Prime accused in the Mecca Masjid blast case and top right-wing outfit activist, Swami Aseemanand, has confessed that he and several other top brass of radical Hindu outfits had a direct role in Malegaon and Ajmer blasts.
Swami Aseemanand has also confessed that he had information about the plan of 2007 Samjhauta Express blast.
In his confessional statement before a Special CBI court under section 164 of the CrPC, Aseemanand, who was recently arrested by the CBI in connection with Mecca Masjid blast case, has given a detailed description of the involvement of the activists and self-styled spiritual leaders in several terror attacks across the country during the last three years.
According to sources, the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing Samjhauta blast, will now use it as an evidence in its probe. In his confessional statement, Aseemanad has admitted that, in January 2003, he was told by the top brass of the right wing outfits that a lady, Pragya Singh Thakur (prime suspect in Malegaon blast case), would meet him.
Swami Aseemanand is also believed to have revealed the role of right-wing extremists in executing bomb blasts in Mecca Masjid, Malegaon, Samjhauta and Ajmer Sharif blasts.
Probe by the agency has revealed that Aseemanand and his accomplices were involved in the Samjhauta blast also, sources said.
The NIA had taken the custody of Swami Aseemanand, who is considered as an active member of Abhinav Bharat, an organisation alleged to be behind the Malegaon blast in Maharashtra in 2008.
A post-graduate in Botany, Aseemanand is a resident of Hooghly in West Bengal and came to the tribal area of Dang in south Gujarat in the late 1990s.
His name had also come up during the probe in the Malegaon blast case of 2008, when the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra recovered the number of Aseemanand’s driver from Pragya Singh Thakur, sources added.
Sources in the Central agency said that Swami Aseemanand has also reportedly provided certain vital clues to the probe agency in connection with the Samjhauta blast case also.
The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Rajasthan will also question Swami Aseemanand in connection with the Ajmer blast case.