Recent developments in the National Investigation Agency (NIA)’s probe of the 2007 Samjhauta Attari Blast case has resulted in arrests of three persons, namely Rajendar alais Samandar Singh, arrested from Nagda in Ujjain, Dhan Singh, arrested from UP-Madhya Pradesh border region Chitrakoot And Tej Ram from Ujjain accused in the Mecca Masjid blast case could play a potential role in unravelling the mysteries behind the Samjhauta-Mecca Masjid-Malegaon-Ajmer-Jammu blast cases.

Samandar is also alleged to have attacked the Delhi University professor SAR Geelani in 2005 and played a key role in the murder of Sunil Joshi, an RSS pracharak who proclaimed leadership and success in planting bombs in the above mentioned cases, which made the co-conspirators insecure, as well knowing ‘too-much’ about the right-wing organisation’s activities and the Hindu terror conspiracy. The NIA also claims he eliminated other blast witnesses in their organization.

Surprisingly, the 2004 Jammu bombing of an Ehle Hadees Mosque, which the J&K Police alleged was carried out by Tehreekul Muajahideen has been claimed by these arrested persons.

The Samjhauta blast of claimed 68 lives and its probe was handed over to the NIA in 2010. Before arresting Samandar based on informer tip-offs, it had secured custody of Kamal Chouhan, Swami Aseemanand and Lokesh Sharma.

A 2011 chargesheet in the case frames UAPA against Aseemanand, Sandeep Dange and Ram Kalasangra in addition to the deceased pracharak Sunil Joshi.

The NIA sources said there were similarities in the explosives and techniques used and revealed suspicion of the involvement of the same set of people from Hindu right-wing terror organisations in the Mecca Masjid blast and the Samjhauta blast, which has been corroborated by some of the accuseds during investigation.

The absconding Sandeep Dange and Ram Kalasangra carry rewards on their heads an according to Congressman Digvijaya Singh, they are on the run with full cooperation of the state police.

The Malegaon blasts had been blamed on nine Muslim men by the state’s ATS, who were freed on bail by court in 2011 and during the same year Swami Aseemanand admitted involvement of radical Hindu groups in the case.

Mecca Masjid blast was earlier blamed on SIMI and the LeT but according to the NIA it could also join the list of operations carried out with Samandar Singh’s involvement.