The Great Indian Conspiracy by Dr. Praveen Tiwari

Author:Dr. Praveen Tiwari
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789386950604
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

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Islamic Extremism, Politics and Terrorism

Aseemanand’s alleged confession preposterously suggested that some Muslims youth could have planted bombs in Malegaon at the behest of Hindu conspirators. It was stated that it would have been difficult for a Hindu outsider to hide explosives in a Muslim-dominated area. Media even quoted the NIA sources when reporting this angle. The question was, why wasn’t this assertion ever investigated? Was it because the focus of the probe agencies and their masters was entirely on playing politics?

This brand of politics continues to plague the country, as was evident while writing this book. Three important news related to the topic of saffron terrorism occupied my time between 30 June 2016 and 1 July 2016. Thanks to my occupation, whatever I was writing, I could also witness from close quarters.

On 30 June, I was the one to present a major news before the viewers. The NIA had claimed to bust a major IS sleeping module in Hyderabad. My colleague, Nitish Kumar, who has been covering the IB and the NIA for a long time, broke the news first based on the information given by his credible sources. Soon, the news was confirmed, and it dominated the TV news screen throughout the day. The agency had raided Hyderabad’s old city area and arrested five people. Another six people, including an IT professional, were also taken into custody for questioning.

The NIA revealed that some of these accused were well educated. It is important to understand that terror handlers were no longer brainwashing ‘rag-pickers’ but were infecting educated youngsters. The agency sources said a cache of weapons; electronic items and chemicals were also recovered from them. According to the investigators, the chemicals were meant to prepare an explosive called Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP). ₹15 lakh in cash was seized as well. The module was allegedly controlled by handlers abroad.

It is worth mentioning that TATP was also used during terror attacks in Brussels and Paris. TATP is said to be most widely used explosive by IS terrorists. The module in question had allegedly accumulated enough TATP to ravage the entire city of Hyderabad. A senior NIA official revealed they had clear inputs about suspected terror activities in the city, following which, raids were conducted at ten different locations with the help of the local police.

Sadly, the matter was politicised even before the NIA investigation was over. The opposition parties accused the Telangana government of overlooking the spread of terrorism in the old city area. Such accusations were not new as the area had always been known to be communally sensitive. All this was happening in the same Hyderabad where Hindu terrorists were said to have perpetrated blast in the Meca Masjid.

The possibility of Muslim youth being hired to plant bombs arose from the fact that it was difficult for Hindus to penetrate such an overwhelmingly Muslim area. Was the NIA forced to overlook this aspect because it sought to give the entire case a communal colour? Be that as it may be, nobody can deny that Hyderabad is known to have a history chequered with terror incidents.

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