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PUNE: Bhonsala Military School, Nagpur has denied any role in training the terror suspects being interrogated for the September 29 Malegaon blasts and police records state that the institute has a chequered past. But the 2006 narco analysis report of Marathwada bomb blast accused Sanjay alias Bhaurao Vithalrao Choudhari and Rahul Manoharao Pande state that two other co-accused Maruti Keshav Wagh and Himanshu Vyankatesh Panse were trained at a camp organised by Bajrang Dal at the Bhonsala Military School premises in Nagpur for 40 days.

Their involvement in the Marathwada blasts of 2003-04 was known after a timer bomb accidentally exploded in the home of a RSS activist and retired executive engineer of the Irrigation department, Laxmanrao Rajkondwar in April 2006.

This was further substantiated from the statement dated May 18, 2006 given to ACP A J Tamaychekar, Anti-Terrorist Squad, Mumbai by Sanat Kumar Bhate (62), a Merchant Navy captain from Pune, who was invited by the Bajrang Dal to train 115 cadres at a camp held at the premises of Bhonsala School.

According to this statement available with Sakaal Times, Bhate found that the organisers of the training camp were misleading the participants. Hence, he left it mid-way to return to Pune.

“In March 2000, I received a phone call from the Pune Bajrang Dal office located near Saraswati Mandir, Bajirao Road. The caller introduced himself as Milind Parade, who was the head of Bajrang Dal’s All India Physical Education wing. He said that he was coming to visit a city school, where a girls’ camp was going on and I should come there to meet him and impart the girls training in short sticks,” Bhate said, who is trained in handling short sticks.

Bhate told the ATS that he visited the camp and gave demonstration of using the stick. He was then also invited to a Bajrang Dal camp near Kolhapur and later at a national camp held at Bhonsala Military School premises.

He was “disappointed” to see the camp atmosphere. However, he continued to impart training in usage of short sticks every morning for an hour and thrice a week in the evenings for 45 minutes. Here, he again met Panse, and this time he was introduced to Maruti Keshav Wagh.

“The camp was for 40 days. During the last days of the camp, I concluded that the youth were being misguided. I decided against staying back till the end of this camp and returned to Pune. I did not take any remuneration for my services and the organisers never contacted me again. But in 2004, Panse visited me. On April 7, 2006, I read about the blast in Nanded in newspapers in which Panse and one of his accomplices (Naresh Lakshman Rajkondawar, son of Lakshman Rajkondawar) had died, while Wagh was injured,” Bhate said.
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