Investigation into the Malegaon blast by the ATS Maharashtra during the interrogation of Sudhakar Dwivedi alias Dayanand Pandey, has revealed that the group was working to create an ‘Aryavarta Rashtra’ in India, i.e., “Hindu Rashtra” by 2025. The ATS officials said the suspects planned to infiltrate government departments everywhere in the country with like-minded people and then convert India from a secular country into a Hindu Rashtra.
But why didn’t the interrogation of Lt-Col Purohit reveal this “fact”? An official said, “We did not imagine that the suspects would have such a plan. Our main focus was on the Malegaon blast. So, we compiled questions focusing only on the blast for narco analysis. It was only after the examination of Dwivedi’s laptop that we came to know about this,” said an ATS official.