Lack of evidence forces NIA to defer chargesheet against Aseemanand
April 29, 2011
PNS | JAIPUR
Lack of credible evidence has virtually forced the National Investigating Agency (NIA) to defer filing of chargesheet against Swami Aseemanand, who, it claimed was a key accused in the Ajmer Dargah blast case. On Thursday it filed chargesheets in a special designated court only against two co-conspirators — Harshad Solanki and Mukesh Vaswani.
Both have been charged for helping and abetting the key conspirators for carrying out bomb blast in Dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti at Ajmer in which three persons were killed.
Both were initially arrested by ATS and now they are in the custody of NIA, to whom the case was transferred. Last week, the NIA counsel submitted before a local trial court at Ajmer, which was hearing the case, that the court had no jurisdiction to hear the case as under NIA Act same could be heard only by a special court.
Only on Wednesday, the CBI court in Jaipur was designated as special court under NIA and lawyers filed the chargesheet in the absence of both the accused.
Sources said that since Swami Aseemanand and another accused Bharat Riteshwar had retracted their confessional statements, which they alleged were taken under duress, the NIA is now trying to gather some fresh evidence to implicate both of them in this and other cases.
April 30 has been fixed as the next date of hearing, and if the NIA is able to collect some evidence, it may come out with a chargesheet again Aseemanand and Bharat Riteshwar, sources said.
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