‘Purohit was gathering intelligence, as Army documents show’
The Army till recently did not tell the Bombay HC that a court of inquiry had not found anything against Purohit.
that there was an attempt by certain Army officers, alongwith the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, to frame Purohit as the “face of Hindu/saffron terror” during the previous political dispensation. “What else could be the reason behind this whole conspiracy? It is on record that the ATS used torture to extract statements from the accused. Purohit was treated as an accused and he received no support from the Army till last year. It was only in April 2016, when the Rakhsa Mantri directed that he should be given all the necessary documents, that the Army has now shared the documents and the findings of the court of inquiry with us,” the family member said.
The family members of Purohit and Purhohit himself wrote multiple times to the Ministry of Defence seeking documents related to his case that could be submitted to the court. But it was only in April 2016 that the MoD finally agreed to do so after Manohar Parrikar instructed them for the same.
Purohit, who was arrested within two months of the Malegaon blast, is still in service and has been receiving his salary, according to his wife who is a homeopathic doctor in Pune.