Anti-terror training camp busted in Maharashtra, arms seized
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:52 am
http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullst ... wsid=16838
Twenty swords and 10 spears were seized and one person was arrested during a raid on a camp in Thane district of Maharashtra, run by a retired colonel allegedly to train youths on a suicide mission to counter terrorism, police said in Mumbai on Friday.
The raid was conducted on Thursday, police said. One Sanjiv Ganesh Atre was arrested for allegedly violating provisions of Bombay Police Act and Indian Arms Act by providing training to youths in use of weapons at the camp.
Atre had defied an order of Thane collector imposing a ban on carrying or possessing swords or lethal weapons in the district between November 12 and 25, they said.
Atre had disclosed that the camp was being run under the guidance of Col Jayan Chitale, founder of Maharashtra Military Foundation, police said. Both Atre and Chitale were residents of Pune.
The camp was being conducted at Vasat village near Badlapur in Thane district where about 30 youths were trained for suicide squad "Hindustani Atma Ghataki Pathak" to counter Pak-sponsored terrorism.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday said that the government has asked police to thoroughly probe media reports about a camp allegedly being run to train "suicide squads" and submit a report in a few days.
Chitale had said in Pune that the outfit was formed with an aim to force Pakistan to stop terrorism.
He had said the suicide squad was not aimed at any caste, community or religion and that its formation had nothing to do with Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray's call for such squads.
Twenty swords and 10 spears were seized and one person was arrested during a raid on a camp in Thane district of Maharashtra, run by a retired colonel allegedly to train youths on a suicide mission to counter terrorism, police said in Mumbai on Friday.
The raid was conducted on Thursday, police said. One Sanjiv Ganesh Atre was arrested for allegedly violating provisions of Bombay Police Act and Indian Arms Act by providing training to youths in use of weapons at the camp.
Atre had defied an order of Thane collector imposing a ban on carrying or possessing swords or lethal weapons in the district between November 12 and 25, they said.
Atre had disclosed that the camp was being run under the guidance of Col Jayan Chitale, founder of Maharashtra Military Foundation, police said. Both Atre and Chitale were residents of Pune.
The camp was being conducted at Vasat village near Badlapur in Thane district where about 30 youths were trained for suicide squad "Hindustani Atma Ghataki Pathak" to counter Pak-sponsored terrorism.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday said that the government has asked police to thoroughly probe media reports about a camp allegedly being run to train "suicide squads" and submit a report in a few days.
Chitale had said in Pune that the outfit was formed with an aim to force Pakistan to stop terrorism.
He had said the suicide squad was not aimed at any caste, community or religion and that its formation had nothing to do with Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray's call for such squads.
very egalitarian and Gandhian, if I may add.... 