I have read
the affidavit of Sadhvi Pragnya Singh and I believe
all that she has said.
Our police force is capable of anything and take my
word the Courts will condone the police total
disregard of the law... Because the Judges mind
remains pre-occupied with, how to please the
political bosses, so that they can get some
lucrative, powerful post for 5 years after retirement
from the court.
Read how the police cooked up a rape story
aganst an honest man (actually planted semen inside a
woman) and the case drags on and on and on .. at ... http://www.ikchhugani.com/policecookrape.htm
Planting a weapon,
drugs or explosives is a everyday routine for our
cops. As far as I am concerned, the police failed to
implicate me in false cases (after the 1st one),
because of timely action, they then tried threats
"Do you know how many people die in accidents,
everyday in Bombay" ... When even that did not
work, mysteriously I started receiving enticing
emails from females ... Now I carefully avoid any new
female contact.
--- On Mon, 11/24/08,
sgodbole <instridepune@gmail.com> wrote:
From: sgodbole instridepune@gmail.com
Affidavit of Sadhvi Pragyan Singh Thakur
NASIK
C.R. NO. I - 130/08
(RE-NUMBERED AS C.R. No. 1 - 18/08 at ATS)
State of Maharashtra: Complainant
Thru' ATS
V/s.
Sadhwi Pragyan Singh Thakur & Ors: Accused
I, Sadhwi Pragyan Chandrapal Singh Thakur, Age 38
years, Occupation - Nil, residing at 7, Ganga Sagar
Apartment, Katodara Road, Surat, Gujarat State do
hereby state on solemn affirmation as under:
1. I say that I am a resident of Madhya Pradesh. My
parents live in Surat, Gujarat where they shifted
residence a couple of years ago. I say that for some
years now, I found myself becoming increasingly
detached from the material world and correspondingly
found tremendous comfort and solace in Spiritualism.
Accordingly I decided to renounce the material world
and become a Sanyasin. On 30.1.2007, after performing
the appropriate Hindu Religious rites and prayers I
became a Sadhwi. I say that ever since then, I have
been residing in a ashram at Jabalpur, Madhya
Pradesh. My life at the Ashram almost exclusively
consisted of prayers, meditation, yoga and the
reading of spiritual texts. At the ashram I did not
watch TV channels and had practically no access to
newspapers.
2. I say that apart from my activities at the ashram,
I travelled chiefly around North India for the
purpose of religious discourses and sermons. In
connection with these latter activities, between
23.9.2008 and 4.10.2008, I was in Indore where I
stayed at the residence of one Annaji who is my
disciple. In the evening of 4th October, 2008, I
returned to my ashram in Jabalpur.
3. I say that on 7.10.2008, when I was at Jabalpur
Ashram, I received a call from a police officer from
the ATS, Maharashtra, called Mr Sawant, who wanted to
know about my LML Freedom vehicle. However, I told
him I had sold it long back and not concerned with
it. However, he insisted me to come down to Surat as
he wanted to question me at length about it. I was
reluctant to go to Surat by leaving the Ashram and
insisted for him to come down to Jabalpur, but he
refused and told me to come down to Surat as early as
possible.
4. I further say that accordingly I travelled to
Surat by train via Ujjain and arrived at Surat on
10.10.2008 early in the morning and my disciple Shri
Bhimbhai Pasricha had to receive me at Railway
Station and I went to his place at Atop Nagar.
5. I say that here at about 10 AM, I met officer Mr
Sawant who had apparently travelled to Surat to trace
the ownership of a LML Freedom two wheeler and I
questioned him as to what had happened to my vehicle
and why you are asking about it. I say that I it was
at this point time, Mr Sawant told me that my vehicle
had been allegedly planted with the explosives and
subsequently detonated in Malegaon in the last week
of September. I also say that it was here for the
first time, I came to know that my old vehicle had
been allegedly used in Malegaon blast, which was
completely shocking to me. I confirmed to Mr Sawant
that the LML Freedom 2 wheeler of the colour and
number, he mentioned had once belonged to me.
6. I say that in Surat during the course of my
interrogation with Mr Sawant, I mentioned to him that
the LML Freedom two wheeler once owned by me was
subsequently sold to one Sunil Joshi of Madhya
Pradesh way back in October, 2004 and that Mr Joshi
had paid me Rs 24,000/- for the same. I had also
signed the necessary TT Form for RTO transfer in
October, 2004 itself. I categorically asserted to Mr
Sawant that since October, 2004 I had no control over
the vehicle or its movements and usage.
7. I further say that in spite of my answers, Mr.
Sawant repeatedly asked me how the vehicle reached
Malegaon and how it came to be involved in the bomb
blast on 29.9.2008. I repeatedly replied that I could
not answer his questions as I had no control of the
vehicle since October, 2004.
8. I also say that Mr Sawant however informed me that
he did not believe me and that I would have to
accompany him and his ATS team to Mumbai for further
interrogation and he assured me that after such
interrogation I would be free to go back to my
ashram.
9. It is significant to mention that I was not
formally arrested on 10.10.2008. Even though no
formal summons to attend as a Witness was served upon
me to make my self available for interrogation in
Mumbai, and even though I was within my rights to
insist that I be interrogated at the place where I
reside ie Jabalpur, trusting Mr Sawant and having
nothing to hide, I agreed to accompany the ATS team
to Mumbai. I say Mr Sawant told me take my father
along with me. However, due to his old age, I told
him it was not proper take down him to Mumbai and
suggested that my disciple, one Mr Bhimbhai Pasricha,
in whose very residence my questioning was being done
by the ATS. I further say that at 5.15 PM myself, Mr
Pasricha and the ATS officer left Surat and reached
Bombay on the very night of 10.10.2008. In Bombay I
was taken straight away to the ATS office at
Kalachowkie.
10. Thereafter for two days I was detained and
interrogated by the ATS team in Mumbai. The questions
were repetitive and directed at somehow involving me
in the bomb blast in Malegaon on 29.9.2008. My
answers remained constant throughout.
11. I further say that on
12.10.2008 the ATS changed the mode of interrogation
and became extremely aggressive with me. At first
they asked my said disciple Mr Bhimbhai Pasricha to
beat me with sticks, belts etc, on my palms,
forehands, soles, etc. When Mr Pasricha refused to do
so, he was severely beaten by the ATS. Ultimately
with the greatest reluctance, he complied with the
ATS orders but obviously being my disciple, he
exerted the very minimum of force on me. He was then
pushed aside by a member of the ATS squad knows as
Khanwilkar, who then himself commenced beating me
severely with a belt on my hands, forearms, palms,
feet, soles, causing me bruises, swelling and
contusions in these areas.
12. I say that from the 13th onwards, I say that I
was beaten during the day, night and midnight. On two
occasions I was even woken up in the early hours of
the morning at 4 am and questioned about my knowledge
of the blasts. On these occasions, I was beaten by a
senior officer having a moustache, whom I can
identify. In addition I was subject to vulgar abuse
and obscene language by members of the ATS team
interrogating me. My Guru was abused and my chastity
was questioned. I was physically and verbally
traumatised to the extent that I wanted to commit
suicide.
13. I further say that on 14th taken out for the
examination at a far away place from ATS and was
brought back in the afternoon and that I day I had no
meeting or even knowledge about Mr Pasricha.
14. I say that on 15th October, after noon, both
myself and Mr Pasricha were taken by ATS vehicles to
Hotel Rajdoot in Nagpada locality of Mumbai and were
kept in Room Nos. 315 and 314 respectively and we
were made to sign the Hotel Entry register, however,
we did not pay or deposit any money with the hotel
manager, which was done by the ATS.
15. I say that after putting into this hotel I was
asked to make phone calls from mobile No. 94066 00004
and from one more mobile instrument not belonging to
me to speak couple of persons including one of my
female disciple and I was asked to say that I was in
a hotel in Mumbai and hale & hearty and was doing
fine. I say that at that time, I did not know why I
was made to say so. I would reveal the name of my
female disciple at an appropriate time.
16. I say that as a result of the custodial
violence/torture, mental stress, anxiety that were
developed in the process, I was subjected to, I
developed acute abdominal and kidney pains. I lost my
appetite, became nauseous and giddy and prone to
having bouts of unconsciousness. In view of this,
within few hours after putting in Rajdoot Hospital, I
was removed from the ATS office and was taken a
hospital which learnt it to be Shusrusha Hospital
wherein I was kept in ICU. I say that within half an
hour Mr Bhimbhai Pasricha came down to Shushrusha
Hospital with some ATS men and my Hospital admission
forms, and other medical examination forms, etc were
signed by him. I say that Mr Khanwilkar deposited
money to the hospital management for me, which I
learnt from Mr Bhimbhai. I say that after some time
Mr Pasricha left the Hospital along with the ATS men
and thereafter I have no contact with of any nature.
17. I say that I underwent a treatment over here for
3 to 4 days. I say that as my condition did not
improve, I was taken to another hospital whose name I
cannot recall. This hospital consisted of a high rise
building where I was treated for 2 to 3 days. I say
that no female police constable was by my side either
in Hotel Rajdoot or in either of the two hospitals.
18. I say that both at the hotel and the hospitals, I
was carried on a stretcher and my face was always
covered with a black hood to avoid my face from being
seen. From the second hospital, I was brought back to
the ATS office at Kalachowkie.
19. I say that I was finally arrested on 23.10.2008
and produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate,
Nasik on 24.1.2008. I was remanded to police custody
on that date till 3.11.2008. Up to the 24.10.2008 and
even sometime thereafter, I was denied access to a
Lawyer or any member of my family. A polygraph test
was conducted on me while I was in illegal detention
prior to 23.10.2008. Thereafter a second polygraph
test was conducted on 01.11.2008. On 04.11.2008,
after I was remanded to Judicial custody on being
presented before Nasik court on 03.11.2008, I also
say that a Narco analysis test was also conducted on
me.
20. I say that both the lie detector test as well as
the Narco analysis test were conducted with out my
consent. Never the less all these investigative tests
have only established my innocence in the Malegaon
bomb blast that took place on 29.9.2008. I finally
was allowed to meet my sister Mrs Parthibha Bhagwan
Jha on the evening of 02.11.2008, who had brought
vakalatnamas of Advocate Ganesh Sovani who was
engaged by my sister and her husband Mr Bhagwan Jha
and had met him couple times in that week. This
meeting was not conducted in private since members of
the ATS stood within hearing distance of my sister
and myself. I met my Advocate Ganesh Sovani for the
first time in the court room of this Hon'ble Court
very briefly for 4 to 5 minutes prior to the
arguments commencing on my remand application on
03.11.2008.
21. I say that this period of 4 to 5 minutes was too
short for me to give complete instructions as to what
had transpired from 10th October onwards, about my
vehicle, my stay at Kalachowkie, my illegal
detention, the ill-treatment mitigated to me by ATS
men, the beating job that was forced on my disciple
to beat me, but which he carried out reluctantly,
without any force, etc. I say that for this reasons,
all the details had not reflected in the hand written
application that was placed on record by my advocate
Mr Sovani, for paucity of time to give all these
instructions.
22. I say that on the evening of Wednesday
12.11.2008, I was allowed to meet my Advocate Ganesh
Sovani for about 5-6 minutes again in the presence of
female staff of Byculla jail. I say that again on
13.11.2008 I was allowed to talk to my said lawyer
for 8-10 minutes to give him some more details.
Thereafter, on Friday 14.11.2008 evening at about
04.30 PM, I was given nearly 20 minutes to talk to my
said lawyer at length, and it was during this period
I could narrate my entire ordeal with the ATS which
is reproduced hereinabove.
23. I unambiguously state that I am totally innocent
of any offence whatsoever. In particular I have no
connection with the Malegaon bomb blast of 29.9.2008.
While my former ownership of LML Freedom 2 wheeler,
which was allegedly used in the Malegaon bomb blast
entitled the ATS to interrogate me, that agency was
not entitled to subject me to the treatment mentioned
hereinabove. Their conduct discloses a blatant
violation of statutory provisions of law, custodial
abuse and violence, mental and physical torture and
prolonged illegal detention. The ATS are fully aware
that I am innocent. It appears however that they have
a mandate from their political superiors to
necessarily implicate me with Malegaon blasts with a
view to suggest that Hindu Religious extremists were
resorting to terrorism. The prolonged illegal
detention, custodial abuse and physical torture were
designed to compel me to confess to crimes I had not
committed. This attempt of false implication
persisted for the entire period between 10.10.2008
and 02.11.2008 . During this entire period I was
deliberately isolated from my family and denied
access to Lawyers. I say that no arrest panchanama
was done after my arrest on 23.10.2008 and I was
never asked about the names, addresses and telephone
/ mobile Nos. details to whom I would like to convey
my arrest. I say that attention from my illegal
detention was sought to be diverted by the ATS by
daily leaking information regarding my involvement
which was manifestly false and only indicated the
malafide nature of the investigation.
24. I say that While I was thus painted as a sinister
mastermind of the Malegaon blasts, a role which has
now been subtly reassigned by the ATS to Lt Col
Purohit - crippled and vulnerable as I was by the
detention, abuse and torture, I could not protest my
innocence. Nor was I allowed access to family,
friends and Lawyers who could have done so.
25. I say that it is necessary that a detailed
enquiry of my illegal detention, custodial torture,
etc needs to be done and for which I am ready and
willing to get subjected to any such medical test or
tests and I also want the ATS officers, who
interrogated me, tortured me, etc should also be put
to the same tests.
26. I say that the ATS has caused blatant violations
of my human rights and I should get a justice and
they need to be adequately dealt with as per the
provisions of law.
27. In the circumstances I now pray for the following
relief:
a) that the ATS be directed to submit an explanation
for my detention without authority of law between
10.10.2008 and 23.10.2008; '
b). that enquiry/investigati on be conducted into my
accusation made hereinabove on oath, regarding
custodial torture/violence and mental and
psychological abuse;
c). that such investigation as referred to in (b)
above, include a polygraph test, as well as Narco
analysis on me to determine the veracity of my
accusations;
d). that such investigation to include a polygraph
test and narco analysis on officers of the ATS named
by me, and also of those officers whose names, I do
not know, but I can identify, for they subjecting me
to mental and physical abuse during custody as well
as others to be identified by me;
e) that a report be called for from the ATS for the
reasons of my admission in two hospitals ( Shusrusha
an another) and the medical treatment undergone by me
at the said two hospitals;
f) The ATS be directed to disclose the reasons for my
stay at Hotel Rajdoot at Mumbai.;
g) For such further and other reliefs as may be fit
and proper in the facts and circumstances of the
case.