Something wrong with Sanatan Sanstha ideology: police official

October 23rd, 2009 PANAJI - With police continuing to grope in the dark a week after the low-intensity blast pre-Diwali blast in Goa, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manohar Parrikar Friday said time was running out for the "incapable" cops and called for a CBI probe. The leader of opposition met Governor S.S.

October 21st, 2009 PANAJI - The main accused in the Diwali eve blast in Goa's Margao town had told police about several others involved in the conspiracy before succumbing to his injuries, says Home Minister Ravi Naik. Sanatan Sanstha member Malgonda Patil, who received serious injuries in the explosion while ferrying the IED (improvised explosive device) with an accomplice, had spoken to police officials while he was being carried from one hospital to another in an ambulance, Naik told a local cable news channel.

October 21st, 2009 PANAJI - A top state intelligence official has admitted to a 'communication lapse' in monitoring the movements of Sanatan Sanstha (SS) member Malgunda Patil, who died after an improvised explosive devices (IEDs) he was ferrying exploded in south Goa on Diwali eve. Goa police criminal intelligence department (CID) has been in damage control mode following reports of an 'intelligence failure' on its part, which could have averted the blast in Margao in south Goa, 35 km from here.

October 20th, 2009 PANAJI - Yogesh Naik, a member of the Hindu rightwing group Sanatan Sanstha, died here early Tuesday, four days after he was injured when the improvised explosive device (IED) he was ferrying exploded in Goa's Margao town on Diwali eve. While Naik died at 5 a.m.

October 20th, 2009 PANAJI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into last week's Goa blast in which two people were killed. Meanwhile, police here claimed they had never blamed Hindu right-wing organisation Sanatan Sanstha for the incident.

October 19th, 2009 PANAJI - Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik Monday said the police would probe the links of the state transport minister's wife with a Hindu group blamed for an explosion that killed two of its members. Addressing reporters at his residence, Naik said that everyone involved with the Sanatan Sanstha was being investigated.

October 19th, 2009 PANAJI - The Goa Police Monday said there were similarities in the Diwali eve explosion in Margao and blasts carried out by members of the right wing Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha in Thane, Vashi and Panvel in Maharashtra last year. Meanwhile, the Goa government is contemplating a ban on the Sanatan Sanstha and has begun probing the links of the state transport minister's wife with the organization.

October 19th, 2009 PANAJI - Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik Monday said the police would probe the links of the state transport minister's wife with a Hindu group blamed for an explosion that killed two of its members. The Congress has also asked the police to probe if Chief Minister Digambar Kamat was the intended target of the blast.

October 19th, 2009 PANAJI - Goa is "looking at banning" the Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha, whose two members were killed in an explosion three days ago, a senior state official said here Monday evening. Advocate General Subodh Kanta told reporters: "The state is looking at banning the Sanatan Sanstha.

October 19th, 2009 PANAJI - The Goa police are probing a dozen foreigners, including three French nationals, who have been found illegally residing in the Sanatan Sanstha ashram premises, a senior police official said Monday. The police stumbled upon the foreigners during raids that followed after two members of the group were killed in an explosion Friday night while ferrying improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Margao, a town in South Goa 35 km from here.

October 18th, 2009 PANAJI/MUMBAI - The Goa police Sunday formed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the low-intensity blast in Margao, in south Goa, Friday night. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called the blast a "dastardly act" and accused the home minister of settling political scores by interfering with investigations in the blast case.

October 18th, 2009 PANAJI - The police were on a lookout for Malgunda Patil five days before he and his accomplice were killed in a blast Friday night while ferrying explosives in South Goa, says a transcript of telephonic conversation published by a sister organisation of the right-wing Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha. The two men were killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) they were carrying on a scooter blew up in Margao town in south Goa Friday night.

October 18th, 2009 PANAJI/MUMBAI - A Goa police team has left for Sangli district in Maharashtra to interrogate three Sanatan Sanstha activists who were detained in connection with the improvised explosive device (IED) explosion in Goa Friday night, authorities said Sunday. A Mumbai police anti-terror squad team has also arrived here on the request of police investigators here who are probing the blast case.

October 18th, 2009 PANAJI - Sanatan Sanstha, a right wing Hindu organization whose members police allege carried out a blast which killed two people in Goa Friday night, claims to "spread the science of spirituality and guide seekers in their spiritual practice", the group's website says. Two activists of the group were killed in Margao town when explosives being ferried in their scooter went off in a traffic jam, police said.

October 18th, 2009 PANAJI/MUMBAI - The Goa police Sunday formed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe a low-intensity blast in South Goa that killed two activists of a right-wing Hindu group Friday night, officials said Sunday. Two activists of Sanatan Sanstha were killed in Margao town when explosives being ferried in their scooter went off in a traffic jam.