S. M. Hali The jailed Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader, Swami Aseemanand, 59, has spilled the beans on Indresh Kumars (another senior leader of his party) role in planning and executing several blasts at Muslim religious places in India. He also confessed the involvement of senior Indian army officials in plotting terror attacks across the country. In this connection, the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) will also issue a legal notice to Kumar to interrogate him in the Ajmer blast case, which killed two persons and injured 15 others in October 2007. In addition, the squad had been tipped off about his role in the blast by Bharat Bhai Rateshwar, a witness in the case and a resident of Gujarats Valsad. Reportedly, Aseemanand had told Bharat about Kumars involvement in the dargah tragedy. Anyway, the jailed RSS leaders candid admission that Kumar was in the loop while the blasts were planned will boost ATS confidence, which was setback by Hemant Karkares assassination during the Mumbai attacks. Thus, keeping in view Aseemanands confession - that he and several Sangh activists had a direct role in the Malegaon, Samjhota Express, Ajmer and Makkah blasts - all the innocent Muslims presently languishing in jails in these cases should be released immediately. As a result, the Indian Muslim leaders have demanded that police officers, who falsely implicated innocent Muslims in these cases, should be punished. In the same vein, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had already confirmed that Aseemanand was directly involved in the Samjhota Express blasts that killed 68 people - mostly Pakistanis - in 2007. More importantly, the weekly Tehelka, in its current issue, has conducted a shocking expos of the nexus between Hindu terror mongers and the Indian MI officers involved in the attacks on Samjhota Express and the mosques in Hyderabad, Ajmer Sharif and Malegaon. It disclosed that RSS members, political bigwigs, and retired and serving army officers, all seemed part of the conspiracy and had set up Abhinav Bharat - Hindu nationalist organisation based in Maharashtra - to infiltrate and subvert every institution in the county. According to the tapes recovered from the jailed RSS leader, out of eight army officers alleged at least four have intelligence background. Apart from Purohit and Upadhyay, two are serving brigadiers, three colonels and two majors. Of these, only one colonel is under investigation and NIA is yet to initiate investigations against the rest. More so, in the tapes, Lt Col Purohit said: We are on the same plane of Hindu Rashtra. He even claimed that former Indian Army Chief General J.J. Singh till September 2007was involved in the terror conspiracy. Significantly, Purohit mentioned that one of the armys captain had visited Israel for training and had also demanded four things from Israel, i.e. continuous and uninterrupted supply of arms and training, an office with a saffron flag in Tel Aviv, political asylum and support for the cause of a Hindu nation in the UN. The Israelis, he added, gave a very positive response and promised arms and asylum. So, Tehelka has raised some disturbing questions about the terror network, especially its influence in the army, and asked whether Purohit was only a small link in a bigger, more dangerous, chain within the army. Repotedly, Karkares successor, K.P. Raghuvanshi, is widely considered to have gone slow on the investigation and may have covered up many angles to avoid Karkares fate. Pakistans Foreign Office has rightly demanded that Swami be tried. However, it is better if we demand that Aseemanand is extradited to Pakistan along with Purohit and the other senior Indian army officers, who are guilty for the genocide of Muslims and the Samjhota Express inferno. Needless to say that the Indian governments invitation to Pakistan for the resumption of the peace dialogue should not be acceded to by Pakistan , unless Delhi agrees to hand over the culprits involved in the Samjhota Express blast and puts an end to its diatribe of calling Pakistan a terrorist state. The West has also been parroting the Indian harangue of calling Pakistan names. Likewise, the US has been labelling charges against its army and ISI of having links with the Taliban. The shoe has been now found on the other foot; the senior Indian army officers are involved with terror outfits and need to be taken to task. The writer is a political and defence analyst.