Another Army officer joined Abhinav Bharat, Lt Col had told Central Bureau of Investigation

Lt.Col. Prasad Purohit, arrested in connection with the Malegaon blast, told his interrogators from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that another serving officer in the Army, a Colonel who was Purohit’s neighbour in Panchmarhi, was recruited by Abhinav Bharat and made an office-bearer of the radical Hindu group in April 2008.

The Colonel also attended an Abhinav Bharat meeting held in Faridabad, which, Purohit said, was also attended by Samir Kulkarni and Ramesh Upadhayay — arrested in the Malegaon blast case and Dr R. P. Singh, a Delhi based doctor, among others.

Purohit also told his interrogators that he went to Kolkata in February to attend a programme organized by Tapan Ghosh, a radical Hindu activist, where he was introduced to two Bangladeshi nationals, one of whom was identified as Raju Saha.

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