NEW DELHI: A former police officer has claimed that he was given the order to arrest Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat to establish “Bhagwa terror” angle in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.Retired officer inspector Mehiboob Mujawar, who was a part of Maharashtra Anti-terrorism Squad that probed the case, claimed that the acquittal seven accused in the 17-year-old bomb blast case undid the “fake things” done by the ATS.“The verdict exposed the fake investigation done by a fake officer,” Mujawar further said, naming a senior official.“I can not say what investigation the ATS did then and why….But I was given some confidential orders regarding personalities like Ram Kalsangra, Sandip Dange, Dilip Patidar and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. All these orders were not such that one could follow them,” he said.He, in fact, did not follow them as they were “horrific” and he knew the reality, Mujawar added.“It was beyond my capacity to apprehend a towering personality like Mohan Bhagwat. As I did not follow the orders, a false case was registered against me and it destroyed my career of 40 years,” he said.He had documentary proof to back his claims, the former cop said.“There was no saffron terrorism. Everything was fake,” he said.A special NIA court cleared former BJP MP Pragya Thakur lieutenant colonel Prasad Purohit and five others citing a lack of “reliable and cogent evidence” and procedural lapses.On September 29, 2008, six people were killed and several others injured when a bomb allegedly strapped to a motorcycle detonated near a mosque in Malegaon city, Nashik, during Ramzan and on the eve of Navratri.The ATS alleged that the motorcycle belonged to Thakur, and that Purohit brought RDX from Jammu and Kashmir and stored it in his home.The investigation, led initially by the Maharashtra ATS under the late Hemant Karkare, led to the arrest of Thakur and Purohit in late 2008.
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