here are some news links from other news source which confirm the name of organization in blast involved is Hindu Janajagaran Manch and not Hindu Janajagruti Samiti.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080069903&ch=633606508853597396

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/three-rightwing-activists-held-for-malegaon-blast/76675-3.html

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=478850&sid=NAT

http://www.saharasamay.com/samayhtml/Articles.aspx?NewsId=106792

IANS has published the following news with highlited part having HJS name.

Three members of Hindu group nabbed for Malegaon, Modasa blasts

Mumbai, October 24: Three activists, including a Woman, of the Madhya Pradesh-based Hindu Janjagriti Samiti (HJS) were arrested in connection with terror blasts in Malegaon and Modasa (Gujarat), a police official confirmed Friday. Pragnya Chandrapalsingh Thakur, Shivnarayan Singh, and Shyam Bhanwarlal Sahu were remanded to police custody till Nov 3 by a Nashik court.

A young sadhvi suspected to have links with a Hindu right wing group and two other men were slapped with murder charges today after they were arrested for their alleged involvement in the Malegaon blasts in which the police said the deadly RDX was used. Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur along with Shamlal Sahu and Shivnarayan Singh, all hailing from Madhya Pradesh, were on Friday produced before a court in Nashik in Maharashtra which remanded them to police custody till November three.

Public Prosecutor Ajay Mishra said the crime committed by the three accused was a "serious offence" and they were booked under charges of murder, attempt to murder and voluntarily causing grievous hurt under IPC Sections 302, 307 and 326 respectively.
The sadhvi, who is based in Indore but who regularly visited Surat to give lectures, was picked up from the diamond town in Gujarat by the Anti Terrorist Squad of the Mumbai police. Shamlal Sahu and Shivnarayan Singh were brought from Indore in MP for questioning in Mumbai. The arrests were made in the last one week.

Mishra said the motorcyle used in the Malegaon blasts on September 29 in which five persons were killed belonged to the Sadhvi. Besides having links with the BJP's student wing ABVP, she is suspected to be associated with the Indore-based radical Hindu Jagran Manch (HJM) accused of involvement in the blasts in Malegaon as well as in Modasa in Gujarat in which one person was killed. The right-wing outfit has denied the charge. Later at a press conference, Mumbai Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare said that the motorcycle belongs to the sadhvi, who wa trying to hide its ownership.He also informed that the accused had formed an organization called Rashtriya Jagran Manch which had affiliation with Akhil Bhartiya Vidyrthi Parishad, the student's wing of BJP. The brochures collected indicate that Pragya was the president of the said organistaion, he added.

Karkare said that there were details about the case which could not be revealed but that there were more people involved in the conspiracy. Mishra claimed that following the Malegaon blasts the Sadhvi, who also is belived to be a member of Surat-based Vande Mataram Sanghatan, had several telephone conversations–all lasting "400 minutes."

Mishra said that forensic reports have shown that the RDX was used in the Malegaon blasts. Sadhvi not involved in crime, says father The father of Sadhvi Pragna Singh, who was arrested for alleged involvement in Malegaon blasts, on Friday said he does not believe her daughter would be involved in such a crime.

"She is a very sensitive person and cannot bear injustice. I cannot believe that she is involved in any such thing," Chandrapal Singh told reporters at his house in Punagam area of the city. "Since childhood, she had inclination for spiritual side of life. She became a Sadhvi two years ago and the family has lost contact with her since then," Singh, who migrated to Surat six years ago from Gwailor in Madhya Pradesh, said. ABVP denies involvement in blasts BJP's student wing Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) also denied any involvement in the September 29 bomb blasts in Malegaon in Maharashtra and Modasa town in Gujarat and accused the media of "sensationalising" the issue.

"The media is sensationalising the news by involving ABVP's name in the blasts but ATS has not said anything so far," ABVP National Vice-President Milind Marathe told a press conference here. "ABVP has been subjected to media trial unnecessarily and we are thinking of taking legal action against them," he said, adding let Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad, which is probing the Malegaon blast, speak about any such involvement.

–IANS–

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