Retired inspector Mehiboob Mujawar added that the directive by the Investigating Officer Paramveer Singh aimed to create the narrative of ‘saffron terror’ in India.
A special court in Mumbai on Thursday acquitted all the seven accused including former BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt Col Purohit, noting there was ‘no reliable and cogent evidence’ against them. However, a day after verdict, A former Maharashtra Police officer who was part of the state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) that probed the 2008 Malegaon blast case has made shocking claims.
Retired inspector Mehiboob Mujawar, reacting to the trial court’s verdict acquitting all seven accused, alleged that he was asked to apprehend RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. He added that the directive by the Investigating Officer Paramveer Singh aimed to create the narrative of ‘saffron terror’ in India.
He also alleged that the verdict exposed the “fabricated investigation” conducted by a “fake officer”, further claiming that he was falsely implicated by the Investigating Officer for refusing to comply with his unlawful orders.
“They asked me to file a charge sheet showing dead people as alive. When I refused, the then IPS officer, Paramveer Singh, implicated me in a false case… I protested because I did not want to engage in false work, and as a result, fabricated cases were registered against me. I have been acquitted in all of them,” he said.
What were the instructions?
Mujawar claimed that he was asked to “go and catch” Mohan Bhagwat. “I cannot 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 alleged.
