Aseemanand Confession

The special NIA court that acquitted five accused in the 11-year old Mecca Masjid blast case rejected the confessional statement of Hindutva preacher Swami Aseemanand, holding that it was recorded when he was in police custody and that it was not "voluntary".

Rayeesuddin was among the nearly one hundred youth picked up after the twin blasts in Hyderabad in August 2007 as a terror suspect and was subsequently acquitted after spending time in jail. Rayees says Aseemanand's version of a change of heart leading to his confession is too simplistic to be taken at face value. "Aseemanand may have been impresse...

Will Swami Aseemanand's confession free the 9 Muslim men in jail since September 2006, accused of carrying out the Malegaon twin blasts? Sabeer Ahmad Masiullah, in his 30s, ran a vehicle repairing shop in Malegaon when a bomb exploded in nearby Bada Masjid, during a namaz. Two months later, the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad arrested him for masterm...

A city court today granted bail to Abdul Kaleem, one of the men held in connection with the twin blasts in Hyderabad in 2007 and the man believed to be behind Swami Aseemanand's confession.Kaleem, who was arrested in 2007 along with several other Muslims after the blasts, was charged at that time with waging a conspiracy against the state.He was re...

Raising questions over the role of investigating agencies, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) said it found "intriguing" that only those persons arrested for alleged links to Hindu radicalism were "confessing" to terror acts, whereas convicted militants like Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru appeared to be more "tight-lipped" with them."...Intriguing t...

In a major setback to the RSS, terror-accused Aseemanand has stuck to his confession. The RSS had tried to junk Aseemanand's earlier confession before a magistrate saying he was coerced, but on Saturday Assemanand stuck to his confession that Hindutva radicals were behind the bomb attack on the Samjhauta Express in 2007 which killed 68.In a stateme...

Muslim intellectuals asked the Maharashtra government to free young Muslim men held in connection with the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast, following the recent statements of arrested Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Swami Aseemanand. Aseemanand, who was arrested last year, in a confessional statement before a magistrate said that he along with ot...

The RSS on Saturday sent a legal notice to the CBI, accusing it of "deliberately leaking" to the media the reported confession of right-wing activist Swami Aseemanand, the main accused in 2007 Samjhauta Express blast.The notice termed the leakage of Aseemanand's statement as a "politically motivated" and calculated move to "jeopardise" his reputati...

In a significant development, Swami Aseemanand, according to the Tehelka magazine, has confessed to a role in the Malegaon, Ajmer and Hyderabad blasts.The magazine says Aseemanand made a statement before a magistrate on December 18, 2010. Tehelka claims it has a signed copy of the statement made in Hindi.In the statement, he says that in June 2006,...

The special NIA court that acquitted five accused in the 11-year old Mecca Masjid blast case rejected the confessional statement of Hindutva preacher Swami Aseemanand, holding that it was recorded when he was in police custody and that it was not "voluntary".

Rayeesuddin was among the nearly one hundred youth picked up after the twin blasts in Hyderabad in August 2007 as a terror suspect and was subsequently acquitted after spending time in jail. Rayees says Aseemanand's version of a change of heart leading to his confession is too simplistic to be taken at face value. "Aseemanand may have been impresse...

Will Swami Aseemanand's confession free the 9 Muslim men in jail since September 2006, accused of carrying out the Malegaon twin blasts? Sabeer Ahmad Masiullah, in his 30s, ran a vehicle repairing shop in Malegaon when a bomb exploded in nearby Bada Masjid, during a namaz. Two months later, the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad arrested him for masterm...

A city court today granted bail to Abdul Kaleem, one of the men held in connection with the twin blasts in Hyderabad in 2007 and the man believed to be behind Swami Aseemanand's confession.Kaleem, who was arrested in 2007 along with several other Muslims after the blasts, was charged at that time with waging a conspiracy against the state.He was re...

Raising questions over the role of investigating agencies, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) said it found "intriguing" that only those persons arrested for alleged links to Hindu radicalism were "confessing" to terror acts, whereas convicted militants like Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru appeared to be more "tight-lipped" with them."...Intriguing t...

In a major setback to the RSS, terror-accused Aseemanand has stuck to his confession. The RSS had tried to junk Aseemanand's earlier confession before a magistrate saying he was coerced, but on Saturday Assemanand stuck to his confession that Hindutva radicals were behind the bomb attack on the Samjhauta Express in 2007 which killed 68.In a stateme...

Muslim intellectuals asked the Maharashtra government to free young Muslim men held in connection with the 2006 Malegaon bomb blast, following the recent statements of arrested Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Swami Aseemanand. Aseemanand, who was arrested last year, in a confessional statement before a magistrate said that he along with ot...

The RSS on Saturday sent a legal notice to the CBI, accusing it of "deliberately leaking" to the media the reported confession of right-wing activist Swami Aseemanand, the main accused in 2007 Samjhauta Express blast.The notice termed the leakage of Aseemanand's statement as a "politically motivated" and calculated move to "jeopardise" his reputati...

In a significant development, Swami Aseemanand, according to the Tehelka magazine, has confessed to a role in the Malegaon, Ajmer and Hyderabad blasts.The magazine says Aseemanand made a statement before a magistrate on December 18, 2010. Tehelka claims it has a signed copy of the statement made in Hindi.In the statement, he says that in June 2006,...