Days After Acquittal, Pragya Thakur Alleges She Was Forced to Name PM Modi, RSS Chief in Malegaon Case.
Days after being acquitted in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, former BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur has made a startling allegation, claiming she was “forced and tortured” into naming top BJP and RSS leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.
“I have given everything in writing and named all those I was forced to name. They kept saying, ‘Name these people, then we won’t beat you.’ Their main aim was to torture me,” Thakur said, accusing the then UPA government of framing her in a “false case” as part of a political conspiracy.
Lashing out at the Congress, she alleged the party was “anti-religion” and aimed to “defame the saffron (Bhagwa) and the armed forces.” Calling the verdict a victory for “Dharma,” Thakur said, “Congress can never become a nationalist party. It is a party that feeds terrorists.”
She also claimed she was denied adequate medical care during custody. “They gave me just enough treatment to keep me alive. That is why I am in this condition today — completely weak from within,” she added.
On Thursday, a special NIA court acquitted all seven accused in the Malegaon case, including Thakur and Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit. Special Judge AK Lahoti ruled that mere suspicion was not enough and held that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.
Following the verdict, former Maharashtra ATS officer Mehboob Mujawar alleged that ex-ATS chief Param Bir Singh had ordered him to arrest RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to push the “saffron terror” narrative. “I was directed to arrest individuals including Bhagwat, but it was beyond my capacity,” he told India Today TV.
Initially, the Maharashtra ATS had attributed the 2008 blast to the banned SIMI outfit. The probe was later handed over to the NIA, which in 2013 filed a joint chargesheet with ATS naming eight Abhinav Bharat members as accused.
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