11-25-2008, 02:33 AM
<b>ATS suffers major setback</b>
MCOCA court refuses custody of 7 accused<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), investigating the Malegaon blast case, found itself in a most embarrassing situation on Monday, as a special court dealt a moral blow to it by denying it the custody of three key accused in the case and Sadhvi Pragya once again exposed the ATSâ highhandedness in dealing with the accused.
On a day when the Prosecution strongly rooted for the police custody of the three key accused â Sadhvi Pragya, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Ajay Rahirkar â Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Judge YD Shinde turned <b>down the Prosecutionâs request in the face of the allegations that the investigating agency was not only torturing the accused but was also using third-degree means to extract confessional statements from the latter (the accused). </b>
The judge remanded the three key accused and four others â Shivnarayan Gopalsingh Kalsangra, Maj (retd) Ramesh Updhayaya, Jagdish Chintaman Mhatre and Shyam Bhawarlal Sahu â to judicial custody till December 3, 2008.
What came as a heap of eggs on the face of ATS officials investigating the Malegaon blasts case were the serious allegations made by Sadhvi Pragya, Lt Col Purohit and retired Army officer Ramesh Upadhyay in the court.
<b>Sadhvi Pragya â who in her much-discussed affidavit had charged the ATS officials with torturing her and mentally harassing her to such an extent she wanted to commit suicide at one stage while she was in their âillegalâ detention â stunned the MCOCA court, when she was produced for the first time in the Malegaon blast case</b>.
That Sadhvi Pragyaâs revelations were shocking is an understatement. For, she told the court: âMy interrogators (ATS officials) threatened to strip me and hang me upside down if I did not confess to my involvement in the Malegaon blastsâ¦. They also made me to listen to an obscene audio tape (involving another accused Ramesh Upadhyay)⦠I was so disturbed that I was in no mood to eat food for a couple of daysâ.
<span style='color:red'>In another revelation that embarrassed the ATS further, Lt Col Purohit said that the investigating officials had threatened to plant RDX at his home so that it would be easy for them to finish him in an encounter.<b> âIn their bid to extract confession from me, the ATS officials hung upside down from a rod with my hands tied to two poles. After they did all this to me, I lost sensation in my wrists and fingers,â Purohit told the court</b>.</span>
Accused Ramesh Updhayaya alleged that State Director General of Police AN Roy, when he met him on October 26, 2008, had threatened that the investigators would beat him up, if he did not confess to his role in the Malegaon blast.
Upadhyay also alleged that he had been tortured by Additional Commissioner of Police (ATS) Parambir Singh and Sukhwinder Singh while in custody. âParambir and Sukhwinder physically abused me and then threatened to parade my wife and daughter naked in the police station and get them raped by all the officers here,â Upadhyay alleged.
Earlier in the court, while seeking the custody of Sadhvi Pragya, Purohit and Rahirkar, the prosecution told the court Abhinav Bharat, with which they were associated were advocating and inciting unlawful and terrorist activities.
The Prosecution also told the court that the ATS wanted to investigate the source from where the explosives came and if money for them was obtained through hawala needed to be interrogated.
Sadhviâs advocate Ganesh Sonavi, however, argued that the only connection Sadhvi has with the September 29 Malegaon blast is the vehicle used in the bombing.
âApart from the vehicle, which was sold to someone else by Sadhvi much before the blasts, the ATS has no evidence to connect Sadhvi to the blast,â he argued.
Purohitâs counsel Shivade argued that ATS was seeking Purohit's as it wanted to torture his client and extract a confession from him under duress.
<b>âI was humiliated, tortured,â Sadhvi reiterates</b>
Was made to hear obscene CD: Pragya
MCOCA court refuses Maharashtra ATS custody of Sadhvi Pragya, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Ajay Rahirkar
Instead sends them and four others in judicial custody till Dec 3
Prosecution had sought police custody of only Sadhvi, Purohit and Rahirkar
Apart from vehicle, which was sold to someone, ATS has no evidence to onnect Sadhvi to the blast, her counsel argues
Purohit's advocate Shrikant Shivade argues that police custody is sought only for torturing the accused and forcibly extracting a confession from them
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This is sick. Are they running country or Sonia Gandhi's whore house?
Indian Government is just sick. Moron Singh is worst scum bag. Greedy power hungry low life jerk.
Zero credibility to Indian Government.
MCOCA court refuses custody of 7 accused<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), investigating the Malegaon blast case, found itself in a most embarrassing situation on Monday, as a special court dealt a moral blow to it by denying it the custody of three key accused in the case and Sadhvi Pragya once again exposed the ATSâ highhandedness in dealing with the accused.
On a day when the Prosecution strongly rooted for the police custody of the three key accused â Sadhvi Pragya, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Ajay Rahirkar â Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Judge YD Shinde turned <b>down the Prosecutionâs request in the face of the allegations that the investigating agency was not only torturing the accused but was also using third-degree means to extract confessional statements from the latter (the accused). </b>
The judge remanded the three key accused and four others â Shivnarayan Gopalsingh Kalsangra, Maj (retd) Ramesh Updhayaya, Jagdish Chintaman Mhatre and Shyam Bhawarlal Sahu â to judicial custody till December 3, 2008.
What came as a heap of eggs on the face of ATS officials investigating the Malegaon blasts case were the serious allegations made by Sadhvi Pragya, Lt Col Purohit and retired Army officer Ramesh Upadhyay in the court.
<b>Sadhvi Pragya â who in her much-discussed affidavit had charged the ATS officials with torturing her and mentally harassing her to such an extent she wanted to commit suicide at one stage while she was in their âillegalâ detention â stunned the MCOCA court, when she was produced for the first time in the Malegaon blast case</b>.
That Sadhvi Pragyaâs revelations were shocking is an understatement. For, she told the court: âMy interrogators (ATS officials) threatened to strip me and hang me upside down if I did not confess to my involvement in the Malegaon blastsâ¦. They also made me to listen to an obscene audio tape (involving another accused Ramesh Upadhyay)⦠I was so disturbed that I was in no mood to eat food for a couple of daysâ.
<span style='color:red'>In another revelation that embarrassed the ATS further, Lt Col Purohit said that the investigating officials had threatened to plant RDX at his home so that it would be easy for them to finish him in an encounter.<b> âIn their bid to extract confession from me, the ATS officials hung upside down from a rod with my hands tied to two poles. After they did all this to me, I lost sensation in my wrists and fingers,â Purohit told the court</b>.</span>
Accused Ramesh Updhayaya alleged that State Director General of Police AN Roy, when he met him on October 26, 2008, had threatened that the investigators would beat him up, if he did not confess to his role in the Malegaon blast.
Upadhyay also alleged that he had been tortured by Additional Commissioner of Police (ATS) Parambir Singh and Sukhwinder Singh while in custody. âParambir and Sukhwinder physically abused me and then threatened to parade my wife and daughter naked in the police station and get them raped by all the officers here,â Upadhyay alleged.
Earlier in the court, while seeking the custody of Sadhvi Pragya, Purohit and Rahirkar, the prosecution told the court Abhinav Bharat, with which they were associated were advocating and inciting unlawful and terrorist activities.
The Prosecution also told the court that the ATS wanted to investigate the source from where the explosives came and if money for them was obtained through hawala needed to be interrogated.
Sadhviâs advocate Ganesh Sonavi, however, argued that the only connection Sadhvi has with the September 29 Malegaon blast is the vehicle used in the bombing.
âApart from the vehicle, which was sold to someone else by Sadhvi much before the blasts, the ATS has no evidence to connect Sadhvi to the blast,â he argued.
Purohitâs counsel Shivade argued that ATS was seeking Purohit's as it wanted to torture his client and extract a confession from him under duress.
<b>âI was humiliated, tortured,â Sadhvi reiterates</b>
Was made to hear obscene CD: Pragya
MCOCA court refuses Maharashtra ATS custody of Sadhvi Pragya, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Ajay Rahirkar
Instead sends them and four others in judicial custody till Dec 3
Prosecution had sought police custody of only Sadhvi, Purohit and Rahirkar
Apart from vehicle, which was sold to someone, ATS has no evidence to onnect Sadhvi to the blast, her counsel argues
Purohit's advocate Shrikant Shivade argues that police custody is sought only for torturing the accused and forcibly extracting a confession from them
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This is sick. Are they running country or Sonia Gandhi's whore house?
Indian Government is just sick. Moron Singh is worst scum bag. Greedy power hungry low life jerk.
Zero credibility to Indian Government.