Addressing a rally in Wardha, Maharashtra, citing acquittals in the Samjhauta Express blast case, Prime Minister Narendra Modi denied there were any acts of “Hindu terror.” And that the term was coined by the Congress. On March 8, 2017, an NIA special court in Jaipur convicted three ex-RSS pracharaks Sunil Joshi, Devendra Gupta and Bhavesh Patel in the 2007 Ajmer Dargah blast. It had found Joshi and Gupta guilty of planning the blasts while Patel guilty of planting the bomb. AdvertisingThe blast at the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer took place on October 11, 2007. AdvertisingIn the Samjhauta Express acquittal, the special court in Panchkula pulled up the NIA for a string of alleged discrepancies in the investigation.

Source: Indian Express April 01, 2019 20:15 UTC