Bangalore: ‘Madani Dreams of Islamic Nation, Involved in Serial Blasts’- Govt                                                                   
                                                                     
Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Aug 19. In its affidavit filed in the state High Court on Wednesday August 18, the state government charged Madani with conspiring to realize his dream of converting India into an Islamic nation through unleashing destructive activities all over the country. It also said that Madani was the brain behind the serial blasts in the city, and had also circulated fake currency notes to destabilize the economy.

The High Court had asked the government to file objections to the writ petition filed by Abdul Nasser Madani, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader from Kerala, to cancel the charge sheet and first information report filed against him relating to the serial blasts in the city.

The city crime branch policemen have named Madani as the 31st accused in the blasts case. “Setting off blasts in the city was part of a larger conspiracy to disturb law and order in the country, towards creating Islamic nation here. Madani was behind the conspiracy to set off blasts in the city in 2008. Madani had planned to engage the country in a proxy war by using PDP activists and workers of other fundamental outfits. He had got time bombs manufactured, by using improvised microchips, and had despatched them to Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh states,” the affidavit claims. It also says that before the blasts, Madani and his associates had made preparations and undertaken drills for three months.

“The accused went around the city in March 2008, and identified the spots where the bombs were to be planted. On the night of July 24 that year, the accused loaded bombs onto a Scorpio vehicle, went round the city and planted 15 time-bombs. Out of them, eight went off, killing a woman and injuring nine persons,” the government stated. It said that a person named T Nazir had called Madani on July 27 over phone, and had provided him with the details relating to the blasts, about which evidences are available. A person named Joseph Verghese from Kerala had heard Madani speaking to his associates about the blasts. When Nazir was in Madapur in Kodagu district, Madani visited him twice and paid him 2,500 rials. Madani has collected huge funds running into several crores of rupees from oil-rich nations for undertaking destructive activities in India. There are also evidences of Madani’s involvement with Coimbatore blasts, the government stressed, while vehemently opposing Madani’s writ petition.

The government also prayed the High Court to permit it to set up a special court to try the accused in the blasts case, as it said, there is a need to conduct court proceedings in the case emergently. The public prosecutor expressed apprehension that delay in conducting hearing in the case might enable the concerned to destroy evidences.

The advocate appearing for Madani said that Madani was arrested by the policemen, merely based on a statement made by T Nazir, prime accused in the case. He felt that the arrest does not stand the test of law.

High Court judge, Justice Subhash B Adi, reserved his verdict on the writ petition.

In the meanwhile, the policemen have started interrogating Madani in a secret location. The police sources said that the interrogations are being conducted in such a way that Madani does not have any problems in following the religious practices during the Ramadan month like consuming food at night, offering prayers, observing fast, etc.