All Sanatan’s seekers accused in Margao 2009 Blast acquitted

Mapusa (Goa) : Seekers of Sanatan Sanstha Mr Vinay Talekar, Shri. Mr Vinayak Patil, Mr Dhananjay Ashtekar, Mr Dilip Mangaonkar, Mr Prashant Ashtekar and Mr Prashant Juvekar, accused of involvement in the bomb blast that took place on 16th October 2009, in the central place of Margao town at 9.30 p.m. have been acquitted by the Special Court Mapusa on 31st December. The verdict was given on the ground that the circumstantial evidence submitted by the prosecution failed to prove seekers guilty.

All 6 seekers of Sanatan, who were detained in jail in connection
with Margao bomb blast occurred in October 2009, have been acquitted by
Court. Naturally, now they will be happy to see outside world after
imprisonment of 4 years; but they are bound to have regret of spending 4
years of their life in ‘Tamasik’ atmosphere although they had not
committed any crime. They have already experienced the grace of
‘Nyaya-Devata’ and we are sure that they would be compensated for the
suffering they had to undergo in these 4 years.

We have been publishing facts through our ‘Dainik’ from time to time
since the incident of 16th October. Sanatan Sanstha has been caught in
the rounds of inquiries right from the day of that incident; but it will
be more apt to say implicated rather than caught. The then Home
Minister of Goa, Ravi Naik very confidently pointed his finger at
Sanatan Sanstha as a suspect and the pace of inquiry increased.

Inquiry was conducted by local police as also by National
Investigating Agency. All seekers from Sanatan’s ashram at Ramnathi, Goa
have been interrogated 2-3 times; besides inquiry was also conducted of
relatives of these seekers and seekers in ‘prasar-seva’; however,
nothing was achieved except mental harassment of seekers. Now, the
situation is like ‘not even a mole was found after digging up mountain’.
Whether the police conducting inquiry are ashamed of the same is not
known; but if they try to absolve themselves for their misdeeds by
taking atonement for unnecessarily giving physical and mental trouble to
innocent people; they would at least fulfill the purpose of this birth
with whatever life is now remaining !

The accusations made against Sanatan have been cleared with Court’s verdict. Sanatan’s innocence has been proved. Goa Government has no right to go in for appeal against the Court verdict passed in Mudgaon bomb blast case. Inquiry was conducted during Congress regime. It was then transferred to National Investigating Agency (NIA) and NIA only filed charge sheet; therefore, it has no connection with the Government of Goa. Whatever is to be done now, will be done by NIA, said Manohar Parrikar, the Chief Minister (CM) of Goa. He said the above in answer to a question asked by a reporter after press conference.

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