Daijiworld Media Network - New Delhi
Panchkula, Jun 20: National nvestigation Agency (NIA) on Monday June 20 chargesheeted Aseemanand, late Sunil Joshi, Lokesh Sharma, Sandeep Dange and Ramchandra Kalasangra alias Ramji of hatching a criminal conspiracy resulting in bomb blasts in the Samjhauta Express near Panipat on Feb 18, 2007.
It was earlier reported that Aseemanand was extremely upset with terrorist/Jihadi attack on Akshardham temples in Gujarat, Raghunath temple in Jammu and Sankat Mochan temple in Varanasi. It is alleged that in retaliation to this, he along with his men masterminded bombing Samjhauta Express train, the bi-weekly express train which runs between Delhi and Lahore and thus plays a vital role in improving people-to-people contacts between India and Pakistan.