Chargesheet filed in the Samjhauta Blast Cases

The State Minister of Home Affairs, Shri Jitendra Singh in a written reply informed the upper house of Indian parliament that the charge sheet has been filed in the Samjhauta Express Train blast case, Malegaon blast case and Mecca Masjid case.

The names of those who have been named as suspects/accused  under each case are as under:  (i) Samjhauta Express blast case (2007):  1.   Naba Kumar Sarkar @ Asimanand; 2.   Ram Chandra Kalsangra @ Ramji; 3.   Sandeep Dange; 4.   Lokesh Sharma; 5.   Sunil Joshi (deceased). (ii)        Malegaon bomb blast case (2006):  1.            Noorul Huda Samsudoha; 2.            Shabbir Ahmed Masiullah; 3.            Reess Ahmed Rajjab Ali Mansuri; 4.            Dr. Salman farsi Abdul Latif Aimi; 5.            Dr. Farogh Iqbal Ahmed Magdumi; 6.            Shaikh Mohd Ali Alam Anamat Ali Shaik; 7.            Asif Khan Basir Khan @ Juned @ Abdulla; 8.            Mohd. Zahid Abdul Majid Ansari; 9.            Abrar Ahmed Gulam Ahmed (approver); 10.         Riyaz Ahmed Shafi Ahmed @ Riyaz Arsala;. 11.         Istiyaq Ahmed Mohammad Issaq; 12.         Munnawar Ahmed Mohammad Amin; 13.         Muzammi (R/o Pakistan). (iii)       Malegaon bomb blast case (2008):              1.        Pragya Singh Chandrapal Singh Thakur            @ SwamiPurnachetanand  Giri; 2.            Shivnarayan Gopal Singh Kalsangra @ Shivji; 3.            Shyam Bhavarlal Sahu; 4.            Major (Retd) Ramesh Shivji Upadhyaya; 5.            Sameer Sharad Kulkarni; 6.            Ajay @ Raja Eknath Rahirkar; 7.            Rakesh Dattatraya Dhawade @ Rao; 8.            Jagdish Chintaman Mantre; 9.                Lt. Colonel Prasad Srikant Purohit              @ Balawant Rao @ Shreyak     Ranadive; 10.             Sudhakar Udaybhan Dhar Dwivedi              @ Dayanand Padey @              Swami Amrutanand Devtirh              @ Shankaracharya of ShardaSarvagy Peeth; 11.              Sudhakar Omkarnath Chaturvedi; 12.              Praveen Venkatesh Takkalki @ Pravin Mutalik               @ Pradeep V.Naik; 13.               Sandeep Vishwas Dange; 14.              Ramji Chandra Gopasingh.     (iv)       Mecca Masjid blast case (2007):  1.            Devendra Gupta @ Boby; 2.            Lokesh Sharma @ Ajay Tiwari @ Ajay @ Kalu; 3.            Sandeep V. Dange @ Vasudev @ Parmanand              @ Ashwini @ Teacher; 4.            Ram Chandra Kalsangra @ Ramji; 5.            Sunil Joshi @ Manoj (deceased); 6.            Naba Kumar Sarkar @ Swami Aseemanand.

The investigation under section 173 (8) of CrPC by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is in progress in all the above mentioned cases  andthe accused/suspects continue as such.

This was stated by Shri Jitendra Singh, Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs in written reply to a question in the Rajya  Sabha today. (PIB)