NEW DELHI – An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted four people, includingprime accused Swami Aseemanand, in the Samjhauta Express bombing case.
At least 68 people, 42 of whom were Pakistani passengers, were killed inthe attack on Samjhauta Express on February 18, 2007. The train was on itsway to Lahore from New Delhi.
Investigators had concluded that terrorists had used improved explosivedevices and inflammable substances for the blasts and the fire in twocoaches of the train near Panipat in Haryana, according to the HindustanTimeslink.Two unexploded suitcase bombs were found in other compartments of the train.
Swami Aseemanand, a self-proclaimed monk and a former Rashtriya SwayamsevakSangh activist, is known to have worked to convert people to Hinduism.
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According to The Hindulink,Aseemanand had confessed to his involvement in bombings at various worshipplaces across the country, such as Ajmer Sharif and Hyderabad’s MeccaMasjid, and in Malegaon for taking revenge against the “terror acts ofMuslims”.
However, he later told a court investigating the 2007 Samjhauta train blastcase that the Indian investigation agency “tortured” and “put pressure onhim to give wrong statements.
